
A celebration of dance scholar José Sasportes on the occasion of his 75th birthday. During the event there will be an instrumental concert, Les Fleurs animées. Pagine musicali dai balletti italiani dell’Ottocento featuring music by some of the best known 19th century ballet composers – Cesare Pugni, Paolo Giorza, Peter Ludwig Hertel and Costantino Dall’Argine – performed on replicas of period instruments by Il Teatro della Memoria Ensemble: Giancarlo Ceccacci (violin), Federico Marincola (guitar), Angela Paletta (oboe), Andrea Toschi (bassoon and orchestration).