Astragali Teatro presenta il suo nuovo progetto: roads and desire - un teatro in viaggio in Palestina.
inizio ore 18.30
Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important philosophers of our time and his significant contribution to philosophical contemporary debate is internationally recognised.
On this special occasion, prestigious guest of the hall of Astragali, he will present his last book entitled Nudità (Edizioni Nottetempo).
The meeting will be intoduced by Fabio Tolledi and will be followed by an open dialogue with the author.
Giorgio Agamben, has started his philosophical production in the sixties, starting an extraordinary route that brought him to Germany, France, United States and many other countries where he has met many intellectuals and philosophers who definitively marked the twentieth century's thought, such as Heidegger, Deleuze, Lyotard, Derrida, Nancy, Klossowski.
The essays he has been publishing, in more than forty years of his career, are many, it is enough to quote works which today are milestones of contemporary philosophy like: Stanze. La parola e il fantasma nella cultura occidentale (Einaudi, 1977); La comunità che viene (Einaudi,1990); Bartleby, la formula della creazione, written together with Gilles Deleuze (Quodlibet,1993); Quel che resta di Auschwitz. L'archivio e il testimone (Bollati Boringhieri,1998), Profanazioni (2005), L'aperto. L'uomo e l'animale (Bollati Boringhieri, 2002), Ninfe (Bollati Boringhieri, 2007), Nudità (Nottetempo, 2009).
It will be a precious occasion to approach the though of this eminent author, to hear from his voice something about his path and the constant recalling to a philosophy able to re-activate «an essential relation with the creation».
Astragali Teatro promotes a new appointment within Teatri Abitati.
At 6:30 pm the theatrical critic Fabio Acca will be hosted in Calimera -Teatro Elio- with an event called Living, Brook Grotowski: three hypothesis for an Artaudian pattern.
Fabio Acca is a critic and scholar of theatre, director, dj, collaborator of different reviews, such as Art’o, Prove di Drammaturgia and Hystrio. He is also author of many publications about contemporary theatre.
In the meeting of Friday, Fabio Acca, through some videos contributions, will make an excursus on contemporary theatre and the Artaudian influences, in fact, many artists have chosen “to do” Artaud but we don’t know who among them have crossed the Artaudian experience with utopias and rifts. So, what’s the meaning of “ doing” Artaud? Fabio Acca will try to open a possible space of thought, starting from the masters who, in a certain way, have practiced the model of the Artaud lesson.
At 8:00 pm in the spaces of Teatro Elio in Calimera Astràgali Teatro will host the director and actor Gary Brackett of Living Theatre Europe.
Expert in bio-mechanic and yoga, he has been collaborating with the Living Theatre since 1989. In Italy, where he has been living for ten years, he has directed more than 100 stages of Living Theatre, overseeing the direction of some of its most important performances, such as Mysteries and Smaller Pieces, Not In My Name, Seven meditations on political sado-masochism.
The meeting will start with the projection of the video, realised by Brackett, entitled Mahloul - A Palestine Journey. Shooted on last April, it witnesses the journey of the Living Theatre actors' in Palestine and Israel, where they have realised several workshops and performances.
After the video an open debate will be started with the author, who has always pursued a politically active theatrical practice, which leads to roads and places all over the world.
At 7.00 pm a new appointment within Teatri abitati at Teatro Elio in Calimera (Lecce): a meeting with the Palestinian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah one of the most important voices of the contemporary Arab culture.
The appointment is promoted in collaboration with Osservatorio Palestina and within the UNESCO initiative Week of Education for Sustainable Development.
Nasrallah was born in a refugee camp in Jordan, in 1954. Since 1978 he has been publishing many poetical and narrative works, getting several recognitions. His first novel Fever has been translated in eight languages, and in Italy has been published by Edizioni Lavoro.
The encounter is thought as a dialogue with the author on his intellectual and poetical engagement, with the theatrical intervention of Astragali Teatro, whose actors will read some of the author's poems. It will be also an occasion to present Nasrallah's last anthology: Verses edited by Wasim Dahmash with Q edizioni.
Vincenzo Cuomo, co-editor with Aldo Maccariello and Giorgio Riolo, of the philosophical review ainòs –dynamic crucible of the philosophical contemporary research-, will be hosted on 4th November at 6:00 p.m., at Astragali Teatro.
During the meeting, Vincenzo Cuomo, introduced by Fabio Tolledi and Antonio Borruto, will open the discussion about the important editorial project of the review (on line and paper). Starting from the last issue Nudità, the dialogue will pursue with an excursus of some topics the review deals with, such as Rifiuti, Dopo l’Umano, Fame/Sazietà.
Vincenzo Cuomo, teacher of philosophy, is author of several publications, such as Le parole e la voce-lineamenti di una filosofia della phoné (Salerno, Edisud) and editor of some texts of Theodor W. Adorno*, collected in La musica, i media e la critica (Napoli, Tempo Lungo Edizioni).
Teatro Elio, Calimera, will host the concert of the Marseillais Sam Karpienia Trio: a polyphonic mixture of Provencal sounds under the sign of “tradinnovation”, between tradition and innovation. The trio, composed by Sam Karpienia (first voice and electric mandola), Daniel Gaglione (second voice and mandola) and Mathieu Goust (drums and percussions), will present its last work Salento Local Tour 2009, produced by Dilinò-Soniboni and recorded in last January, with the important contributions, realised within Teatri Abitati, of Manu Théron (Gacha Empega, Lo Cor de la Plana) and Fabio Tolledi.
This new event will continue with Les corps, les sons, a weft of the music of Sam Karpienia and the poetical contributions of Fabio Tolledi.
Astràgali Teatro presents the last issue of the prestigious cultural magazine Lettera Internazionale. In 2009 the magazine has celebrated the 25th year of activity and the 100 issues. Lettera Internazionale is a quarterly magazine, which is edited in five other European countries in their respective languages.
The meeting will be attended by the magazine's editor Biancamaria Bruno, by prof. Alizia Romanovic, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign languages of the University of Salento, prof. Pietro Fumarola of the University of Salento and Fabio Tolledi, director and playwright of Astragali Teatro, who has also contributed to the last issue of the magazine with an unpublished essay on theatre and contemporaneity, entitled Destiny and Tragedy.
In the issue there are other precious unpublished contributions of authors such as Foucault, Cixous, Derrida, Brecht, Wannūs, Mejerchol’d, Fo, Stanislavskij, Grammatas, Gadamer.
We would like to bring to your attention an initiative of excellence vocational training: the European Master’s Degree Programme in Sciences of Performative Creativity, promoted, within the framework of the inter-university project EMA-PS, by University of Malta, University Adam Mickiewicz of Posznan, in collaboration with the University “La Sapienza” of Roma.
Deadline for application is on 19 June 2009
For further information please visit the site
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Lecce becomes a propeller centre of reflection on theatre and tragedy in contemporaneity with an important event of two days of international studies.
An occasion also to present Astragali's cooperating membership to the network of the International Theatre Institute – I.T.I., an important non-governmental organization founded by UNESCO that operates at worldwide level in the field of performing arts (theatre, dance, musical work) with centres in 96 countries.
Two days of debates, encounter, confrontation focusing on the contemporary theatrical scene in the Euro-Mediterranean area and the role of the International Theatre Institute in the promotion of theatre, arts, mutual understanding and creative co-operation between all people in the theatre arts. The Meeting is preceded by the performance Persae, directed by Fabio Tolledi, with international casting.
PROGRAMME
Sunday 24 May at 9:00 p.m.
Performance Persae near ex Centre of Temporary Permanence 'Regina Pacis' in San Foca (Lecce)
Days of international studies
For an international network of theatres
Monday 25 May at 10 a.m.- Astràgali Teatro, Lecce
For an international network of theatres-International Theatre Institute of Unesco
Monday 25 May at 5:00 p.m. – Mediateca, Calimera (Le)
Tragedia e contemporaneità
Tuesday 26 May at 10:00 a.m. – Mediateca, Calimera (Le)
Glances on theatre, perspectives of contemporary research and dissemination of contemporary theatrical heritage
Tobias Biancone - ITI General Secretary
Giorgio Sebastiano Brizio – Representative of the Italy ITI National Centre
Biancamaria Bruno - director of Lettera Internazionale
Clelia Falletti - Professor at University “La Sapienza” of Rome
Theodore Grammatas - Professor at University of Athens
Michael Marmarinos – President of Greece ITI National Centre
Neophytos Neophytou – Vice president of Cyprus ITI National Centre
John Schranz - Theatre director and professor at University of Malta
Fabio Tolledi - Astragali Teatro's director and president of Italy ITI Cooperating Member
Zeljka Turcinovic – President of Croatia ITI National Centre
A conference-performance dedicated to the last international production of Astràgali Teatro, at 09:00 pm at Teatro Elio in Calimera.
Written by the director Fabio Tolledi, based on The Persians by Aeschylus and Four hours in Chatila by Jean Genet, Persae premiered in Salento two years ago, before starting a long journey through many Mediterranean lands, during which it encountered many persons and places, through workshops of performative events construction. The performance has landed in Greece, France, Cyprus (where it was also presented at the Festival of Ancient Greek Drama), to make its return here.
The company's director and actors will go back, along videos and images, along the route weft by the bodies and voices of this theatrical work, developing a reflection on the topics of migration, frontier, conflict - all questions that were starting points of the performance- as well as on dramaturgical and actorial matters, within an open dialogue and debate.
The event becomes, thus, a precious occasion to look closely at a long and composite work, that will be re-proposed, in a new edition on 24 May, at San Foca, on the Adriatic sea, near ex Centre of Temporary Permanence, in occasion of the International Days on Theatre and Contemporaneity that Astragali is promoting from 24 to 26 May.
Alle 19 presso l'Auditorium di Zollino, si terrà un incontro aperto con la regista Dijana Milosevic di Dah Teatar di Belgrado, che parlerà della sua esperienza di vita e lavorativa all’interno della compagnia da lei fondata vent'anni fa nell’attuale Repubblica Serba.
Una realtà teatrale molto importante, che ha continuato a lavorare anche durante i giorni tragici della guerra, facendo propria l’idea della circolazione di conoscenze attraverso scambi di artisti e teatri provenienti da diverse tradizioni e nazionalità. Il loro lavoro ha ricevuto molti riconoscimenti ed è stato ospitato in tanti paesi europei e asiatici, come anche in Nuova Zelanda, Stati Uniti e altri paesi del continente americano.
Per l'occasione la regista presenterà delle immagini video dei loro spettacoli, offrendo un esempio del loro lavoro sulla commistione di lingue, culture e tradizioni.
Seminario di studi internazionale
6 maggio ore 10.00
Lecce, Astragali Teatro
L’opera di Georges Lapassade
Intervengono
Patrick Boumard (Université de Reims)
Lucette Colin (Université Paris VIII)
Remi Hess (Université Paris VIII)
Michel Lobrot (Paris, Sorbonne)
Patrice Ville (Université Paris VIII)
ore 17.00
Lapassade in Italia
Intervengono:
Renato Curcio (Sensibili alle foglie)
Roberto De Angelis (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
A seguire presentazione del volume
All’ombra di Georges Lapassade (Sensibili alle foglie, 2009)
Intervengono gli autori
7 maggio, ore 10.00
Lecce, Astragali Teatro
Tavola rotonda sul tema Università popolare Georges Lapassade: dall’idea al progetto
Partecipano Patrick Boumard, Renato Curcio, Vito A. D’armento, Roberto De Angelis, Pietro Fumarola, Remi Hess, Michel Lobrot
Brindisi, Aula magna ex ospedale Di Summa
ore 16.30
Socioanalisi e socioanalisi narrativa
introduce:
Maurizio Portaluri (Primario di medicina nucleare, Brindisi)
Intervengono:
Patrice Ville
Vent’anni di socioanalisi in una centrale nucleare
Renato Curcio, Nicola Valentino
Metodo e testi di socioanalisi narrativa
La complessa figura e l'opera di Paul Valéry, tra i più importanti poeti e scrittori del nostro tempo, sarà al centro dell'evento che avrà inizio alle ore 21, presso il Teatro Elio di Calimera.
I suoi versi e le sue parole faranno da controcanto alla musica e alle immagini curate, per l'occasione, dalla studiosa Benedetta Zaccarello (Equipe del Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique di Parigi), dal poeta Giuseppe Paiano, dal regista Fabio Tolledi e dagli attori di Astràgali.
Lo spettacolo partirà da una voce, un suono, una nota, un'immagine in cui riverbera la scrittura di Valéry, per cui si scrive come si parla ad un albero. E questo parlare è un parlare semi-interiore, semi-articolato, mentre il verso si incaglia in una carnalità che è sempre, eversivamente, innervata nell'altro.
At 7:00 pm the Auditorium of Zollino will host an open dialogue on the themes of the last book by Eugenio Imbriani, La sarta di Proust, Antropologia e confezioni (Edizioni di pagina).
This original title chosen by the author refers to the last pages of the Recherche by Proust, where the French writer affirms that the construction of his book, does not start, ambitiously, like a cathedral, but more like a dress.
The metaphor, in Imbriani's view, helps to read, behind the notions used as common sense in society (such as the continuity in time, the permanence of tradition, identity), the interventions, the conflicts, the choices, the cultural policies, where culture is not only a weft context, but also a fabric, work of assembly, of suiting, darning, cuts, arrangements.
Sound and poetry alchemies on the stage of Teatro Elio of Calimera with this tribute to the work of Octavio Paz. Astragali+ hosts the music of Tobias Gonzàlez Jimènez (guitar) and Gina Lacorazza (voice and percussions) that will make a plunge into the legends, rythms and songs of the populations of Latin America, together with the poems read by Fabio Tolledi.
The suggestions created by the writing with “green ink” of Octavio Paz* will give the rhythm to this evening, in a continuous flow of music, words, images and sounds.
At 7:00 at the Auditorium of Zollino Dj War and Pietro Fumarola will give life to an evening of music and discussion on the complex question of the indipendent music in Italy. The debate-meeting will be opened by Pietro Fumarola, professor of Sociology of religions at the University of Salento, engaged for more than 25 years on the topics of the trance and dissociation. He has shared with the scholar Georges Lapassade a long route of research focusing on the new musical languages. These alternative languages, such as rap, reggae, hip hop, are not only musical phenomena but also important indicators of contemporanenity.
Afterward the last cd of Dj War entitled War Signals vol.2 will be presented, produced by the indipendent publishing houses Segnale Digitale and Warsound. that collects the contributions of more than 20 among young singers and veterans of the reggae Italian scene. Finally a musical aperitif will be offered with a selection by Dj War.
Astràgali Teatro chooses to make a tribute to the anniversary of the Liberation Day, on the stage of Teatro Elio in Calimera, with an event starting at 9:00.
For the occasion it will present a path made of music and words to remember a fundamental moment of Italian history such as the Resistance is. The readings are taken from some letters of prisoners sentenced to death during the Resistance, as well as from novels like Sergente nella neve and Ritorno sul Don by Mario Rigoni Stern, Un anno sull'Altipiano by Emilio Lussu+, and other important texts by Antonio Gramsci and Nuto Revelli*. This words will be mixed with the music of the partisans songs.
At 07:00 pm, at the Auditorium of Zollino, an open dialogue with Carlo Formenti, moving from the suggestions and wonders launched in his two last books Cybersoviet (Raffaello Cortina editore) and Se questa è democrazia (Manni editore).
Professor of Theory and technique of the new medias at the University of Salento, Formenti has been trade union director, editor of the cultural monthly Alfabeta, journalist in several important headings among which l’Europeo and il Corriere della Sera (with which he continues to collaborate), director of the on line magazine Quinto Stato, he has published several essays and fiction books such as: La fine del valore d’uso (Feltrinelli 1980); Prometeo e Hermes (Liguori, 1988); Immagini del vuoto (Liguori, 1989); Piccole apocalissi (Cortina, 1991); Nove angeli neri (Il Saggiatore, 1996); Nell’anno della Signora (Shake, 1999).
Cybersoviet- Utopie postdemocratiche e nuovi media, book that completes a trilogy started with Incantati dalla rete (Cortina 2000) and Mercanti di Futuro (Einaudi 2002), faces an analysis of the so called digital age, observing the effects of the rapid diffusion of the new communication technologies on the evolution of the democratic systems.
At 09:00 pm at Teatro Elio in Calimera, the music of Gianni and Rocco De Santis together with the voice of Fabio Tolledi will be proposed. Musical and poetical wefts moving from the songs of the Sacred Passion and knotted with texts by authors, milestones of the Italian literature, such as Iacopone da Todi and Andrea Zanzotto.
The Passion's songs fall within the repertory of the folk music tradition of Salento, handed down orally. They were allowed to be sung only from ten days before Easter until the next Thursday. In this event they will be mixed to the music written by the two guest musicians, sons of the poet Cesare De Santis, founders of Avleddha, the ethnic music research group that joins the tradition of Greek- Salentinian music to new sounds. Together with them on stage there will be Fabio Tolledi, who will give voice to some poetical texts of different authors. And it is from a work by Zanzotto that Astragali chooses the title of this event linked to the feast of the passage.
At 9 p.m. at Teatro Elio of Calimera Fiamme, Ferro e Fuoco- la Passione, la Tenacia, l’Amore a performance that retraces musics, songs and verses of the first Baroque period written by Spanish Apulian and Greek-Salentinian authors. On stage Doriano Longo (violin baroque, viola, direction), Emanuele Licci (voice and chitarriglia), Nadia Esposito (voice, castanuelas, dance), Luca Tarantino (Spanish guitar), Pierluigi Ostuni (tiorba) e Roberto Chiga (percussions). This work has already been presented in the framework of several musical seasons and ancient music festivals among which the international festivals Segni Barocchi and Musica Antiqua Perast, the International Chamber Music Festival of Savona, the ancient music festival Il Montesardo.
Saturday 28 and Saunday 29 March at the Auditorium of Zollino two days dedicated to contemporary music, in particular to the work of the composer Enrico Renna.
Starting on Saturday 29 at 7:00 pm with a guided listening to the music of Renna by Canio Fidanza. While on Sunday 30 at 7:00 pm the master Fidanza will perform the Renna’s composition for piano Romanze senza parole.
It is a composition made of 27 short pieces, inspired by 27 poems of authors such as Eliot, Leopardi, Pierro, Vitale and Neruda. In this work the relationship between word and sound is not descriptive but structural. It refers to a wider musical form conscious of the contemporary development of compositional language.
Enrico Renna is master in composition at the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella of Naples, where he obtained a degree in flute, piano, composition and orchestra direction.
At 9:00 pm, Teatro Elioin Calimera will host as special guest the poet Jolanda Insana, one of the most original and im$portant voices of contemporary writing. In the performance entitled Jolanda Insana reads Jolanda Insana the poet from Messina will open a route of reading dedicated to her powerful poetical production. The selection of readings will start from the texts published on Alias-Manifesto, dedicated to the earthquake of Messina, in addition to some other unpublished texts, and will continue with pieces from La bestia clandestina partially included in the collection Tutte le poesie (19977-2006), published by Garzanti in 2007, that anticipate the new work. During the years her “telluric” poetical writing has raised the attention of great readers and critics, such as Porta, Giudici, Ferroni, and Giovanni Raboni, who has worked for the diffusion and the valorisation of her work. Winner of the Viareggio Prize in 2002, she is also translator of classical and contemporary authors, among whom Sappho, Plautus, Euripides, Callimachus, Lucretius, Andrea Cappellano. She has moreover adapted in verses some works of Ahmad Shawqi and Aleksandr Tvardovskij. Jolanda Insana’s writing, in all her production, from Sciarra amara (1977) to Fendenti fonici (1982), from Il collettame (1985) to La clausura (1987), from Medicina carnale (1994) to L'occhio dormiente (1997), La stortura (2002), La tagliola del disamore (2005), Tutte le poesie 1977-2006 (2007) and Satura di cartuscelle (2009), is oriented to withstand the collision and the weight of life. And in this weight the tongue of the body emerges in its uneasy and violent implications, in its impossible absence, a body that gives itself in a multiple tongue passionately possessed, loved.
The Auditorium of Zollino will host at 07:00 pm an encounter with the artist, photographer Fernando Bevilacqua entitled Omaggio ai padri e ai figli. An excursus through the places and above all the stories and the faces of the people linked to the author by friendship, estimation and artistic passion. He has lived for many years in London where he has achieved the Degree in Photographic Technques at the School of Communication – Polytechnic of Central London. His images has been published in different books, and he has as well organised numeorous exhibitions, among which: Momenti di Vita e Cultura Popolare, I Ritratti del Pensionante, The Deep Murmur - Il Sibilo lungo, A Crazy Urge to Dance - Una smodata Voglia di Ballo. As a videomaker, he is also author of different short movies such as Bloody Spring Friday, Arrivano gli Americani Edoardo, Rito Sacrificale, Der Tote Mann, Alice nel Paese dei Barocchi, A Summer Tale (Farfalle e Cicale), I Ciechi, A Proposito del Che - A Casa di Toma, L’Approdo.
For this special occasion they will be projected several video clips realised by Bevilacqua, among which one unpublished, that will form a composite series of “art portraits” of artists, intellectuals, writers.
At 09:00 pm, in absolute prémiere, the Teatro Elio of Calimera will host the new vocal project of the group Mascarimirì, entitled Tradizionale, celebrating their tenth anniversary. For this new work the group adds a further step to the field of trad-innovation, that they have overrunned. Tradition and the strengh that folk music is able to express come back in this new project re-interpreted and innovated. On the stage a poliphony of sounds through the voices of Claudio “Cavallo” Giagnotti (voice and tamburello), Cosimo Giagnotti (voice, tamburello and cupa cupa), Emanuele Licci (voice and tamburello) and Vito Giannone (voice, tamburello and bassdrum).
At 6:00 pm, the Auditorium of Zollino is hosting Mohammad Bakri. A meeting-debate with the Palestinian actor and director, followed by the projection of his last film as a director Since you left. Set in Palestine, it retraces the story of Bakri's master, the important Palestinian writer and politician Emil Habibi. Among his collaborations with theatres of Israel and Palestine the ones with: Habima Theatre (Israeli National Theatre), Carmeni Theatre, Haifa Theatre, Jerusalem Khan Theatre, Alkasaba Theatre (Ramallah). Moreover, he has adapted, directed and interpreted several theatrical performances, among which The Pessoptimist (based on a tale by Habibi), The Anchor, Season of Migration to the North, Abu Marmar (written by Bakri himself). As a cinema actor, his most recent participations are to the films Private, directed by Saverio Costanzo, and La masseria delle allodole by Taviani brothers. As a director he has also realised documentary films, among which the well-known Jenin Jenin.
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Astràgali Teatro together with Fabrizio Lelli, professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at the University of Salento,dedicate to the Song of Songs the event, that will start at 9:00 pm, at Teatro Elio in Calimera, with readings of extracts from the important book taken from different cultures and translations. Yet in 1999, Fabio Tolledi re-wrote the Song's text into a neo-salentinian language, and this text became, afterwards, the dramaturgy of the performance Q - il Cantico dei Cantici per lingua madre. A re-proposition of this poetical re-writing will be interpreted some of Astragali's actresses.
Another exceptional presence will be the sound of the viella, a Medieval string instrument, played by Doriano Longo. A further element will be the projection of a video specifically realized by a group of students d of the Ofeq School of Jerusalem, coordinated by the professor Mandy Feingers, in which Jonathan Maman performs a reading of the Song of Songs in both the modern and ancient pronunciation, while Even Cohen performs it according to the Sephardic tradition. The scholar Fabrizio Lelli will open a reflection about the different versions of the text.
The Mediterranean is once more the focus of the new event that will be held at 07:00 pm at the Auditorium of Zollino, entitled Raccontare il Mediterraneo: Babelmed. An encounter and a debate about the work and the long experience of Nathalie Galesne, journalist and founder of Babelmed, a cultural association founded in 2001, with seat in Rome, which edits the prestigious and award-winning on-line magazine about the cultures of the Mediterranean, one of the most visited sites on Mediterranean cultures, that boasts correspondents in all the Euro-Mediterranean area where it operates.
http:www.babelmed.net
At 09:00 p.m. at Teatro Elio in Calimera, an event entitled The cipher, the letter realised by Astràgali Teatro and Marta Lagna. Suggestions of images, words and music to get into a writing inspired by the characters and the stories of Jorges Luis Borges.
The reading of pieces from Borges’ works, by the voices and the live music of Astràgali, will join the writing and visual interventions of Marta Lagna. She works in the field of expressive calligraphy and teaches handwriting and historical writings. In 2006 she has founded, together with Monica Dengo, the CIAC (Centro Internazionale Arti Calligrafiche e del Libro) where she organizes courses and workshops of calligraphy, typography and binding books. She also collaborates to the realization of calligraphic texts for films for cinema and television,
At 7:00 pm at the Auditorium of Zollino, the meeting entitled Pensare il Mediterraneo, ripensare la Modernità will be held, with the scholar and intellectual Iain Chambers. A new occasion to speak about the Mediterranean giving a new vision of it with the presence of one of the main exponents of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies of Birmingham, author of numerous successful books, written in English and Italian and translated into several languages, such as: Sulla soglia del mondo. L'altrove dell'Occidente (2003), Paesaggi Migratori. Culture e identità nell'epoca postcoloniale (2003), Le molte voci del Mediterraneo (2007). At the present he teaches Cultural and post-colonial studies at the University of Napoli, l’Orientale. Iain Chambers opens a reflection on the notion of frontier and its representation limits within the Mediterranean, an immersion into the faults of modernity, making a navigation experiment through the expressions of music, painting, cinema, literature and poetry.
At 09:00 pm, on the stage of Teatro Elio in Calimera a concert of jazz poetry with an exceptional trio of musicians made up of Giuseppe Amatulli - violin, Antonio Dambrosio - percussions and Vittorino Curci sax and voice. The music tracks, indeed, will be mixed with the words from La ferita e l'obbedienza (published by I libri di ICARO, Lecce 2008), tha last book of the poet and musicians, with a long carrier, Vittorino Curci. As a musician, indeed, he has taken part to several festivals, such as: Festival Rumori Mediterranei, Bergamo Jazz, Iseo Jazz, il Festival Ibleo del Jazz. As a poet, besides winning the Montale Prize for the section of unpublished works, he has always been active in the national and international framework with participations to events such as: Baobab Festival of Sound Poetry, Poesia in Chiostro, the international meeting of the writers in Belgrade, the International Meetings of Amman in Jordan, the Festival biennale di Poesia of Pescara.
At 8:00, in the Auditorium of Zollino, tribute to the great writer and intellectual Joyce Lussu, told in the pages of the book L'utopia ragionevole e costruttiva (Ed. Quaderni di Gramsci). The appointment foresees a meeting with the authors of the book: the journalist Ada Donno and the photograper Caterina Gerardi, and it will be developed into a weft of live music, words and readings from Joyce Lussu's works and from her translations of great poets, among whom Nazim Hikmet. Besides, there will be an exhibition of photographs of Lussu during her stays in salento, made by Caterina Gerardi. Complex figure of intellectual, Joyce Lussu, writer, poet, translator, founder of the Italian Women Union, wife of Emilio Lussu, with whom she shared the anti-fascist fight; she was in the front line in the movement of the Partisans of Peace, and, later she was directly engaged in the anti-colonialist liberation movements. Lussu was also one of the greatest poetry translators and one of the first to translate into Italian living Albanian, Curdish, Vietnamese, Afro-American poets, aboriginal Australian, as from Angola and Mozambico, tightening, in this way, her translation activity to her political action.
At 09:00, in the hall of the Teatro Elio in Calimera, a concert with Nicola Guazzaloca at the piano and Francesco Guerri at the cello. The two musicians, active in the creative and experimental framework of Bologna, will present their common project Warnografy which explores the field of the extemporaneous composition, improvisation, instant creation.
In Guerri's career, who is also one of the founders of the Gruppo Mirasole, there are participations to different Italian and International orchestras, among which the Synphonic Orchestra of Pesaro, the Cork Simphony Orchestra, the UCC Simphony Orchestra (Irland). Nicola Guazzaloca, originator and co-ordinator of the Open Improvisation Sessions at the Popular School of Music 'Ivan Illich' in Bologna, has taken part to events such as the Angelica Festival, the Jazz Rebels Festival, the Festival Des Musiques Insolentes.
At the Auditorium di Zollino, at 7:00 pm, a conference-performance dedicated to Communism, Bed & Breakfast e altre storie (Besa editrice), the last book of Raffaele Gorgoni. The event will presented as an open meeting with the author, journalist and writer, for long special correspondent of Tgr Rai, author of several essays and novels, among which Periferia Infinita- Storie d'altra Mafia, and the successful Lo Scriba di Càsole and L'oratorio della peste. As in all his works, also in this most recent one it does emerge an ever attentive and transversal gaze on the stories of the South. Communism, bed & breakfast, is a collection of five tales, five non common novellas about common places linked by a subtle thread: a hotel that hides another place and other stories. Ghosts’ stories and ghosts of history in five chamber novels for computer solo.
The concert of Agnese Manganaro Quartet will be held at Teatro Elio in Calimera at 9:00 p.m. With her fancy and crystal clear voice she will propose an inedited live version of her pieces, besides the great bossa nova hits, and several re-interpretations of the Italian repertory of the sixties, in a special première of the imminent Mille Petali Tour. The quartet is composed by Agnese Manganaro (voice), Luca Tarantino (guitars), Massimo Pinca (double bass) and Francesco Pennetta (drum).
On Thursday 5 February at 7:00 p.m. at the Auditorium of Zollino there will be the presentation of the book Stralune (Manni Editore), the last novel by Antonio Errico, journalist and writer, well-known to the audience for his numerous novels like ‘Tra il meraviglioso e il quotidiano’ (1985), ‘Favolerie’ (1996), ‘Il racconto infinito’, ‘Fabbricanti di sapere. Metodi e miti dell’arte di insegnare’ (1999), ‘Angeli regolari ‘(2002), ‘L’ultima caccia di Federico Re’ (2004), ’Salento con scritture’ (2005), ‘Viaggio a Finibusterrae’ (2007). The meeting is a presentation and dialogue with the author of Stralune, and a reading of some passages of the book.
At 19 at the Auditorium of Zollino performance-conference with the poet, actor and director Marcello Sambati, in which he will present his last poetical work Il cammino dei passi brevi ( published by La Camera Verde, with illustrations of the artist Romano Sambati and the English translation by Kim Sambati).
The ideal path traced by poetry will continue on Monday 2 February at 9:00 pm, at the Teatro Elio in Calimera, with the performance Poetry - theatre through the writing of Marcello Sambati and Fabio Tolledi. A tribute to the poetical words of the two authors, that in this occasion, will be mixed in a performing weft of sounds and images, thus acknowledging the work that has been accompanying, since long, the life and the theatre of Marcello Sambati (Dark Camera) and Fabio Tolledi (Astràgali Teatro).
At 09:00 pm, at the Teatro Elio in Calimera, it will be presented the concert of the musical group from Marseilles, Gacha Empega (unique concert in Salento) together with Sam Karpenia Trio. On stage Manu Théron, voice, Sam Karpenia, voice and electric mandola, Daniel Gaglione, mandola and Mathieu Goust, drums, and an intervention of poetical texts reading by Fabio Tolledi. They are two of the most important, internationally well-known realities in the framework of independent music scene, that, using the Occitan language, are part of that wake that gathers popular traditions and sound innovations.
At 20:00 pm, the Auditorium of Zollino will host the presentation in absolute première of the current issue of Lettera internazionale. Funded in 1984, it is today, one of the most prestigious cultural magazines in Italy and Europe, a transnational periodical, with four editions, besides the Italiana one, published in Germany, Hungary, Romania and Spain, in the respective languages.
Guest of the event, the co-director, for the Italian edition, Biancamaria Bruno, linguist, essayist and translator, vice-president of the CRIC-Coordination of the Italian Cultural Reviews.
This issue of the review is è dedicated to a topic of big actuality: The limits of democracy. Among the authors of this number we quote: Balibar, Castoriadis, Bauman, Huxley, McLuhan, Goody, Kadaré, Orwell, Ferrarotti. A special dossier, moreover, with contributions of Massimo Cacciari and Marcel Cohen, is dedicated to the work of the writer and philosopher Edmond Jabès.
In Zollino along with the presentation there will be a reading by Fabio Tolledi of extracts from Jabès’works.
Appointment with the music at 09:00 pm, at the Auditorium of Zollino, with the concert Dimensions of dialogue - a sound performance, counterpointed by video projections – of the band AXM -the evaporated company. The group, inscribed in the frame of Italian independent music, is made up of musicians coming from different experiences: Enrico Russo (The Snail Knows & R. Sawake), Gigi Calabro (Muzak), Alberto Piccinni (Muzak), Gaetano Fidanza (Astragali Teatro). Instruments made with waste materials join electric instruments and acoustic ones, ranging between industrial avant-garde, concrete music and psychedelic rock.
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At Teatro Elio in Calimera, at 09:00 pm, a poetry-concert in which the poetical sounds of Paul Celan and Gustav Mahler will be weft. A concert for reading voices and music with the participation of Astràgali Teatro and Francesco Porpora, musician of oboe and English horn in the Orchestra of I.C.O. Foundation Tito Schipa of Lecce. The words of Paul Celan and the music of Gustav Mahler, meet Astragali's path on theatre-poetry, in the intimate joint that links them, in the sound of the voice and the writing of the bodies.
A perfomance-conference, at the Auditorium of Zollino, at 8 p.m.,to present the current issue of the magazine Melissi entitled The body of art.
Guest of the event will be Eugenio Imbriani, professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Salento, editor of the magazine published by Besa. The body of art is also the title of the video-book realized by Astràgali Teatro, that will be shown during the evening. In this issue of the magazine – as well as in the video – the focus is on the investigation of the relationship between forms of the artistic research and the body. The magazine collects writings of artists of international relevance such as Gianfranco Baruchello e Marcel.lì Antùnez Roca, and of important experts and scholars. The publication, moreover, includes, as a première, the last precious work of the recently departed sociologist, Georges Lapassade, entitled The Autobiographer.
Il pane sotto la neve, direction and music by Rocco De Santis, is the first of the events promoted in 2009 within the project Teatri abitati.
The performance will be presented at Teatro Elio in Calimera, and will see the participation of Rocco De Santis (voice and guitar), Gianni De Santis (voice), Rocco Nigro (accordion) and Doriano Longo (violin). With this performance, the brothers Rocco and Gianni De Santis, intend to pay homage to the great poet Antonio Verri, and his poem Il pane sotto la neve, proposing to the audience a weave of poetical texts and original music.
texts Antonio Verri
by Rocco De Santis
with Gianni De Santis, Rocco De Santis, Doriano Longo, Rocco Nigro
An appointment with theatre-dance with the company QuaLiBò - visioni di (parte) and their last work Partitura privata, that will be presented at Teatro Elio in Calimera.
Starting reference of this performance is the iconography of Lucian Freud, the painter of the body in rest, aiming to make the body in truth emerge.
The dance company, established in 2002 in Bari, is made up by Lisa Masellis, Francesca Giglio, Maristella Tanzi, e Adolfo La Volpe.
by and with Francesca Giglio and Maristella Tanzi
music by Adolfo La Volpe
lights by Lisa Masellis
For this meeting, held at the Auditorium of Zollino, Astràgali Teatro presents the conference-performance on the book Stigmatizzati (Besa Editrice) by professor Pietro Fumarola (University of Salento). The event, thought as an open meeting on the book's themes, foresees the projection of some video materials about the phenomenon of trance and possession, on which the book is focused. This work, indeed, gathers and systematizes the results of a research started up in 1989.
Pietro Fumarola, professor of Sociology of Religions at the University of Salento, has collaborated with many important scholars among whom George Lapassade (the French philosopher and sociologist recently departed).
On the stage of Teatro Elio di Calimera, Astràgali Teatro hosts the unconventional music and sound of Alexander de Large, Texans from Bari and Superfreak. Three different realities of the new Apulia's musical framework.
International appointment at Teatro Elio of Calimera with the Kathakali's performance Lalitha's redention presented by the Indian master Karunakaran, one of the most important exponents of this ancient traditional art in the international framework. During his long experience all over the world he has worked with Peter Brook at the realization of the famous performances Mahabharata and The Tempest, as well as with the Laboratorium Centre of Grotowski, and with the Théâtre de Soleil d'Ariane Mnouchkine.
La Betissa by Antonio Verri, tribute to the great writer, poet Antonio Verri, reading by Fabio Tolledi and the musical intervention of Luigi Botrugno jazz trio.
Extracts from this poetically dense, extreme work will be alternated to the jazz standards and improvisations by Luigi Botrugno piano, Angelo Urso double bass, Antonio Bramato drums.
texts by Antonio Verri
immage of Lucio Conversano
A double appointment promoted by Astràgali Teatro with Roberto Corradino, actor and director of the company Reggimento Carri, and his work on Shakespeare. The first day, 9 November, he will conduct a workshop, at the Auditorium of Zollino, entitled, Shakespeare's language. An open meeting thought also as an introduction to the performance that he will present the next day, 10 November at 09:00 pm, at Teatro Elio of Calimera, Conferenza/Nudo e in semplice anarchia, based on the tragedy Richard II.
The first appointment of Teatri Abitati, on the stage of Teatro Elio of Calimera, will be with the rock music of Leitmotiv. They will present their concert Sudari, Sudditanze, Sudori, a weft of music and poetry. The band, made up by Giorgio Consoli voice, Dino Semeraro drums, Giovanni Sileno guitar and piano, Giuseppe Soloperto double bass, Natti Lomartire guitar, presents their first album, L'Audace Bianco Sporca il Resto.
At 08:30 pm, at the Auditorium of Zollino (lecce), first event of the project Teatri Abitati promoted by Astràgali Teatro in the territory of the municipalities of Calimera and Zollino.
The first appointment is the conference-performance A memory for oblivion - Tribute to the Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwish. The extraordinary figure of the recently departed poet will be presented by Monica Ruocco, professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Palermo, representative in Italy of the European Association for the Study of Modern Arabic Literature (EURAMAL) and translator. The event will also include the projection of video materials, specifically realized by Astràgali and a reading of the author’s poems in Arabic and Italian.
La compagnia indiana Milon Mela, diretta dal maestro Abani Biswas presenterà un evento spettacolare, giovedì 22 maggio alle ore 21 negli spazi di Astràgali Teatro, in via Giuseppe Candido, 23 a Lecce. Lo spettacolo vede in scena ben 18 artisti, maestri di antiche discipline indiane, che daranno vita ad un evento unico, di grande suggestione e spettacolarità.
Il regista Abani Biswas presenterà al pubblico uno spettacolo in cui i musicisti Baul, maestri dell'improvvisazione, con la gioia della loro musica e dei loro canti, si alterneranno alla raffinata danza classica Gotipua, basata sul Mudra e sulle posizioni dello Yoga, mentre al Kalaripayattu, disciplina vedica madre delle arti marziali dell'India, seguirà la danza Chau con le sue bellissime maschere e le sue spericolate acrobazie. Milon Mela (La Festa degli Incontri) è l'unico gruppo ad unire scuole di arti tradizionali diverse con le rispettive comunità indiane.
Le identità albanesi e la questione kosovara è il titolo dell'incontro organizzato dall'Università del Salento-Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali e della Comunicazione, che si terrà mercoledì 20 febbraio, alle ore 17, presso Astràgali Teatro.
All'incontro saranno presenti, lo scrittore albanese Fatos Lubonja, l'editore Livio Muci, il professore Pietro Fumarola e il professore Eugenio Imbriani.
Ad aprire la serata sarà proprio Fatos Lubonja, scrittore e poeta albanese, fondatore della rivista trimestrale Perpjekja (Impegno), intellettuale di riferimento del mondo culturale e politico dei Balcani. Si partirà dalla discussione della sua storia di prigioniero politico del regime enverista, che lo scrittore racconta in Intervista sull'Albania - dalle ceneri di Henver Hoxha al liberismo selvaggio, un saggio-intervista curato da Claudio Bazzocchi (ed. Il Ponte, 2004). Seguirà un dibattito sulle identità albanesi e sulla questione kosovara.
L'incontro partirà, dunque, dalla discussione della sua storia di prigioniero politico del regime enverista per diciassette lunghi anni raccontata in Intervista sull'Albania - dalle ceneri di Henver Hoxha al liberismo selvaggio un saggio - intervista sullo scrittore albanese curato da Claudio Bazzocchi nel 2004 (edizioni Il Ponte).
In esso Lubonja offre una vera e propria panoramica sulla storia dell'Albania - dal regime comunista alla nuova democrazia.
L'iniziativa proseguirà poi con una libera discussione sulle identità albanesi e sulla questione del Kosovo.
I video cult della post-modernità salentina
Andrea Zollino, Dario Petrelli, Ilario (Piranha) Suppressa, Marco Lezzi, Gianni (Panico) Rizzo, Bobo, Francesco Viva, sono solo alcuni dei nomi degli ideatori di Piranha, titolo di due dei video indipendenti (Piranha 1 e Piranha 2) della Spaphard Produccion.
La Spaphard è formata da un interessante gruppo videomakers salentini che un po’ di anni fa ha iniziato a produrre video indipendenti , partendo da Leverano, loro paese d'origine e "campo di battaglia".
Aspettando Piranha è il titolo che Astràgali Teatro sceglie per questo appuntamento di sabato 29 dicembre alle ore 21. La serata prevede la proiezione di tre video:Piranha 1, Piranha 2 e Uccello Tonante, preceduti da un'intervista di Fabio Tolledi (regista di Astràgali) a Ilario Soppressa.
Spaphard Produccion
Feu la cendre questo il titolo originale di una delle opere filosofiche che hanno segnato il nostro
Novecento. Ciò che resta del fuoco, nella traduzione italiana, opera simbolo del grande filosofo francese Jacques Derrida, un piccolo e prezioso manifesto del suo pensiero.
Ciò che resta del fuoco è il titolo che Astràgali Teatro sceglie per il secondo appuntamento della settimana, che si terrà sempre negli spazi di Astràgali, in via G. Candido, 23 a Lecce alle ore 21.
Si tratta di una lettura-concerto in cui a stralci di testo di Ciò che resta del fuoco, scelti da Fabio Tolledi, regista e direttore artistico di Astràgali, si alternerà la musica del trio jazz composto da Marco Bardoscia (al contrabbasso), Mauro Tre (al pianoforte) e Marcello Nisi (alla batteria).
Ciò che resta del fuoco è un omaggio all’opera di Derrida che riprende e sollecita una frase (il y a là cendre) indicibile, dolorosa e straordinaria nel suo essere commemorazione, sigillo. Là, vi è cenere; vi è la cenere. Un polylogue di voci che dipana, intreccia, annoda e disperde
con fabio tolledi
mauro tre
marco bardoscia
marcello nisi
Tutto è possibile in arte è il leit motiv di Fluxus, movimento statunitense fondato nel 1961 da George Maciunas, perché l'arte, se è tale, non può mai essere avulsa dal contesto in cui opera, da ciò che accade.
Virgo-Fluxus, con Fabio Tolledi, Mauro Tre e Antonio De Luca. Un happening-omaggio al movimento per le arti Fluxus che conta, tra i suoi membri, artisti come Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Ono, Friedman.
Da Fluxus partirà il nuovo appuntamento promosso da Astràgali Teatro che sarà anch'esso un happening, in cui le sculture sonore di Antonio De Luca (artista visuale, autore di importanti opere visuali e sonore insieme come Agonia dell'ombra, Imenofonemi, Iside e i desiderosi, e di sculture sonore quali l'Imbutofono) e le sperimentazioni sonore di Mauro Tre, musicista salentino tra i più amati ed apprezzati, si mescoleranno e confonderanno con le parole di Fabio Tolledi, poeta e regista di Astràgali Teatro. La collaborazione artistica più che ventennale tra Fabio Tolledi, Mauro Tre e Antonio De Luca troverà spazio in Virgo-Fluxus, vero e proprio mantra visivo, uditivo ed emozionale.
con antonio de luca
fabio tolledi
mauro tre
Le suggestioni tra ricerca musicale e parola poetica saranno il filo rosso della serata pensata da Fabio Tolledi e Mauro Tre per Concerto per Carla Petrachi.
La serata è un omaggio a Carla Petrachi, giornalista, instancabile promotrice di eventi culturali da oltre 25 anni, da quando nel 1981 fonda, assieme a Marcello Primiceri, Astràgali Teatro, uno spazio nuovo, una sfida aperta allora a Lecce.
La creazione di Astragali nasceva dall’idea di creare un luogo per fare teatro, per formare attori, per dare vita ad uno spazio di circolazione dei discorsi e delle pratiche, per tessere trame e relazioni tra il Salento ed il resto del mondo. Da allora Astràgali è stato soprattutto questo. Un luogo della ricerca teatrale, con un versante produttivo originale, un luogo vivo al centro della città.
Concerto per Carla Petrachi, si colloca nella linea della ricerca sonora sviluppata in questi anni da Astràgali, con un contrappunto che nasce dalla sensibilità musicale di Mauro Tre al pianoforte e dalla scrittura poetica di Fabio Tolledi, poeta, scrittore, regista e direttore artistico di Astràgali Teatro, che, per l’occasione, sceglie di leggere alcuni dei versi più significativi della sua produzione poetica.
con fabio tolledi
mauro tre
azione scenico musicale sui testi di Ugo Sbisà.
Stagione 2007/2008
Fondazione Lirico Sinfonica
e Teatri di Bari
info:
Teatro Piccinni - Bari
tel. 080 5212484
musiche di Biagio Putignano
con Alessandro Haber
regia di Fabio Tolledi
progetto luci: Pier Giorgio Foti
con Lenia Gadaleta, Roberta Quarta, Serena Stifani, Antonio Palumbo, Gaetano Fidanza
Marco Misciagna, violino
Nicola Fiorino, violoncello
Mauro Altamura, clarinetto in Si b
Giuseppe Bini, pianoforte
L'iniziativa rientra nell'ambito del progetto IN.VENT.AR.C.A., all'interno del programma Interreg III Italia-Albania, promosso dal Comune di Brindisi
di Fabio Tolledi
con Enton Kaça Adelina Muça
con la partecipazione degli Opa Cupa
presentation of the book (with this title) and meeting with the autors
Franco Cassano e Danilo Zolo
Speaker: Giovanni Invitto
Interventions of Aldo Cormio, Fabio Tolledi
organised by Palmieri Bookshop and Astragali Teatro
Second Life
Ecopolis 155, 74, 21
la superficie dello schermo.
bisogni primari fluttuano, rimbalzano,
rilanciano la ferita del dirsi.
design e dasein giocano a nascondino.
Nu pianoforte e note,
la spiaggia di ecopolis lega l'ambiente allo sguardo
che da pixel a pixel segna una crepa
Attraversa l'installazione in SecondLife andando ad Ecopolis 155, 74, 2
Pierpaolo Licheri - Fabio Tolledi - Mauro Tre
si ringraziano: Mariagurdjeff Barbosa, Morino Benelli, Tauro Mastroianni, Pierpaolo Pera
International meeting with the partecipation of critics, directors and professors of the universities of Damascus, Athens, Lecce.