Arezzo, 14 June 2024 – The Verdi Theater of Monte San Savino returns to open its doors to theater and dance talents looking for a stage where they can give body and color to their artistic project.
And so it is that in these days, once the curtain has been raised, the show “The secret life of plants” by Véronique Nah is being studied and set up with the dancers Anna Balducci and Françoise Parlanti, the visual artist Alessandro Libertini and Véronique herself Nah.
The event is organized as part of the Artists in the Territories project carried out by Officine della Cultura pursuant to article 43 of the Ministerial Decree of 27 July 2017, financed by the Tuscany Region and the Ministry of Culture, with the support of the Municipality of Monte San Savino and of AS MonteServizi. «The attempt that the performance aims to make – says Véronique Nah – is to transpose into the human something that concerns the sensitivity and the universe of plants, or at least what we are able to perceive, to observe.
An invitation for the public to discover how nature is worthy of imitation, not only in its appearance but above all in its functioning: imitation is, in this case, the threshold to cross to achieve transfiguration.”
A necessary path that draws inspiration from “The Secret Life of Plants” by Stevie Wonder, from the research on the plant world of the secret agent Peter Tompkins and the botanist Christopher Bird hypothesizing plants as sentient beings, from the teachings that trees can inspire us as suggested by the botanist Stefano Mancuso, by art, finally, as a singular “medium” to redesign the organicity of worlds distant only on the surface.
An opportunity for Officine della Cultura to maintain a high commitment to achieving the objectives of the 2030 Agenda through precious collaborations in the name of art and culture. Véronique Nah is a musician, author, director and actress.
Born in Montreal, Canada, she has lived in Florence since ’86, the year in which she joined the Piccoli Principi theater company, directed by Alessandro Libertini, with whom she began a long artistic partnership in which her singular attention to the relationship between music stands out and performing arts.
