A tale for music, shadows and dance based on L’oiseau de feu* by Igor Stravinsky and the drawings by Enrico Baj
*version: Igor Stravinsky L’Oiseau de feu, ballet de 1910 – réduction McPhee 45′

with three dancers
direction and set design: Fabrizio Montecchi
shadow puppets: Nicoletta Garioni
choreography: Gloria Dorliguzzo
lights: Davide Rigodanza
costumes: Giulia Bonaldi, Anusc Castiglioni, Corinne Lejeune



About twenty-five years since its debut and fifteen years since its second production, Emilia-Romagna Region and the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC) re-propose for EXPO Dubai, within the national project on puppetry arts and theatre animation, The Firebird, one of its most important and popular productions by Teatro Gioco Vita, among the first Italian realities to be protagonist of the movement of theatrical animation.

The Firebird is a shadow and dance pièce entirely based on the “choreographic story” composed in 1909 by Igor Stravinsky for the Russian Ballet. The definition “choreographic story” is not improper as The Firebird is a tale told through music in which Teatro Gioco Vita proves the great spectacular potential of shadow theatre. It chooses dance as an interlocutor, a language that gives a body to the incorporeal nature of shadows and, by its nature, is able to act as a scenic medium between shadows and music.
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