Virgilio Sieni. Solo Goldberg Improvisation

Solo Goldberg Improvisation is a manifesto of Virgilio Sieni's choreographic art, an emblem of his research on the body and the language of dance: a dance solo accompanied on the piano by Andrea Rebaudengo interpreting the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach.

Virgilio Sieni was director of the Dance section of the Venice Biennale from 2013 to 2016 and is a Knight of Arts and Letters of France. Choreographer and dancer he is a protagonist of Italian and European dance since the 1980s.

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THE SHOW

Address Virgilio Sieni

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations

Virgilio Sieni (dance) and Andrea Rebaudengo (piano)

Production Company Virgilio Sieni

Bach's music defines a metric and immaterial architecture, in which the dancer inscribes himself by implementing a continuous rethinking of the body. Virgilio Sieni's work is not only based on improvisation but on recognition and renewal, of course, unforeseen.

In collaboration with Fondazione Teatro A. Ponchielli Cremona, Festival Oriente Occidente and with the contribution of Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Dipartimento dello Spettacolo - Regione Toscana, Comune di Firenze - Assessorato alla Cultura and Comune di Siena - Assessorato alla Cultura.

VIRGILIO SIENI

Choreographer and dancer, he has been a key figure in Italian contemporary dance since the early 1980s. Born in Florence, he trained in classical and contemporary dance in Amsterdam, New York and Tokyo. His background includes the study of visual arts, architecture and martial arts.

In 1983 he founded the Compagnia Parco Butterfly and in 1992 the Virgilio Sieni Company, today one of the leading Italian choreographic companies linked to the most important European theaters and festivals. As a guest choreographer, Sieni has created choreographies since the early 1990s for major Italian organizations and institutions, such as the Teatro della Scala in Milan and the Teatro Comunale in Florence.

For his creations he has often collaborated with visual artists, musicians, designers and composers of international importance such as Ennio Morricone or Miuccia Prada.

Since 2003 he has been directing Cango in Florence, a space conceived by him and open to international research to put the body, dance and the languages of contemporary art in dialogue with the humanities and the territory. In 2007 he founded the Academy of the art of gesture, an innovative environment aimed at the transmission of artistic practices and the establishment of a new relationship between training and production, aimed at professionals and a group of dance neophytes, from childhood to old age. From 2013 to 2016 he directed the Dance section of the Venice Biennale.

In 2013 he was awarded the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.