Performance by the School of Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala Academy

Activity

Choreography

Completed

25 | 01 | 2025

Giglio Municipal Theater of Lucca

On Jan. 25, 2025, at the Teatro Comunale del Giglio in Lucca, the young dancers of the Scuola di Ballo dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, directed by Frédéric Olivieri, were admirable performers of a suite from Mario Pistoni’s La strada, with music by Nino Rota, in an evening that tested them in a composite program, with choreography characterized by high technical difficulties, signed by contemporary authors of absolute caliber.

The students succeeded in restoring the narrative character of La strada, a ballet conceived by Pistoni for the Teatro alla Scala in 1966, with the collaboration of Nino Rota, who had written the score drawing on the film’s musical themes, but with “many new musical ideas, always germinated in the climate of the fable.”

The subject of the film, as Pistoni himself, fascinated by Fellini’s visionary realism, recalled, particularly lent itself to a choreographic transposition “because of the transformability to ballet of the facts, the believability of the characters, authentic, the theatricality and the stimulating coexistence of the agro but fantastic world of the circus with the raw and realistic world of life, all (what is most qualifying balletistically) imbued with poetry, simple and genuine actions and reactions.” A title that required considerable interpretive skills from the young performers and allowed them to confront the poignant narrative of a great author like Pistoni.

A title that required considerable interpretive skills from the young artists and allowed them to confront the poignant narrative of a great author like Pistoni.

Theme

Fellini extraordinary Italian: artistic contaminations

WP1 | FASE 1: CREATING IN ITALY

Activity by

Accademia Teatro alla Scala

Enabeling partner

RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts