scenes Marcel Kaskeline
costumes Gabriele Frauendorf
lights design Marco Policastro
with Compagnia Arabesque/Les Danseurs Napolitains: Gabriel Beddoes, Francesco Saverio Cavaliere, Roberta De Rosa, Martina Fasano, Giacomo Luci, Giuseppe Paolicelli, Stefano Roveda, Marianna Russo, Valentina Schisa, Elisabetta Violante
guest dancer Khải Ngọc Vũ
live music performed by Angela Luglio (voce) e Federica Severini (violino)
co-production Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Arb Dance Company
in collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
World premiere
Country Italia/Brasile
running time: 1h
Venue Museo Nazionale di Pietrarsa (Arena)
Dates
15/06/2013 ore 20:45
16/06/2013 ore 20:45
Mishima is a choreographic installation designed by Ismael Ivo inspired by the life and the creative universe of the Japanese artist Yukio Mishima. Poet, playwright and essayist, Mishima was also an artist with absolute integrity and devotion to his art. «Yukio Mishima – said Ivo – is an artist who, like Antonin Artaud, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Genet, Robert Mapplethorpe, has pledged to make his art a document of his life, of his time, of his existence. A key element of his poetry is the obsessive pursuit of “beauty”. For him, beauty is something that when touched, it burns your hands. So we ask ourselves: what is beauty?».
Ivo’s performance ponders the concepts of art and beauty starting from the study of the body. The scene, covered with rice reminding a Japanese zen garden, will be ground of meeting and clash between the dancers who, with music ranging from Arvo Pärt to the Japanese group Kodò through Richard Wagner, will engage in a ritual celebration between sunrise and sunset , between life and death.
