Vivaldi — Piazzolla

Presentation

Seasons: From One Shore to the Other

Venice and Buenos Aires. The 18th and 20th cen­tur­ies. Nature and the city. With Vivaldi’s The Four Sea­sons and Piazzolla’s Las Cuatro Esta­ciones Porteñas, two worlds meet and answer one anoth­er.

Mari­anne Piketty and Le Con­cert Idéal inter­twine their sea­sons to cre­ate a jour­ney from one shore to the oth­er. Spring, sum­mer, autumn and winter cross paths, mir­ror one anoth­er and trans­form: Vivaldi’s Baroque energy meets the sen­su­al­ity and pulsat­ing rhythms of Piazzolla’s tango.

But here, the music is also some­thing to be seen. Freed from the tra­di­tion­al con­cert setup, the musi­cians take pos­ses­sion of the space and engage their bod­ies in the per­form­ance. Glances, ges­tures, move­ments and bows cre­ate a cho­reo­graphy that reveals the dia­logue between the works in a new light.