For a year we have known that the next artistic director of the Teatro della Toscana will be Stefano Accorsi. But we still hadn’t seen him at work at the Pergola yet. Until today: but Accorsi’s “debut” on what will be his stage for the next few seasons took place in an absolutely unusual way: as an extra in a music video clip. This is the video of the song “We embrace” by Vasco Brondi (formerly The Lights of the Power Plant), since yesterday on Youtube and in radio rotation. Filmed at the Pergola by the director Giorgio Testi and begins with Accorsi in the “theatrical prop-maker” version.
Vasco Brondi will be among the protagonists of the May Day Concert in Rome from the Casa degli Artisti in Milan and will perform this song that anticipates the new album “Landscape after the battle”, the first in his own name since he abandoned the project “Le Power Plant Lights ”after“ Earth ”and“ We loved each other enough ”. The release of the album is set for May 7th. Already entitled “We embrace” is an anti-Covid song. In the sense of omen for the overcoming of the pandemic and to be able to return to embrace us. Right from the syncopated repetition of the verses “love, do what you want, love, do what you want, don’t wait”. Although at least the end of the acute phase of the pandemic is to be expected.
The basic idea is inspired by the performance of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Alessandro Sciarroni. In fact, in the video, on a deserted and semi-dark stage of the Pergola, we see a couple of dancers – Gianmaria Borzillo and Giovanfrancesco Giannini – engaged in a Polka Chinata, a traditional Emilian dance in ancient times for men only, hugging each other. Dance that Vasco Brondi got to know thanks to the performance “Save the last dance for me” by the artist Sciarroni. And just thinking about this, he imagined a long sequence shot, along the almost five minutes of the song, to be proposed to a director like Testi who has among his peculiarities that of “making a live performance tangible and real” like Brondi himself explains. “After seeing Save the last dance for me I had a shock and from there the song was born – continues the Veronese-Emilian singer-songwriter – in 2018, when in Italy this dance was practiced only by five people, he discovered this folkloric dance Bolognese, a courtship dance originally performed by men only and dating back to the early twentieth century, and has decided to develop a project made up of performances and workshops to spread and revive this popular tradition in danger of extinction ».
April 30, 2021 | 17:23
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