JULY 27-30
The Institute is proud to sponsor the presence of the
SPELLBOUND CONTEMPORARY BALLET
Dance Festival Malta is a multi-disciplinary festival that strives to cultivate a dance ecosystem in Malta by providing dance students and professionals with a platform for intense training and professional development. Spread over four days in July the festival will host a series of workshops, masterclasses and performances that welcome the richness of the universal language of dance cultures, featuring established international artists and choreographers. Through this varied programme, audiences and participants can be part of a unique festival that not only celebrates movement but aims to be a reference point where dancers forge links with the global dance community and encourages intercultural exchanges. Dance Festival Malta represents a re-examination of how we look at dance inviting you to share in a world of passion, movement and connection in Malta.
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THE EVENTS SPONSORED BY THE INSTITUTE
Contemporary Spellbound Dance Company Repertoire
Workshop by Giuliana Mele & Mario Laterza
July 27 at 15:00 and July 30 at 13:30
at The Dance Workshop Studio 1 (map)
CLASS DESCRIPTION
The class is based on the company Spellbound Contemporary Ballet repertoire and aims to give the participants a deep immersion in Astolfi’s choreographic language working on the current repertoire through the bodies of the performers. The workshop is normally led by two dancers of the company to improve the participant’s ability to work on partnering and more complex choreographic material.
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July 28 at 20:30
Valletta Campus Theatre, Valletta (map)
Choreography: Mauro Astolfi
Performers: Giuliana Mele, Mario Laterza
Lighting design: Marco Policastro Spellbound Contemporary Ballet
Artistic Director: Mauro Astolfi
General Manager: Valentina Marini
Music: Various Artists
It is a circular action, free from established patterns, which finds the only possible solution in a divergent thought to avoid that the end of a relationship should automatically be the beginning of another one.
A Spellbound production with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture
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July 29 at 20:00
Valletta Campus Theatre, Valletta (map)
Choreography: Mauro Astolfi
Dancers: Maria Cossu, Mario Laterza, Mateo Mirdita
Lighting design: Marco Policastro Spellbound Contemporary Ballet
Artistic Director: Mauro Astolfi
General Manager: Valentina Marini
Music: Various Artists
Formami is a virtual black box found after an accident: in this case not actually an accident, it’s a bewilderment, a great confusion. It’s that moment where you lose yourself, but where even asking for directions, you have the feeling that nobody really knows what to recommend us… often in life you look for someone to guide us in a direction, to give us directions… But then you end up talking to yourself, as if you were talking to our creator and asked “form me!”. If we really had a black box in all our life accidents, if we could remember, and understand why it happened… we would start to form other bodies, another mind, another sensitivity. Formami is an eternal movement.
A Spellbound production with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture
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