Il progetto di residenza teatrale promosso da Astràgali Teatro per il Teatro Paisiello di Lecce prevede un’attività culturale costante per i prossimi due anni. Astràgali realizzerà eventi, spettacoli, incontri, con proposte di qualità, frutto di una ricerca attiva che si muove nella contemporaneità.
La residenza incrocerà percorsi molteplici. Accanto alle produzioni di Astràgali Teatro, saranno tante le ospitalità di artisti, per realizzare una possibilità di scambio e di incontro nella mescolanza delle pratiche artistiche, dal teatro, alla musica, alle arti visuali.
Il progetto di residenza teatrale di Astràgali Teatro per il Teatro Paisiello rientra in Teatri Abitati: una rete del contemporaneo, sostenuto dalla Regione Puglia e dal Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, e realizzato in collaborazione con il Comune di Lecce.
Il prossimo appuntamento al Teatro Paisiello è previsto a fine luglio con una residenza artistica internazionale.
Info 0832 306194; 320 9168440
5,6,7 maggio 2010
LYSISTRATA
primo studiosull'oscenità del potere
14 maggio 2010
ROADS AND DESIRES
appunti di viaggio di un teatro in Palestina
16 maggio 2010
CUORE DI BRUNO
omaggio a Bruno Brancher
25, 26 maggio 2010
SOUND MOVIES - concerto per musicista e film
inizio ore 21,00
Frontiers are places of division and conflict, places of men facing each other, the ones watching over the others. Frontiers floods towards the front in the construction of a enemy otherness, taking the difference as distance and danger.
The drift of frontier to the front can become dramatically prominent: walls, trenches, barbed wire, buffer zones, electrified fencings, watch towers, roadblocks, checkpoints are scars that disfigure a land, that separate populations, that produce an insurmountable, impassable conflict .
The possibility of a multicultural, multi-language theatre, that come out of the encounter of different languages and cultures, stands against frontiers and separation, as principles of conflict. An itinerant theatre that deals with the possibility of dialogue through concrete artistic practices, in order to remove frontiers to dialogue and create a cultural fluid and crossable space.
The project, promoted by Astràgali Teatro, aims to improve mutual knowledge, recognition, respect of cultures as a way to overcome frontiers and separations. To this purpose collaborations between artists and cultural operators from Italy, Palestine, Jordan, Greece, Cyprus, France and Great Britain will be promoted. Mobility, circulation of cultural products and cultural initiatives will be enhanced by the project.
Freedom of mobility and expression between artists under occupation is a challenge, in order to break a seemingly endless cycle of violence and oppression. Therefore, it is important to realize artistic actions between Palestine, Jordan, Italy involving artists, cultural operators, civil society and youth.
Three artistic residences will be realised:
artistic residency in Amman (Jordan), March 2010:
from 20 to 28 March 2010 international
residenza ad Amman (Giordania) a marzo 2010:
dal 20 al 28 marzo international workshop
29 marzo lysistrata - first study on the obscenity of power
30 marzo international meeting
residenza a Sebastiya, Nasfjibil e Ramallah (Palestina) ad aprile 2010
residenza finale a Lecce (Italia) a luglio 2010
the blog of the project
http://neobar.wordpress.com/
In each residency different activities will be carried out, such as workshops, performances and meetings. Artists will realize a joint performance. 
with the support of the Culture Programme 2001-2013 of the European Union
The project Teatri abitati (Inhabited Theatres) takes place in Calimera and Zollino (Lecce): in Teatro Elio in Calimera and in some places of the municipality of Zollino, such as the Auditorium and the railway station, inhabiting and enlivening the territory of the two towns with events, initiatives, performances, concerts, book presentations, meetings with theatre people, musicians, artists and intellectuals from the national and international framework.
Every Monday the appointment is renewed at Teatro Elio in Calimera, which will host a performing event, and many other initiatives will be held in other places of Zollino and Calimera within a rich calendar mixing theatre, music, visual arts, poetry, literature. Artists from Mediterranean countries will be also hosted, a choice of dialogue and confrontation which is crucial in the spirit of this initiative.
The final event, in October 2009, will be the presentation of a new performance of Astràgali Teatro, directed by Fabio Tolledi.
Info and reservations: 0832306194, 3209168440;
e-mail astragali@libero.it
listen
Sudori, Sudditanza, Sudari
La Betissa di Antonio Verri
Alexander de large, Texans from Bari e Superfreak in concerto
Stigmatizzati
The project of theatrical residence Teatri Abitati (Inhabited Theatres) is realised by Astràgali Teatro in the municipalities of Calimera and Zollino, in the province of Lecce, in the framework of the project Teatri Abitati - Residenze Teatrali in Puglia, proposed by Teatro Pubblico Pugliese and financed by the programme Sensi Contemporanei, aimed to the promotion and diffusion of contemporary art and the exploitation of architectural and urban sites of Southern Italy regions, submitted by Apulia Region, Councillorship of the Mediterranean, Ministry for Economic Development and Ministry of Culture.
Europe is a multiple space, but its diversities are not always taken into account by the mono-cultural politics of its members countries, which is something that sometimes leads to an identity-making makeshift and to the rising of communitarian antagonisms. The development of intercultural dialogue practices becomes thus urgent.
Which are the underlying social conflicts that the practices of cultural dialogue wish to put in evidence in order to defuse them?
The construction of an information network is an essential moment of confrontation between media realities that could carry out a kind of participatory and interactive journalism.
Astràgali Teatro will be concerned with the realisation of a theatrical residence that will involve young actors, from France, Germany, Greece, Albania coming from contexts of migration, in order to create the conditions for a deep common experience, a moment of confrontation between different experiences, and putting into play artistic dynamics and potentialities.
The project Meeting the other: frontiers, identities and cultures in the European space, to which Astràgali Teatro takes part as co-organiser partner, is promoted by the Cultural Association Babelmed, with the support of the European Union, in the framework of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
http://www.babelmed.net
http://www.interculturaldialogue2008.eu
The project involves, together with Astràgali Teatro, an important parterre of corganisers linked to the world of information and research:
CMCA
http://www.cmca-med.org
La pensée de midi (Francia)
http://www.lapenseedemidi.org
Iemed - Istituto Europeo del Mediterraneo (Spagna)
http://www.iemed.org
Istituto Paralleli
http://www.paralleli.org
Lettera Internazionale (Italia)
http://www.letterainternazionale.it
Institut de Recherche, Formation et d’Actions sur les Migrations (Belgio)
http://www.irfam.org
Qantara (Germania)
http://www.qantara.de
Front/frontier-dynamics of the inclusion of the other in theatre concerns a theatre practice realising the encounter of different languages and cultures, standing against the idea of frontier and separation, as principles of conflict. The Mediterranean designates itself as the space of an eternal wound, place of unceasing conflict, where the history of its frontiers has constantly met the social space of war.
The frontier floods towards the front, in the construction of an enemy otherness. Language as well becomes a frontier, if it is a place inaccessible to otherness. The level of communication and the elimination of concrete barriers to dialogue, becomes an urgency, and, above all, in the space of the community, a primary objective in the construction of a Euro-Mediterranean cultural space, a crossable space, that could unite and remove frontiers.
A route of research and theatre ateliers will be realised in Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, France, Albania, calling upon a reflection on crucial issues, such as the processes of identity construction. Each residence will bring to the realisation of the site-specific performance Persae, based on Aeschylus' tragedy The Persians, directed by Fabio Tolledi.
calendar of activities
21-28 March THEATRE WORKSHOP - ATHENS Greece
3-10 April THEATRE WORKSHOP- PARIS France
19-23 April THEATRE WORKSHOP - NICOSIA Cyprus
18 luglio - Ancient Odeon Paphos
20 Luglio - Curium Ancient Theatre, Limassol
21 Luglio - Makarios III Amphiteatre, Nicosia
Participation to the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama
http://www.cyprus-theatre-iti.org
supported by the European Union programme Culture 2007
promoted by Astràgali Teatro
The theme concerns the Mediterranean as sea and land of convergences, meeting, but also of antagonisms, conflicts. The conflict is still marking these people. Cultural practice is the resource to be called upon, that, crossing the frontiers, can make an effective action of prevention of conflicts. The project objective is to encourage dialogue and the creation of a cultural network in the Mediterranean, involving Italy, Greece, Syria and Jordan, for common work among artists, theatres, intellectuals and youth. The elaboration of new multicultural practices, particularly in the field of theatre, through confrontation of traditions, languages, practices is a way to favour intercultural dialogue and mutual exchange in contexts of conflict, in a process that sees culture as a factor of integration.
supported by the
Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation
for the Dialogue between Cultures
Project Leader:
Astragali Teatro - Eufonia S.c.r.l. - Italy
Partners:
Archaelogical Society 'Al Adiyat'- Branch of Latakia - Syria
Alfawanees Theatre Group - Jordan
University of Athens - Department of Education - Greece
Ulysses' gramophone - the Wake is the result of a long work developed in the Mediterranean in the framework of the project Ulysses' routes – for a critique of violence, realized by Astràgali Teatro with the support of the European Union's programme “Culture 2000”. The project has involved Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Albania, Turkey, proposing a reflection, through the theatrical tools, about war and its fundamental, violence, which still marks this sea.
To do that the myth of Ulysses was chosen, through a re-writing of Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses, starting from a critical and alternative vision of Ulysses, the man symbol of wandering and travelling, personification of a research of knowledge which is more, indeed, a desire of dominion. Ulysses' travelling, among land and sea, among its jagged costs, in an extraordinary blossoming of islands.
Ulysses' misery is the misery of war and the warlike act that he brings and that condemns him to unrest even places of peace.
Ulysses'gramophone-preparing the Wake is a cyclic performance, presenting different episodes of the Odyssey in each involved country, that have finally converged in the final performance presented along the night between 3 and 4 March in Ulysses' wake, where Astragali's company together with a selected group of actresses and actors coming from Albania, Cyprus, Malta, gave life to a unique performing event. A mixture of images, voices, sounds and different cultures, with the continuous multi-language trace and the idea of sharing which is able to open the gaze, through Homer-Joyce, to the complexity of the contemporary age, to multiplicity and cultural syncretism, fundamental of the meeting through theatre.