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Italian Premiere DADA MASILO in CARMEN from 29 October to 2 November | Brancaccio Theatre 21h00, Sunday 17h00 Coproduction Romaeuropa Festival 2014 and BrancaccioTheatre Dada Masilo returns to Romaeuropa with her new show, Carmen, electrifying adaptaiton of George Bizet’s famous opera at the Brancaccio Theatre from 29 October to 2 November. After the performance of Swan Lake that consecrated her to the Italian public in the last edition of the Festival, Masilo together with 12 dancers return to investigate the relationship between men and women through passion, violence and tenderness, by adapting a classic opera of seduction; Carmen. Choreographer and dancer; born in Soweto a township of Johannesburg, with her creations, Masilo transmits energy and vitality, mixing contemporary dance with traditional African dance and ballet. In Carmen, incandescent matter that has inspired hundreds of theatre shows, ballet’s, movies and the most diverse artists from Carlos Saura to Peter Brook and Jean-Luc Godard, Masilo adds the spell of flamenco that underlines the force and sensuality of an opera that has excited and fascinated generations of spectators for over a century. “Through dance I like to tell stories that relate to the present time of our life, the classics give you this opportunity”, remarks the same choreographer. The story of Carmen, adapted to music by Bizet in 1875, is famous: in the slums of Seville, a community of gypsies live as illegals in defiance of social rules. Carmen the gypsy, a woman of liberal thought and customs, seduces the men she wants and challenges the bullfighter, Escamillo and the weaknesses of the seargent, Don Josè, who ends up by killing her. Masilo, not new to these initiatives, enforces the story in different moments, illuminating a few characters with a new personality, among which Micaela, who becomes the mirror of the same Carmen. “The initial idea” – explains Masilo - was to unveil Carmen, searching for the woman that is hiding in the folds of the ballet and to find the weaknesses behind the cold and impenetrable surface!. With regard to the music, the choice of the choreographer fell on the suite for ballet that Rodion Ščedrin achieved on the themes and the original music by Bizet, with the addition of the "Habanera" with the interpretation of Maria Callas and two excerpts from the “Lamentate" by Arvo Pärt. CARMEN Choreography Dada Masilo dancers Dada Masilo, Nadine Alexa Buys, Sonia Zandile Constable, Phindile Kula, Ipeleng Merafe, Refiloe Mogje, Khaya Ndlovu, Cindy Okkers, Thami Majela, Songezo Mcilizeli, Llewellyn Mnguni, Thabani Ntuli, Nonofo Olekeng, Kyle Heinz Rossouw, Tshepo Zasekhaya, Xola Willie dancing teacher Rosana Maya tecnichal director Emmanuel Journoud stage director François Saint-Cyr production assistant Sarah Bonjean creation 2014 première at the Biennale de Danse de Lyon/September 2014 company The Dance Factory director Suzette Le Sueur music Georges Bizet, Rodion Ščcedrin, Arvo Pärt light creation Suzette Le Sueur costume creation Dada Masilo, Suzette Le Sueur costumes Ann Bailes, Kobus O’Callaghan production The Dance Factory/Suzette Le Sueur, Interarts Lausanne/Chantal e Jean-Luc Larguier marketing Scènes de la Terre/Martine Dionisio co-production Biennale de la danse/Lyon, Théâtre du Rond-Point/Paris, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg/Luxembourg, L’Espace des Arts/Chalon-sur-Saône, Théâtres en Dracénie/Draguignan, La Rampe - Scène conventionnée danse et musique/Echirolles realized in Rome in collaboration with Brancaccio Theatre with the patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL Promotion and ticket office: tel. 06.4555.3050 - www.romaeuropa.net Press Office: tel. 06.4555.3014 | e_mail: [email protected]