MM Contemporary Dance Company – Short Stories – cor. Michele Merola, foto di Creativite
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NIGHT STORIES is the new evening by MM Contemporary Dance Company composed of Quarto Canto by Enrico Morelli, Short Stories by Michele Merola and Skirk by Adriano Bolognino.
Production: MM Contemporary Dance Company
Co-production Skirk: Comune di Bassano del Grappa – Operaestate Festival Veneto
Choreography: Enrico Morelli
Music: Ars Nova Copenhagen, Ben Frost, Hildur Guõnadóttir
Performer: MM Contemporary Dance Company (6 dancers)
Running time: 15′
A literary pretext: love. A work by Enrico Morelli, which rejects any easy seductive alibi to let itself be led by the theme of love declined in its most introspective aspects. As in a well-conceived plot, everything seems to happen in a single moment evoked by different places and situations, a metaphor for a love that embraces and consumes life, proposing an interpretation of this feeling played out between sincerity and regret, melancholy and hope. The dance in this piece seems to have the power and ability to transfer from the stage to the audience shreds of a love story in which we can recognise ourselves, to play at bringing to the surface traces of that repressed and silent thought that has accompanied our experience for centuries.
Choreography: Michele Merola
Music composed and live performed by Natalia Abbascià
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Choreography assistant: Paolo Lauri
Dancers: Emiliana Campo, Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Fabiana Lonardo, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
Running time: 28′
Short Stories involves the dancing bodies in a continuous design, built on repetitions and differences, moments of solos, duets and choral scores, a succession of short stories, pictures generated by the sound of live music: Natalia Abbascià, who will play live, has created a soundtrack that brings together evocative lyrical parts for violin and solo voice. The dancers will make the audience lose the sense of the boundary separating audience and stage space.
The pieces that make up the work will be articulated as an expressive landscape that will leave to the subjectivity of the audience the intimate reading of the feelings that the dance and music suggest.
Choreography: Adriano Bolognino
Music: Max Richter
Lighting design: Gessica Germini
Costumes: Nuvia Valestri
Choreography assistant: Rosaria Di Maro
Repetiteur: Paolo Lauri
Dancers Emiliana Campo, Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Alice Ruspaggiari, Rossana Samele, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa, Leonardo Zannella
Running time: 25′
Creation in the framework of Prove d’Autore – azione del Network Anticorpi XL.
Adriano Bolognino’s new work for the MM Contemporary Dance Company, entitled Skrik, is inspired by the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch, a work that led the choreographer to investigate the theme of tragedy, anguish and the littleness of man in the immensity of the universe. The choreographer himself explains: “The dull cry of the painting – of which I have decided to keep the Norwegian title “Skrik”, which phonetically recalls an unpleasant sound, a bump, a shock – seems to deform the landscape, giving us instability and fear, while preserving its immense beauty. Clinging to this dualism that I feel close to me, I wanted to create a dancing moment that could be a breathless accumulation of all the discontent of these last few years, but also reach the eyes of the audience as a regenerating waterfall.”
The MM Contemporary Dance Company is a contemporary dance company directed by choreographer Michele Merola, founded in 1999 as a production centre for events and performances and as a promoter of festivals and workshops with the aim of fostering exchanges and alliances between Italian and international artists, witnesses and spokesmen of contemporary culture.
The repertoire of the company, which is based in Reggio Emilia, is rich and varied, thanks to works by Michele Merola and creations by European and Italian choreographers such as Maguy Marin, Mats Ek, Mauro Bigonzetti, Thomas Noone, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Silvia Gribaudi, Eugenio Scigliano, Emanuele Soavi, Enrico Morelli, Daniele Ninarello, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, Roberto Tedesco, Camilla Monga, and Adriano Bolognino.
In 2010, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the prestigious Danza&Danza Award as the best emerging company and today, it is, to all intents and purposes, a reality of excellence in Italian dance, with a consolidated activity of performances throughout the country. For some years now, it has conquered an international market with performances in European and non-European countries (Korea, Colombia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Morocco, Belgium, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic…).
In 2017, the MM Contemporary Dance Company won the 2017 Europaindanza Prize – Award of Merit for Choreography, for the performance Bolero by Michele Merola. In 2022, MMCDC won the Danza&Danza Award for the best Italian production with the performance Ballade (chor. Mauro Bigonzetti, Enrico Morelli). On 1 January 2021 and 1 January 2022 MMCDC was featured on RAI 1 in Roberto Bolle’s show “Danza con me” performing choreographies by Mauro Bigonzetti and Lorca Massine.
Since 2018, the MM Contemporary Dance Company has been an associated company of the Trentino Alto Adige InDanza Circuit.
MMCDC is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto, Centro Permanente Danza/Reggio Emilia.
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