CHOREOGRAPHIES
Vespro

The hour of Vespers is perhaps the most ancient time of prayer, one of the most important of the Canonical Hours, toward evening, between the Ninth and the Compline.

It is the evening prayer, whose name strikes an unsettling assonance with Vesper, as the ancient classics used to refer to the planet Venus which stood out majestically against the crepuscular sky. The sensual threshold to the night that we hurry to cross aboard a piano-boat, whose helmsman calls upon us to gather up all the thoughts of the day that has just elapsed. Then, finally, the prayer, composed of gestures and movement, as simple as life itself.

Bruno Moretti
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Torna alla home
Cantata Choreography: MAURO BIGONZETTI
Music: BRUNO MORETTI
Performed live by:
BRUNO MORETTI (piano)
MARIO GIOVANNELLI (soprano sax)
TIZIANA PIZZI (contralto)
Costumes: GRAZIA ASCARI and FRANCO SACCANI – QUINTA COLONNA
Light design: CARLO CERRI

Première: May 8, 2002, New York City Ballet, Diamond Project V, New York State Theater

Italian premiere: A co-production with REGGIO EMILIA DANZA - REGGIO PARMA FESTIVAL - Reggio Emilia, Teatro Valli – 6 and 7 June 2003