Purgatory

Il progetto biennale di Lenz Fondazione dedicato alla Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, è suddiviso in tre site-specific performative-musical inspired by Inferno, Purgatory e Paradiso, realizzati in tre luoghi significanti della città di 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, prima della “fine lavori”» riflettono Francesco Pititto e Maria Federica Maestri «Proporre una profonda riflessione su architettura, 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, su ispirazione di analoghe strutture quattrocentesche» spiega Maria Federica Maestri, responsabile di Installazione 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 ".
Aggiunge 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. Tanti Daniel Arnaut contemporanei – il migliore dei poeti volgari tra i lussuriosi del canto ventiseiesimo – Many troubadouries in search of the prayer that leads them to the top of the mountain, up to the earthly paradise. A metà tra la poesia della lingua infernale – 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 ".

Drammaturgia e imagoturgia Francesco Pititto
Installazione e regia Maria Federica Maestri
Music Andrea Azzali
Interpreti Valentina Barbarini, Fabrizio Croci, Paolo Maccini, Franck Berzieri, Delfina Riviera
attori delle Compagnie dialettali di Parma: Robert Beretta, Sonia Iemmi, Ylenia Pessina, Mirella Pongolini, Cesare Quintavalla, James Rastelli, Silvia Reverberi, Valeria Spocci
Cura progetto Elena Sorbi
Organizzazione Ilaria Stocchi
Ufficio stampa Michele Pascarella
Media video | Stephen Cacciani
Cura allestimento | Alice Scartapacchio
Technique | Andrea Bonaccini, Marco Cavellini, Lucia Manghi
Production | Lenz Foundation
Progetto realizzato in collaborazione con il Coordinamento delle Compagnie Dialettali di Parma
Con il sostegno di MiBACT, Municipality of Parma, Emilia Romagna region, Ausl – DAISM-DP, Monte di Parma Foundation