Premiere date
06 May 2023,
Factoria Cultural de Terrassa,
Barcelona, Spain
Duration
60 min
Concept, Direction and Choreography
Ilya Jivoy
Music
Max Richter
Costume Design
Sonya Vartanyan
Lighting Design
Konstantin Binkin
The Four Seasons is the result of the union of several working synergies that converge in a great result. The creative capacity of the choreographer Ilya Jivoy, the brilliant music of the baroque master Antonio Vivaldi, the successful revision made by the German composer Max Richter, and finally, a selection made by Ilya Jivoy himself of the dancers.
This new proposal aims to bring to the stage the show that combines classical and contemporary dance thanks to the work of a choreographer who is specialised in mixing these styles. In the same line, the music evolves in the same direction: Antonio Vivaldi created his famous composition “The Four Seasons” in the 18th century, while Max Richter recomposed it in 2012, updating the classic that inspired Ilya for this piece.
Finally, the dancers are in charge of transmitting in movement the reflection proposed by Ilya Jivoy. The idea that no matter how many decades and centuries may go by, the seasons continue to succeed one after the other to represent the same ideas. Both classical and contemporary elements agree to convey the same message: they differ in the way they do it, but both coincide in the same interpretative key. After all, it is a question of decoding a language that is inherent to human beings, a code that somehow identifies spring, summer, autumn and winter with certain spaces and sensations: birth, prosperity, warmth, maturity, fragility, cold, memory and, finally, death.
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