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The ‘Spring Festival – A Window into Dance‘ is entering its fifth edition, consolidating itself as an event that promotes a fruitful interaction between dance and culture in all its aspects. An event, scheduled in the city from Saturday 27th to Monday 29th Aprilwhich represents a unique opportunity to explore the dance discipline in a creative and multifaceted way.
In this new edition, the Festival – created by Carmen Castiello – aims to combine the technical dimension of dance, through practical and laboratory sessions intended for all participating dancers, with a cultural perspective that includes debates and comparisons dedicated to twentieth-century dance. Furthermore, the event will be an opportunity to inaugurate the ‘Small Dance Library’, at the Carmen Castiello Study Center, made up of around 270 books on ballet, a collection of 250 VHS and 190 DVDs of the great classical ballets, as well as an archive history entitled to Anna Pavlova, one of the most famous dancers of the early 20th century, and then the entire repertoire of the Benevento Ballet Company.
The program:
Saturday 27 April
– 6.00 pm: Shared readings
in collaboration with the association “Nati per Leggere Campania”.
– 7.00 pm: Inauguration of the small dance library named after Anna Pavlova
with Carmen Coppola, Councilor for Social Policies – Municipality of Benevento
and Maria Carmela Serluca, Councilor for Education – Municipality of Benevento
-7.30pm Meeting ‘Modern Dance: new dance for new women’
– Introduces: Carmen Castiello, director of the Benevento Ballet Company.
– Speaker: Maria Venuso, professor of History of Dance and Mime at the Federico II University of Naples.
– Moderator: Rossella Del Prete, essayist and teacher at the University of Sannio.
– Piano accompaniment: Denis Marian Mustata, Clara Tontoli.
Sunday 28 April
– 3.00pm-4.00pm: Classical dance lesson with Odette Marucci, soloist of the Cairo Opera Theatre.
– 4.00pm-5.30pm: Pas de deux lesson with Hassan Eltabie, principal dancer of the Cairo Opera House, and Odette Marucci.
– 5.30pm-7.00pm: Dance improvisation and composition workshop with Francesca Grimieri, graduated from the Dance Academy of Rome.
Monday 29 April – International Dance Day
– 4.00pm-5.30pm: “Children and the dance studio”
Interactive activities dedicated to children, including open lessons, interactive workshops, mini shows of repertoire ballets and readings on the magical world of dance.
All scheduled appointments will be held at the Carmen Castiello Study Center.
