The Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto presents Notte Morricone by Marcos Morau on July 4 and 5 at 9:00 PM at the Teatro Grande in Pompeii, as part of the Pompeii Theatrum Mundi festival organized by Teatro di Napoli and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.
The Spanish choreographer, with his visionary power and ability to transform musical universes, presents a unique creation that intertwines the music of Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone with dance, visual arts, and cinematic influences.
Marcos Morau, to date the youngest choreographer to receive the National Dance Award—Spain’s highest recognition—builds imaginary worlds and landscapes where image, text, movement, music, and space form a unique universe constantly nourished by cinema, photography, and literature. Now, for his first collaboration with CCN/Aterballetto, he has chosen to explore iconic compositions from the cinematic landscape of the past seventy years: the works of Ennio Morricone.
The director says: “Classically trained and avant-garde in spirit, Morricone was always beyond the trends of the moment. His music belongs to an entire century and has brought many of our great masters back to life. For this evening, I would like to build a universe based on his sensitivity, to confirm that his legacy is more alive than ever and that, as he himself would say, my music has a life of its own, which can live far from the films it was created for.” Find out more »
