Angelo Sturiale

Before a musician starts playing on his instrument
there is a world of silence and mystery made up of movements.
Among the sounds, during the rests
there is a rich universe of silent gestures and signs
which is the complementary part of any musical performance.
Body movements are part of the music,
make the music possible to be heard.
By means of such reflections I began to be interested in choreography
as so much linked to composition.
That's why some of my music scores involve the whole body of the musician
as well as why my dance works focus on the sounds
caused by the movements of the performer.

                    

FUNERAL RITE (Liturgia Defunctorum), for vocalist-performer

First Performance: 18 Jul 1996
 
Estate Catanese - University of Catania (Sicily)
Vocalist-performer: Daniela Orlando

              

ADMIRABLE  (Mirabile), for dancer-performer

First Performance: 15 Jun 1995

Altrove - Review of Contemporary Music, Catania (Sicily)
Performer: Daniela Orlando

                                      

                                            

                                             

                                                                    GENESIS (Berescith 1, 1-5), for dancer-performer

                                                                              First Performance: 22 Jul 1997
                                           Notte dei Poeti - Teatronove Mascalucia - Catania (Sicily)
     
 
       

OPERA 1
for vocalist-performer

First Performance: 20 Feb 1998
 
Arsenale Musica Festival - Pisa
performer: Angelo Sturiale

                     


OPERA 3 (1998)
for actor, musician or dancer
 
First Performance: 7 Apr 2006
 
ZO, 7 performances by Angelo Sturiale - Catania
performer: Alessandro Mazzeo
 

NAVEL (Umbilìco)
Musichoreography n.1

First Performance: 23 Sept 1997
Ex Arboris Review of New Theatre, Catania - Sicily

Performers: Benedetto Caldarella, Daniela Orlando, Virgilio Vecchio
Conductor: Angelo Sturiale

The "Musichoreography" is a theoretical challenge for a new form of theatre/performing art. It rigorously bans any hierarchy in the utilisation both qualitative and quantitative of the expressive means and compositional sources. It doesn't show a plot even though each spectator can personally "read" or imagine a kind of narrative path. The Musichoreography involves and treats equally sounds, lights, body movements, sets and even the shifting of objects throughout the stage space. All such means are part of a score which organises the form of the all compositional materials over time and through space.

BLOSSOMS (Germogli)
Musichoreography n. 2

First Performance: 6 May 2003
Il Suono dei Soli Festival, I Candelai, Palermo - Sicily
 
Performers: Students of the Secondary Schools of Palermo (Sicily)
 
  
            

KINONIKON
Musichoreography n.3

First Performance: 6 Sept 2003
Cappella Bonajuto, Catania - Sicily

Rachele Caputo, dancer/choreographer
Renato Senica, dancer/choreographer
Daniela Orlando, vocalist/performer
Angelo Sturiale, percussionist/performer
 
 

ENCORE

Musichoreography n.4

First Performance: October 2008
Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, México

Versus 8 Percussion Quartet, Morelia, México