A dance over the skies of Naples with music by Stravinsky: the work of Mathilde Rosier at Madre

With the reopening of museums in Campania, the work Le massacre du printemps, a video installation by French artist Mathilde Rosier that has become part of the Madre’s collection, can again be seen until Feb. 1.

It is a reinterpretation of Le sacre du printemps, a ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky, created by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes in 1913.

The work questions the intrinsic relationship between human beings and the environment, connecting the act of worshiping the earth to that of its subsequent exploitation. The dancers draw aerial choreographies against the backdrop of three different locations in the Campania region - the greenhouses of the Vesuvius area, the port of the city of Naples and the former industrial site of the Bagnoli plain - and from peasants they turn into ears of corn, to emphasize the inextricable link between the fate of humanity and that of all nature.

For all information you can visit the Madre’s official website.

A dance over the skies of Naples with music by Stravinsky: the work of Mathilde Rosier at Madre

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