The initial idea for this work was to play with Gershwin’s rhapsody and find a way to rework with different imagery. The interesting thing about Rhapsody in blue is not just the angle we bring, encompassing our experience, our international exchange and the style we have developed over the years, it is more importantly about giving the audience a more universal vision, now that is less connected to the context of New York or the spirit of that age. We tried to transport ourselves, to reimagine Gershwin in historical terms, aiming to decontextualise him to render his masterpiece even more universal.
To close our eyes, feel what the music wants to tell us and represent it in the context of the present day, through our poetics, to express it with our approach to the movement and the scene.

Aterballetto has many brilliant dancers with great variety and versatility, who are in themselves great sources of inspiration. There is so much to tap into that it’s almost a shame that we have already reached the end of this creation, when the dancers still had so much more to give. The piece isn’t vast enough to be able to draw out everything the company still had to say, you must condense all the variations and all the energy into the short duration of the rhapsody, but this aspect was also the strength of this operation.

Rhapsody in blue is a fantastic playground for a choreographer, for a creative person. So powerful, so fun, so lively, it’s punctuated with constant variations of form, it’s like crossing an enchanted forest: in the space of a few steps, a few minutes, you encounter a magical being, a dreamlike sky that changes colour above you. You move inside this fantastical world, the rhapsody offering up a musical space within which anything is possible, in which new elements spring up from every corner and you are constantly surprised. The bodies react to quick- paced, ever-changing input. We played with all of this, closing our eyes and dreaming of new worlds every time we encountered a new theme.

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