From September, contemporary dance returns to be the protagonist in Ferrara, entering the green spaces and historic buildings of the city. Between the end of September and November, the 2024 Contemporary Dance Festival will inaugurate the new theatrical season of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, with two world premieres and a national premiere.
“They have been four exciting years – said the vice-president of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Carlo Bergamasco -, thanks to everyone’s work: the president Michele Placido, the general management and the artistic direction. A strength that has brought us to the maximum result: we are the first theater for artistic quality among traditional theatres. For this we thank the public in Ferrara and beyond, who responded to us warmly. The 2024 Contemporary Dance Festival contains the best of these years.”
“There is an aspect in the art of dance which, at this moment and in the future, will give the discipline a fundamental role – underlined the general director of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Moni Ovadia -. We are witnessing the destruction of human bodies. Dance, on the other hand, is the art that makes the human body a shrine, a temple. And the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara with the Contemporary Dance Festival finds one of its strong points in this discipline”.
“The Festival will continue along the lines traced in recent years – explained the artistic director of the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Marcello Corvino -. The first part of the event, in collaboration with Interno Verde and with site-specific shows, will present to the public a national and a world premiere: Chorus – The day I became a cloud and Cosmico Lounge. Then, in the second part of the festival, we will have the world premiere of Puccini’s Opera. The programming takes into account Ferrara, but also the world. Ours is a ‘glocal’ (global and local) vision of artistic production”.
On Thursday 12th and Friday 13th September the Festival begins with a Dance Festival dedicated to the city’s dance schools. Individual schools will have the opportunity to stage various choreographies, presenting their realities to the public. On 12 September at 7.30 pm there will be space for nineteenth-century dance in the Rotonda Foschini, organized by the Danza/Circolo Ferrarese company. At 8.30 pm on 12 and 13 September at the Comunale the Dance Nation schools, the “Luisa Tagliani” Dance School, the Arabesque Classical Dance School, Zenit E-Motion Bondeno, Jazz Studio Dance, ASD Vigarano Danza, Hip Hop Room, will perform. Gruppo Teatro Danza, Multidanza, Società di Danza/Circolo Ferrarese, Gym&Tonic, Progetto 21, Cento City Ballet/Zero Zero 1 Kompany, Polisportiva Doro, Polisportiva Putinati, Studio43 Argenta, Gym Tonic/Pontelagoscuro, Danza Arckadia.
On Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th September we enter the heart of the Festival with the fourth edition of Interno Verde Danza, a review within the review. The event, in collaboration with Interno Verde, hosts eight shows in the city with multiple performances per day. At the Ridotto del Comunale, on 14th and 15th September at 12pm, 5pm and 7pm, Come neve, the one “that you observe when you are little”, is staged. I contemplated the white of the outside and the heat of the inside, the sense of protection and community of these moments”, explains Adriano Bolognino, who started from here to build the choreography with Rosaria Di Maro, Noemi Caricchia and Roberta Franzini, involving the costumes the Crochet Club. Come neve is the winning creation Danza Urbana XL 2023 – action of the Anticorpi XL Network.
Chorus – The day I became a cloud makes its national premiere on 14 and 15 September at Palazzo Schifanoia at 11.30am, 7.30pm and 9pm. The concept and choreography are by Emanuele Soavi in collaboration with Kate Strong, Johannes Malfatti, Achim Conrad and the performers of the Emanuele Soavi incompany. Made by independent miniatures, the choreography creates a parkour show that invites spectators to move, making them creators of a parallel choreography.
In its world premiere, Cosmico Lounge will be staged with the choreography and direction of Andrea Marici, in the courtyard of Palazzo dei Diamanti on 14 and 15 September (12pm, 4pm and 6.30pm). Cosmico is an airport lounge as rarefied as only emotions and periods of life can be.
Don Juan | The Carnival Party will be staged in the courtyard of Palazzo dei Diamanti on 14 and 15 September. The audience will live an immersive experience in an augmented reality through the use of viewers and will find themselves immersed in a “central” scene of the show, namely Don Juan’s deception of Donna Anna and Don Ottavio.
The Contemporary Dance Festival then continues on September 22nd at 6pm at the Teatro Comunale with a world premiere: Puccini’s opera – Voci di donne, production by Artemis Danza, co-produced by the Teatro Comunale of Ferrara. A creation by Monica Casadei, who dedicates her project to four fascinating Puccini heroines, on the centenary of the composer’s death: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Mimì and Turandot.
On the occasion of the important world debut, at 4 pm at the Ridotto del Teatro, the students of the Cantante 4.0 course, directed by the honorary president of the theater Leone Magiera, will perform some of Giacomo Puccini’s most famous arias (free entry without reservation).
