SHOW FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Peter and the Wolf is a simple yet emotionally rich tale. As the story unfolds, the protagonist will meet friends and foes who will experience fear, friendship, joy, and sorrow alongside him. In an original and fun way, the audience will try to recognize, together with the characters, the orchestra’s instruments, their movements, and their emotions. What do they sound like? How do they move?
In the introduction, the audience will be involved in creating the movements that the dancers will perform in the second part of the show. The children themselves will make Peter and the Wolf an interactive performance, always different and easy to understand even for the youngest viewers.
A perfect show to make children aged 6 and up fall in love with theater.
Direction and script: KanterStrasse
Choreography: Beatrice Ciattini and Niccolò Poggini
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Narrator: Alessio Martinoli
Dancers: 7 dancers
Duration: 55 minutes
Production: Nuovo Balletto di Toscana
First performance 2/12/2023 MET RAGAZZI, Fabbricone Prato (PO)
The language used is contemporary dance, with particular attention to the exploration of movements that evoke clear yet non-descriptive imagery. The choreographers guide young spectators through a vision marked by narrative clarity, which, however, does not rely on the pantomime of classical ballet. Instead, through a play of forms and dynamics, they allow the audience to follow the plot’s development.
Prokofiev’s music supports the directorial approach, which, while preserving the original and highly descriptive score, allows the work to be completely understandable and accessible to the audience. The performance plays on the parallelism between music and movement; it recreates repeated movements over time that characterize the characters, just as the musical score does.