The ”la Caixa” Foundation presents the music and dance program for this autumn at the Caixaforum València cultural centre. Visitors who come to the center on weekends from October 2 to November 20 will be able to enjoy a cultural program that includes two of the most consolidated cycles in Caixaforum centres: "Music Season" and "Filmed Dance", which now premiere at the new Caixaforum València.
The concerts of the new Musical Season will take place on Sundays, October 2 and 23, and November 6 and 20, days in which music lovers will be able to enjoy proposals by outstanding national and international artists who move in a wide range of musical genres.
In this way, the new musical season will premiere on Sunday, October 2 with La Real Cámara, which will present a program based on pieces by Haydn and Boccherini, as a meeting between these two musicians, who admired each other but never got to know each other. know.
They will be followed on October 23 by Volosi, a string quintet that shows a unique and original musical style, and that emerges, with a classical formation, from the roots of the Carpathians, but with jazz improvisations charged with rock energy and full of of emotion.
The cycle will continue on November 6 with the presentation of the latest album by pianist, improviser and composer Marco Mezquida Letter to Milos, a precious love letter that the artist dedicates to his son. And on Sunday, November 20, the program will close with a performance by the Ringmasters, a cappella barbershop vocal quartet —a typically North American genre that became popular in the first third of the 20th century—, which will offer a show that includes classics from the musical of Broadway, jazz standards and pop songs.
To complete the program, Caixaforum València will include a careful selection of recordings that stand out for their musical and artistic value within the "Filmed Dance" cycle, which aims to bring dance closer to viewers from the prism of the camera, recovering works that are an icon in the world of dance.
The cycle will kick off on Sunday, October 9, with the romantic ballet masterpiece Giselle, starring the legendary artistic couple Carla Fracci and Erik Bruhn in a production by the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. On October 16 it will be the turn of the documentary La danza, by Frederick Wiseman. Spectators will be able to see how the oldest ballet company in the world works, the Paris Opera Ballet, one of the cradles of classical dance.
The third session will be held on October 30 with the screening of three representative pieces by two essential contemporary choreographers: Bella Figura (1995) and Birth-Day (2001), by Jirí Kylián; and One Flat Thing, Reproduced (2006), by William Forsythe.
The cycle will end on November 13 with the film by Jody Lee Lipes NY Export: Opus Jazz, a film based on the homonymous ballet by Jerome Robbins (creator of West Side Story) in which the dancers of the New York City Ballet (NYCB) They put on sneakers to dance through the streets and rooftops of New York.
