International dancers in Barga Vecchia

Visitors to Barga Vecchia were treated this afternoon to an impromptu exhibition of fine contemporary dance movements as two dancers, one from the UK, the other from Australia went through a series of improvisations based around their reactions to being able to spend some time in the city.

The two dancers, Roseanna Anderson who trained at the English National Ballet School and Josh Ben-tovim from the Rambert Ballet School are both members of the Impermanence Dance Theatre and following on from their first visit to the city 12 months ago decided to come back to reconnoitre for places in which they felt would be suitable for their form of expression.

This afternoon they brought along Alessandro Rizzardi with his sax to add his input into the mix.

No set pieces, nothing planned just straight out improvisation with the notes from Alessandro’s sax being picked up by the dancers and then in turn their movement supplying visual feedback to Alessandro who changed his sound accordingly.

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As you can see in the video below they started their session using the walls of the Duomo as a backdrop before moving inside to use the very dramatic lighting flooding  in across the floor.