Marco Pelle AbunDance – “Dancetime” Stories
10 Lectures and performances exclusively for the Italian Cultural Institute in New York
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Sixth lecture/performance: March, 3 2022 – 5:30pm
“I Begin By Considering An Effect” (Maurice Ravel)
• If in the United States dancers become choreographers, European artists are no less so.
• Maurice Bejart, former dancer with the Opéra de Marseille, creates a new style of dancing, almost directorial, based on both statement and effect. His rendition of “Bolero” will make him an over-night sensation and it will tour the world.
• Roland Petit, on the other hand, a former dancer with Paris Opera, will create a new ballet vocabulary, sensual and exotic. His muse, Zizi Jeanmaire will leap from ballet to musical, without skipping a beat.
• Videos, fun facts, stories will take us through this incredible time in the dance world, the 1950s and 1960s
VI original choreography (previously taped) danced by Luciana Paris and Jonatan Lujan
AbunDance is a series of ten lectures (“dancetime stories”!) about the journey and evolution of Ballet. Marco Pelle will virtually meet us in Florence where we will start a trip that will take us through France, Russia, Western Europe again, the United States and back to Europe. We will find out together how Dance, a very fascinating form of Art, has become what it is today. “AbunDance” wants to be both a journey and a discovery, an insight and an understanding that Dance is a vital part of society because it represents the very present moment in its eternal movement.
Every “Dancetime Story” will end with an original work that Marco Pelle has choreographed for the Italian Institute, performed by Luciana Paris (Soloist dancer with American Ballet Theater) and Jonatan Lujan (former dancer at Ballett Zürich, Victor Ullate Ballet and Ballet Argentino de Julio Bocca).
All performances have been pre-recorded at the Institute and will video premiere at the end of each conference.
Marco Pelle, recipient of the 2016 Primi Dieci USA Award, under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as one of the ten most influential Italians in the USA, began his dance training in his Italy, continued in Monaco at the Academie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace before moving to New York City to study under several merit scholarships with Merce Cunningham. He’s been one of New York Theatre Ballet’s resident choreographers since 2012.
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