Iskra Šukarova: Four Seasons (1996)

After the successful performance of the contemporary ballets Pastels (1994), to the music of Mack Oldfield, and Enigma and Inferno (1995), to the music of Alfred Schnittke, Iskra Shukarova presents her third contemporary ballet, this time to the music of the great Italian composer of the late Baroque, Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi's Four Seasons are the first four concertos out of a total of twelve performed in 1725 from his opus 8, II Cimento dell'Armonia e dell' Invenzione (Contest between Harmony and Invention). The exceptional vitality of the rhythmic impulse, the lively sense of instrumental expression, as well as the strong sense of musical form expressed in the music of Antonio Vivaldi associate play and encourage light movements that Iskra Shukarova "weaves" through the music of The Four Seasons. The twelve girls represent the atmosphere of the four seasons, while one dancer goes through all of those seasons and represents the union of man with nature and the seasons.
Choreographer Iskra Shukarova, this time, as in the previous two, remains on the contemporary ballet expression, adapting it to the virtuoso music of Antonio Vivaldi.