Divina

Producer: Naupaca Dance Factory

First performance: Mediterranean Conference Centre (Valletta), 18th October 2014.

Second performance: Aurora Opera House (Gozo), 24th October 2014.

Naupaca Dance Factory presents Divina, a contemporary dance adaptation based on Dante’s La Divina Commedia. Naupaca Dance Factory is celebrating ten years since its foundation with its eigth large-scale production.

Divina is composed of three acts, namely Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso, and will be narrated through dance, poetry, song and music. Original music score and text contributes to a multi-disciplinry approach to Naupaca’s collaboration with various local and international artists. Mirroring Dante’s descent in hell and subsequent ascension to purgatory and heaven, Naupaca seeks to take its audience through a self-revelatory journey towards salvation. The variation will plunge audiences in the midst of truths and meanings, and present it with the entanglements and wordiness of the poem and all its effectiveness.

"We believe that a theatrical stage can offer this sense of being in, of a journey being taken, of movement occurring in a spatial universe. Dance, as a medium, would realise these figures, and seek to explore and make palpable the lines of the poem, those facts of life that Dante himself searches for throughout his journey,” Naupaca said.

Divina will open its doors on the 18th of October at the Mediterranean Conference Centre with a repeat performance on the 24th of October at the Aurora Opera House in Victoria, Gozo.

Dante – Sergey Kheylik (RU)

Virgil – Francesco Mariottini (IT)

Beatrice – Deborah Agius (MT)

Production – Naupaca Dance Factory

Direction & Choreography – Joeline Tabone

Production Management – Deborah Agius

Concept & Text – Maria Theuma

Video & Graphic design – Philip Sultana

Public Relations & Marketing – Vivienne Bajada

Set Design – Adrian Abela

Costume Design - Matthew Pandolfino

Acting Coach – Rob Ricards

Divina Diaries - Maureen Saguna

Music Score (Inferno): Composition - Mario Sammut

Live Percussionist - Dru Mayer

Music Score (Purgatorio Terraces): Composition: Melissa Portelli, Danny Magro & Ismael Azzopardi

Live Singing: Melissa Portelli

Music Score (Purgatorio Prologue & Earthly Paradise): Compostion - Mario Sammut

Music Score (Paradiso): Composition – Denise Buttigieg

Music arrangement – Mark Gauci

Music Score (Ending): Composition - Mario Sammut

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqjIrZEV2Y