The dancing opens at the amphitheater of the tourist port today at 9.15 pm with Funambolika, the international festival of the new circus which this year reaches the finish line of eighteen editions organized by the EMP (Pescara Events Authority), also kicking off the poster of the fifteenth of Estatica. Giacomo Puccini’s heroines will inaugurate the circus festival directed by Raffaele De Ritis with an absolute premiere of “Puccini dance circus opera, for choir of bodies and instruments”, on stage until next Sunday. «We couldn’t help but start from this great Italian composer in the year of the centenary of his death – comments the artistic director De Ritis -. There won’t be the usual tent because the show is outdoors. We will see acrobats defy gravity at 8 meters in the air in an immersive and innovative setup that combines electronic music, suspense, theatre, dance, and acrobatics.” “Puccini dance circus opera” is curated by the BlucinQue Company of Turin, directed by Caterina Mochi Sismondi, creator, director and choreographer of the show. «The intention is to speak intimately to the public to take them on a visionary journey. We are in an old theater or a concert hall of a decaying palace. On stage – explains the director – in addition to dance, some contemporary circus techniques alternate such as the capillary suspension which takes Cio-Cio-San into the air and transforms her into a Butterfly or the aerial rope which becomes armour, protection and a possible escape route for Turandot.”
PUCCINIAN HEROINES
Under his guidance five extraordinary performers Elisa Mutto, Sara Frediani, Marta Alba, Iolanda del Vecchio, Rocio Belen Reyes Patricio to explore the soul of Puccini’s heroines. Like their lives on the limit between life and death there is vertigo, the thrill of improbable numbers on tense and imaginary threads, among the impossible feelings and loves experienced by Manon Lescaut (1883) La Bohème (1896) Tosca ( 1900) Madame Butterfly (1904) and Turandot (1926). Aerial and earthly choreographies for characters who have in some way defied the sad fate, who fall and then get up and react, finding new perspectives each time, make up this great circus show where they move in the scenic space like in a wave that from time to time it brings out characteristics, signs and places of the five figures. To embellish everything, a close-knit string trio composed of Irene Dosio, Maria Sandu and Nadia Marino, directed by the electronic music composer and cellist Beatrice Zanin, on the stage voices of Ivan Ieri and Michelangelo Merlanti. The next Funambolika show is expected at the Massimo theater on July 1st with another exclusive entitled “Smashed” by the English company Gandini Juggling. Tickets 12 euros for adults and 5 for children under twelve years of age, available on the Ciaotickets circuit.
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