Performing in Italy for the first time, Le Patin Libre is a Canadian company that has reinvented ice shows by opening a heretofore unexplored territory of contemporary dance, successfully blending the rigour of artistic ice skating with the abstraction of choreography, and transforming ice skating rinks into new spaces for the enjoyment of live performing arts.
Murmuration is inspired by one of Nature’s most spectacular events: the aerial choreographies of starlings, when they gather in flocks before migrating south. Murmuration is the precise term that indicates the sound, similar to an intense murmur, produced by the flapping wings of these quite common yet incredible birds during their inscrutable swirls. A hypnotic spectacle for anyone watching, which the 15 extraordinary dancers of Le Patin Libre renew on the ice composing complex dynamics of perfectly synchronised movement and, as if the movement spread from one to the next just like it does in a flock, they seem literally to take flight sliding fluidly across the ice at supersonic speed. This is a show not to be missed.
