I’ve been dining on Italy’s delightful frutti di mare dishes – pasta, pizza – since arriving in Venice Tuesday to attend the second and final week of BIENNALE DANCE 2014. The dance on offer in the Festival strikes me as rich and abundant as that hearty Italian seafood mix … so, then, a tour of DANCE BIENNALE’S frutti di danza.
"Total openness" was on offer from Cristina Rizzo's "Bolero" cast of 10-13 year old children.
The boy in the front a real dancer in Cristina Rizzo's "Bolero," set to Ravel and staged in magnificent former palace hall of Ca Giustinian
I liked Luisa Cortesi's frenzied time-driven solo, L’APPUNTAMENTO.
Luisa Cortesi, soloist, mop hair flying.
Child dancers excel in Virgilio Sieni's LA STANZA DEL FAUNO
The Italian audience loved the fresh and unmannered way the children moved.
Props contribute formal ingredients in Sieni's STANZA DEL FAUNO.
Roy Assaf's THE HILL, for three men, a furious dance-drama enacting the Israeli-Palestinean conflict
Intense dance-drama in Roy Assaf's THE HILL
Veteran dancers Raffaella Giordano & Maria Muñoz, reminiscent of (female) "Waiting for Godot," IN CONTRO
Relationship woes plague Roy Assaf's SIX YEARS LATER
Radhouane El Meddeb, Matias Pilet & Alexandre Fournier's brilliant blend of acrobatics, tumbling and dance, NOS LIMITES
Alexandre Fournier tumbles to music of Billie Holiday, affecting, in NOS LIMITES
