INTERMEZZO
What are all the ways of transposing and treating a musical score? What are the things that can be translated from musical notation into dance movement? How does a musical composition become the starting point for creating a dance performance? These are the fundamental questions that dance artists Filipa Bavčević and Nastasja Štefanić Kralj tackle in their new project Intermezzo. Using the Overture of Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville as their central guiding principle for the creation of dance materials, the artists play with translating musical topography into the performers’ individual bodies and performance space. The black and white environment of the musical score becomes a performance environment that accommodates the bodies of the dancers and the music stands. The interplay of objects and subjects to the clear and precise sound of the metronome immerses the audience into their own journey across images and meanings created and dispersing before their eyes.
Project creators: Filipa Bavčević and Nastasja Štefanić Kralj
Choreographers: Filipa Bavčević and Nastasja Štefanić Kralj
Performers: Filipa Bavčević and Nastasja Štefanić Kralj
Dramaturgical support: Margareta Sinković
Costume design: Dalibor Šakić
Lighting design: Ema Kani
Graphic design: Tihomir Filipec
Photo and video: Neven Petrović
Production: Tena Bošnjaković
Duration: 40 min.
Financially supported by: The City of Zagreb