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Dance Rush – A journey of love, passion and fantasy

January 1, 2013

Dance Rush – The Show is the story of a 12 year old boy who is orphaned at birth yet believes with all his heart he can find his parents. He is a special boy blessed with an incredible ability to hear music and see its color, motion, and form.
One night he falls into a dream and 7 dancing spirits symbolizing the 7 musical notes appear: Rock, Hip Hop, Swing, Ethnic, Opera, Jazz and Classical. He is led through a fabulous journey full of love, passion and fantasy. 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 who bring us to life. People who give total comfort, warmth and love unconditionally. We want to escape from our constricted lives to come home through the beauty and splendor of music.
Music is marvelously and solely made up of seven notes – seven notes that have an endless motion and diversity. And it is these seven notes, these seven journeys into music, that bring us closer to home – folk music, classical music, world music, opera, jazz, contemporary, 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 further beyond.
Inspiring and Exhilarating!
YADA’s Dance Rush premiers at The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on the January 11, 2013, followed by seven shows.
The YADA Dance Company, a highly acclaimed and popular European company has a particular brand – spectacle and entertainment at its best that leaves audiences jumping on their seats and joining in the dance.
This company has taken Europe by surprise with its unique rendition of dance shows, where the whole auditorium becomes a part of the stage, where emotions are destined to be touched and where from beginning to end, color and design take center stage.
Felix Busuttil, Director and Founder of YADA, started to dance quite late in life. “I started dancing professionally at the age of 17. 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.”
Malta- A Spiritual Land
YADA is truly a miracle company born from a population of only 400,000 Maltese. Malta lies in the heart of the Mediterranean and has strong values, a deep sense of spirituality and a love for the stage derived from passion.
Felix Busuttil was born in the smaller sister island, Gozo which is 26 square mile size, roughly the size of Manhattan and a population of only 31,000! The islands boast a 6,000 year history, possessing the oldest pre-historic temples of the world built 2,000 years before the Pyramids of Giza. Coming from such a small country did not however stop Felix in creating this spectacle.
Dance Rush is inspired by the motion picture August Rush starring Robin Williams. It is performed by troupe of 40 all-star dancers from Italy, Malta, England and Hungary making their first appearance in the United States.
Symphonies and compositions attract the parents back to their beloved son. Music ranges from compositions by John Miles, soundtrack from August Rush composed by Mark Macina, and authentic sounds of Maltese born Etnika, Dominic Galea, Red Electrick and DJ Ruby, to classical hits by Vivaldi, Bach, Shostakovich, operatic highlights from Madame Butterfly, La Traviata and Carmen, and modern music by Jennifer Lopez and Michael Buble. The grande finale is the amazing voice of a Chiara singing live, the silver medalist of Eurovision song contest.