Naupaca Dance Factory from Gozo is this year celebrating its 10th anniversary, and their production announced for this special year is ‘Divina,’ a contemporary dance adaptation based on La Divina Commedia, an epic poem by Dante Alighieri.

“This variation will plunge audiences in the midst of truths and meanings, and present it with the entanglements and wordiness of the poem in all its effectiveness. Naupaca added, “the purpose of the allegory can find itself in the body, as the physicality and the realness of the dancers’ movements will further concretise abstractions.”

“We believe that a theatrical stage can offer this sense of being in, of a journey being taken, of movement occurring in a spatial universe. Dance, as a medium, would realise these figures, and seek to explore and make palpable the lines of the poem, those facts of life that Dante himself searches for throughout his journey,” Naupaca said.

Divina will open its doors on the 17th of October at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, online booking is now available. There will be a repeat performance on the 24th of October at the Aurora Opera House in Victoria, Gozo, booking for Gozo to open shortly.

Directed and choreographed by Joeline Tabone; Production Management by Deborah Agius; Concept and Text by Maria Theuma; Production Design and Costumes by Luke Azzopardi. In the leading roles, Sergey Kheylik (RU) will dance the role of Dante, Francesco Mariottini (IT) will dance the role of Virgil, and Naupaca Dance Factory’s Deborah Agius will be dancing the role of Beatrice.

For more information about the upcoming production please visit http://www.naupacadancefactory.com/.

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