Core Meu

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ANTONIO CASTRIGNANÒ AND LES BALLETS DE MONTE CARLO

FROM JULY 18 TO 20 THE SHOW “CORE MEU” IN PIAZZA DUOMO IN LECCE. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ITALY ON STAGE THE ORIGINAL CREATION OF CHOREOGRAPHER JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MAILLOT. ON STAGE THE DANCE OF COMPAGNIE LES BALLETS DE MONTE CARLO MEETS THE MUSIC OF ANTONIO CASTRIGNANÒ & TARANTA SOUNDS.

The classical dance of Compagnie Les Ballets de Monte Carlo meets the music of Antonio Castrignanò & Taranta Sounds: on Thursday, July 18, Friday, July 19 and Saturday, July 20 in Piazza Duomo, in the baroque heart of Lecce, the show “Core Meu” lands for the first time in Italy. The original creation by choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot, artistic director of the prominent Monaco-based company founded in 1985, with costumes by Salvador Mateu Andujar, evokes trance and sacrifice.

The show, after an overwhelming first experiment in 2017 that also involved the audience in the dances and its official debut in 2019 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, merges the technique “on the tips” and the pizzica (Salento variant of the tarantella), transporting the audience to the center of the Mediterranean Sea. Some 50 dancers will move to the relentless and visceral rhythm of the tambourine, evoking the origins of the ancient folk dance, used, to the point of exhaustion, as a remedy against the hypothetical and metaphorical tarantula bite. Love, desire and death are themes Maillot has explored throughout his 40-year career. Neither classical nor contemporary, he in fact conceives dance as a dialogue in which tradition, avant-garde and other artistic languages are no longer mutually exclusive. Once again, the choreographer reworks the academic register to align it with contemporary times, concerns and emotions.

Emotions that also come alive thanks to the music of Antonio Castrignanò, who accompanies the dancers’ evolutions in a highly visceral and exhilarating experience. Flanked by Rocco Nigro (accordion), Luigi Marra (vocals, violin and mandolin), Maurizio Pelizzari (guitars), Marco Schiavone (cello), Giuseppe Spedicato (bass), Giovanni Emanuele Gelao (bagpipes and horns), Davide Chiarelli (drums and percussion) and Guglielmo Dimidri (sound engineer), the Salento musician and singer will offer a repertoire of original and traditional songs including Sufi, Core meu, Respiri di pizzica, Beddha ci dormi, Fomenta, Corri and Tremula terra. A reference point and well-known face of the rediscovered musical tradition of Salento, for sixteen editions the voice and drum of the “Notte della Taranta,” he has performed on prestigious national and international stages and festivals, and has played and collaborated with, among others, Stewart Copeland, Mauro Pagani, Ludovico Einaudi, Giuliano Sangiorgi, Enzo Avitabile, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Sona Jobarteh, The Chieftains, Ballaké Sissoko, Mercan Dede, Sud Sound System, and Caparezza. With an attentive ear to the styles of the past and the curiosity of one who wants to experience contemporaneity while accepting challenges, Castrignanò also brings this new experience to his land.

Core Meu, dedicated to Maurice Béjart, a revolutionary and innovative French dancer and choreographer who died in 2007, alternates between sensuality and physical ecstasy. A crescendo that offers a new interpretation of this traditional dance, infuses classical dance with new perspectives and culminates in a Dionysian finale after which dancers and dancers fall as one body.

The event is organized and produced by Ponderosa Music&Art, Beatmi, Gente di Terra with the support of the Ministero della Cultura in collaboration with Principato di Monaco and in partnership with CFM Indosuez – Wealth management. Showtime h 21:30. Tickets (35 – 45 – 52 euro + dp) are available now via TicketMaster.

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www.balletsdemontecarlo.com

www.antoniocastrignano.com

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