Choreography: Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli

Music: Antonio Vivaldi recomposed by Max Richter

Music performed live by: I Virtuosi Italiani

Lighting: Gessica Germini

Costumes: Nuvia Valestri

Performers: MM Contemporary Dance Company (6 dancers)

Duration: 18 min.

Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is undoubtedly among the most frequently performed concertos in the world. They have always exerted an extraordinary evocative power: from the very first notes, the listener is immersed in a magical atmosphere that lasts until the final bars of Winter.

At Teatro Ristori, an excerpt of Michele Merola’s choreography is presented, created on Max Richter’s reimagined version of The Seasons: the work draws inspiration from the cycle of nature that renews itself both outside and within us. Each year we are brought into a primordial temporal dimension, where we participate in the alternation of the seasons in a kind of magical ritual, in which the primitive man - still within us - attempts, in vain, to dominate the forces of nature. A nature that dies, yet holds within itself the seed of rebirth. Here, the death of nature means the end of the cycle in one form and its transformation into another.

Thus, the seasons become a circle that closes: once completed, the cycle begins again, endlessly, in a continuous spiral where everything appears the same, but in reality is always different. The certainty that a new spring will return comforts us, gives us strength, and instills trust in a new cycle - of which we are both the starting point and the point of return.