To highlight the inexhaustible expressive and conceptual density of the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) and its extraordinary formal proximity to the signs of contemporary art Lenz regenerates the large site-specific performance installations created in 2017: Purgatory at the Cruise of the former Ospedale Vecchio – State Archives of Parma and Paradise. A Sacred Piece at the North Bridge in Parma, created on special commission by the Verdi Festival.
From empty to full, from exclusion to the real participation of the citizen in his cultural and urban heritage, new geography and recovery of sustainable beauty, bridge between bridges, aquatic thought that flows in the dry stream under the bridge that connects nothing, art/action real in the theater that aspires to the theater even before the last wall, before the “end of works”.
In the year of recovery from the city of Pons Lapidis – the Roman Bridge or Theodoric Bridge which connects the two historical parts – proposing a profound reflection on architecture, community and culture, through a dramaturgical investigation and site-specific performance installations, means ideally connecting two fundamental periods of the history of Parma.
Searching for the origin and mirroring it in the contemporary is always a stimulus to feel part of a great tradition and a present that can live up to it. Monumental buildings crossed by monumental literary, theatrical and musical works in the most advanced artistic forms.
The great poetic monument of Dante refracts the human and artistic condition of the sensitive actors of the theatre of Lenz Foundation in the places of painful constraint, suspended theatre, illusion.
A contemporary and a historic space. One full of functions and one empty of meaning, and precisely for this reason to be filled, temporarily, with luminous and dense presences as only the artistic experience of human action can build. Virtue against Vices, a Divine Comedy with new circles, circles and rings full of bodies that give voice to the Choir bursting with possibilities, opportunities and contemporary practicable.
2021 is the year of Dante Alighieri's celebrations: as is well known, it marks the 700th anniversary of the death of the author of the Divine Comedy, a work explored by Lenz Fondazione in 2017 through two large site-specific performance installations, Purgatory at the Cruise of the former Ospedale Vecchio – State Archives of Parma and Paradiso. A Sacred Piece at the North Bridge in Parma, created on special commission of the 2017 Verdi Festival. To highlight the inexhaustible expressive and conceptual density of the Divine Comedy and its extraordinary formal proximity to the signs of contemporary art Lenz proposes the project LLD < Lenz Lecturae Dantis.
Lenz Lecturae Dantis è l’anteprima della sezione autunnale della venticinquesima edizione del Festival Natura Dèi Teatri 2021. In programma lo streaming gratuito delle due grandi installazioni performative site-specific realizzate nel 2017: Purgatorio e Paradiso. Un Pezzo Sacro. Mentre a Lenz Teatro due performance drammaturgico-musicali create e dirette da Maria Federica Maestri e Francesco Pititto, musica Giuseppe Verdi, rielaborazioni sonore Andrea Azzali:
Lenz Lecturae Dantis #1 con Valentina Barbarini e Fabrizio Croci e Lenz Lecturae Dantis #2 con Sandra Soncini e Debora Tresanini.
Dramaturgy, imagoturgy | Francesco Pititto
Direction, costumes | Maria Federica Maestri
Music | Giuseppe Verdi
Sound reworkings | Andrea Azzali
Performer | Valentina Barbarini, Fabrizio Croci
Curating | Elena Sorbi
Organization | Ilaria Stocchi
Press office | Michele Pascarella
Technical care | Alice Scartapacchio, Andrea Bonaccini
Stage assistance | Marco Cavellini
Production Lenz Fondazione