Compagnia Artemis Danza, with this new creation by Monica Casadei, dedicates its artistic project to the contemporary representation, investigation, and interpretation of four captivating heroines of the Lucchese composer: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Mimì , and Turandot.
Understanding Puccini’s music involves analyzing its deep relationship with the female world. A clear message from the titles chosen for his most celebrated works: Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, La Bohème. A kaleidoscope of different personalities, a universe full of facets, sensitivities. In the four scenes that make up Puccini’s Opera, recognizable even without any didactic necessity, we find Casadei’s personal interpretation of the feminine theme, placed at the center of a process of choreographic, visual, and musical reinterpretation. Tragic love, thwarted and opposed love, cruel love that annihilates, the desire for possession that leads to destruction, live in the faces, bodies, and gestures of the Company and continue to make us reflect on the relevance of stories that have moved audiences worldwide. The creation is permeated with a poignant atmosphere, full of tension and poetic suggestion.
Against Puccini’s orchestral score, the electronic tracks of composers Luca Vianini and Fabio Fiandrini counterpose, creating an enveloping and at times apocalyptic sound space. A choral dance, swollen with impulses and passions, instinctive and at times wild, which makes a swirling use of space and appears, also symbolically, visually full: solos protected by frames of ensembles in a dynamic accelerated by propulsive forces make the drama and passions of the protagonists live in the body and guts.
