16 october 2024

Melodia
Francesco Gandi, Davide Venturini
Compagnia TPO

Wednesday 16 October 2024, 11.00 A.M.
GORIZIA, KULTURNI CENTER LOJZE BRATUŽ

Melodia

Francesco Gandi, Davide Venturini
Compagnia TPO (IT)


By: Francesco Gandi, Davide Venturini
With: Běla Dobiášová, Valentina Consoli
Visual design: Elsa Mersi
Sound design: Spartaco Cortesi
Engineering: Rossano Monti
Set design and costumes: Annamaria Clemente, Livia Cortesi
Concept support: Joerg Ehtreiber, Claudia Scheibelhofer, Gerlinde Podjaversek
Co-production: FRida & freD - Das Grazer Kindermuseum (AT), Teatro Metastasio (IT)
Age 5+
Duration: 50 min
Photo credit: Compagnia TPO

Melodia is an interactive show dedicated to one of the most celebrated composers of operetta and waltzes, Robert Stolz. The TPO company together with FRida & freD – Das Grazer Kindermuseum wanted to reconstruct his long life (1880/1975), his childhood room, his first steps in the world of music, his successes in Europe and in America. His journey would last a lifetime without ever stopping playing, conducting orchestras, composing music for films. To everyone Robert is the waltz king of popular music of cabarets, theaters and circuses. But in his heart he will always remain the child who looks at the world and turns what he feels in his heart into music.

In TPO Company’s visual, emotional, tactile theatre (Prato, Italy) , the dancers and the audience share the stage, exploring new forms of expression beyond the barriers of language and culture. Thanks to the special use of digital-design, the performances turn into “sensitive environments” where the ephemeral border between art and play can be experienced. Each creation is a scenic machine designed to dialogue with the moving body, be it a dancer or a group of children. The company's work is directed by art directors Davide Venturini and Francesco Gandi, who work together with an eclectic team of image and sound engineers and artists.

interview

Have you been to Gorizia before?
If yes: one thing you look forward to doing again
If not: one thing you hope to find
Yes, I was in Gorizia on 1st September 2023 for the In/Visible Cities Festival, with Compagnia TPO’s show +ERBA at the Teatro Verdi. I can’t wait to go back and have some time to visit the city and its historical centre at my own pace.

If you could give a piece of advice to yourself as a child, what would it be?
Enjoy moments with family and friends to the fullest because they are important, live in the present, and approach life as lightly as in a game.

If you had the power to change the world you live in, what would you start with?
I would start with kindness towards every being that is part of this world and care for the environment of the planet we live on.

How did you first come across dance?
When I was four, my mother took me to my first ballet class and from then on I have never wanted to stop. As I grew older, I also began to explore many other dance styles and I still continue to study different types and methods of this endless world called dance.
It is an unstoppable passion!

Complete the sentences with only one word:
Dance can: unite
Dance is: a universal expressive language
Dance will be: a way to know ourselves more deeply and care for ourselves and others

What was the spark that originated the idea for your performance?
Melodia is a performance resulting from a collaboration between the TPO Company and the Salon Stolz Museum in Graz, Austria. Starting with the biography of Austrian musician Robert Stolz, we decided to embark on a journey into the world of music. The works of Robert Stolz and the adventures of his life were a great source of inspiration for the whole team.

And now, tell me why I should come and see your performance:
Participating in Melodia is like taking a journey into the world of music, you will be transported along with the other audience members onto the stage with us dancers for an immersive experience, and music will be the thread running through this adventure.

A project by:

In partnership with:
SNG Teatro Nazionale Sloveno di Nova Gorica

With the support of:
Ministero della Cultura / Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia / Io sono FVG
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia

In collaboration with:
Comune di Gorizia / Comune di Cormons / Comune di Gradisca d’Isonzo / ERPAC / APT / Ente Regionale Teatrale del FVG / Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg onlus Goriški Muzej / Confcommercio Imprese per l'Italia Gorizia Kulturni Dom Gorica / Kulturni Center Lojze Bratuž Palazzo del Cinema-Hiša Filma di Gorizia / PAN ADRIA network / TIARE Shopping

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