The Koresh Dance Company lands on the island with "La Danse & Bolero", an intriguing and engaging show that combines two original creations by the Israeli choreographer Ronen "Roni" Koresh, between pictorial and musical suggestions.

After yesterday's national premiere in Sassari, an exciting debut with the public on special occasions, the American company arrives in Cagliari for two performances scheduled tonight, Saturday 11 February at 8.30pm, and tomorrow at 7pm at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari as part of the season of "La Grande Danza" organized by CeDAC, Multidisciplinary Circuit of Live Performance in Sardinia chaired by Antonio Cabiddu.

Second appointment of the bill dedicated to the international ballet signed by the artistic director Valeria Ciabattoni, "La Danse & Bolero" includes the compelling story for paintings inspired by the famous paintings by Henri Matisse, from the innovative and already disruptive "Le bonheur de vivre" at two o'clock versions of "La Danse", kept respectively at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the original choreography inspired by Ravel's "Boléro", built on a pressing and hypnotic metric, in a crescendo full of energy and pathos culminating in the overwhelming and almost paroxysmal finale.

In the spotlight Melissa Rector, Micah Geyer, Kevan Sullivan, Robert Tyler, Sarah Shaulis, Paige Devitt, Callie Hocter, Devon Larcher and Savanna Mitchell interpret the rigorous and fascinating scores of the bewitching composition for moving bodies, where pas de deux alternate and pas de trois, quintets and choral scenes, which gives way to the irresistible rhythm of the "Boléro".

"La Danse & Bolero" represents in a certain sense the manifesto of the American team, for the first time in Italy, after the successful and acclaimed tours in Spain, Turkey, Israel, Mexico and Guatemala.

"La Dance" is the choreutic transfiguration of Matisse's art on music composed by John Levis, embellished by poetic texts written and recited by Karl Mullen, while the Bolero is Maurice Ravel's absolute masterpiece staged by the greatest choreographers of all time : after the dark and disturbing, almost “demonic” version by Aurel Milloss, at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in 1944 with Attilia Radice and Ugo Dell'Ara, and the more “classical” ones by Harold Lander for the Royal Danish Ballet in 1934 , by Serge Lifar for the Opéra in 1941 and by Pilar and Argentinita López in 1943, the most famous interpretation is that signed by Maurice Béjart for the "Ballet du XXe siècle" with a historic premiere on January 10, 1961 at La Monnaie/ De Munt in Brussels with Dufka Sifnios which was followed, among the most popular, by the productions in which the role of the protagonist was danced by extraordinary étoiles, among all Maya Plisetskaya and Luciana Savignano, but there are also male versions, including, in 1979, the one with Jorge Donn and in 2018 the wonderful Roberto Bolle at the Teatro alla Scala.

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