Short stories between a devil and a soldier

concept and choreography: Giovanna Velardi
with Giovanna Velardi and Giuseppe Muscarello
video scenography: Valeria Guarcini
drawing and video: Mattia Pirandello
costumes: Dora Argento
lightend costume: Ketty Guercio
light design: Danila Blasi
video technician: Roberto Rejamand
music: AA.VV.

A production: FC@PIN.D'OC
with contribution of: MIBACT, SICILY REGION DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM ENTERTAINMENT SPORT
with the support of: SCENARIO PUBBLICO (ASSOCIATE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE), WORKSHOPS OURAGAN

I started with Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat to concentrate on a choreographic score that would maintain a narrative look and that would restore the salvific and positive value of dance as a common language. Compared to the original story, my choice was to concentrate the good and the bad into one single character, imagining the duality no longer as a clash between two characters, but as an inner struggle, as in a sort of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The meeting with the other will bring back memories. The antithetical figures that cross the scene move in a fairytale atmosphere that evokes the archetypes, their encounter produces a chain reaction that loosens the boundaries of the perennial conflict between the parts.

Giovanna Velardi

The choreographic development:

- The presentation of the first character the "light" and the "Darkness"
- The presentation of the soldier
- First deception
- The loss of the dimension of time
- The hope and the love relationship
- The unveiling of the spell
- The struggle between the soldier and the devil
- reality
- The recovery of the human dimension
- The dance of discovery
- the end

"We must not be afraid of emotions even if their deep and strong. You cannot give up to humanity, love, common good, encounter, the other. Richness, beauty, material things turn off the light that makes us vibrate throug emotions and leave space to darknesse. Effort and will are the keys to achieve the dreams that will come true "

Giovanna Velardi

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Pictures of Maria Cristina Valeri