Venezia in Danza: Io Maria, Lei Callas

Compagnia Tocnadanza Venezia
Choreografy and direction by Michela Barasciutti
Birth Centenary (New York – December 2, 1923)

A myth that contains two personalities aware of each other, living in the same woman, in the same body, in the same soul; “There are two people in me: I would like to be Maria, but I have to live up to Callas’ expectations.”*

Three are the dancers who interpret Maria, Callas and Maria Callas and three are the male figures who represent the loves of her life (Meneghini, Onassis, Pasolini), all in a continuous game of mirrors and exchange of roles.

Maria is La Callas, as she jokingly defined herself in an interview: “… because Callas was once Maria”. *

“I want to thank all the audience who stood by me in difficult times, and not just in glory. They wrote to me, they adored me, they understood me. In general they loved me. For this too I am very grateful, I feel nothing but gratitude for the world. That’s all”.*

* excerpts from interviews with Maria Callas.

Venezia in Danza
Direzione Artistica Michela Barasciutti

A Tocnadanza – Camerata Musicale Barese production with:
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Regione Veneto, Arco Danza e Festival VeneziainDanza

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