Aterballetto - Rossini Cards / Cantata

Aterballetto
Artistic Director: Cristina Bozzolini

Aterballetto is the principal producing and touring Dance Company in Italy. It is the first permanent ballet-producing organisation apart from the Opera House companies. Founded in 1979, it is composed of solo dancers capable of performing in various dance styles. Aterballetto has gained wide recognition on the international scene.

After almost 18 years of direction by Amedeo Amodio, the artistic direction was entrusted to Mauro Bigonzetti from 1997 to 2007. Bigonzetti, a notable international choreographer, renewed the artistic identity of the company giving it an international profile. In 2008, Mauro Bigonzetti left the artistic direction to dedicate more time to his creative talent and became Aterballetto’s principal choreographer. The artistic direction was entrusted to Cristina Bozzolini, a former prima ballerina of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Aterballetto has adopted the profile of a contemporary ballet company. The founding element of its artistic identity is the commitment to support and develop the art of choreography and the absolute language of dance, presented as dynamics and forms in space, an embodiment of expressive and as aesthetic reverberations, and as a dialectic with music. Throughout its recent history, thanks to the valuable contribution of Mauro Bigonzetti and of other Italian and international choreographers who have collaborated with the company, such as Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Iztik Galili, Fabrizio Monteverde, Jacopo Godani and Eugenio Scigliano, this commitment grew stronger and the artistic decisions have been motivated especially by the need and curiosity of exploring the various expressions of contemporary choreographic language.

Aterballetto believes in research which begins from a "disciplined" body that has a strong ballet technique in discovering the potentials of movement and dynamics whilst turning them into an expression of contemporary reality, by means of the original vision of the choreographers who interpret today’s reality through their imagination, taste, experiences, and human vision. It is a unique and original experience for the choreographer and the performers, and one which is transferred directly to the audience. All this has been made possible thanks to the insight of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia-Romagna Region and the A.T.E.R. (Association of Theaters in Emilia-Romagna).

Rossini Cards
An abstract creation, without a dramaturgic framework. Not a story, but scenes from parallel lives, images, cards, dramatic icons and comic situations. An expression of Gioacchino Rossini’s music, of its pressing, geometric and precise rhythm and, in the end, of a Dionysian vitalism. A sort of "divertissement" set to music of Gioacchino Rossini, in which it is useful to observe the gestural research. The pas de deux set to "Ouf! Les petits pois" is a love dance expressed with sculptural forms of great effect. The female solo set to the Prelude fugasse pays homage to the elegance of ballet’s preparatory positions. The duo set to Prelude inoffensive is homage to the elegance of ballet’s preparatory positions, as well as being a reflection on women’s physicality. All the dancers sitting at a table transform Questo e un nodo avviluppato (from "La Cenerentola") into a choreography of entangled arms. The "grand finale" is set to the Overture from La Gazza Ladra.

Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Gioacchino Rossini
Music Consultant: Bruno Moretti
Costume Design: Helena Medeiros
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri

Cantata
"'Cantata' is a choreography bursting with the typical vibrant colors of the South. It pays homage to the Italian culture and musical tradition, a popular work in the highest sense of the term in which dance and music strongly intermingle."
Recorded Music
Mauro Bigonzetti

Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti
Music: Innovative and traditional music of Southern Italy orchestrated by Gruppo Musicale Assurd
Vocals, Concertina, Tammorra: Cristina Vetrone
Vocals, Tambourine, Castanets: Lorella Monti - Enza Pagliara
Vocals, Tammorra, Tambourine: Enza Prestia
Costume Design: Helena Medeiros
Lighting Design: Carlo Cerri

Box Office Bookings
Nicosia:
Pallas Cinema - Theatre
Tel.: 22410181

Limassol:
Rialto Theatre
Tel.: 77777745
On-line www.rialto.com.cy

Municipal Garden Theatre
Tel.: 25343341, 25582268

The performance is part of the Kypria International Festival 2012