Artemis Danza on tour in the United States
After France and Canada, the international tour of Dante Solo Inferno – Monica Casadei’s latest creation inspired by the first Cantica of the Divine Comedy – continue in Illinois.
On December 2nd, Artemis Danza is on stage in Urbana, where the performance is presented within the annual ‘EU Day of Art’ organized by the European Union Center of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is an exclusive event promoted in collaboration with other centres and departments of the University (at the Lincoln Hall Theater, 07:00 p.m.).
On December 4th, the company performs in Chicago, where Dante Solo Inferno is presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago as part of the events commemorating the 700th anniversary of the passing of Dante Alighieri (at the Cervantes Institute Theater, 07:00 p.m.).
In this performance, the dancers are the protagonists of several choreographic scenes dedicated to the lost souls met by Dante on his infernal journey.
Charon, Minos, Francesca da Rimini, Pier della Vigna, Ulysses, are some of the characters chosen by Monica Casadei to investigate the human soul and compose a poetic and, at the same time, visually impacting image, in which every archetype of the collective unconscious finds its own carnal and earthly manifestation. We follow them along a path of sin, awareness, acceptance and prayer, where the point of arrival is no longer the punishment but the expressive force of the self, in all its fullness and truth.
Interspersed with Dante's most famous verses, music contributes to making the journey even more intense: Franz Liszt’s Dante-Symphonie, inspired by the reading of Dante’s Commedia, and Lacrymosa from Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem meet pages by contemporary composers such as Alfred Schnittke and Krzysztof Penderecki, and the original sound atmospheres composed by Luca Vianini.
European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign