Production: Compagnia ADARTE with the support of Italian Ministry of Art and Cultural Activities and Tuscany Department for Performing Arts.Ĭo-production: Ballo Pubblico Festival, Fenice of Nine Arts Festival, Comune di Poggibonsi, Timbre Teatro Verdi, Vernice Progetti Culturali, MPS Foundation Music: Jordi Savall, Pan Sonic, Bonobo, Mina Tuscan Region has recognized the residence as Regional Centre for Dance in 2003.ĭirection and choreography: Francesca Lettieriĭancers: Francesca Lettieri, Sara Orselli, Riccardo Meneghini, Vladimir Rodriguez It has hosted and collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Antonio Tabucchi, Susanne Linke, Urs Dietrich, Bob Wilson, Luciana Savignano, Paco Decina, Igor Mitoraj and structures such as Festival La Versiliana, International Institute Andrej Tarkovskiy, Fabbrica Europa Festival, Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Bagnolet Seine Saint Denis, Small Theatre/NCA and the Italian Embassy in Yerevan (Armenia).Since June 2012 it received an artistic residence at Teatro Cantiere Florida in Florence and Angela Torriani Evangelisti is there the dance season artistic director.
Versiliadanza, founded in 1993 by Angela Torriani Evangelisti, is a professional dance company supported by Italian Ministry of Culture, Tuscan Region, Municipality of Florence and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze bank. Versiliadanza, presenting the Armenian company for the first time in Europe, invited his Diary of a Madman in November 2007 in Florence. Former professor of the Institute of Film and Theatre of Yerevan, he directs the company and the theatre of Small Theatre / National Centre of Aesthetics since some years. Vahan Badalyan, young director born in 1980, is already considered the protagonist of Armenian theater scene. Dancer and choreographer, artistic director of Versiliadanza from 1993, she has collaborated with artists as Antonio Tabucchi, Susanne Linke, Urs Dietrich, Micha Van Hoecke, Luciana Savignano, Igor Mitoraj, Jane Campion, Avion Travel, Eugenio Scigliano and institutions such as Festival La Versiliana, Centre pour les Oeuvres choréographiques de Bagnolet Seine Saint – Denis, Teatro Comunale of Florence, Festival Fabbrica Europa. She perfects her training with Benedicte Billiet, Malou Airaudo, Dominique Mercy. Marinella Guatterini - Sole 24 OreĪngela Torriani Evangelisti study classical dance with Erna Bonk. The body, with all its details stuck one to another, saturates the word». «The gimmick, grinding and accordion-like, holds up together with the sullen music.
«A series of Shakespearean impressions, resolutely continue one scene dissolves into another touching the similarities and variations of the stories». It is based on the parallels between the main characters, situations and scenes. SDD is a mounting, polyphonic journey across the four plays by Shakespeare. The Armenian director Vahan Badalyan with Italian choreographer Angela Torriani Evangelisti, presents a gallery of Shakespearian characters thanks to a combination of Drama and Dance. SDD is based on four plays by William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear.