A journey through the first sixty years of the 20th century retracing those aspects of modernity and innovation that have characterized Italy. A project born in synergy with the Consulate General of Italy in Metz and the Italian Cultural Institute in Strasbourg as part of “Paris 2024” - Summer Olympic Games.
'Awakening' is rooted in a personal experience and then unfolds in a feeling of loss that concerns many. A feeling that demands to be healed, but that only a gesture of solitary rebellion can cure, starting from the acknowledgement of a fragility that is mirrored by the performance.
The most uncomfortable female figures of Greek tragedy are at the heart of the shows ‘Tutto Brucia’, ‘You Were Nothing but Wind’ and ‘Of The Nightingale I Envy The Fate’, three works that raise the highly political question of which bodies are worthy of mourning. Swedish premiere and second time in which the triptych is introduced in its entirety.
For first time in Sweden, Motus theatre company stages the triptych: Tutto Brucia, You Were Nothing but Wind, and Of The Nightingale I Envy The Fate, a special project curated by Turteatern and the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. To introduce the company, the IIC has organised a meeting with Motus’ founders, who will talk about the group's work and their aesthetic and artistic approach.
A concert continually interrupted by the musicians’ comic digressions, or a clown show fancifully supported by music? An experience of euphoric entertainment and catharsis for three funny, likeable and 'talented' clowns.
Artemis Danza’s and Monica Casadei’s new artistic project investigates and interprets in a contemporary key four fascinating heroines of the composer from Lucca: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Mimì, and Turandot.
A choreographic project focused on an object which since its beginning has always been used to express belonging and separation, marking the distinction between a hypothetical us and them: the flag.
Grand Jeté – a split in the air – is one of the most impressive and virtuoso jumps in ballet. In her work created with MM Contemporary Dance Company, choreographer Silvia Gribaudi takes the Grand Jeté to explore endings as a source of new beginnings.
Every time a civilisation puts its own existence at risk, as we have today, Cassandra re-emerges from the folds of the myth and leaves us stunned by her apocalyptic assertions. In Cassandra by Teatro Gioco Vita, she is a girl – of our times perhaps – who cannot bear to witness the devastating process of extinction that is taking place without giving her own 'testimony'.
Chiara Lagani performs Elena Ferrante's texts on stage in the adaptation she created for the graphic novel, in collaboration with Mara Cerri. Behind her, illustrations from the book are projected, giving shape and face to the moments evoked by the narrative. Presented by the IIC Hong Kong in the frame of the 24th Week of the Italian Language in the World and of the "Italia On Stage" festival.
A dystopian future which is alarmingly similar to our present. A 70 years-old woman who went through the Age of the Great Contagions and the long period of Faunal-Health Reorganization has to confront the reality of a new world, modern, cruel, hardened, dark and merciless.
Shamans and doctors, genuine artists of the scalp determined to sort out any problem to a chorus of lotions, the barber/musicians proudly show off their gestural talent.