DOUBLESIDE

Shadow and light, live music and contemporary dance are combined in Double Side, the new co-production of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto and the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in Parma: a research and an adventure that the two institutions share, and not for the first time, with the aim of “making choreographic and musical components react” in a new and meaningful way.

On stage are two opposite poles represented by Stabat Mater by the Cuban Norge Cedeño Raffo and With drooping wings by the Canadian Danièle Desnoyers, and bound together by a lively aesthetic architecture designed by Fabiana Piccioli.

The dark, gloomy atmosphere associated with the religious and touching music of Arvo Pärt is enhanced by the expressive, free and pure dance by Norge Cedeño Raffo: a hymn to the beauty of movement. The extrovert imprint and light, clearly encapsulated in the nine iridescent pieces of music by Henry Purcell recomposed for a string quartet by Federico Gon, flow from the dance of Danièle Desnoyers. There is always a strong relationship, almost a deep friendship, between her and the music: the gesture is not overwhelmed by the famous Baroque scores, but attempts to create interesting harmonies and disharmonies with the strings on stage.