Double Side

Dance

Shadow and light, live music and contemporary dance are combined in Double Side, the new co-production of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in Parma: a research and an adventure that the two institutions share, and not for the first time, with the aim of "making choreographic and musical components react" in a new and meaningful way.
On stage are two opposite poles represented by Stabat Mater by Cuban choreographer Norge Cedeño Raffo and With drooping wings by Canadian choreographer Danièle Desnoyers, and bound together by a lively aesthetic architecture designed by Fabiana Piccioli.
The dark, gloomy atmosphere associated with the religious and touching music of Arvo Pärt is enhanced by the expressive, free and pure dance by Norge Cedeño Raffo: a hymn to the beauty of movement. The extrovert imprint and light, clearly encapsulated in the nine iridescent pieces of music by Henry Purcell recomposed for a string quartet by Federico Gon, flow from the dance of Danièle Desnoyers. There is always a strong relationship, almost a deep friendship, between her and the music: the gesture is not overwhelmed by the famous Baroque scores, but attempts to create interesting harmonies and disharmonies with the strings on stage.
from 19/03/2023 to 19/03/2023 hour 17.00
DOUBLE SIDE

STABAT MATER (Creation for 3 dancers, 3 musicians, 3 singers)
Choreography Norge Cedeño Raffo
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Music Stabat Mater by Arvo Pärt
Costume design Norge Cedeño Raffo and Fabiana Piccioli
Choreographer’s assistant Thais Suàrez Fernàndez

WITH DROOPING WINGS (Creation for 8 dancers, 4 strings)
Choreography Danièle Desnoyers
Music An English Suite by Federico Gon after Henry Purcell, Interlude by Ben Shemie
Set and lighting design Fabiana Piccioli
Costume design Danièle Desnoyers
Choreographer’s assistant Myriam Arseneault
With the support of Délégation du Québec à Rome and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Co-design and co-production Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and Fondazione Arturo Toscanini
Co-production Festspiele Ludwigshafen, Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia
World-premiere 23 October 2022, Reggio Emilia, Festival Aperto, Teatro Municipale R. Valli (I)
German premiere 9-10 December 2022, Ludwigshafen, Theater Im Pfalzbau (D)

Dancers Aterballetto Company
Quartetto Motus for La Toscanini: Giulia Soli, Agnese Rava violins, Dario Carrera viola, Margherita Curti cello
Soprano: Theodora Io Koutsothodoru
Countertenor: Nicolò Balducci
Tenor: Bowoo Kim
Musical coaching: Antonio De Lorenzi
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Escher Theater
The Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto is supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.
Fondazione Nazionale della Danza - Compagnia Aterballetto
Address: via Costituzione, 39
42100 REGGIO NELL'EMILIA (RE)
Telephone: +39.0522.273011
Fax: +39.0522.924189
Email: info@aterballetto.it
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