{"id":9117,"date":"2025-02-17T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:22","slug":"zfinmalta-featured-on-the-wallstreet-international-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/zfinmalta-featured-on-the-wallstreet-international-front-page\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017bfinMalta featured on The Wallstreet International front-page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Picking up \u017bfinMalta\u2019s rendering of its performance Voyager <\/em>at the 2019 edition of the Civitanova Danza festival, Guatterini praised Malta\u2019s \u2018nine bravi <\/em>interpreters\u2019 who \u2018immerse themselves in a very refined habitat<\/em>\u2019 of \u2018continuous dynamic movement\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her commentary, Guatterini notes how \u2018beautiful is this idea of Voyager, <\/em>and its elegant layout, which at a certain point has a huge golden microphone drop down from above – the transfigured Voyager Golden Record<\/em> \u2013 only to have it disappear as the dancers in reddish slips are dragged away by the wind, through smoke and fog.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guatterini, who is also the coordinator of the theatre programme at Teatro alla Scala Ballet and director of the course for dancers at the Civica Scuola di Teatro \u2018Paolo Grassi\u2019 in Milan, was writing about \u017bfinMalta\u2019s recently-created performance, directed by \u017bfinMalta\u2019s young artistic director Paolo Mangiola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voyager<\/em> is inspired by an American astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan\u2019s idea, forty-one years ago, of sending a time capsule into outer space that would give intelligent life a snapshot of Earth’s diversity, sounds, feelings and thoughts through 116 images encoded in analogue form. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Washington Post<\/em> critic also had words of praise for Mangiola, who has himself created works for the Royal Ballet, Tanztheater N\u00fcrnberg, Aterballetto and Balletto di Roma and, as a performer, collaborated and danced for artists and choreographers such as Wayne McGregor, Deborah Hay, Martin Creed, Mauro Bigonzetti and Jacopo Godani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fascinated by Sagan’s work, Mangiola got wondering what NASA would send into outer space was it to repeat the same exercise today. How would we represent our past, our present, and our hopes for the future? What would the elements archived in it look like? How would we select them? In short, what would a Golden Record look like if propelled to another planet in 2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind the creation of Voyager <\/em>is also a full Maltese team that has included visual artist Austin Camilleri, composer Veronique Vella and designer Luke Azzopardi. Camilleri, Vella and Azzopardi collaborated with Mangiola to create an experience that propels its audience into a world of introspection, self-discovery and reflection on the way human beings are treating the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a successful world premiere of Voyager<\/em> last November, \u017bfinMalta has taken its full-length creation to different theatres around the Maltese islands earlier on in the year. More information may be found at http:\/\/zfinmalta.org\/landing\/voyager<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Malta\u2019s national repertory dance company \u017bfinMalta has featured on the Entertainment front page of The Wallstreet International, complete with front-page image, in a review penned by noted dance essayist and critic Marinella Guatterini. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-artscouncilmalta.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}