Programme 3: Dates: August 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 at 9.30 pm « Four Seasons »
Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Costume design: Antonio Ortega
Light: Marc Parent
Created for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
World Premiere: May 24, 2007, Montreal Duration : 40 minutes
“If it had ever crossed my mind, in the past, to make a choreography on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, I would have thought that I had gotten crazy: it is undoubtedly one of the most known and executed scores in the world. I have never imagined to work on such a widely known and used music.
Nevertheless, here I am today, taking on this challenge whose grandeur lies in the possibility to express - once again - something different, new, despite the familiarity of this work known to all. After so many centuries, these notes can still stir the heart of human beings. I believe that something extremely abstract but rich in tangible elements will come out of this piece. I would like to let the inner seasons of men flow, its moods, its changes, that sense of history which is deeply held inside of us, the reminiscence of emotions and their perpetual alternation, the universality of being men and women, in spite of the deep differences that strain and give form to our existence.
The Four Seasons become infinite in the human being. Is that not nature? ”
Mauro Bigonzetti
« Cantata » Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
Restages by: Sveva Berti
Music: Original and traditional music from southern Italy with arrangements
by Gruppo Musicale Assurd: Cristina Vetrone (vocals, concertina, tammorra)
Lorella Monti - Enza Pagliara (vocals, tambourine, castanets)
Enza Prestia (vocals, tammorra, tambourine) Costume design: Helena Medeiros
Lighting design: Carlo Cerri
Created for the Ballet Gulbenkian, 2001
Restaged for Aterballetto: Pisa, Teatro Verdi, January 31, 2002
Durée : 39 minutes
“Cantata is a choreography bursting with the typical vibrant colors of the South. Its passionate and visceral gestures evoke a Mediterranean and wild type of beauty. An instinctual and vital dance explores the various facets of the relationship between man and woman: seduction, passion, quarrels, jealousy. Cantata pays homage to the Italian culture and musical tradition, a popular one in the highest sense of the term. It includes Italian music of the eighteenth and nineteenth century from lullabies to Salentine pizziche and Neapolitan serenades. In this ballet, created after my encounter with a group of musicians from Naples and Puglia, dance and music strongly intermingle.”
