Performance(s)
Venue and date:
Szeged National Theatre
2023. 05. 18., 19:00
Company:
MM Contemporary Dance Company
Elegia. Fotó: Tiziano Ghidorsi
Dance

Ballad

Performance(s)
Venue and date:
Szeged National Theatre
2023. 05. 18., 19:00
Company:
MM Contemporary Dance Company
Author:
Enrico Morelli, Mauro Bigonzetti
Director:
Enrico Morelli, Mauro Bigonzetti
Choreographer:
Enrico Morelli, Mauro Bigonzetti
Stage designer, choreographer: 
Enrico Morelli
Stage designer, choreographer: 
Mauro Bigonzetti
Costume designer: 
Nuvia Valestri
Costume designer: 
Silvia Califano
Music: 
Frédéric Chopin, Giuseppe Villarosa, CCCP - Fedeli alla linea, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Frank Zappa, Nick Cave, Arvo Paart, Nina Simone
Synopsis

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.

Cast
Emiliana Campo
Lorenzo Fiorito
Mario Genovese
Matilde Gherardi
Fabiana Lonardo
Alice Ruspaggiari
Nicola Stasi
Giuseppe Villarosa
Rossana Samele
Leonardo Zannella
Infos
Runtime: 90 min
Acts: 2
Age limit: no restriction
The Director

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.

Inviting Theater
Szeged National Theatre
Awards and prizes
DANZA & DANZA AWARD 2022 Best “Italian Production” of the Year