Divina
Description:
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
Event Details
Event Type:
Location:
Mediterranean Conference Centre (MCC)
Triq il-Mediterran, Valletta
Start Date:
18 October 2014
End Date:
24 October 2014
Website:
Host:
Deborah Agius
Tickets:
Venue:
Venue:
Mediterranean Conference Centre (MCC)
Address:
Triq il-Mediterran
Contact No:
+356 255 95 750
Website:
Dates:
Divina
Mediterranean Conference Centre (MCC), Valletta -17:30
Divina
Mediterranean Conference Centre (MCC), Valletta -18:30