ELEGIA
Enrico Morelli
- Wednesday 9th October 9pm
- Teatro Olimpico (Piazza Matteotti, 11)
choreography Enrico Morelli
with Lorenzo Fiorito, Mario Genovese, Matilde Gherardi, Fabiana Lonardo, Giorgia Raffetto, Alice Ruspaggiari, Nicola Stasi, Giuseppe Villarosa
music Frédéric Chopin, Giuseppe Villarosa
lighting design Carlo Cerri
costumes Nuvia Valestri
voice-over Isidora Balberini
choreography assistant Paolo Lauri
- duration: 35 minuti
Elegia is a praise to looking after others, enhanced by the words taken from the poems by Mariangela Gualtieri.
Eight dancers, people seeking their own path and identity, who live in the same age, like today’s age, which creates a sense of vertigo and bewilderment. Individuals who create new paths and seek uncharted roads to regain their bearings, in a time of exile from normal. A tale of lost moments and relationships, together with the pursuit, in their memory, of familiar and comforting images and landscapes. A choral dance that takes us into a whirlpool of lines and trajectories that meet and become intertwined, in what is apparently primal chaos, and ends with a return to calm, which entails the choice of abandoning oneself to new-found hope, with the prospect of a new rebirth.
Biography
Enrico Morelli is a dancer and choreographer. In 1999 he earned the diploma from the Accademia Nazionale di Danza of Rome, where he also attended the specialist training course for teachers. He has won many choreography competitions such as the Michele Abbate Competition in Caltanissetta, the Città di Perugia Competition, the International Festival of Rieti and the Danza Estate Competition in Florence.
In 2001 Morelli he received the Silver Medal from the Italian President of the Republic for his dancing skills. He has created choreographies for the MM Contemporary Dance Company, the Astra Roma Ballet, the school of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, Palermo InDanza, the KAOS-Firenze company, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Szegedi Kortàrs Ballet, the Milwaukee Ballet.
In 2004 he became a dancer of the MM Contemporary Dance Company, directed by Michele Merola, and he is currently the co-director (with Michele Merola) of Agora Coaching Project in Reggio Emilia, a specialist training course for dancers.
