Symphony of sorrows / Cantata

Under the artistic direction of Carlos Prado, the National Dance Company of Portugal (Companhia Nacional de Bailado) will be bringing to the Veranos de la Villa festival a programme that combines two choreographers, Miguel Ramalho and Mauro Bigonzetti, who, albeit with different approaches and settings, coincide in presenting pieces that work on the collective. 

While the first piece, Symphony of Sorrows, unfolds in a dense and sombre atmosphere, in which the collective proves to be the force with which to overcome the oft times tortuous paths of humanity, Cantata reflects Italian musical and popular traditions, a kind of Italian community festival in which music inspires and infects both the dancers and the audience.

Throughout its more than four decades of existence, the Companhia Nacional de Bailado has presented works of reference from the international repertoire, both from that of irresistible classical dance and from such choreographers as George Balanchine, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, William Forsythe or Akram Khan. At the same time, it has invested in commissions that reinforce Portugal's unique identity, placing special emphasis on extending invitations to such Portuguese creators as Tania Carvalho, Clara Andermatt, Sónia Baptista and Marco da Silva Ferreira.

A Companhia Nacional de Bailado production

CAST & CREATIVE

SYMPHONY OF SORROWS

Choreography and costumes: Miguel Ramalho

Music: Henryk Gorecki Symphony No.3, Op.36 “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”

Lighting: Cristina Piedade

Performers: Dancers of the CNB

Production: Compañía Nacional de Danza de Portugal

World première in Lisbon at the Millennium Festival ao Largo 2020 on 23 July 2020

CANTATA

Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti 

Music: Assurd (Lorella Montic and Cristina Vetrone), Enza Pagliara and Enza Alessandra Prestia  Musical arrangement from original and traditional Southern Italian music.

Costume design: Helena de Medeiros

Lighting: Carlo Cerri

Performers: Dancers of the CNB

Production: Compañía Nacional de Danza de Portugal

World première in the Auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon in 2001 by the Ballet Gulbenkian. Premièred by The CNB in the Camões Theatre in Lisbon on 3 April 2001.

SYMPHONY OF SORROWS
Aeden Pittendreigh
Almudena
Andreia Mota
Anyah Siddall
Dylan Waddell
Francisco Sebastião
Frederico Loureiro
Gonçalo Andrade
Inês de Serra e Moura
Inês Ferrer
João Costa
Leonor de Jesus
Nanae Yagisawa
Patrícia Main
Raquel Fidalgo
Tiago Amaral

CANTATA
Aeden Pittendreigh
Almudena Maldonado
Andreia Mota
Anyah Siddall
Beatriz Williamson
Carlos Pinillos
Clara Ferrer
Dylan Waddell
Emily Stewart
Filipa Castro
Filipa Pinhão
Francisco Morais
Francisco Sebastião
Frederico Gameiro
Frederico Loureiro
Gonçalo Andrade
Inês de Serra e Moura
Inês Ferrer
João Costa
Joshua Earl
Katarina Gajic
Luca Driesang
Mar Escoda
Maria Santos
Michelle Luterbach
Miguel Ramalho
Nuno Fernandes
Paolo Ciofini
Patrícia Main
Paulina Santos
Raquel Fidalgo
Tatiana Grenkova
Tiago Amaral