Philip Glass is the American composer at the origin of minimal music who - at the turn of the century -
has been a protagonist of the music scene and has significantly influenced the renewal of the performing
arts worldwide. Starting with the revolutionary Einstein on the beach created with Robert Wilson in
collaboration with Lucinda Childs as choreographer and performer in 1976, the contamination of music,
dance, theatre and visual arts has had in Philip Glass the iconic composer of reference in the four
corners of the world. In 2024 - on the occasion of the publication of the Etudes for solo piano played
directly by Philip Glass with his personal piano in his Manhattan home and 30 years after their first
publication - Dancing Glass wants to pay homage to the figure of the great American composer by
highlighting the original characteristics of his musical creativity. In the prestigious venue of the
Auditorium della Nuvola, an iconic building designed for EUR Spa by the architects Massimiliano and
Doriana Fuksas, a large glass casket that poetically contains a cloud that in turn contains a stage,
Dancing Glass is a performance/event in which 12 Etudes will resound in dialogue with an equal number of
original creations commissioned from 14 international choreographers, musicians and video artists, and
presented in world premiere with the artistic curatorship of Lucinda Childs for dance and Oscar Pizzo
for music.
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The extraordinary mosaic will thus be composed of 5 new creations by the American Lucinda Childs, Golden
Lion for dance at the Venice Biennale, the Brazilian Cassi Abranches, trained and now resident
choreographer in the famous Grupo Corpo ensemble, the Japanese Shintaro Hirahara, author of the
choreographies for the opening and closing ceremonies of the last Tokyo Olympics, Michele Pogliani,
former dancer in the world tour of Einstein on the beach and now head of the young Roman formation MP3
dance project - established worldwide with the show “Relative Calm” created by Lucinda Childs and Robert
Wilson in 2022
- who will be performing all the choreographies, with the exception of the South African performer
Llewellyn Mnguni who will be on stage with his own creation.
Philip Glass’s multicultural musical references are evoked by the original arrangements of the Turkish
musician Kudsi Erguner, a leading exponent of the Sufi musical tradition, the South African composer
Philip Miller, known for his work alongside William Kentridge, by Roberta Cuña Valente with her
Brazilian music ensemble ‘Choro’, by Mana Yoshinaga virtuoso of the kotò, the traditional Japanese
instrument, and finally by Anna-Liisa Eller virtuoso of the kannel, a traditional Estonian instrument,
who will exceptionally close the two events with her live performance. Live performances of the Etudes
for piano will be given by pianist Jacopo Petrucci.
For the video-art component, the famous Iranian- American video artist Shirin Neshat, Golden Lion at the
Venice Art Biennale in 1999, the Japanese Hiroshi Sugimoto, Praemium Imperiale in 2009, the multimedia
artist Fabio Cherstich and the Italian collective Anagoor, which has gained international attention
precisely for its contamination of theatre, video-art and performance, will be part of the two
extraordinary events
project by > CHANGE PERFORMING ARTS, MP3 DANCE PROJECT
commissioned and co-produced by >
EUR SPA\ Roma
EESTI KONTSERT \ Tallin Estonia
CSIAF \ China Shanghai International Art Festival
TEATRO COMUNALE DI BOLOGNA
in collaboration with >
ILMAGGIORE \ CentroEventiVerbania
CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA A. CASELLA \ L’Aquila
POMEGRANATE ARTS \ New York
CHANGE PERFORMING ARTS
Director > Franco Laera
Project managers > Martina Galbiati | Marta Dellabona
Artistic collaborators > Akiko Sugiyama | Maristela Gaudio
EESTI KONTSERT\ Centro Eventi Verbania
President > Kertu Orro
Vice-president > Ruta
production coordinator > Madis Kolk
production coordinator > Tiiu Valper
Curated by >
Dance > Lucinda Childs
Music > Oscar Pizzo
With >
Dance > Lucinda Childs
Music > Oscar Pizzo
with >
Cassi Abranches | Fabio Cherstich | Lucinda Childs | Anna-Liisa Eller | Kudsi Erguner | Shintaro Hirahara | Philip Miller| Llewellyn Mnguni | Shirin Neshat | Michele Pogliani
| Hiroshi Sugimoto | Roberta Valente | Mana Yoshinaga
live piano > Jacopo Petrucci
MP3 DANCE PROJECT
Director > Michele Pogliani
Coordinator > Fabrizio De Angelis
Dancer > Agnese Trippa | Nicolò Troiano | Sara Mignani | Irene Venuta | Mariantonietta Mango | Asia Fabbri | Xhoaki Hoxha | Mattia Romano
| Alexandru Mihaita Tanasa
Costumes >
Tiziana Barbaranelli Janaìna Castro (Etude 3 e 14)
Stage set up > Marta Dellabona | Martina Galbiati
Light design > Cristian Simon | Cristian Bortos
Stage manager > Giovanni Firpo
Sound design > Emanuele Pontecorvo
Video design > Igor Renzetti
Make up > Claudia Bastia
Tecnical director > Reinhard Bichsel