- International stage
- Dance
IL CIMENTO DELL’ARMONIA E DELL’INVENTIONE
Dates
08.09 / Sunday, h17:00
09.09 / Monday, h18:00
Dates
08.09 / Sunday, h17:00
09.09 / Monday, h18:00
Venue
Duration
1 h 30 min.
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In Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione (Polish: The dispute between harmony and imagination), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga, artists who return to the Malta Festival after many years, embark on a journey to explore Antonio’s “Four Seasons” Vivaldi. The starting point for this new choreographic work is the exquisite recording of Vivaldi’s compositions by the virtuoso violinist and long-time collaborator Rosas Amandine Beyer and her ensemble Gli Incogniti.
The Four Seasons is one of the most well-known, iconic and reproduced pieces of music; a veritable ‘hit’ of the classical repertoire. It is also a striking ode to nature. De Keersmaeker and Mriziga, who previously collaborated on 3ird5 @ W9rk (2020), share a keen interest in the observation of nature, geometry, and embodied abstraction. They also share a concern with our changing and increasingly troubling relationship to our natural environment. Contemplating the four seasons in nature by contemplating the nature of this musical composition not only inspires further explorations of patterns present in the natural world and celestial configurations as possible starting points for choreography, it also vividly brings to the surface the urgency of the impending climate crisis. Do we still have four seasons?
In addition, Vivaldi wrote this music three hundred years ago in the Mediterranean, a region at the intersection of different continents. The Four Seasons thus also invites reflection on the circulations of knowledge, power, and histories this region represents. In Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, multiple strands come together to create a unique choreographic language. The piece aims to return to the core, the structure of Vivaldi’s famous composition and the many associations and emotions it evokes, while offering a choreographic counterpoint to it. At the same time the dance underscores that there may be something contemplative to be found in The Four Seasons, in its familiarity, and in the familiarity of nature.
Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga / Rosas, A7LA5
Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga
Created with and Danced by: Boštjan Antončič, Nassim Baddag, Lav Crnčević, José Paulo dos Santos
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Le quattro stagioni
Recording: Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti Alpha Classics/Outhere Music 2015
Musical Analysis: Amandine Beyer
Poems: Asmaa Jama, ‘We, the salvage’ Antonio Vivaldi, ‘Le quattro stagioni’
Set and Light Design: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga
Costumes: Aouatif Boulaich
Rehearsal Director: Johanne Saunier
Assistant to the Artistic Director: Martine Lange
Artistic Coordination and Planning: Anne Van Aerschot
Tour Manager: Jolijn Talpe
Technical Director: Thomas Verachtert
Technicians: Dag Jennes, Ines Maes
Costume Coordinator: Alexandra Verschueren
Assisted by: Chiara Mazzarolo and Els Van Buggenhout
Wardrobe: Chiara Mazzarolo
Production: Rosas
Co-Production: Berliner Festspiele, Charleroi danse – centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, Concertgebouw Brugge, De Munt/La Monnaie, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Festival de Marseille, ImPulsTanz, Sadler’s Wells, Théâtre de la Ville-Paris
Premiere: May 11, 2024, Rosas Performance Space, presented by De Munt/La Monnaie, Kaaitheater and Kunstenfestivaldesarts
With the support of: Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures.
Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).
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