Dante Solo Inferno
Live Dance Performance
Thursday December 2, 7pm, Urbana – Reserve your seats in Urbana
Saturday, December 4, 7pm, Chicago – Reserve your seats in Chicago
For the first time in almost two years, we are excited to welcome Italian performers back to Chicago!
We are honored to host Artemis Danza in Chicago and Urbana and to invite you to the performance “Dante Solo Inferno”, as part of the lineup of events commemorating the 700th anniversary of the passing of Dante Alighieri. In this reinterpretation of select passages from the Divine Comedy’s Hell, Artemis Danza will accompany the audience through choreographic scenes dedicated to the lost souls who crossed paths with Dante on his otherwordly journey. A path of awareness and acceptance leading to the expressive force of the self in all its fullness and truth.The soundtrack alternates between original music composed by Luca Vianini and pieces of Giuseppe Verdi’s sacred music, interspersed with Dante’s verses.
Artemis Danza
To date, Artemis Danza has staged more than forty creations, ranging from contemporary dance shows to choreographies for theatrical performances and operas. Artemis Danza also supports the work of young choreographers and promotes educational initiatives such as professional workshops and theoretical conferences.
Since 2005, Artemis Danza has been engaged in “Artemis Incontra Culture Altre” (Artemis Meets Other Cultures), a project of artistic residencies and international tours that gave birth to performances, workshops, publications, reports and exhibitions (in Germany, France, Swaziland, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Japan, Argentina, USA, Colombia, Lebanon; Paraguay, Thailand, China, Ethiopia, Korea, South Africa, Nigeria, Cuba, Vietnam, Mexico, and beyond).
Artemis Danza also concentrates on Corpo d’Opera, a project of choreographic re-imagining of the opera repertoire, with a special focus on female figures. Some of the main productions that the company has staged in recent years – such as Traviata, Tosca and Carmen K – originate from Corpo d’Opera.
Monica Casadei, Founder of Artemis Danza
A graduate in Philosophy from the University of Bologna with a dissertation on Plato and Dance, Monica Casadei acquired in Italy, France and Great Britain a solid preparation in the techniques of western contemporary dance. Central to her artistic formation are also some Eastern influences as a result of periods spent in India and China and from her training in the martial arts: towards the end of the 1980s in Paris, she moves on to the Japanese martial art of Aikido and also attends the Academie des Arts Martiaux et Arts Contemporaines directed by André Cognard. At the same time, she pursued the following endeavours: training to achieve first dan in Aikido, a teaching degree in Aiki-Taiso in the Autonomous Academy of Aikido and the study of Japanese Buto Dance with Kazuo Ohno Masaki Iwana, Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Morobushi. In these years she is also a performer and dancer for the Compagnie Terre Rouge of Isabelle Dubouloz. In 1994, Monica Casadei founded, in France, the Compagnia Artemis Danza, with which she moved to Italy in 1997.
Watch a trailer of their performance at this link.
For tickets to the performances, click on the links located at the top of this description.
All guests are required to wear face coverings at all times and to provide proof of full vaccination against Covid-19 and a photo ID before entering the venue.