The revolutionary "Einstein on the beach", created by Philip Glass with Robert Wilson in collaboration with Lucinda Childs as choreographer and performer in 1976, will be just the beginning of the DancingGlass show event, which will be staged on March 27th and repeated on March 28th at 9pm at the Auditorium della Nuvola, as part of EurCulture, the cultural event of Eur SpA, which pays homage to the American composer at the origin of minimal music.
"Glass was my first composer and I collaborated with him for 50 years. You can imagine the importance of this project for me" explains Lucinda Childs, a true dance icon and Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale who composed new creations for the show.
"We are happy to have a dance legend like Lucinda Childs. Glass is one of the few composers at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries who has broken down boundaries with creations that find an echo in musical heritage around the world but also in genres having composed for cinema, theater, video art..." explained Franco Laera, director of Change Performing Arts, creator and co-producer of the project.
"For me it's a 40-year career dream coming true, I had never dared to get close to the master" says Michele Pogliani, dancer at the head of the MP3 Dance Project group of dancers who will perform the choreographies.
The show will be composed of new creations in dialogue with the Etudes of Glass by the Brazilian Cassi Abranches of the famous Grupo Corpo complex, by the Japanese Shintaro Hirahara, author of the choreographies for the Tokyo Olympic ceremonies, by Michele Pogliani, and with the participation of the South African performer Llewellyn Mnguni.
On the piano the young talent Jacopo Petrucci.
The project was commissioned and co-produced by Eur Spa for Eur Culture, Eesti Kontsert / Tallinn Estonia and Csiaf China Shanghai International Arts Festival, Teatrocomunale di Bologna and made use of the partnership of the Conservatorio A. Casella de l'Aquila and the precious collaboration of Verbania in where Dancing Glass was prepared and where in June, before an international tour, the first Italian repeat will be held.
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