From Bill T. Jones to Wayne McGregor, the great international dance at the Ravello Festival

The opening performance by the Arnie Zane Company, in a show created for Villa Rufolo, "Time: Study: A Week," is just the beginning of a rich program curated by Laura Valente, artistic director of the sixty-sixth edition of the festival, who has chosen to join the soloists of the American company on stage with the Campanian dancers of the Abballamm'! project, the flagship of a three-year program of training and residencies. Tonight's program also features music by Franz Schubert, String Quartet No. 14 (Death and the Maiden), performed by the Teatro di San Carlo String Quartet. Tomorrow in Piazza Duomo at 6:00 PM, a happening to celebrate 1968, the Abballamm'! dancers, mingling with the crowd of tourists, will perform a long performance entitled "See Me, Feel Me," inspired by The Who's "Tommy." From the square to the stage of the Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium at 9:00 pm to attend two choreographies: “Act of Marcy,” by Antonello Tudisco in a world premiere, and “Peggy untitled 2013-2018,” by Michela Barasciutti, a Ravello Festival production.
The homage to Peggy Guggenheim ranges from Picasso to Magritte, from Luigi Nono to Sofia Gubaidulina. The dancing week will end with a great event, an Italian premiere and exclusive, where it began, on the Belvedere of Villa Rufolo, Saturday 7 July (21.30:XNUMX pm) with the investigative and experimental work of Wayne McGregor. The English genius with “Autobiography Edits” will tell the infinite possible combinations of the human genome by putting his DNA on stage. On stage ten dancers who divide the space in an association established at that moment on the computer by an algorithm on which the choice of the dancer and the order of the performance will also depend. In this way each performance will always be different from the other, unique and unrepeatable. This will be followed by “Witness”, the pas de deux with Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo and “Wolf Works”, a grandiose tribute to the famous British writer Virginia Wolf, a work in three acts where Wayne Mc Gregor choreographically tackles the narrative, transforming it into dance, giving shape to the words through the use of lucid and determined movements in a creation created especially for Ferri.