Bodies on Glass was born from the encounter between pianist Andrea Rebaudengo and choreographer Diego Tortelli. While Andrea Rebaudengo’s hands glide over the notes of scores of Philip Glass’s iconic pieces, the dancers move instead over more slippery, fragile choreographic scores that will lead them to alternate moments of choreographic material with a precise form with moments of improvisation. Like Philip Glass’s music, the dance also introduces a taste for compositional procedures rather than ultimate composition. The viewer and listener is in this way brought back to an earlier level of creation, to a kind of “arithmetic” underlying the expression of the work, which in this way lays bare its rhythmic, melodic and harmonic ribbing, like the detail of an elaborate fabric that is analyzed under a microscope, but at the same time ephemeral, transient like the dance of bodies that at the moment it is manifested remains only as a memory for the eyes of those who have observed it and vanishes, leaving only a feeling, a suspended atmosphere. That is why the title can have a double meaning. It is both “bodies dancing to the music of Glass” and “bodies on glass,” bodies gliding over musical notes leaving imprints on the transparent surface of fragile glass.
Choreography Diego Tortelli in collaboration with the dancers
Pianist Andrea Rebaudengo
Dancers Cristian Cucco & Thomas Van de Ven
Music tracks by Philip Glass
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