Serbia – MM Contemporary Dance Company at the Belgrade Dance Festival
MM Contemporary Dance Company is on stage in Belgrade within the 21st Belgrade Dance Festival.
The company directed by choreographer Michele Merola presents BALLAD, the new show winner of the Danza&Danza Award 2022 as “Best Italian Production”.
BALLAD is composed of two unpublished choreographies by two Italian authors, Mauro Bigonzetti and Enrico Morelli. A double portrait of an era, the show is a journey between the present and the past, among poetry, dreams, and fears of distant but close generations.
Ballad by Mauro Bigonzetti is a full-fledged portrait of the Eighties. A narration through musical images that recovers the sensations of a generation – its erased euphories, the collective nonsense, its "dreams thrown into the sea", but which at the same time rediscovers the lifestyle of those years, the scents of its vitality and the dense experimental artistic creativity.
Elegia_care landscape by Enrico Morelli tells about our current era, a period that brings dizziness and bewilderment as never before, but also the renewed hope of a new beginning. A choral dance inhabited by individuals in search of an identity, of their own route. A tale of lost moments and relationships, coupled with the search, in one's memory, for images and landscapes that used to be familiar and comforting to us.
The performance is on stage at the Terazije Theatre in Belgrade on March 16 and 17 (8 pm).
BALLAD is one of the Italian shows presented at the Festival by the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade.
MM Contemporary Dance Company is the first dance company from Emilia-Romagna to take part by virtue of a three-year agreement between the Belgrade Dance Festival and ATER Fondazione/ Emilia-Romagna Region to support the regional companies’ participation. The second is Dewy Dell, on stage on March 25 and 26 with their latest creation Le Sacre du Pritemps.