EUGENIO BALZAN SOCIAL THEATER BADIA POLESINE (RO)
April 2024
THE ROOMS OF DANCE
dance review
Kicking off in April 2024 of the first edition of THE ROOMS OF DANCE Review at the Eugenio Balzan Social Theater in Badia Polesine, a true jewel of architectural beauty of our territory.
The review is conceived by the Ballet Association “city of Rovigo” realized thanks to the collaboration and contribution of the Culture Department of the City of Badia Polesine and under the patronage of the Province of Rovigo.
“This review represents an important opportunity to enhance our beautiful theater through the art of dance, declined in different styles and genres. I am sure that it will also be greatly appreciated by the public and that this first programming will be the beginning of a fruitful collaboration.”
Valeria Targa Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Badia Polesine
THE ROOMS OF DANCE
A small review to photograph and return a vision of the art of dance, of how languages between tradition and innovation contaminate each other. Three appointments to capture the different lines of inquiry into the reality and ideas that traverse our times.
A commitment to support Italian choreography and a focus on emerging artists, guests with their most recent creations.
Cenerentola, una storia italiana
Opening the festival on Saturday, April 06, is the Rovigo-based company Fabula Saltica with a new version of Cinderella set in 1960s Italy, where a thousand creative energies explode, altering its identity, and the desire for social redemption and personal affirmation make their way. In this tense atmosphere of change, Cinderella, a young woman full of vitality, plays her own cards and transforms her existence.
Io Maria, Lei Callas
The second event on Saturday, April 13, is entrusted to the Venice-based Točnadanza company with a tribute to Maria Callas entitled Io Maria, Lei Callas, produced on the occasion of the centenary of the singer’s birth (New York – Dec. 2, 1923), a myth that in the company’s choreographic vision, encompasses two personalities aware of each other and living together in one and the same woman, in one and the same body, in one and the same soul; “There are two people in me: I would like to be Maria, but I have to live up to Callas’ expectations.”
Trittico
Closing the program on Saturday, April 20, is a triptych by three Italian companies-Atakama (Rome), Danza Estemporada (Sassari), ErsiliaDanza (Verona). Three choreographers confront the language and poetics of dance, staging three pieces that in different ways decline and revolve around the theme of interpersonal relationships and the infinite facets of the human soul.
I, She, Me, choreographed and directed by Patrizia Cavola and Ivan Truol, is a performative research on the female body, floating between conflicting feelings, where strength, fragility, courage and fear are linked and coexisting.
The state of matter#The game, choreographed by Livia Lepri, the concept of artificial intelligence, is at the center of this work, which proposes a dreamlike, multimedia journey about the world to come where integration, inclusion, through new technologies, will be part of a new future made of openness and creation of values.
Closing the evening is Butterfly, choreographed and directed by Midori Watanabe, which turns the traditional Butterfly plot upside down with a solo that becomes a moment of conscious rebellion.
