Cast
Maltese YADA Dance Company with 40 dancers including choreographers such as Felix Busuttil, Justin Roy Barker, Daron Galea, Vivienne Fielding Refalo, Tanya Bayona.
Tanya Bayona is a holder of the Enrico Cecchetti Gold Medal at the Royal Ballet School, London. Her most recent activities include special guest appearance as the Queen in Swan Lake and Clara's mother in Nutcracker, both local productions with international participation held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta in Malta.
Justin Roy Barker foreign credits include performing for the London City Ballet and at the Barbican Theater and the Wimbledon Theater in London and in Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Spain and The Peacock Theater in Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, with the YADA Dance Company.
During the last 30 years, Felix Busuttil has achieved many local merits and choreographed for opera, dance shows and festivals in Malta and overseas namely in Denmark, Switzerland, France, Turkey, India, Italy and Spain. He has danced and choreographed in the presence of H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II and Mr. Tony Blair - has danced in Hollywood movies such as Cutthroat Island and Gladiators - and has worked with renowned names such as national icon and world-famous opera voices the likes of Miriam Gauci and Joseph Calleja.
Creative
"When I started to dance, it was quite late. I started professionally at the age of 17. Quite late. But since I was a child, music just mesmerized me - I used to stare and visualize whole shows, complete shows with lights and costumes at the age of 8 and 10. I never closed my eyes to see and feel it - I was blessed by some powerful force to change music into movement and when I felt it, I transformed it into reality. The famous saying "Thoughts become reality"...
Dance took over, music controlled me - and I have always wished to transfer and share the same elating music to all around me. I wished all felt how powerful music is - it makes one feel good, moves, changes, brings comfort, joy and compassion. It builds spectacles, cities, cultures and humanity. It seems that nature itself is governed by music. The ebb and flow, the crescendo and the andante, the sounds of weather and the creatures that roam planet Earth. The sounds of children laughing, our machinery at work, our walking... it is what inspired me to choreograph DANCE RUSH.
In 2009, on my company's 25th anniversary, I watched a movie that proved all my expectations and strengthened my belief. This movie was called "August Rush" - it tells the story of an orphaned child who escapes this imprisoned environment to look for his parents who believe the child is long gone and dead. Music brings them closer and closer until they finally meet in the freest area in New York, Central Park under a starlit night as his composition is being played. "DANCE RUSH" is inspired by such story - the child is all of us. Our parents are those, anyone who brings us to life. Two people who give total comfort, warmth and love unconditionally. It is what universally we all hold dear. We want to escape from our constricted lives to come home through the beauty and splendor of music. Music that is marvelously and solely made up of seven notes - seven notes that have an endless motion and diversity. And it these seven notes, these seven journeys into music that bring us closer to home - classical music, world music, opera, jazz, contemporary and celebrative music, ethnic and rock music... together with the sounds that surround us daily from the moment in our mother's womb to the last breath. And I believe eternally.
Simply stay still and as you walk outside through your neighborhoods you will feel and see music. As you lie in bed and rest your head on your lover's chest you are listening to music in the rhythmical heart beat that shouts out... I'm alive.
And what better medium to utilize as a symbiosis with the same music, the same story, the story of our lives... brought to you through DANCE - the two entities, dance and music, a marriage born in heaven. This thought become a reality in my soul, in my mind and in my heart... And I am so sure that YADA will take you on a journey of a lifetime that will touch your souls and make you feel when leaving the theaters a part of it all, feeling you deserve to be home, feeling the POWER OF MUSIC... Enjoy the show".
Felix Busuttil
