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MAGIA
DI UNA STELLA
BY SUSANNA BELTRAMI
with LUCIANA SAVIGNANO
MATTEO BITTANTE,
FABRIZIO CALANNA
COSTUMES | DANIELA GERINI
LIGHTS | MATTEO BITTANTE
PHOTOS | S. Meliti e D. D'Attilio
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù
Ph Sara Meliti
An evening/meeting with Luciana Savignano.
Getting to know and continuing to love a great artist through words, images and dance, a tribute to her very long career.
Luciana Savignano will tell her audience about herself, starting with some precious video relics, such as the moving 'Moon', choreographed for her by Maurice Béjart, with which Luciana Savignano toured the world, from Europe to South America, from the Far East to North Africa.
But the highlights of the evening will obviously be those danced by the great étoile. The choreographies are excerpts from Le Sacre and Tango di Luna , repertoire creations of the Company.
TANGO
DI LUNA
BY SUSANNA BELTRAMI
with LUCIANA SAVIGNANO
ALEJANDRO ANGELICA,
MATTEO BITTANTE,
FABRIZIO CALANNA,
MATTEO ESPOSITO
COSTUMES | DANIELA GERINI
PHOTOS | SALVATORE LAZZARO
RESTAGING DANCEHAUSpiù
Ph Salvatore Lazzaro
"Excuse me, is this where you learn the Tango?"
... At night, under the moon, anywhere in this world, Luciana's Tango is born. A great artist meets the tango, and the tango meets her life, her thoughts ... Past, present and future flow on three parallel lines: they chase each other, grasp each other, overlap, leave each other, take each other back. A glance comes out of the moon, out of the shadow and the silence, out of space, it abandons itself in the embrace. It arrives and time stops and the moon gives birth to a beginning.
Learning to walk one begins to learn the tango, and each step of Luciana's is each time the first.
Under the few lights of a milonga, she lives a world apart, made of shadows and traces, of worn shoes and mechanical, repetitive gestures, of nostalgia and rigid, acquired rules.
A waiter and a teacher are at one with this place as if there is no life outside of it.
The arrival of Luciana changes the balance of the milonga, to the point of upsetting it. The first encounter is an embrace. The embrace between a woman who continually renews her challenge and a man who has fixed his life in a well-defined pattern. Under the moon our characters discover each other, challenge each other, reveal themselves, perhaps even love each other. Under the moon, the tango also transforms and is populated by an invented and personal gesturality until it takes on a new form. Under this moon, time is marked by five moments, five lessons in which 'pupil' and 'master' continually exchange roles, until their worlds come to truly touch. Five moments that are far or near in time, it matters little. Because a whole life can be summed up with a tango.
Tango di Luna after great successes and an extraordinary tour returns in a renewed form with the involvement of the audience who, after the last applause, will dance a Milonga with the protagonists.
LE SACRE
BY SUSANNA BELTRAMI
with LUCIANA SAVIGNANO
and the partecipation of MATTEO BITTANTE E 20 DANZATORI DELLA DANCEHAUS COMPANY
Ph Prandoni
Considered as one of the most famous works of the 20th century, Le Sacre du Primtemps to the music of Igor Stavinsky was a source of inspiration for numerous choreographers in the universal history of dance, from Maurice Bejart to Pina Bausch, from Martha Graham to Emanuel Gat, who all proposed their own original version.
In 2002, for the Spring Solstice celebrations, Susanna Beltrami's 'Le Sacre' was born from the rethinking of the fascinating space of the Piscina Caimi in Milan. Since that debut, the show has seen numerous replicas both in theatre and site-specific, involving entire generations of dancers. In this new guise enriched by the extraordinary participation of the La Scala etoile, former muse of Bejart, Luciana Savignano, choreographer Susanna Beltrami transforms her Sacre into the natural setting of a collective rite to propitiate the dawn of a new day and a new season.
Arriving from every corner, barefoot and escorted by the red, purple and orange lights of sunset, platoons of young, vigorous people dance a gestural and sound score (Stravinsky's original) that in a circular motion envelops everything and everyone as in an ancestral embrace. At the centre of this rite of youth is the figure of a Mother, Mother Earth, who in the guise of the great etoile Luciana Savignano, orchestrates the gait of her children, who have come to call up from the shadows and frost the luxuriant spring. Because invoking the return of spring is a symbol of rebirth and healing, but also of sacrifice: "what are you willing to sacrifice to be reborn?".