INTERPRETERS

Vito Alfarano, Martin Angiuli, Melania Chionna, Federica Iacuzzi, Marco Mantovani, Malwina Stepien

Teresa Storer violin, Alice Bettiol violin, Andrea Bortoletto purple, Marta Storer cello, Elena Mazzer double bass.

Thanks to Marina De Liso for providing the voice for the piece Coeur Ouvert

Production Association Ballet “city of Rovigo” realized in collaboration with the Municipality of Rovigo – Teatro Sociale, with the contribution of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities – ArcoDanza Regione del Veneto.

THE SHOW.

“Open Hearted” is a performance that fuses together dance, theater, music, poetry and dramaturgy. On stage, the weaving is continuous, in close dialogue with themes extrapolated from the “Sonnets,” by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), and specially written pages. The anniversary, in 2016, of the 400th anniversary of the English author’s death, provides an opportunity for actress Elena Croce and six elements of the Fabula Saltica dance company to shed an unusual light on timeless words, and build a “new world”: in surprise, in meaning, in beauty.

THE DANCE.

Claudio Ronda’s choreography, created to the score composed by Maestro Paolo Zambelli, moves on Shakespeare’s twenty “Sonnets,” captures its suggestions to forge bodies transfigured in the poet’s words, bodies transported to an atmosphere that is both earthly and surreal, which knows no deadlines of Time. They are bodies that seek each other, and struggle to abandon themselves; bodies engaged in the aerial and tangible cadence of the pas de deux; bodies that, in the elegiac movements of the various sequences, trace the rituals of seduction, of unlove, of dream.

THE DIRECTORY.

In the staging of Alessio Pizzech, a director who aims at mutual respect for the specific identities and forms of each expressive medium, the show develops by thematic nuclei and sudden breaks, also filmed at a distance. “Open-hearted” thus becomes a lucid confession of the soul, suspended between biographical excerpts, sentimental ignitions and disappointment, turmoil and fury, memories, reason and heartbreak.

FOR THE PUBLIC

One page after another, one poem after another, dance and poetry become specular and autonomous tales, each endowed with its own physicality, aimed at the emotional involvement of the audience. At stake is a tight meditation on the seasons of Life, the predation and violence of the One on the Other, the thousands of illusions, and the equally irreparable disappointments, encapsulated in the roughness, and the sweetness, of that thing called love.