Shortcut retraces and combines important steps of Emanuela Tagliavia‘s choreographic career. Fragments of a scenic biography come together in the sign of a recognizable language, and tell a personal journey and his inspirations: music, figurative arts, poetry.
With Stefania Ballone, Christian Fagetti, Giulia Lunardi, Andrea Risso, Giulia Schenato, Gioacchino Starace
Dancers of the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Choreography: Emanuela Tagliavia
Costume design: Lou Antinori
Lighting design: Emanuela Tagliavia and Fabio Passerini
Duration: 60′
excerpts from
Variations for five
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
(Premiere March 2019, Festival Al Bustan, Beirut)
with Christian Fagetti, Giulia Lunardi, Giulia Schenato, Gioacchino Starace, Andrea Risso
Combustioni
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere May 2015, Teatro Continuo Burri, Milano)
with Stefania Ballone, Emanuela Tagliavia, Christian Fagetti, Andrea Risso, Giulia Schenato
Luminare Minus
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
Video by Davide Montagna and Giuseppe de Angelis
(Premiere September 2007, MiTo Settembre Musica, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”, Milano.)
with Giulia Lunardi, Gioacchino Starace
En écoutant du Schumann
Music by Robert Schumann orchestred by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere 2004, Teatro Bolshoi, Mosca)
with Stefania Ballone, Christian Fagetti
Combustioni
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere May 2015, Teatro Continuo Burri, Milano.)
with Emanuela Tagliavia, Giulia Lunardi, Giulia Schenato
Hopper Variations
Music by John Cage
(Premiere 2013, Teatro Grassi, Milano)
with Stefania Ballone, Andrea Risso, Gioacchino Starace, Christian Fagetti
Balthus Variations
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere May 2012, Teatro Strehler, Milano.)
with Giulia Lunardi
Funambolia
Music by Giampaolo Testoni
(Premiere March 2017, Teatro Gerolamo, Milano)
with Stefania Ballone, Christian Fagetti, Giulia Lunardi, Giulia Schenato, Gioacchino Starace, Andrea Risso
Fragments of a scenic biography come together in the sign of a recognizable language, and tell a personal journey and its inspirations: music, figurative arts, poetry. From Combustioni, a show created to celebrate the reopening of the Teatro Continuo in Burri, to Luminare Minus, commissioned by the Science Museum of Milan, to continue with Funambolia, which inaugurates the dance season of the Teatro Gerolamo in 2017.
Then again Hopper Variations, En écoutant du Schumann, on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Balthus and Variations for Five, the latter programmed at the Al Bustan festival in Beirut in 2019. Different contexts and creative impulses, for a single creative vocation.
In retracing her choreographic work since 2004, Shortcut does not choose the path of chronological exhibition, but creates a narrative based on affinity; the same that links the choreographer to the beautiful music specially written by the composer Giampaolo Testoni. Each extract from the main works is mirrored in the next, following a reasoned thread.
Dancer and choreographer, she trained in Italy and then perfected her skills in contemporary dance in France. Her works have been performed in some of the most important theatres and festivals in Italy and abroad (Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome and Teatro Bolshoi in Moscow, Piccolo Teatro and Teatro Strehler in Milan, to name a few). In recent years he has worked with Gabriele Salvatores for the production of La Gazza Ladra (Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 2017) and with Liliana Cavani for the staging of Alì Baba e i Quaranta Ladroni (Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 2018). In 2019 he curated the Gala di Danza organized by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto at Teatro Diego Fabbri in Forlì. She created the choreographic movements of the show Qohelet, which was staged with great success at the Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan (February 2019); she participated in the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, with young dancers from the Scuola di Ballo Accademia Teatro alla Scala. In the summer of 2019 he created the choreography for the Dolce & Gabbana AltaSartoria event held in Sciacca, Sicily. In September his choreographies were the protagonists of the opening show of the 24th World Energy Forum held in Abu Dhabi. Numerous are the awards and recognitions to his career and his creations. She is artistic director of the contemporary dance festival “Pulchra minima” at the Teatro Gerolamo in Milan.
Since 1999 Emanuela Tagliavia has taught contemporary dance at the Dance School of the Accademia delle Arti e Mestieri of the Teatro alla Scala. Since 2007 she has taught at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi.
