Italian dance and music performance in Amman

AMMAN- Società Dante Alighieri, Comitato di Amman and the Italian Embassy in Amman will host a dance and music performance at the National Center for Culture and Arts on 6th November 2018.

Entrance to the event, which is held at 8:00 pm, is free to public.

CRéTa is a choreographic concert created by Maristella Martella dancer/choreographer and Gabriele Panico, musician and composer.

The body movement and the sound are flexible, plastic and transformable, just as clay (in Italian: Creta) when it absorbs water - balancing between fullness and emptiness, between the tension and the distension, in continuous transformation. It is an endless transition of shapes. One can hear the movement, see the sound and touch the picture, create new interior and exterior passages that evoke new sensations, according to a statement by the Italian embassy in Amman.

Embrace the contemporary by recalling voices and gestures of ancient women. The musicality of movement and the physicality of sound conduct the spectator to the rituality characteristic for Mediterranean dances. Musical trajectories in Creta bring together archaic voices and rhythms from different latitudes. This fascinating live music, processed with electronic instruments, merges with choreography, constantly searching for a dialogue between contemporary sound and the theatricality of the ethno-contemporary dance.

This project is part of the CRETA Mediterranean Tour and received the financial support of Region Apulia by the program “Puglia Sounds Export 2018”. Maristella Martella and Gabriele Panico also performed in Cairo on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2018.