Cellist Francesco Dillon, renowned for his career with the Quartetto Prometeo, will work alongside young cello talents from the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Fiesole School of Music) during the 2025–2027 three-year period as part of the project “8”. Together, the eight musicians will explore contemporary music works that engage in dialogue with other historical […]
SENTIMENTAL POLIGONO is a happening that takes place inside the 50 m shooting range of the historic Società del Tiro a Segno, founded in 1859 in the Parco delle Cascine in Florence where it is still based. This unexpected place, a geometric space of boundaries and precision, becomes the habitat of a bodily and emotional exploration. […]
When I was asked to create a sound work on the Parco delle Cascine in Florence, the first words I wrote in my notebook were: “walk” and “journey”.Walking as an activity from which to start to collect material, to acoustically explore the life of the park. But even more walking as an activity chosen to […]
Sisifo felice (Smiling Sisyphus) is a diptych by choreographers Philippe Kratz and Pablo Girolami created for the dancers of the Nuovo Balletto di Toscana. Two independent but connected works explore the absurdity of existence, inspired by the Theatre of the Absurd and Camus’ famous remark “One must imagine Sisyphus happy”. The body, immersed in cycles […]
Santarcangelo dei Teatri, in collaboration with 15 Italian partners, has built a network dedicated to the productive development of emerging artists, with the goal of supporting the research phases of performative projects that, by their nature, require long creation times.The 16 organizations and institutions that make up FONDO address distinct objectives within the theatrical and […]
Oltre le mura / Beyond the walls
Fine is an investigation into the relationship with the biological, spiritual, artistic and symbolic mother. In the Andean religion, Pachamama, which in the Quechua language means Cosmic Mother, Celestial Mother, Mother Nature, is a form of gratitude that man makes to nature, it is the union between man and nature. With Fine we suspend our gaze on an […]