- Luca Veggetti
The ACF will present Italian composer Paolo ARALLA and his work at a special double event featuring a conversation with the composer as well as a concert. He is joined by choreographer Luca VEGGETTI, who returns to the ACF with Path Forgotten after the success of his production Inner Sequence in September 2008.
The project stems from Luca Veggetti's collaboration with Italian composer Paolo Aralla. It aims at experimenting within their respective choreographic and musical traditions. The human body possesses a knowledge, a memory, an inexhaustible patrimony, to explore through a combination of rigor, patience, and discipline, which are a dancer's and a musician's most important tools. Languages, and therefore music and dance as well, are the fruit of this search; they are the conscious image of an original learning experience. The notion that the vocabulary at the base of any choreographic and musical tradition is timeless seems to be a necessary point of departure for any experimental work in these two disciplines.
- Paolo Aralla
Paolo Aralla was born in Lecce, Italy, in 1960. He received a diploma in composition at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna. Aralla studied symphonic-choral repertoire with Marcel Couraud and composition with Franco Donatoni in Siena and at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Since 1997 he has taught fugue and composition at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna.His compositions have been recorded by RAI, Radio France, and Dutch Radio. He makes use of computer technology and since 1994 has collaborated with the MM&T studio in Milan, where the electronic portions of some of his works are produced.
Luca Veggetti was born in Bologna, Italy, in 1963 and trained at La Scala in Milan. After a career as a dancer (London Festival Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Chicago), he began a collaboration with stage director and designer Pier Luigi Pizzi in 1990. As a choreographer and assistant, he has worked with such prestigious ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, I Solisti Veneti, and Capriccio Stravagante. He was the first Italian choreographer in the 20th century to be invited to the Kirov Ballet at the Mariinsky in St. Petersburg. In 2007, he premiered his ballet FOUR/VOICE, choreographed to Analogie, also composed by Paolo Aralla, at the Miller Theatre in New York.
THURSDAY APRIL 2, 7:30 PM
MEET THE COMPOSER
ACFNY COMPOSER SERIES 2009
With Paolo Aralla
ACFNY
in conjunction with
THURSDAY APRIL 2, 7:30 PM
DANCE/PERFORMANCE
With Luca Veggetti
ACFNY
