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Lenz Foundation

We are happy to announce that the UBU Special Project Award 2024, greater recognition of the Italian theater scene, was assigned to Lenz Foundation, During the award ceremony organized by the UBU association for Franco Quadri that the 16 December at the Arena del Sole in Bologna.

The UBU Award, founded in 1978 by the critic Franco Quadri (Milano 1936-2011), It has been assigned over time to the major protagonists of the national and international theatrical scene, like Luca Ronconi, Marisa Fabbri, Carmelo well and after more than four decades of punctual presence, continues to be a primary reference for all those who are interested in theater.

We believe that the merit of this collective recognition is, For this we dedicate it to that complex system of relationships in which we have lived for decades, and from which we receive support, in various forms, and that we feed with the visions of new geosophies, Trying to give life to fields of artistic thought not implicated and entangled in the rhetoricals of the moment, keeping intact the fundamentals of the multi -year research and experimentation method, looking for there, where a thought has not already been built, A mode, A form.

Over time there has been an enrichment derived from the encounter with people with hypersensitivity to artistic action, beyond normal technical acts capabilities, continuously agone with the traditional forms of representation, In search of the true sense of contemporary theater. We therefore dedicate this prize to our territory, First of all to the city of Parma, which in turn in 2022 He awarded us with the honor of the Sant’Ilario Prize.

For the decades of adventure in the scenic devices in which Francesco Pititto's "Imagoturgy" and the "dramaturgy of the matter" of Maria Federica Maestri merge with the work on classical texts, on the revitalization of spaces and on the density of performative work with their "sensitive actors". Artistic production integrate the care of the Natura Dèi Teatri Festival dedicated to new artistic research, the practical theater projects and social theater practices and laboratory activities that, through the relationship with the Municipality and the University of Parma, All practices that make Lenz an artistic reality with a recognized public and inclusive function. For its entire artistic and work path on the territory Lenz Fondazione receives the UBU Special Prize today 2024. [+]