Show by the Romanian choreographer at the Battery Dance Festival in New York
Heart2Hearta show by Romanian choreographer Gigi Căciuleanu based on a score by Romanian composer Dan Dediu, will be presented this week at the Battery Dance Festival in New York, the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) announced.
The performance is a free choreographic duo inspired by the story of Miorița, considered a “symbol of absolute devotion and the serene acceptance of death.” Căciuleanu offers a reinterpretation of the myth charged with “poetic energy” and using the typical choreographic language that made him a household name, a description of the project states. “Through their complex movements, the two dancers imagine a physical geometry, like two living metaphors of love and sacrifice, evolving in a timeless universe between heaven and earth.”
The dancers are Domenico Guido Sarnataro and Sara Zanzon. Lelia Marcu-Vladu is the assistant choreographer.
The show is a production of the Sibiu Ballet Theater and the Gigi Căciuleanu Romanian Dance Company in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.
The show will take place in Rockefeller Park – Battery Park City. After a performance on August 13, another is planned for August 17. Admission is free. All performances can be streamed the following day on the festival website.
Gigi Căciuleanu is a director, choreographer, professor and dancer. He studied at the Choreography School in Bucharest and at the Academy of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Choreographer and professor Miriam Răducanu had a significant influence on his entire career. Since leaving the country 30 years ago, he has worked with dancers and choreographers such as Pina Bausch, Marius Constant, Rosella Hightower, John Neumayer, Jean Guizerix and Maguy Marin. He has created dance performances for the repertoire of opera houses in Paris, Lyon, Bucharest, Cardiff, Rome, Venice (La Fenice) and for other dance companies in Hamburg, Turin, Santiago de Chile, Montevideo and São Paulo. After 1990, he returned to Romania several times, at the invitation of the National Television, the Eurodance Festival in Iasi, the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, the Oleg Danovski Ballet Theatre and the Teatrul de Comedie. After 2001, he became director of the National Ballet of Chile, which is attached to the University of Santiago de Chile.
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