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Dance 2011 – 2012

As a result of the situation of dwindling resources that has come into being over recent years, we are unable to maintain the programming of our customary Danza Autunno festival this season. Nevertheless, thanks to the extraordinary commitment of the Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Foundation, the Municipal Theatre will be offering an autumn season comprising two dance productions and one musical. Scena d’Autunno (Autumnal Scene), as the new programme is titled, will begin on 3rd November with the latest creation by Christian Spuck – currently Choreographer in Residence for the Stuttgart Ballet company and future director of the Zurich Ballet from September 2012 – originated for the Gauthier Dance/Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart. The choreography is inspired by Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea very freely transposed into dance with a contemporary touch, using a variety of artistic languages. On 26th and 27th November, the theatre will be staging an original version of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, danced by the Ballet Theatre of Ljubljana and directed by Youri Vamos, whose Coppélia a Montmartre was seen in Modena in 2009. Shakespearean themes can be found running throughout the seasons at the Teatro Comunale this year, with a variety of productions drawing endless inspiration from the Bard’s works, in different forms and from different times – from Gounod’s opera, scheduled for 18th and 20th November, to Tchaikovsky’s orchestral fantasy, accompanied by Prokofiev’s ballet suite performed by the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra and conducted by Valery Gergiev (2nd February). Youri Vamos, former leading male dancer with the Munich Opera Ballet and director of the Dortmund, Bonn, Düsseldorf and Basel Ballet companies, is now considered one of the greatest European masters of narrative dance with classical ballet roots, particularly thanks to his original interpretations of major repertory titles. Happy Days is the title of the musical scheduled for 10th and 11th December, based on the popular 1970s television series created by Garry Marshall. The show is produced by Compagnia della Rancia, Italy’s leading musical production company since 1988, which – as well as translating and reworking American shows like Grease and A Chorus Line – has also created original hits, such as Dance! and Pinocchio (staged in New York in 2010), and presented its version of Cats at the Teatro Comunale last season.

The Danza Primavera (Spring Dance) festival, scheduled to start on 17th February, includes a variety of proposals from the latest Italian and international dance scene, encompassing a diversity of styles ranging from classical to contemporary. The first date is set with the company founded by Antonio Gades, already seen in Modena with Carmen in 2008, and will feature two works most representative of the tradition cultivated by this great dancer and choreographer: Bodas de Sangre, 1974, based on a story by Federico García Lorca, and Suite Flamenca, eight traditional dances that represent the backbone of the Spanish master’s dance. On 9th and 10th March, the festival continues with the world premiere of a co-production by the Modena Municipal Theatre for the Loris Petrillo company, headed by the internationally trained choreographer whose work has been performed by, among others, the Aterballetto Company and Turin’s Teatro Regio. Scheduled for the 4th April is the first Italian performance of a show devised and performed by Sylvie Guillem in collaboration with the Sadler’s Wells Theatre Company, London, titled 6000 miles away. The star will be performing pieces by Forsythe, Kylián and Mats Ek, both solo and in duet with Nicolas Le Riche. The 13th April is the date set for the world premiere of Paradiso I, a new production inspired by the music of Vivaldi, devised by Matteo Levaggi and co-produced with Modena’s Teatro Comunale. The event renews a long-standing collaboration with the Ballet Theatre of Turin, which had also guested in the 2006 and 2008 seasons, and represents a further step down the path undertaken by Levaggi (the company’s resident choreographer since 2001), over recent years, with an original interpretation of the musical score.

On Saturday 21st April, the theatre will be hosting the Italian premiere of English company Ballet Black’s celebration of ten years of activity, with a programme featuring the most representative pieces from its repertoire, including Da Gamba by Welsh/Nigerian choreographer Henri Oguike, Shift by Antonia Franceschi, former New York City Ballet dancer, and Stravinsky’s Orpheus, the first narrative ballet danced by the company and commissioned for the occasion to Will Tuckett from the Birmingham Royal Ballet. On 6th May, contemporary Russian dance icon Boris Eifman will be back in Modena, two years on from his last appearance. The international renowned choreographer is appreciated both by classical ballet and contemporary dance lovers alike and heralded as a master of modern narrative dance. Following on from Anna Karenina, the theatre will be offering Red Giselle, inspired by the troubled existence of Russian ballerina Olga Spessivtseva. The programme draws to an end, on 12th and 13th May, with another Italian premiere, this time of a performance devised by English choreographer Richard Wherlock for the Basel Ballet, titled Traviata – a ballet. The show, inspired by the opera’s leading female character and the original text by Alexandre Dumas fils, rejects Verdi in favour of other composers, such as Saint-Saens, Poulenc, and Shostakovich, to recreate a universe whose Gallic flavour and contemporary perspective shift the work far from its nineteenth-century romantic origins. The ballet is presented alongside Verdi’s La Traviata, which will be staged in March, as part of the opera season, in a production by the Modena Municipal Theatre.

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