2023-07-20 16:53:47
The programming of the Caracalla Festival 2023 dedicated to ballet ends with the Gran Gala di Danza on 23 July (21.00). A unique date for a very special event that sees the guest stars, Maia Makhateli and Jacopo Tissi, and those of the Rome Opera House, the étoiles Alessandra Amato, Rebecca Bianchi, Susanna Salvi and Alessio Rezza, the principal dancers Claudio Cocino and Michele Satriano, the soloists and the corps de ballet. The music is performed by the Rome Opera Theater Orchestra conducted by Alvise Casellati. On the same evening, before the Gala, the show by the students of the Scuola di Danza, also directed by Eleonora Abbagnato, at 7 pm at the Teatro del Portico, a new space close to the Temple of Jupiter, the stage for the ‘Off’ billboard of the Caracalla Festival 2023.
For the Gran Gala di Danza, after Roberto Bolle and Friends, two other international guests, Maia Makhateli and Jacopo Tissi, will therefore arrive on the big stage of the Terme on 23 July. They are the ones who open the evening. Accompanied by the solo dancers and the corps de ballet of the Capitoline Foundation, they dance the ‘Grand Pas’ from the second act of Paquita, to Petipa’s choreography taken up by Eleonora Abbagnato and Gillian Whittingham. The programme, divided into two parts by an intermission, then consists of pas de deux from ‘Il Corsaro’ by José Carlos Martínez (performing Susanna Salvi and Alessio Rezza) and ‘Swan Lake’ by Petipa (performing Maia Makhateli and Jacopo Tissi), from the all-male pas de deux from ‘Proust ou les intermittences du coeur by Petit’, taken up by Luigi Bonino (performing Michele Satriano and Giacomo Castella na) and from the solo by Alessandra Amato dancing ‘The dying swan’ by Michel Fokine, taken up by Eleonora Abbagnato.
The grand finale is entrusted to the notes and the pressing rhythm of Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ with choreography created by Krzysztof Pastor in 2012. The ‘Bolero occupies a special place in the history of music and dance, and the ballet version that has marked history and still stands as an icon today is the legendary one by Maurice Béjart. The Bolero has always been conceived ‘in a circle’ generally with a round table in the center of the stage on which a soloist, woman or man, dances and the other dancers all around. Pastor chooses to use a large rectangular space and entrusts the execution of his ‘Bolero’ to a man and a woman, a main couple which in this case is formed by Rebecca Bianchi and Claudio Cocino alongside the corps de ballet of course.
On July 23rd, the Students of the Rome Opera Dance School return to the stage directed by Eleonora Abbagnato. After the Essay – Show on July 15th at the Costanzi the School returns directed by Eleonora (7 pm) at the Teatro del Portico. The young dancers will perform two titles, ‘Raymonda Suite’ by Marius Petipa and ‘The Carnival of the Animals’ by Davide Bombana. The choreographic pieces that make up the ‘Raymonda’ Suite are taken up by the teachers of the Ioulia Sofina School (‘Mazurka’ and ‘Hungarian Dance’), and Ofelia Gonzalez and Pablo Moret (‘Grand pas classique’).
‘The Carnival of the Animals’ to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns in the choreographic version by Davide Bombana is the first to be designed for a young audience, with an important ecological message. Always love and respect animals and nature. The Italian choreographer, of clear international fame, avoids any form of abstraction and intellectualism, remains faithful to the composer’s conception of divertissement and proposes a series of heterogeneous dances in style with multiform and colorful atmospheres, aimed at describing the animal world in its instinctive and disorderly joy.
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