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Back and double Nature Gods Theatres, The Festival of Lenz Foundation. It starts in June with Italians

Directed by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto, Nature Gods Theatres It reaches the 22nd edition and expands its horizon, providing for a summer section -designed toThe most interesting names of the artistic research of our country- and an autumn, of international scope. Theater, musica, danza, video e performance, also the result of prestigious international residences, On stage at Lenz Teatro and in other historical and monumental places in Parma. Starting from 20 June.

The historic International Performing Arts Festival Nature Gods Theatres, directed by Maria Federica Masters e Francesco Pititto Of Lenz Foundation, He returns and expands his programming by structuring himself in two parts: The first at the opening of the summer season, dal 20 June to 1 July and the second in the usual autumn location, dal 18 al 25 November.

Nature Gods Theatres The project dedicated to the visual artist Richard Serra. Porte, Blind spot e Wake These are the conceptual themes of the three -year period 2015-2017, whose field of investigation is oriented on the macrotem of the Matter of time In the languages ​​of contemporary creation. Wake It is the suggestion of the edition 2017: “Only the desert leaves lasting scie, Visible traces until the next strong wind, Until the next sand storm "suggest the artistic directors" in physics the wake is a upheaval produced in a fluid from a moving body that crosses it. The microscopic particles of the fluid create a tiny network of threads that does not run so fast and therefore lingers, Create small vortices and then disappears. In the desert the sand, heavier than fluid, remains to mark that passage, draws it, it preserves it until it can. The work of the artist, like a body that runs and crosses, leaves trades that have different lasters: some remain a short time, Others a long time, still others forever. The SCIA trace time, the duration of the work of art and the power of his body in crossing the space, The strength of his race. The question of a "spatial-temporal field" was the guiding reason for our three-year research on the work/exploration of Richard Serra in which the material component, installation and visual was a decisive key for dramaturgy, body of the actor, Imagoturgy and look for the viewer. The Matter of time by Richard Serra allowed us to conceive a project that in itself had "material weight" and it was not just a race for thoughts. In the case of Wake, We think of a desert of sand that can trace the different steps, The footsteps of the creative races of the guest artists and ours. The spaces to be crossed will be different, between historical monument and urban streets, between theatrical building and contemporary museum, Each transformed into their own creative desert, in which to affect scie of thought and artistic matter. Until the next storm ".

Twenty -two years of history. Thirteen artistic subjects scheduled: Lenz Foundation, Theater of the Moirai e Alessandro Bedosti, MK, Geneva panzetti and enrico tink, Sincenzo Scino, DOM-, Monica Bianchi e Tihana maravic in the summer section; Simon Mayer (Austria), Tim Spooner (United Kingdom), Carla Bzulich (USA), Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner (Great Britain), Fiorella Iacono (Italia) e Monica Bianchi (Italia) in the autumn. Twenty -six replicas for thirteen performative propositions – of which you are absolute first. Two international residences: Simon Mayer e Tim Spooner. A national residence: Monica Bianchi. Multiple places of entertainment: The cruise of the former old hospital, Lenz Theater and several spaces spread on the urban territory.

Nature Gods Theatres 2017 the 20 June with the start of the imposing two -year project of Lenz Foundation dedicated to Divine Comedy Of Dante Alighieri, divided into three site-specific performative-musical inspired by Inferno, Purgatory e Paradiso, made in three significant places of the city of Parma, respectively: the thermovalizer (2018), The cruise of the former old hospital - State Archive and the North Bridge: «From the void 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 thinking that flows in the trained stream under the bridge that connects nothing, Art/real action in the theater that aspires to the theater even before the last wall, before the "end of work" »reflect Francesco Pititto e Maria Federica Masters «Propose a profound reflection on architecture, Community and Culture, through a dramaturgical investigation and performative installations site-specific It means ideally connecting two fundamental periods of the history of Parma. Looking for the origin and mirroring it in the contemporary is always as a stimulus to feel part of a great tradition and a present that can be up to it. Monumental buildings crossed by monumental literary works, theatrical, musical in the most advanced artistic forms. Dante's great poetic monument refracts the human and artistic condition of the sensitive actors of the Lenz Foundation Theater in the places of painful constriction, of the suspended theater, of illusion ".

"The entire structure of the old hospital was organized around the large Greek cross -shaped cruise surmounted by a dome, on the inspiration of similar fifteenth -century structures »he explains Maria Federica Masters, installation manager site-specific, plastic elements, Costumes and direction «and it is precisely in this spatial extension in which asylum and cure have for centuries dignity to the name and the poor for centuries, That the popular physics of the dialectal actor will return to restore voice and sense to the spaces of the cruise today empty and private individuals ".

Adds Francesco Pititto, that of Purgatory Treatment dramaturgy and imagaturgy: «The penitents of this Purgatory/Hospital will regret fragments of their" middle "language from the great mouths of the imposing naves, From the audience/intersection without each furniture, cadences and popular rhythms will resonate, From the denuded gates of the ancient functions the dialect will be echoed with new Dante's sufferings. Many Daniel Arnaut Contemporary -the best of vulgar poets among the lustful twenty -sixth singing- Many troubadouries in search of the prayer that leads them to the top of the mountain, up to the earthly paradise. Halfway between the poetry of the infernal language -Violenta, tragic, damn- and the sublime power of the choral voice of the Sacred Paradisiac, The concrete language of life, Original and raw of the dialect gives us straight and pregnant the truth of the human condition, between vulgar satire and popular invention ".

Purgatory of Lenz Foundation, which will debut to the Cruise of the former old hospital - State Archive Tuesday 20 June con Replicas until 1st July, is made in collaboration with the coordination of the dialectal companies of Parma. Will make use of music and sound installation of Andrew Azzali and will see on stage Valentina Barbarini, Fabrizio Croci, Paolo Maccini, Franck Berzieri e Delfina Riviera together with the actresses and actors of the dialectal companies of Parma Robert Beretta, Sonia Iemmi, Ylenia Pessina, Mirella Pongolini, Cesare Quintavalla, Silvia Reverberi e Valeria Spocci.

Hospitality.

Il Teatro delle Moire and Alessandro Bedosti, Artist already a guest of the Festival Nature Gods Theatres, Thursday 22 June will present You are full of despair, exercise of reflection and of re- Around the myth of the siren: «The figure that is evoked here is far from the optimism of certain poses or of certain images of contemporary society. It is an discarded creature, fall, bankruptcy, An unrecognizable dark mass, fished by all too domestic sea depths. It is an amphibian body immobile, silent, that emanates a deaf and stubborn despair as if it were the invincible and sore song of a expired divinity yet still attractive, docile and full of mystery ".

«Gardens are often considered ideal places, Symbols of pleasure and delight, Harmonious connection between man and nature. In designing them, Our desire to give shape to a world of ideal rigoglio and beauty, Wellness and serenity, culminates in a nostalgic echo that recalls the garden of Eden. In equal way the gardens are an expression of an absolute anthropocentric force that shapes nature according to a model that is completely foreign to it ": Tuesday 27 June Geneva panzetti and enrico tink, artistic duo that from 2008 leads a research that intertwines dance, performance and visual art, they will propose The garden, show in which «two figures wander into an imaginary landscape constantly transformed by their gestures. They examine and shape the around by embarking on a proof of strength between them and what surrounds them ".

Opera, artistic research group directed by the director and visual artist Vincenzo Scino and by the dancer and choreographer Times Biichsao, Thursday 29 June will present MA: "The Japanese ideogram translated with the word but is a special type of aesthetic sensitivity that can be expressed as an empty space, a silence or an immobility between two things. Dance dialogues with an architecture of mobile sculptures in iron and virtual, Video and light projections. The sound is collected live by the movement of objects and returned in the form of live electronics».

Projects site-specific.

Saturday 24 June the company MK will read some spaces in the historic center of Parma with View: "It's a modular format," suggests the choreographer Michele Di Stefano «With cast and variable duration, dedicated to the city and the perspective vision of the urban landscape. The public uses the performance in headphones, overlooking a panoramic point to be identified from time to time. The point of view is large and can affect very close and very distant spaces, connected to each other by the sound track (recorded in oloophony with a strong film imprint) and from the dislocation of performers ". In Parma, View will be interpreted by Biagio Caravano, Roberta Mosca e Laura Scarpini. The music are of Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, he created View Together with Michele Di Stefano.

Saturday 1 July It is scheduled MU, philosophical speculation in motion around the concept of trail edited by Leonardo Delogu e Valerio Sirna / DOM-: «MU It is an exploration within the city of Parma, An exercise in contemplation and philosophical speculation in motion. Relies on the concept of thinking by making, that is, on the ability to learn and develop thoughts starting from sensitive experience. Following a period of residence, sailing inside the plots of the city and within the philosophical principles that inspired the new edition of the Festival Natura Dèi Teatri, Dom composes a walk between the urban paradoxes, brings the audience into those current landscapes, face in the shade of the present time, that if carefully observed, deep issues open on our living in the earth, on our being human species, community, Sometimes plug of creation, Sometimes happy expression of vital forces. The participants will be called to travel for a time of a few hours around the dusk, Inside a collective act that will end with a dinner and an outdoor party ".

Production residences.

Friday 30 June Monica Bianchi, Artist in residence at Lenz Theater for the two -year period 2017-2018, will present in the form of study Trash vortex: «A trail of plastic waste is dragged by the current of the Pacific North towards the latitude of the horses, The area of ​​equal calm or extremely variable winds. An area difficult to overcome and often the sailing ships, For deficiency of water, they sacrificed the horses, who were thrown into the sea. If the wind refuses, His opposite direction obliges us to a waste to keep the course. There are waste and waste: Plastic ducks and horses launched into the void. And there are horse waste, which opposes the refusal to the obstacle, in disobedience to the knight. Opening a way is a game between the parts that consumes ". The show will debut in its final version in the autumn section of Nature Gods Theatres.

Book presentations.

The scholar of theater and performative arts Tihana maravic Thursday 22 June will propose a dialogue starting from I'm going to make fun of the world. From the crowd in Christ in Byzantium and in Russia, to the contemporary performer (Firenze, The Usher house, 2016): «The crowd in Christ is a complex figure. It is at the same time a buffoon, A prophet, a healer, a converter, A visionary. Maravic relates the contradictory and paradoxical figure of the crowd in Christ, with contemporary theater. This study returns vitality to a custodian of ancient and forgotten knowledge and serves as a vehicle for a philosophical and anthropological reading of the actor art and the function of the performer ".

Nature Dèi Teatri - Autumn.

The autumn section of Nature Dèi Teatri, Leaving on Saturday 18 November, will have Simon Mayer as protagonists (Austria), Tim Spooner (United Kingdom), Carla Bzulich (USA) e Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner (Great Britain), Fiorella Iacono (Italia) and Monica Bianchi (Italia). Insights on artists and works will be released in due course.

The thematic and poetic lines designed by the artistic direction of nature are protei -inferred and stratified 2017 (Dante's crossings, danza, relationship with urban spaces, Contemporary dialogue with classicism and myth, international performative research): A map to read carefully, in which to get lost, with which to interact.

Natura Dèi Teatri is a Lenz Foundation project that is carried out thanks to the support of: MiBACT_Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Emilia Romagna region, Municipality of Parma, Integrated mental health assistance department – AUSL pathological addictions of Parma, Monte di Parma Foundation, University of Parma, Museums Monteparma Foundation.

For information: Lenz Theatre, Via Pasubio 3/e, Parma, tel. 0521 270141, 335 6096220, comunicazione@lenzfondazione.it – www.lenzfondazione.it.

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