TH
ARTEFIERA 40: THURSDAY 28 JANUARY: A TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE WITH A PERFORMACE BY
LINDSAY KEMP AND MUSIC BY MAURIZIO BAGLINI IN A SPECTACLE OF MUSIC, THEATRE AND VIDEOART
Lindsay Kemp, the great mime artist, director and choreographer from Great Britain and mentor to David Bowie,
contributing to the success of the young and then unknown singer by teaching him the art of mime and performance,
th
will inaugurate the 40 edition of ArteFiera that is set to open with a tribute to the late great rock star and musician.
The event will take place on the main stage at the Service Centre of BolognaFiere with an intense show of video art
and a musical reinterpretation of Bowie’s most famous works by the great Italian concert pianist Maurizio Baglini.
The show is the result of the reinvigorated collaboration with the Teatro Comunale, thanks to which BolognaFiere was
able to bring to the city the national premiere of River of Fundament, the film/opera by Mathew Barney set to take
th
place at the theatre on the 29 January. The event is already almost completely sold out thanks to the hugely positive
response from visitors to Arte Fiera, who in one week snapped up all of the tickets on special offer on the event
th
website. The inauguration will combine music, art, theatre and video art and will mark the opening of the 40 edition of
the Arte Fiera, which will be dedicated to the best of Italian art over the last century. There will be special events both
at the fair, thanks to the participation of 190 galleries, and with the special exhibition Arte Fiera 40, which will be held
at MAMbo and the Pinacoteca Comunale, dedicated to the most important artists of the last century and those still to
come.
Lindsay Kemp
Lindsay Kemp is the pioneer of a form of dreamlike dance, rich in content and inspiration and bordering on the
acrobatic and employing strong spectacular effects obtained in a simple way through the knowledgeable use of music
and lights. He can perhaps be seen as the inspiration for the nascent Cirque noveau and his work has certainly been
one of the most fantastical currents of European dance theatre, reinventing the art of mime and going on to have an
influence on many dance companies, especially during the second half of the seventies helping classical and
contemporary dance regain its splendour (Momix, Cripton, etc.).From the seventies to the eighties Lindsay Kemp left
an indelible mark, firstly with his arrangement for the concerts The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the
Spiders from Mars of his student David Bowie, a milestone for the genre of rock opera, and then with his own more
meaningful and well-known works: Flowers (with versions in 1968-1969 and then in 1974); A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (1980) an interpretation of the William Shakespeare play; Salomè (1977) by Oscar Wilde; Mr. Punch's
Pantomime, a macabre yet humorous transposition of the character of Mr.Punch; Nijinscky’s Dream or Nijinscky the
Mad (1983), inspired by the great Russian dancer; The Big Parade (1984, a tribute to silent film); Alice, inspired by the
Lewis Carroll story and Duende, based on 'El Duende - teoría y juego' by Federico García Lorca.
Maurizio Baglini
Maurizio Baglini is one among the most brilliant and highly rated pianists on the international scene. His intense career
has taken him to Europe, America and Asia, performing more than two thousand solo concerts and a further number
of chamber music events. Born in Pisa in 1975 and winner of the “World Music Piano Master” in Monte Carlo at the
age of 24, he has attended the most high profile festivals including: La Roque d’Anthéron, Loeckenhaus, Yokohama
Piano Festival, the Australian Chamber Music Festival, “Benedetti Michelangeli” in Bergamo and Brescia, Rossini
Opera Festival. He has been invited as a soloist and as a member of chamber ensembles to the main international
institutions including La Scala Theatre in Milan, Salle Gaveau in Parigi, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the
Louvre Auditorium, Gasteig in Munich and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He has worked with conductors such as
Antonello Allemandi, Giampaolo Bisanti, Massimiliano Caldi, Tito Ceccherini, Daniel Cohen, Howard Griffiths, Armin
Jordan, Seikyo Kim, Emanuel Krivine, Karl Martin, Donato Renzetti, Corrado Rovaris, Ola Rudner and Maximiano
Valdes. Since 2005 he has performed regularly alongside the cellist Silvia Chiesa: to this duo have been dedicated a
Suite by Azio Corghi, a Sonata by Gianluca Cascioli and a piece by Nicola Campogrande. Recent highlights include a
recital at Victoria Hall in Geneva in 2013 and an orchestral concert at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in the same
year and in 2014 two recitals at the Festival dei 2 Mondi in Spoleto and the first Italian performance of the integral
cycle Des Heures Persanes (The Persian Hours) by Charles Koechlin at the Sagra Malatestiana di Rimini.