The performance is the result of an artistic project consisting of a series of portraits where dance and music are intertwined with cinematic suggestions. The focus is on the romantic character of Charlie Chaplin and his particular, animated and empathic understanding of the world. The romantic nature, starting from the well-known Ballade by F. Chopin, is combined with the continuation of specific lines that we have explored in previous works: on one side the search for an almost molecular analysis of music and its components, and on the other the melodic definition in both musical and choreographic terms, despite the ‘implicit’ difficulty of unhinging the melody from the harmonic and rhythmic aspects of the composition. Body and sound become a bridge between history and abstraction, between narration and non-objectivity.

AUTHORS’ NOTES

CINEMATIC.2: BALLATA is a research born in 2015 by choreographer Gabriella Maiorino and composer and musician Simone Giacomini.
Both from Rome, we live and work between Netherlands and Italy. The initial intention of the study was to develop a series of studies touching on three aspects: the relationship between music and movement, the relationship between cinema and contemporary dance, and the relationship between contemporary art and artistic movements of the past.
In CINEMATIC.2 we particularly isolated the MELODIC aspect in classical music and scores.

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