MUN celebrates International Dance Day with national contemporary dance companies from Italy and Korea
The National Choreographic Center of Italy will offer this Wednesday a triple program with international choreographers, full of musical and movement contrasts.
FotoChristopheBernard/A moment from Rhapsody in Blue
This Wednesday 30 at 19.30h, sixteen dancers from the best contemporary dance company in Italy will take the stage of the MUN to offer a triple bill signed by internationally renowned choreographers: Crystal Pite (Canada), Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich (Spain and Italy) and Diego Tortelli (Italy). Tickets are still available at the locker and on the website. In the framework of the celebrations of International Dance Day, the MUN has programmed two international shows. To facilitate attendance to both, the MUN offers a reduced-price season ticket.
Wednesday's program will begin with jazz and sixteen dancers on stage: Rhapsody in Blue, by Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich, a delicate piece that bends the dancers' bodies to the rhythm of George Gershwin's music. A fun work , sprinkled with constant variations of form. The rhapsody, explain the creators of this piece, offers a musical space where everything is possible, where new elements emerge from every corner and you are constantly surprised. The bodies react to rapid and ever-changing stimuli.
It will be followed by a work in stark contrast to this first proposal: Solo Echo, by multi-award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite. Inspired by two sonatas for cello and piano by Brahmns and Mark Strand's poem Lines for Winter, "it invokes winter, music and the movement of bodies to express something essential about acceptance and loss," explains Pite.
The quotation will be closed by the latest creation of the Italian Diego Tortelli, Glory Hall. A choreographic work full of sensuality and vitality, a journey through an intermediate space between light and darkness, in which dance is constantly regenerating, between fleeting emotions and sounds that combine rock with symphonic melodies.
Founded in 2022 on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto is Italy's first national choreographic center. It is a place of creation that embraces all aspects of contemporary dance and its connection with other art forms. It considers dance as an opportunity for staff and social growth and offers unique experiences to the public. It arises from the historical company Aterballetto, born in 1977, and is currently composed of sixteen dancers who work mainly on new productions by internationally renowned choreographers and on the repetition of a selected repertoire of author's works.
Aterballetto is also dedicated to innovative artistic development . Through projects with dancers who do not conform to norms of age, gender and ability, it paves the way for accessible dance that raises questions and identifies new standards of virtuosity and beauty.
"The Aterballetto company is doing a great work with contemporary dance in Italy, to the point that it has been recognized as the national choreographic center and therefore as the national contemporary dance company of the country - says the artistic director of the MUN, Teresa Lasheras. -The program offers us the possibility of enjoying an iconic piece by Crystal Pite, the clean and brilliant dance of Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich and the energy of the young Diego Tortelli with a musical program that goes from Brahms to Gershwin through the German rock of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the experimental electronics of Oneohtrix Point Never".
