VIE FESTIVAL 13-25 ottobre 2015 - English version: Modena/Bologna/Carpi/Vignola Theatre/Dance/Music

By Emilia Romagna Teatro

VIE Festival was founded in 2005 with the goal of crossing the contemporary world, of intercepting new identities and subjectivities which stand out in the field of live performance. It takes place yearly every October in Emilia-Romagna Region, and it is organized by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, National Theatre based in Modena. The project spring from the ten-year lucky experience of Le vie dei festival that, from 1994 to 2004, has hosted some of the most interesting proposals of Italian and international summer festivals. Mixing languages and genres, showing foreign great theatrical experiences without forgetting the important Italian experimental theatre scene, Le vie dei festival proposed the works of several artists (Carmelo Bene, Thierry Salmon, Lev Dodin, Peter Brook, Maguy Marin, Joseph Chaikin, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson e Peter Stein …). VIE Festival focuses on the contemporary creation, wants to give to the look the responsibility of finding, of searching where the strength of the new is hiding today, the artists who are able to explore the areas of contact between the performing arts, the expressive areas where leaving the theatre interacting with dance, music, visual arts and cinema. The idea of modernity is combined immediately with that of complexity, something that is in constant motion and fast in its indefiniteness. The artistic research acts vertically, digging in depth. It does not indicate solutions, but rather raises some doubts. It is inclined to the “uncertain”. At the base of the research for new languages there is always an urgent reflection on the contemporary world, a need for new contents. The festival aims to offer a wide range of artists who will confront themselves with a plurality of spaces, aiming at showing layers of artwork, poetry and looks which arouse the curiosity and urgencies, including the less codified. The plurality of languages will involve different audiences, aiming at erasing the prejudice on that contemporary is equivalent to incomprehensible and elitist. The Festival also stands out as a place of production or co-production of original works that will be created on purpose and then will enter the international circuit. This 11th edition take place in Modena, Bologna, Carpi and Vignola, and hosts the creations directed by Levan Tsuladze, Berardi Casolari, Anna Peschke, Virgilio Sieni, Gabriella Salvaterra, Nanfang Song And Dance Company, Mathurin Bolze, Nelson Valente, Pascal Rambert, Maguy Marin, Cuocolo / Bosetti, Michele Abbondanza, Snejanka Mihaylova, Motus, Giovanna Marini, Big Action Money, Marco Martinelli / Ermanna Montanari, Romeo Castellucci, Frank Van Laecke / Alain Platel / Steven Prengels. VIE Events section gives the opportunity to take part in some in-depht analisys moments, such as the study meeting “The scandal of the theatre” organized by the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna and by Paris–Sorbonne University. And then, a meeting about contemporary circus, and the public talk to introduce two theatrical books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital Index
• Release date: Oct 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9788899283070

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Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena

Regione Emilia-Romagna

VIE Festival

13-25 ottobre 2015

Modena/Bologna/Carpi/Vignola

Theatre/Dance/Music

DIGITAL INDEX

The Project

VIE Festival was founded in 2005 with the goal of crossing the contemporary world, of intercepting new identities and subjectivities which stand out in the field of live performance. It takes place yearly every October in Emilia-Romagna Region, and it is organized by Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, National Theatre based in Modena.

The project spring from the ten-year lucky experience of Le vie dei festival that, from 1994 to 2004, has hosted some of the most interesting proposals of Italian and international summer festivals. Mixing languages and genres, showing foreign great theatrical experiences without forgetting the important Italian experimental theatre scene, Le vie dei festival proposed the works of several artists (Carmelo Bene, Thierry Salmon, Lev Dodin, Peter Brook, Maguy Marin, Joseph Chaikin, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson e Peter Stein …).

VIE Festival focuses on the contemporary creation, wants to give to the look the responsibility of finding, of searching where the strength of the new is hiding today, the artists who are able to explore the areas of contact between the performing arts, the expressive areas where leaving the theatre interacting with dance, music, visual arts and cinema. 

The idea of modernity is combined immediately with that of complexity, something that is in constant motion and fast in its indefiniteness. The artistic research acts vertically, digging in depth. It does not indicate solutions, but rather raises some doubts. It is inclined to the uncertain. At the base of the research for new languages there is always an urgent reflection on the contemporary world, a need for new contents. The festival aims to offer a wide range of artists who will confront themselves with a plurality of spaces, aiming at showing layers of artwork, poetry and looks which arouse the curiosity and urgencies, including the less codified. The plurality of languages will involve different audiences, aiming at erasing the prejudice on that contemporary is equivalent to incomprehensible and elitist. 

The Festival also stands out as a place of production or co-production of original works that will be created on purpose and then will enter the international circuit. 

This 11th edition take place in Modena, Bologna, Carpi and Vignola, and hosts the creations directed by Levan Tsuladze, Berardi Casolari, Anna Peschke, Virgilio Sieni, Gabriella Salvaterra, Nanfang Song And Dance Company, Mathurin Bolze, Nelson Valente, Pascal Rambert, Maguy Marin, Cuocolo / Bosetti, Michele Abbondanza, Snejanka Mihaylova, Motus, Giovanna Marini, Big Action Money, Marco Martinelli / Ermanna Montanari, Romeo Castellucci, Frank Van Laecke / Alain Platel / Steven Prengels.

VIE Events section gives the opportunity to take part in some in-depht analisys moments, such as the study meeting The scandal of the theatre organized by the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna and by Paris–Sorbonne University. And then, a meeting about contemporary circus, and the public talk to introduce two theatrical books.

Artists and programme

Levan Tsuladze - The mad man’s diary

TEATRO DELLE PASSIONI - MODENA

13/10/2015, at 7.00 pm

from 14/10 to 15/10/2015, at 9.00 pm

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by Nikolai Gogol

director Levan Tsuladze

with Zura Berikashvili, Roberta De Stefano, Eleonora Giovanardi, Ana Grigolia, Nika Kuchava, Leonardo Lidi, Koko Roinishvili, Massimo Scola

choreographer Gia Marghania

costumes designer Nino Surguladze

music adaptation by Zurab Gagloshvili

assistant director Nino Kalandadze

Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre and Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione

Running time 1 hour and 30 minutes

National premiere

Played in Italian and Georgian with Italian subtitles

One of the most revered theatres in Georgia as well as one of world’s great theatre cultural centers founded in 1928, the Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre, and Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione join energies and resources to stage The mad man’s diary by Gogol.

The piece tells the story of Poprishchin’s life, a low-ranking civil servant, who yearns to be noticed by a beautiful woman, the daughter of a senior official, he has fallen in love with. His diary witnesses his fall into insanity day by day. As his condition gets worse, he suspects two dogs of having a love affair and writing letters to each other and finally. He even believes to be the heir to the throne of Spain at the point that, when he is hauled off and maltreated once at the asylum, the madman believes he is taking part in a strange coronation at the Spanish court. The anti-hero needs his madness to attain greatness. Poprishchin finds his freedom in madness.

How is it possible for a person like Poprichin to survive in a huge world with lots of information, events, news, hierarchy? How can personal freedom be obtained? Can we accept conditions and limits while still dreaming of something big and different? Is there some other way? Where do we all – personalities- go to? Is there any parallel freedom?

Director Levan Tsuladze showed high and defined culture of humor, endless fantasy, creativity and aspirations to kindness . Levan Tsuladze in Mad Man’s Diary pictures us the tragedy of human which is expressed with lightness and multiplicative ways. And the only accused in Poprishchin’s tragedy are society and environment. In modern society there are lots of people like Poprishchin and his encirclement around us.

Levan Tsuladze’s new work with Georgian and Italian actors is an original version of Gogol’s novel. The performance, which really claims that theatre has no borders and its language as the communicative way, is universal. 

Lasha Chxartishvii, Theatre Critic

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Levan Tsuladze

Artistic director of Kote Marjanishvili State Drama Theatre since 2006. Founder and artistic leader of the first independent Theater in Georgia The Basement Theatre since 1997. Acknowledged leader of Georgian Theatre at present, one of the most successful, creative, highly acclaimed stage directors who truly changes and develops theater in most interesting ways – Tsuladze has produced more than 40 performances in different cities and Theaters in Georgia, and won several prizes.

Berardi Casolari - La prima, la migliore

The first, the best

Arena del Sole, Bologna

from 13/10 to 16/10/2015, at 8.30 pm

17/10/2015, at 8.00 pm

18/10/2015, at 5.30 pm

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text and direction Gianfranco Berardi and Gabriella Casolari

with Gianfranco Berardi, Gabriella Casolari, Davide Berardi,

Running time 1 hour and 10 minutes

World premiere

In 2001 Gianfranco Berardi, a blind actor from the southern Italian Region Puglia, meets Gabriella Casolari, actress of