MM Contemporary Dance Company – Gershwin Suite/Shubert Frames

Some scenes are inspired by the connection between Gershwin’s tracks and various paintings – like New York Movie, Soir Bleu, Summer in the City, People in the Sun – by Edward Hopper, a painter who, thanks to his realism, is considered an artist able to represent in a poetic and evocative  way simple moments of life. “I was attracted – says Merola – from the painter’s ability to construct atmospheres and nuances that reveal implications and secrets of the human condition. The scenes create characters and situations not determined, but open to different endings and solutions “. Inspired directly by the paintings of Hopper, we’ll see intimate duet and solos, to which are added also group scenes, where the desire to live and redeem from daily life jump out. The scene takes on the apparence of a film set, thanks to a scenography that changes continuously, and a choreography that touches more keys, thanks to the versatility of the choreographer.

SCHUBERT FRAMES
Enrico Morelli wanted to entrust his new work to Franz Shubert’s extraordinary music: no one better than the Viennese composer has been able to interpret the contrasting feelings of love, tension, melancholy, regret, but also the hope. A collage of famous pieces by Schubert, extracted from real beauty masterpieces – composed two centuries ago, still amazes today for their great relevance – these are the soundtrack of this work devoted to the many souls of contemporary man, where love leaves the place to disilusionment, where separation leaves the place to sharing, where passion leaves the place to fear, and vice versa, in a going and coming between growing and decreasing, revealing entire universes and secret ties.
Morelli’s work has no pretension or descriptive ambitions. Choreography wants to be a tale of solitudes and similar souls in an era like ours, tired, pale, disenchanted, tormented by a malaise that breathes in the air, but also anxiously looking for a sense and a hope of happiness. It is a tale in which we focus especially on the moment of return, because happiness is a home where we can return, maybe changed, not caring about the accelerated speed of present that scare us, and future that maybe we’re afraid to explore. The problem is not to arrive, but to come back. To learn each time to love again. To have courage to recognize themselves fragile, and generous in tenderness.