InCanto dall'Orlando Furioso

Ballet in a prologue and one act freely inspired by Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

Choreography MAURO BIGONZETTI
Set and video design: ANGELO DAVOLI
Costume design: GUGLIELMO CAPONE
Music: GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL
Music Consultant and Inserts: BRUNO MORETTI
Lighting design: CARLO CERRI

Rather than narrating, this work transposes into dance, a non verbal, however highly communicative language, the intermingling feelings and passions which move the “women, knights, arms and love”.
It recalls the hyperbolic stories superbly sung by Ariosto in his most famous poem and the characters, their conflicts, the universal humanity, the uncertainty of reason, the madness and the contradictions within oneself and in society.
The modernity of this poem struck the sensitivity and interest of the artist and choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, who wrote: “the feelings which, in the end, correspond to passions, and the passions which exercise their power on reason, are a spur to continue the research to discover the possibilities of the body, to explore feelings and to express them. A research to reveal the characteristics that make us so tremendously similar, different images of human nature which, in the end, renders our infinite diversities a great unity”.

Co-produced by FONDAZIONE NAZIONALE DELLA DANZA e
FONDAZIONE I TEATRI

World premiere:
Reggio Emilia, Teatro Valli
14 and 15 Decembre 2007

New Version:
Lecce, Teatro Politeama Greco
3 April 2008

Length: 70'
Ballet for the whole Company