Alcesti

Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni

Company
Michelle Abbondanza received his training in New York under the instruction of Merce Cunningham and went on to form a company with Antonella Bertoni eight years ago. Numerous productions, in addition to collaborative projects with well-known musicians, commissioned choreography for a variety of opera houses, among other establishments, have made them one of Italy’s most productive companies.

Performance
Alcesti deals with one of the classic and most popular themes of all time: a sacrifice for love. Behind white gauze veils, the bride, the bridegroom and a hunchbacked priest encounter one another in four scenes: meeting, marriage, sacrifice, separation. It’s like sitting beside Kusturica in a silent movie theatre and dreaming of Fellini; you see three bodies in rapid puppet-like, fragmentary movements surrounded by eccentric tango music, arias and dirges; cruel, heavenly, existential, full of poetry and belief in the world. And it is almost anachronistic, since, more than anything else, Alcesti celebrates couplehood as an enduring unity continually evolving in the face of life’s challenges.

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director: Michele Abbondanza, Antonella Bertoni
dancers: Michele Abbondanza, Antonella Bertoni, Veronica Melis
duration: 65 minutes
when: Tuesday, June 24th, 8.00 p.m.
where: fabrik