Creative Grounds
From 1 to 4 August 2024 , the Terreni Creativi Festival returns to Albenga, created by the Kronoteatro company, with the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation as part of the call Guidelines for contemporary culture projects 2024, with the contribution of the Municipality of Albenga, Liguria Region, Fondazione A. De Mari-Cassa di Risparmio di Savona, L'Ortofrutticola, Azienda Bio Vio, RB PLant, Coldiretti Savona, Coop Liguria and in collaboration with the Scenario Association and the National Theater of Genoa.
A unique event of its kind, now a fixed and unmissable summer event in Western Liguria, now in its fifteenth edition which for 2024 is entitled " Paradise Can Wait ".
The festival conceived and directed by Kronoteatro, which for fifteen years has brought the best of the performative languages of the contemporary scene to the economic heart of the Ingauna plain, won the Garrone Award in 2016 and the Rete Critica Award 2017 as best communication project and the nomination for the Ubu Award 2021 in the best curation/organization category . In 2022 he won two of the most important national awards in the theater panorama: the Hystrio Award - New Muses and the Ubu Award in the best organization and artistic direction category.
The news
There are several important innovations this year. The first, linked to generational turnover, combines shows and companies that have contributed to the history of Italian theater with some emerging groups, in collaboration with the Scenario Association. Furthermore, a choice that goes against the trend of the majority of festivals is to program repertoire shows, in a market that forces artists to over-produce and to see their works last for a season.
The second concerns the entrusting of artistic directions to female artists , in discontinuity with what happens in the rest of the country. “The choice to entrust to a collective of artists what we believe to be the most important role within our programming actions is intended to be an attempt, and our small contribution, in modifying the cultural system to which we are accustomed - say Maurizio Sguotti , Alex Nesti and Tommaso Bianco of Kronoteatro -. By genesis and by chance, our association has always seen male figures in top roles. Today we believe it is important, not in the form of a quota for women, but as a political act, to leave the reins in the hands of the artists we have met over the years and whose sensitivity, ability and professionalism have enriched our professional path". The artistic direction of the theater section is therefore entrusted to Francesca Sarteanesi , the dance section to Francesca Foscarini while Angela Giorgi takes care of the musical programming.
The program
All events will be at Ortofrutticola (Massaretti Region, 30/1 - Bastia d'Albenga)
Thursday 1 August:
7.45pm La measurement by Collettivo Lunazione, the company that won the 2019 Scenario Periphery Award.
10.15pm, after the quasi-dinner aperitif, Giuliana Majo, in Appreciation Society, interactive dance solo, with choreography by Giuliana Mayo and dramaturgy by Cosimo Lopalco.
10.45pm Divine, directed and starring Danio Manfredini, a writing that originates from Jean Genet's novel “Our Lady of the Flowers”, written in 1944 during the period that Genet spent in prison in Paris.
11.45pm, the DJ set by Guayaba, a multidisciplinary artist and Colombian DJ currently resident in Milan
Friday 2 August:
7.45pm, at L'Ortofrutticola with Victory Boogie Woogie. SOLO or rather DUO with musician by Charles Pas with live music by Willem Lenaerts and Rint Mennes
8.15 pm Pietro Giannini in The Constance of my life, Special Report on the 2023 Scenario Award.
9.10 pm the historic Theater Association of Buti in Bomba, with Giovanna Daddi and Dario Marconcini.
10.30pm, with Hecuba, the black bitch, written and directed by Dario Marconcini from Euripides' Le Troiane, starring Giovanna Daddi and Leonardo Greco.
11.30pm, Kyoto Live Set. Kyoto is the solo musical project of Roberta Russo, singer-songwriter, drummer, producer and performer born in 1996, who grew up between Monza and Bari, where she currently lives. The peculiarity lies in the fusion of the beatbox technique with dark and cinematic electronics. Kyoto intones and recites words in a frenetic, irreverent, irreverent manner, on repetitive, pounding musical patterns, which combine modern electronics with typical elements of tradition, such as the Apulian one which represents it.
Saturday 3 August:
7.45pm at L'Ortofrutticola Gennaro Lauro with Mondo,
8.20pm Three voices, scenic study for a radio drama in verse by Sylvia Plath by Tilia Auser
10.30 pm, after the aperitif, Il Cortile, by Compagnia Scimone Sframeli.
11.30pm, Angie BacktoMono's DJ set.
Sunday 4 August:
8.15 pm, Valentina Dal Mas in Luisa, winning show of the 2023 Suburban Scenario Award.
10.30pm Returners, a tribute to Enzo Moscato by Cristina Donadio and Giuseppe Affinito,
11.30pm, the Lavalamp DJ set.
Information
For information and reservations
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