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Alessandra Ferri : the Piano Upstairs Alessandra Ferri : the Piano Upstairs 22/06/13 Alessandra Ferri : The Piano Upstairs Alessandra Ferri : The Piano Upstairs SABATO 22 GIUGNO 2013 12:55 FESTIVAL - DANZA Valutazione attuale: / 0 Scarso Ottimo VOTA 0 Comments Luca Ricci di Regno Ieri 21 giugno 2013 alle ore 17.00 presso il Teatro Nuovo Giancarlo Menotti, Alessandra Ferri e Giorgio Ferrara con tutti i protagonisti di The Piano Upstairs, hanno presentato alla stampa l'innovativo e ambizioso progetto che vedrà oltre all'evento di una Ferri nuovamente espressione corporea del proprio spirito e della propria passione, una contaminazione assolutamente originale tra teatro. musica e danza, tra musica emozioni e corpi.Lasciamo la parola al video girato in loco di circa 20 minuti in cui tutti i protagonisti danno un contributo personale alla comprensione di quello che si presenta come un probabile successo mondiale di un modo nuovo di fare danza. Galleria fotografica di John Weidman da un’idea di Alessandra Ferri con Boyd Gaines e Attila Csiki, Stephen Hanna, Andrea Volpintesta musiche Giovanni Allevi, John Cage, George Crumb, Morton Feldman, Fabrizio Ferri, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt regia Giorgio Ferrara coreografia Alessandra Ferri scene Gianni Quaranta costumi Luisa Spinatelli luci Daniele Nannuzzi coordinatore musiche Arthur Solari aiuto regista Gianni Santucci assistente alla coreografia Marco Pelle professeur de danse Philippe Beamish coordinamento progetto Lisa Weisinger Manne, Roberta Righi understudy Jesse Campbell direttore tecnico Ottorino Neri direttore di produzione Maya Dimova coordinamento direzione tecnica Daniele Di Battista spoletoweb.com/index.php?view=article&catid=67%3Adanza&id=1734%3Aalessandra-ferri-the-piano-upstairs&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&p… 1/6 22/06/13 Alessandra Ferri : The Piano Upstairs segreteria tecnica Silvia Preda assistente al direttore tecnico Alessia Forcina responsabile luci Graziano Albertella responsabile settore macchinisti Paolo Zappelli direttore di scena Laurent Daniel Gerber capo macchinista Michele Colella macchinisti Generoso Ciociola, Massimiliano Marotta, Fabio Pibiri capo elettricista Roberto Gelmetti operatore consolle luci Fiammetta Baldisseri elettricisti David Baldoni, Umberto Giorgi fonico Luca Starpi capo attrezzista Patrizia Valentini attrezzisti Maurizio Salvatori responsabile sartoria Chiara Crisolini Malatesta sarte Claudia Zampolini, Serenella Orti, Marian Osman Mohamed, Giuliana Rossi costumi Brancato Costumi Milano calzature Pompei responsabile trucco e acconciature Roberto Maria Paglialunga elementi scenografici Tecnoscena s.r.l scenografia Staff Tecnico Festival dei Due Mondi responsabile Claudio Balducci macchinista costruttore Enrico Calabresi pittori scenografi Moreno Bizzarri, Silvana Luti, Marta Tazza servizio audio/video Sound Store di Luca Starpi – Spoleto luci Luce E’ S.r.l Firenze sottotitoli/sopratitoli Prescott strutture e servizi per spettacolo Atmo Divisione Gioform srl pianoforti Angelo Fabbrini trasporti GBANG S.r.l. computer regolazione luci E.T.C. Italia www.etcconnect.com Si ringraziano The Jerome Robbins Foundation & The Robbins Rights Trust, Judith Hoffman, Margo e Allen London per il prezioso supporto al progetto negli Stati Uniti. produzione Spoleto56 Festival dei 2Mondi in lingua inglese con sottotitoli in italiano The Piano Upstairs è la storia di un matrimonio fallito. La Moglie se n’è andata. Il Marito, abbandonato, cerca di rimettere insieme i pezzi per capire cosa è successo. Le domande che egli si pone evocano la visione di ricordi che generano altre domande, che risvegliano a loro volta un vortice di immagini ed emozioni che alla fine, inevitabilmente, lo conducono alla verità. Tale processo, il suo viaggio interiore dallo smarrimento alla comprensione, poteva essere narrato in forma di dialogo o di danza. Per raccontarlo nel modo più efficace, abbiamo deciso di utilizzare entrambi. Giorgio Ferrara, Alessandra Ferri, John Weidman musiche Arvo Pärt, moderato Variation 1, 2, 3 Arvo Pärt, Für Alina spoletoweb.com/index.php?view=article&catid=67%3Adanza&id=1734%3Aalessandra-ferri-the-piano-upstairs&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&p… 2/6 22/06/13 Alessandra Ferri : The Piano Upstairs Fabrizio Ferri, Clouds John Cage, In a Landscape Arvo Pärt, Für Anna Maria Philip Glass, Suite II Orphée’s Bedroom John Cage, A Room Morton Feldman, Nature Pieces - 4 Arvo Pärt, Fragile Giovanni Allevi, Jazzmatic George Crumb, Dream Images (Love-Death Music) – Gemini Fabrizio Ferri, TV Fabrizio Ferri, Luna Arvo Pärt, Spiegel Im Spiegel (Mirror In Mirror) ALESSANDRA FERRI Alessandra Ferri è considerata una delle ballerine drammatiche più importanti dei nostri tempi. Nata a Milano, ha frequentato la scuola del Teatro alla Scala e quindi la Royal Ballet School di Londra. Nel 1980 ha vinto il prestigioso Prix de Lausanne ed è entrata a far parte del Royal Ballet; nel 1983, all’età di 19 anni, Sir Kenneth MacMillan l’ha scelta per far parte dei suoi balletti Romeo and Juliet, Manon e Mayerling divenendo così prima ballerina della compagnia. In seguito ha coreografato vari ruoli appositamente per lei. Nel 1985 Mikhail Baryshnikov l’ha invitata ad unirsi all’American Ballet Theatre in cui ha ballato come prima ballerina fino al 2007. Dal 1992 al 2007 è stata l’ètoile della Scala. Si è inoltre esibita con le maggiori compagnie di balletto internazionali fra cui il Ballet National de l’Opéra de Paris e il Royal Ballet, nei più importanti teatri delle capitali del mondo. Ha lavorato al fianco dei più grandi coreografi del nostro tempo: Sir Frederick Ashton, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Jerome Robbins, Roland Petit, Jiri Kylian, John Neumeier, Billy Forsythe e Twyla Tharp. Fra i suoi ruoli più noti ricordiamo Giselle, Juliet, Manon e Carmen. Alessandra Ferri ha ricevuto numerosi prestigiosi premi internazionali, fra cui il Sir Lawrence Olivier Award, il Dance Magazine Award, il Benois de la Danse Prix e il titolo onorifico di Cavaliere della Repubblica che le è stato conferito dal presidente della repubblica italiana Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. È apparsa in numerosi cortometraggi fra cui Carmen e Prelude; in quest’ultimo ha collaborato con Sting. Al di là della danza, ha recitato a teatro, nella produzione dell’opera di Jean Cocteau La voce umana al Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Si è ritirata dalle scene nel 2007 e dal 2008 cura il programma della sezione danza del Festival di Spoleto, presentando importanti compagnie di danza quali il Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, l’Hamburg Ballett_John Neumeier e la Mark Morris Dance Company. The Piano Upstairs segna il ritorno alle scene di Alessandra Ferri. JOHN WEIDMAN John Weidman ha scritto libretti per una nutrita serie di musical di Broadway e off-Broadway, tra cui: Pacific Overtures, Assassins e Road Show, tutti con musiche di Stephen Sondheim; Contact, realizzato con la regista/coreografa Susan Stroman; Happiness, con musiche di Scott Frankel e Michael Korie, diretto e coreografato da Susan Stroman; Take Flight e Big, con musiche di Richard Maltby Jr. e David Shire; e il nuovo libretto, scritto insieme a Timothy Crouse, per i revival del Lincoln Center Theatre e del Roundabout Theater di Anything Goes di Cole Porter, che con una nuova produzione ha vinto il Tony Award 2012 per il miglior revival di un musical. Dal 1999 al 2009 è stato Presidente della Dramatists Guild of America. BOYD GAINES Boyd Gaines è stato di recente co-protagonista della rappresentazione australiana di A spasso con Daisy, al fianco di Angela Lansbury e James Earl Jones. In precedenza, si è esibito a Broadway nelle produzioni del Manhattan Theatre Club di Un nemico del popolo e The Columnist, con John Lithgow. Si è inoltre esibito al fianco di James Earl Jones e Vanessa Redgrave nelle rappresentazioni di Broadway e del West spoletoweb.com/index.php?view=article&catid=67%3Adanza&id=1734%3Aalessandra-ferri-the-piano-upstairs&tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&p… 3/6 22/06/13 Alessandra Ferri : The Piano Upstairs End di A spasso con Daisy. Tra le altre partecipazioni, The Grand Manner (nomination al Drama Desk Award) e lo spettacolo di Broadway con Patti LuPone Gypsy, per il quale ha ricevuto il suo quarto Tony Award, un Drama Desk Award e una nomination all’Outer Critics Circle Award. Altro: Broadway: Pigmalione, Gypsy (Encores!), Journey’s End (nomination al Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), La parola ai giurati, Contact (Tony Award, Lucille Lortel Award), Cabaret, The Show Off, She Loves Me (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Company, The Heidi Chronicles (Tony Award). Off-Broadway: Bach at Leipzig, Major Barbara, The Shawl, La commedia degli errori, The Extra Man, The Maderati, Il racconto d’inverno, The Barbarians, Un mese in campagna (Theatre World Award). Produzioni regionali: George Street, Williamstown, Westport Playhouse, Yale Repertory, Center Stage, Long Wharf, Guthrie, Kennedy Center. Cinema: Funny Games, Lovely by Surprise, Second Best, I’m Not Rappaport, Gunny, Sacco a pelo a tre piazze, Porky’s – Questi pazzi pazzi porcelloni, Saranno famosi. Televisione: The Good Wife, Angela’s Eyes, The Confession, Piece of Cake, Giorno per giorno, Avvocati a Los Angeles, Frasier, Law & Order. Formazione: Juilliard School. GIORGIO FERRARA Regista cinematografico e teatrale, è nato a Roma. E’ stato aiuto-regista di Luca Ronconi e di Luchino Visconti, con i quali ha intensamente collaborato. Per il cinema ha diretto: Un cuore semplice, sceneggiatura di Cesare Zavattini dal racconto di Gustave Flaubert, premiato con il David di Donatello, il Premio Rizzoli, il Premio Saint Vincent e il Nastro d’argento; Caccia alla Vedova, sceneggiatura di Enrico Medioli dalla Vedova scaltra di Goldoni; Tosca e altre due di Franca Valeri, sceneggiatura di Enrico Medioli. Per il teatro ha messo in scena spettacoli di autori classici e contemporanei come Pirandello, Strindberg, Goldoni, Carlo Bernari, Francesca Sanvitale, Enzo Siciliano, Franca Valeri, Cesare Musatti, Natalia Ginzburg e Corrado Augias. Per il Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto ha messo in scena nel 2010 l’opera Gogo no eiko di Hans Werner Henze, nel 2011 l’opera buffa Amelia al ballo di Gian Carlo Menotti e nel 2012 l’opera The Turn of the Screw di Benjamin Britten.
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