BALLAD is a double-bill composed of two new creations for MM Contemporary Dance Company, as to be:
ELEGIA_CARE LANDSCAPES by Enrico Morelli, choreographer of the Company and BALLAD, by Mauro Bigonzetti, which gives the title to the evening:
ELEGIA_CARE LANDSCAPES
People are in search of their own path and identity, united by the same inclusion in one historical period, in an era like the present one that brings dizziness and bewilderment. Individuals who trace new trajectories and look for new ways to recover their own route, in a moment of exile from normality. It is a story of lost moments and relationships, as well as the search, in one's own memory, for images and landscapes that were familiar and comforting to us.
BALLAD
The creation is a tribute, a choral story, a complete portrait of the 80s. A narration through musical images that recovers the sensations of a generation, its erased euphoria, collective nonsense, "dreams thrown overboard", but at the same time revives the way of life of those years, the perfumes of vitality and dense experimental artistic creativity that characterized a rapidly changing society, which was gradually transforming to the rhythm of the momentum of sharing and the anxiety of change.
MAURO BIGONZETTI
Mauro Bigonzetti is the most internationally known Italian choreographers. His career as dancer started in Rome in 1979, at Balletto del Teatro dell’Opera and continued 1983 in Reggio Emilia when joining the company Aterballetto. After this experience, his career focused on commissions for the major ballet and dance companies in the world, such as La Scala Ballet, N.Y.C. Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, Gulbenkian Foundation, a.o. His special collaboration with MMCDC started in 2020, when he staged for her his Duetto Inoffensivo. Ballad is his first creation for the Company.
ENRICO MORELLI
Dancer and choreographer, he studied at Accademia Nazionale Danza in Rome, attending also a teachers' specialization. He won several choreographic competitions in Italy and was awarded as dancer with the Silver Medal of the President of the Italian Republic in 2001. In Italy he choreographed for MMCDC, further for Astra Roma Ballet, Palermo InDanza, Company KAOS-Firenze, Teatro Massimo of Palermo; abroad for Szeged Contemporary Dance Company and Milwaukee Ballet. Since 2004 he is dancer of MMCDC. Actually he is also joint-director of Agora Coaching Project - an advanced training program for dancers.
