Compagnia Artemis Danza, with this new creation by Monica Casadei, dedicates its artistic project to the representation, investigation, and interpretation in a contemporary key of four fascinating heroines of the composer from Lucca: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Mimì, and Turandot.
The understanding of Puccini’s music starts from the analysis of his profound relationship with the female world. A clear message from the titles chosen for his most famous works: Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, La Bohème. A kaleidoscope of different personalities, a universe full of facets and sensitivity.
In the four paintings that make up Puccini's Opera, recognizable without any didactic need, we find Casadei's personal reading of the theme of the feminine, placed at the centre of a process of choreographic, visual and musical reinterpretation. Tragic love, thwarted and opposed love, cruel love that annihilates, the lust for possession that leads to destruction, live in the faces, in the bodies, in the gestures of the Company and never cease to make us reflect on the relevance of stories which have moved audiences all over the world.
The creation is permeated with a poignant atmosphere, full of tension and poetic suggestion. Puccini's orchestral score contrasts with the electronic tracks by composers Luca Vianini and Fabio Fiandrini who design an enveloping and apocalyptic sound space.
A choral dance, full of impulses and passions, instinctive and wild, which makes a whirling use of space and appears, even symbolically, as visually full: solos protected by frames of ensembles in a dynamics accelerated by propulsive forces bringing life in the body and in the depths of it, the drama and the passions of the protagonists.