In Monsummano Terme the extraordinary event
celebrating the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s masterpiece
“The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust” is a show promoted and supported by Monsummano Terme Municipality for the event “L’uomo che cadde su Monsummano Terme – David Bowie 2022”, in tribute to David Bowie on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the release of the album that made him famous. Produced by Officine della Cultura and MOTUS with the support of Regione Toscana and Ministero dello Spettacolo, “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust” will be premiered on the 15th of June 2022 at 9:00 pm in Piazza G. Giusti in Monsummano Terme (PT).
The mix between dance and music is not accidental and has historical roots in Bowie’s own life. In fact, in 1967 the musician David Bowie met the choreographer and dancer Lindsay Kemp. From that moment a new place was born, in which the disciplinary limits between dance and music are tested and transgressed, drawn to be immediately contradicted, expanded and overturned. Bowie and Kemp started a dialogue, leaving traces that reach our day, through the works of artists in which the dialogue between different disciplines is central and it seeps so deeply into the nature of both arts, modifying their “genetics” itself, with choreographies that become installations and works of art that become performative.
Since then, the seed of an innovation that cannot ignore multidisciplinarity and that rejects rigid taxonomic fences has entered the DNA of choreographers, but also of musicians and videomakers.
Inspired by Ziggy Stardust’s tour at the Rainbow Theater in London, MOTUS and the Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo reinterpret the experience of Bowie and Kemp with a contemporary languages, avoiding imitations and repetitions. Enrico Fink, conductor of the Orchestra Multietnica di Arezzo, curates the arrangement of the songs of David Bowie’s album, while Simona Cieri, choreographer of the MOTUS Company, creates the original choreographies performed by Martina Agricoli, Paloma Biagioli, Ilaria Fratantuono, Roberta Morello, Gian Maria Picciau, Mattia Solano and Simona Cieri. “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust” will be animated by the contribution of a lot of other artists, such as Finaz and Nuto (Bandabardò), Paolo Benvegnù, Andrea Chimenti, Dana Gillespie, Modena City Ramblers and Piqued Jacks.
Tickets (first sector € 20,00 – second sector € 15,00 – third sector € 10,00) are available on www.ticketone.it and BoxOfficeToscana.
Information: Officine della Cultura – + 39 0575 27961 and +39 338 8431111 – biglietteria@officinedellacultura.org