Country: Italy
Year: 2016
Duration: 105'
On tour with Roberto Bolle and ten fantastic dancers from all over the world, chosen personally by Bolle to bring an audience of thousands of spectators closer to dance. Tour venues included the Teatro Grande of Pompeii, which was opened to ballet and dance shows thanks to Bolle; the Verona Arena, with its extraordinary amphitheatre seating fourteen thousand people; and the Theatre of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, with its ancient, imposing ruins as a backdrop to the performance. [rm]
Biography
film director
Francesca Pedroni
Francesca Pedroni has been involved with dance for over twenty-five years. She is a writer and director for the satellite channel Classica HD. She has been creating and writing documentaries for the series Danza in scena since 2006, and also started directing them in 2011. She has been writing about dance for the newspaper “il manifesto” since 2002 and has been a collaborator for the specialized journal “Danza&Danza” since 1990. Her published works include the monograph Alwin Nikolais (ed. L’ Epos, Palermo) and Album di compleanno 1813-2013. La scuola di ballo dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala (ed. Tita, 2013). In 2015, she curated the DVD series I capolavori della danza, edited by Classica HD and “Corriere della Sera.” She has been teaching history of ballet and dance at the Ballet School of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala since 2000. She has also been a guest professor at the Master’s degree in cultural events of the Postgraduate School of Media Communications and Performing Arts of Milan’s Catholic University since 2001.
FILMOGRAFIA
Roberto Bolle. L’arte della danza (doc., 2016).
Declaration
film director
“Accompanying Roberto Bolle on this tour was a magnificent adventure. We closely followed the star and his travel companions, entering their world as silent observers, participating in the rhythm of the tour, beating time hour by hour deep into the night, with a quick-paced schedule of commitments and the universal, nonverbal language of dance. This highly-charged challenge allowed us to study the personality of a unique artist in a new way.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Francesca Pedroni
fotografia/cinematography
Krishna Agazzi
montaggio/film editing
Aline Hervé
interpreti/cast
Roberto Bolle, Melissa Hamilton, Nicoletta Manni, Otto Bubeníček, Jiří Bubeníček, Alexandre Riabko, Matthew Golding, Joan Boada, Anna Tsygankova, Maria Kochetkova, Eric Underwood
produttori/producers
Piero Maranghi, Emanuela Bolle
produzione/production
Classica Italia e ArteDanza srl
distribuzione/distribution
Nexo Digital
contatti/contacts
Nexo Digital
Luana Solla
luana.solla@nexodigital.it
www.nexodigital.it
Francesca Pedroni
fotografia/cinematography
Krishna Agazzi
montaggio/film editing
Aline Hervé
interpreti/cast
Roberto Bolle, Melissa Hamilton, Nicoletta Manni, Otto Bubeníček, Jiří Bubeníček, Alexandre Riabko, Matthew Golding, Joan Boada, Anna Tsygankova, Maria Kochetkova, Eric Underwood
produttori/producers
Piero Maranghi, Emanuela Bolle
produzione/production
Classica Italia e ArteDanza srl
distribuzione/distribution
Nexo Digital
contatti/contacts
Nexo Digital
Luana Solla
luana.solla@nexodigital.it
www.nexodigital.it
