DANCE MAVERICKS CONVERGE IN BOLOGNA.The Italian city of Bologna, the oldest university town in Europe, has opened its arms to some of the Western world's most radical contemporary dancemakers with the Danzaduemila (Dance 2000) Festival, which runs through December. Theaters in the surrounding regions of Modena, Reggio Emilia and Ferrara will co-produce some of the events. The festival is meant to celebrate changing aesthetics and themes in dance over the last century. Expressionistic ex·pres·sion·ism n. A movement in the arts during the early part of the 20th century that emphasized subjective expression of the artist's inner experiences. ex·pres dance theater The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German expressionist dance. Its most influential performers are Pina Bausch and Susanne Linke. , with Pina Bausch Philippine "Pina" Bausch (born July 27, 1940 in Solingen, Germany) is a modern dance choreographer and a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance. as its prime example, will be a major focus, but the festival also will reflect Bausch's influence on younger European artists and the different ways dance theater (also known as Tanztheater) has stimulated theatrical language. Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal performed her piece The Window Washer in October; Modena Teatro Comunale, meanwhile, offered Henrietta Horn (who inherited director ship of the Essen Folkwang Tanzstudio from Bausch) in Itambe, and the controversial Belgian choreographer Alain Platel's new work Allemaal Indiaan. In November, Ferrara Teatro Comunale will bring Johann Kresnik's Goya and co-produce Flemish choreographer and videomaker Wim Vandekeybus's Inasmuch as Life is borrowed. American choreographers Trisha Brown and William Forsythe also found a special place in the Danzaduemila Festival, which in October showcased Brown's Five Part Weather Invention, Rapture to Leon James and Groove and Countermove coun·ter·move n. A move made in opposition or retaliation to another. intr.v. coun·ter·moved, coun·ter·mov·ing, coun·ter·moves To make a move in retaliation or opposition. ; also Canto/Pianto, Twelve Ton Rose, M.O. and If You Couldn't See Me, which celebrates her unfailing capacity to find new relationships between choreography and music. In November, Frankfurt Ballet offers Forsythe's iconoclastic i·con·o·clast n. 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. approach to balletic language with a triple bill of One flat thing, Duo and 7 to 10 passages. Italian dance's "golden boy," Mauro Bigonzetti, presented a post-classical ballet, his new A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and , to an original score by U.K. pop musician Elvis Costello. The festival will be rounded out this month by the emerging Sicilian neoclassical ne·o·clas·si·cism also Ne·o·clas·si·cism n. A revival of classical aesthetics and forms, especially: a. A revival in literature in the late 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by a regard for the classical ideals of reason, form, choreographer Roberto Zappala, Monica Casadei and the dance theater group L'Impasto with its Seattle memorandum. For a full schedule, see www.bologna2000.it. |
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