MM Contemporary Dance Company on tour in Spain
MM Contemporary Dance Company adds a new chapter to its ‘travel diary’. After successful tours abroad in Canada, Morocco, Belgium, Germany, Russia (…), for the first time Michele Merola’s company performs in Spain, and stages two shows in three cities from September 23 to 28.
The debut is in Catarroja on September 23 (at Teatre Auditori, h 08:00pm), where the company presents Gershwin Suite / Schubert Frames.
The same performance will be staged in Terrassa on September 25 (at Centre Cultural, h 08:00pm).
The tour ends in Zaragoza on September 28 (at Teatro Principal, h 08:00pm) with the staging of the new triple bill Love Poems.
The shows propose choreographies by Mauro Bigonzetti, Michele Merola, Enrico Morelli, Thomas Noon.
Gershwin Suite
Michele Merola created Gershwin Suite starting from Gershwin’s best music and inspired by the paintings of another great 20th-century American artist, Edward Hopper, and by the connection between Gershwin's music and Hopper’s paintings. In a continuously changing scenography, intimate duets and solos follow one another, plus group scenes where the desire to live and escape daily life jump out.
Schubert Frames
Enrico Morelli wanted to entrust his new work to the music by Franz Shubert, a composer able to interpret the contrasting feelings of love, tension, melancholy, regret, but also hope. In this work devoted to the many souls of contemporary man, the choreography is an abstract account of solitude and affinities, in an era like ours – tired, pale, disenchanted, tormented but also anxiously looking for a meaning and a hope of happiness.
Love Poems
Duetto inoffensivo (extract from “Rossini Cards”) by Mauro Bigonzetti
Brutal Love Poems by Thomas Noone
Vivaldi Umane Passioni by Michele Merola
Three new choreographies, all marked by a contemporary character. Their common denominator is a strong musicality, and all of them highlight the dancers’ stylistic versatility and skill. From one piece to another, dance becomes one with music and choreographies that privilege movement but also the importance of a single gesture, join the richness of the musical composition.
The tour is made with the support by Emilia-Romagna Region, ATER Fondazione, MiC – Italian Ministry of Culture, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona, in collaboration with the Teatre Auditori Catarroja (Valencia), the Centre Cultural Terrassa (Barcelona), and the Teatro Principal of Zaragoza.
more:
video:
- Gershwin Suite by Michele Merola
- Schubert Frames by Enrico Morelli
- Duetto inoffensivo by Mauro Bigonzetti
- Brutal Love Poems by Thomas Noone
- Vivaldi Umane Passioni by Michele Merola
