From May 30th to June 17th come back “Border Theatres” the review it will bring dance, contemporary circus, prose and music in the art places of Pistoia and Pescia.
A program of events hosted in Pistoia, in the spaces of the Museum of the Twentieth Century he was born in Contemporary Museum of Palazzo Fabroni and of Villa Stonorov-Vivarelli Foundationand in Pescia, at Libero Andreotti plaster cast gallery et al Paper Museum.
“The Teatri di Confine review, dedicated to the contemporary scene, is hosted this year in some of the most significant museums and art places in Pistoia and Pescia. We are proud to propose a multidisciplinary program with a variety of themes and registers, spread throughout the area, which will give spectators precious opportunities for discovery and in-depth analysis” has declared the president of the Toscana Spettacolo Foundation.
Gianfranco Gagliardi, general director of the Pistoia Theater Foundation commented: “We are happy to announce, after a year’s break, the restart of Teatri di Confine, a festival that aims to explore unusual, new contents, places, routes or from new perspectives, putting elements that are perhaps normally distant into dialogue. In 2024 the Museums of Pistoia and Pescia will be the stage for this journey into the contemporary between dance, performance and visual arts, a curious journey that will be able to excite many types of users, even those who don’t normally go to the theatre”.
Border Theatres is created by Teatri di Pistoia and by Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo onluswith the support of Ministry of Culture and the Tuscany Regionin collaboration with the Municipality of Pistoia and the Municipality of Pescia.
I would like a voice
The program of shows
Thursday 30 May (9.15 pm) at the Libero Andreotti Gipsoteca in Pescia, Davide Valrosso presents “Sympsiom” a performance that arises from the encounter with a musician who changes in each place where the dance action is represented. On this occasion Valrosso is accompanied by live music from guitarist Meme Lucarelli. A new way of understanding improvisation through a single element: a basket full of thoughts, in which each person is asked to add one of their own and take one from others.
Following “Symbiosis” with Laila Lovino and Melissa Bortolotti, for the choreography by Roberto Tedesco. Symbiotic relationships are considered developmental-inhibitory or even harmful forms, in which the acquisition of independence and maturity for adult life is compromised. It is on this track that the choreography conceived by Roberto Tedesco for two dancers.
Tuesday 4 June (from 6.30 pm), at the Paper Museum in Pescia, it’s time to “William Shakespeare’s Half Time Job”. Performative tarot reading inspired by Shakespeare’s imagery, by and with Marco Di Costanzo. The show is an immersion in the work of the English author through a contemporary scenic form. The author’s gaze is employed in a tarot reading for a single spectator, conveyed with an apparently “spontaneous”, extemporaneous language, but in reality nourished by phrases, images and anecdotes taken from his texts. To attend the performance, for a maximum of 20 spectators, Reservation is mandatory (one person every 15 minutes, for reservations: 0573 991609 – 27112)
At the same time, for the choreography of Patrizia de Bari, on stage “Bianchisentieri” a performance that presses, with visual and sound suggestions, the themes of conservation and transmission of knowledge through memory. White like the sheets and Paths like the furrows of writing, primary source of transmission and knowledge. The transposition into a surreal image will give life to a rare “animal”, perhaps already disappeared, which drags a dress made with pages of now abandoned books, ready for pulping, as a symbol of the memory of the past and repositories of knowledge. The show, produced by Giardino Chiuso, is Free entry, subject to availability.
WOOD, photo by Giulia Di Vitantonio
Tuesday 11 June (7.00 pm), in the ‘author’s garden’ of the Museum of the Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art of Palazzo Fabroni, in Pistoia, arrives “Abbattoir Blues” of and with Luigi Ciotta, last title of Abundance Trilogy, After Funky Pudding (2009, on the topic of food waste) e Sweet Dreams (2014, on sugar abuse). A dreamlike, surreal, comical, cruel and exciting show, which through the clown and the circus addresses the human and animal living conditions inside slaughterhouses.
Friday 14 June (7.00 pm), in the ‘author’s garden’ of the Museum of the Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art of Palazzo Fabroni, in Pistoia, “Wood” with Maria Anzivinofor the choreography of Marianna Moccia and Sara Lupoli. The journey of the performance is a metaphor for the growth of man and his relationship with nature. Wood takes the viewer by the hand and leads him inside a visual and audio journey where the scenes swing on the thin thread of the imagination and sharing, evoking suggestions linked to the complexity of the human being and the obstinate search for balance.
Following “There is a planet” Of Michele Escapewith the performer Emanuel Santos. This is a research aimed at distance oneself from the theatrical environment, through an investigation of the body in spaces, a body that abandons itself, that observes, that includes and that communicates. The investigation takes inspiration from photographic exhibition by Ettore Sottsass at the Triennale Milano (2017-18), from which the title of the same name derives. I am photographs, taken in forty years of travel around the world, which concern living and in general the presence of man on the planet.
The review concludes Monday 17 June (9.15 pm) at Villa Stonorov – Vivarelli Foundation of Pistoia with “I would like a voice” of and with Tindaro Granata, coproduced by LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura in collaboration with Proxima Res. It’s a monologue constructed with Mina’s songs sung in playback, strongly inspired by the long theatrical journey that Tindaro Granata created at the Piccolo Shakespeare theater, inside the prison of Messina, with high security detainees. The fulcrum of the dramaturgy is the dream: losing the ability to dream means letting a part of yourself die.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S HALF TIME JOB
