Italy’s leading contemporary ballet company visits New Zealand shores for the first time, with three stunning works in one show.

Set to a live performance of Neapolitan songs, high-spirited Cantata evokes the passions, colours and wild beauty of the Mediterranean South. Alternately feisty and fatalistic, raucous and heart wrenching, you’ll not only hear and see the seething southern Italian street life, you’ll almost smell it.

Omaggio a Bach is a moving personal tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach and was created to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death. This starkly beautiful interpretation of Bach's musical universe explores the geometric and structural perfection of his compositions.

With Songs, a sensual and refined pas-de-trois, artistic director Mauro Bigonzetti returns to Henry Purcell, one of his favourite composers. The piece is contemporary in language, timeless in subject matter.

With a 19-strong ensemble of dancers who are all soloists in their own right, Compagnia Aterballetto fuses accomplished classical technique with an Italian zest for life.

Interval

Pause – house to half but audience does not leave auditorium

Cantata

 

 

15 Mar, 7:30pm
16 Mar, 8:00pm
17 Mar, 8:00pm
18 Mar, 2:00pm
18 Mar, 8:00pm