International Dance Day is celebrated today and to celebrate the event today, in prime time on Rai 1, a great event show promoted by Rai and the Ministry of Culture and created by Roberto Bolle to celebrate the art of dance in Italy.
Viva la Danza – produced by Rai Direzione Intrattamento in collaboration with Ballandi and Artedanza srl - will first of all be a great celebration of all dance genres, a great gala held at Theater of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, one of the largest theaters in the world, a jewel of innovation. The format – original and designed ad hoc by the Étoile for the occasion – includes a large gala at the center structured as if it were the very famous “Roberto Bolle and Friends”, the show with which Bolle enchanted the most prestigious and evocative stages of the world.
The great performers have borrowed from the Gala – some of the brightest stars of the international terpsichorean scene from Melissa Hamilton to Daniil Simkin, from the Étoile of the Teatro alla Scala Nicoletta Manni to Tatiana Melnik, from Timofej Andrijashenko to Virna Toppi, Toon Lobach, Fumi Kaneko continuing with the young Italian talent working at the Royal Ballet in London, Marco Masciari, William Bracewell up to Aterballetto, the MM Contemporary Dance Company and the students of the Ballet School of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala – and the unpredictable and bewitching alternation of pieces coming from the most classical repertoire mixed with the most contemporary one.
But it’s not just classical dance, there are many genres represented which enliven the theatre. Every type of dance, from hip hop to swing, from Latin American to tap, in every corner of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. The story is then enriched with many intertwined narrative strands that make the show a cheerful and surprising celebration: there is behind the scenes where not only will the artists meet a moment before the performance, but where tales and stories of dance and life and the mechanisms of the theater and its “inhabitants”, a small magical world with its rules. To the frontal gaze of the television is added the more intimate and at the same time unruly gaze of the eye of a camera intended to film for a documentary and therefore committed to capturing the spirit of dance in its maximum expression, which takes us into a fantastic, poetic world and at the same time fun and unconventional.
