A new choreographic work from CRDANCE, ALTA MAREA tells the legend of Cilla, a fisherman’s
daughter, who fell hopelessly in love with a sailor lost at sea off the coast of San Lucido, Italy. The myth, whose origins and re-telling date back generations, was learned by Choreographer Caterina Rago as a child growing up in San Lucido. Rago has re-imagined this elusive story to create a ballet that navigates tempestuous heart/break and intrigue. A lost love and a cliff/hanger join forces to deliver a powerful contemporary tale that is equally turbulent, seductive and apocalyptic. Composed of highly energetic cycles of movement that seem to endlessly divide and reunite, ALTA MAREA transforms the audience from onlookers to willing investigators. The choreography pivots on the narrative’s precarious pursuits to rescue and retrieve what is lost and to somehow overcome the threat of overwhelming and imminent danger. ALTA MAREA exposes moments in time that ride on the metaphoric and real world experience of drowning and rescue to take the audience through episodes that implode and explode. The dancers search on stage feels transitory and, at the same time, permanent. ALTA MAREA speaks to the anxieties and uncertainties of our time. Shall we be capsized or shall we prevail?