PARADE & The Velvet Gentleman Returns in Modern Music Days

Following its successful reception at Teatru Manoel last month, the ground-breaking ballet PARADE & The Velvet Gentleman will return for one night only on 15 September, as part of the Evenings on Campus festival at the Valletta Campus Theatre.

PARADE & The Velvet Gentleman is part of the Modern Music Days initiative, which is committed to promote the performance and understanding of 20th-century repertoire and contemporary music. The ballet stunned audiences at Teatru Manoel in July, with its outstanding use of new media techniques – such as stop-motion animation and projection dancing – and is now set to deliver an impressive finale during Modern Music Days.

Since its launch in 2015, Modern Music Days has organised a series of innovative concerts under the direction of Ruben Zahra, who often adopts an interdisciplinary approach, blurring the borders between different art-forms.

Besides the Parade ballet, the evening will include a percussion trio extravaganza and a visually-stimulating combination of piano and video-art.

Modern Music Days is organised by Teatru Manoel, the Malta Association for Contemporary Music, and the Valletta 2018 Foundation, in collaboration with Evenings on Campus, as part of the culture programme of Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture. Modern Music Days will take place at the Valletta Campus Theatre (formerly MITP) on 15 September at 9pm.

For more information, visit www.modernmusicdays.eu. Tickets are available from www.ticketline.com.mt

Monique Chambers

Monique started indulge in 2011 and has since created Indulge Me GIFT and Indulge Me FOOD and volume 1 of The Artists Directory - Malta. A marketing professional by trade, Monique's passion is to promote local talent and Malta in general. Free time is her biggest indulgence, when she can tinker in her craft room or the kitchen, or be selfish with a book, the sofa and good glass of wine (of course, wearing something beautiful and with freshly coiffed hair!)