Series of photographs by Luca Catalano Gonzaga for Intesa Sanpaolo Formazione, a sustainable financial intermediary aware that innovation and sustainable business action can contribute to reducing the impact of phenomena such as climate change and social inequalities.
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The story of passion and power, of fatigue and of beauty, of grace and strength, of fantasy and feeling, is brought to life inside the National Academic Opera Theatre in Kiev,the Taras Shevchenko.
The Theatre,built in 1901, is considered today as one of the most famous ballet schools in Europe, training ground for some of the most famous twentieth century dancers, such as Vaclav Nijinsky and Serge Lifar. Since the post-war period, the Kiev Opera Ballet has become one of the biggest European companies. In 1964, at the Paris Festival, the company was awarded the Etoile d’or of the French Dance Academy. From 1992 to 2000 the Theatre’s Ballet Company company was directed by the Ukrainian choreographer Anatolij Severa. His staging of Sergey Prokofiev’s 1971 ballet “Romeo and Juliet” has been performed around the world for over thirty years and received the UNESCO medal as the best interpretation of Prokofiev’s ballet. The company currently consists of 150 dancers and stages 16 productions a month in the Kiev Theater, as well as numerous international tours. (text by Muriel de Meo).
The Posta Vecchia Hotel, in Palo Laziale (Rome) hosted the Georg Solti International Accademia di Bel Canto. After rigorous auditions, 14 young opera singers from 11 different nations gathered together on the Lazio coast. They worked in masterclasses with 4 well-known coaches from Italy and the UK, to study the Italian language, culture and all musical aspects of interpretation and vocal technique related to the Italian lyric repertory. The 14 selected students arrived in Italy on the 28th of August to begin the two week period of the study that the Accademia offers. The morning session was dedicated to one to one coaching on all aspects of vocal, diction and interpretation techniques of the Italian lyric repertoire.
Dancers can reach the impossible and we all want to be like them. little pay, beautiful, vulnerable, expressive: they look like butterflies. And they have gnarled feet, which often say more than many speeches, taking us from reality into another dimension (Robert Altman).
This is the story of Raisa betankourt who aspires to become a prima ballerina. She dances from the age of 5 and as early as 8 years old she moved from Kirovognad to Kiev to attend the Choreography School. With a Ukrainian mother and Cuban father, her passion for dancing runs in the family blood. She studied throughout her childhood and adolescence and was noticed during her graduation exam and selected for the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theater. At the age of 18 she began a training course at the Theater and in 2016 after 10 years of activity she became a solo dancer, the last achievement before becoming a prima ballerina . Every day except Mondays, she spends the whole day between dance rehearsals, advanced classes and evening performances. How does one manage to transform hard work and great sacrifice into something to offer everyone in its most beautiful form? It is a capacity that goes even further the gestures, the movement and the loveliness, it is the capacity to transform. This is what allows entry to fantastic worlds, romantic or poignant. A metaphor also of life. The photographs, by Luca Catalano Gonzaga, narrate artistic moments, those of hard work, of everyday life, to the privileged access to a seemingly impossible world. (text by Muriel de Meo).
