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Inferno “Illusion Dance”, NoGravity Theatre (2021)

April 10, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Un’opera d’arte completamente insolita, sorprendente e fantasiosa; l’obiettivo richiesto è innegabilmente meravigliare ma, in più, lo spettacolo si basa interamente sui gesti del corpo e su un complesso macchinario privo di qualsiasi elemento virtuale o tecnologico; c’è solo la luce che si infiltra in diagonale su un nero permanente paragonabile ai fondali dei dipinti di Caravaggio”    –Antonio Audino, NoGravity Theatre

Inferno is one of the shows presented by touring theatre/dance company NoGravity Theatre. View a post about another one of their shows, Divina Commedia, here.

For more information about the show and the company, visit their website here.

Categories: Image Mosaic, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2021, Acrobatics, Choreography, Dance, Inferno, Italy, Performing Arts, Sculpture Dance, Surrealism

“San Valentino, cade un taboo: Dante e Beatrice si baciano”

April 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Dopo oltre 700 anni dalla nascita del loro amore, Dante e Beatrice cederanno alla tentazione e si lasceranno travolgere dalla passione facendo cadere tutti i taboo del dolce stilnovo. Un bacio, vero, per festeggiare tutti gli innamorati e promuovere la cultura. E per farlo hanno scelto il week end di San Valentino e due location d’eccezione: le grotte dell’Angelo di Pertosa (SA), le uniche in Europa a essere attraversate da un fiume navigabile, e la Certosa di San Lorenzo Padula (SA), complesso monastico tra i più grandi del vecchio continente, entrambe nominate patrimonio dell’Umanità dall’UNESCO, dove da anni vanno in scena i celebri spettacoli L’Inferno e Il Purgatorio di Dante.

“‘E’ un omaggio a tutti gli innamorati attraverso una coppia simbolo della letteratura italiana – dichiara Domenico Maria Corrado, regista e ideatore degli spettacoli –  Un’iniziativa per certi versi provocatoria, ma che in realtà vuole rendere più accattivante la cultura celebrando l’amore. Dai tempi di Dante ad oggi molte cose sono mutate e quindi anche la cultura deve sperimentare nuove strade.'” [. . .]    —Italia Chiama Italia.It, February 7, 2013 (retrieved April 8, 2022)

Categories: Performing Arts, Places
Tagged with: 2013, Beatrice, Dante, Inferno, Italy, Kiss, Love, Paradiso, Performances, Purgatorio, Valentine's Day

Farhad O’Neill, Divine Comedy-Inferno (1999)

April 7, 2022 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“I had first come into contact with the work of Dante Alighieri as a high school student in Canada. A senior’s English class had the Inferno included as part of their curriculum, and I was eager to read the masterwork, as some minor prior contact with the text had intrigued me greatly. I was not dissuaded by the inscription I saw above the vestibule:’“Abandon every hope, all ye who enter’! My interest in the fine arts guided my curiosity, and in time I was thrilled to discover the wealth of artists who had, in previous centuries, endeavoured to give a visual expression to that poet’s massive descriptive and symbolic structure.” […]  Read more here.

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1999, Canada, Illustrations, Inferno, Ireland

Fiorentia fans display Dante banner at football game

April 1, 2022 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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Fans of the Fiorentia football team “welcomed” back player Dusan Vlahovic to the team with a reference to Dante.

Vlahovic left Fiorentia to play for Juventus in January, but recently returned to Forentia. He was greeted with “a very special banner covering the entire end of the arena that referenced Canto 26, the section of Dante’s Inferno, where his protagonist continues his journey through hell, that is dedicated to frauds,” Football Italia said.

The banner read: “Vlahovic, throughout Hell thy name is spread about!”

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2022, Dante Portraits, Florence, Football, Inferno, Irish Times, Italy, Soccer, Sports, Sports Journalism

Dante’s Inferno Song, Whirlybird (2019)

March 8, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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On October 9, 2019, American band Whirlybird released their EP Hot Flashes which included a song called “Dante’s Inferno”. The lyrics make reference to Dante’s journey through Hell, stating: “Dante’s coming through the inferno”.

Listen to the song here.

View the full lyrics of “Dante’s Inferno” here.

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2019, American Music, Indie Rock, Inferno, Music, Songs, United States

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