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Rebeccu (Bonorva /SS - Sardinia) during MusaMadre Festival
An unfolding new project to transform the once abandoned village of Rebeccu in Sardinia into an arts hub and sustainable tourism model for cultural regeneration on the Mediterranean island.
Read moreA series of events to celebrate Sardegna across the USA in collaboration with 369gradi srl Impresa Sociale, Assessorato all’Industria della Regione Sardegna, Associazione Enti Locali, Cineteca Bologna, Comune di Bonorva, Festival MusaMadre, Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission, Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura San Francisco), Salotto NYC, Visioni Sarde
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“Mattia Torre is like Eduardo De Filippo—a great investigator of our miseries and above all reminds us that certain miseries can be loved” (Paolo Sorrentino, Oscar-Winning Italian Director)
Join us on Dec 11th at the Segal Center for the opening evening of the Italian Playwrights Project 4th edition, discovering the work of one of the most significant contemporary Italian playwrights, screenwriters, and directors: the late Mattia Torre.
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"Ischeliu" is an inspiring artistic residency program tailored for writers who are either Sardinian emigrants or descendants of Sardinians living across the globe
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MusaMadre Festival 2023
Read moreIn accepting this curatorship, I set myself the goal of creating a compatible path that would return an exhaustive vision of the points of contact between the object of the project and the chaotic and changing nature of a metropolis, a crossroads of peoples, traditions, cultures, and languages.
In fact, the type of work to be tackled took time.
Dwell on the evolution of identity roots and study their gentrification?
But which identity roots among the myriads present in the city?
Part of the second edition of the MusaMadre Festival, the ISCHELIU / RICHIAMO residency was organized by the Sardinian Autonomous Institute Fernando Santi with the support of the Sardinia Foundation, the Association of Local Authorities for Cultural and Entertainment Activities, the Sardinia Film Commission.
The itinerary was conceived and curated by Valeria Orani, whose artistic direction revitalizes the normally uninhabited and isolated village of Rebeccu, a fraction of the municipality of Bonorva, in the province of Sassari, with cultural projects.
Ten participants, including emigrants and Sardinian-descendants, were invited to collectively write the diary of their "journey of the roots" and to express their relationship with the arts.
The residency is an immersive experience of living in a medieval village in the middle of Sardinia through the activation of an artistic-cultural process leading them to deal with dramaturgy, screenplay, cinema, and radio.
Radio Frammenti met the participants in the residency. A new space was born: a thread between voice, photography, and sound called Audio-Portraits: a slow time, a passage on the present that becomes a memory, desire, and imagination.
Audio-Portraits is a project conceived and curated by Maria Genovese and Radio Frammenti, which lends itself to inhabiting various places such as museums, schools, and theaters and which also comes to life in open spaces with different forms.
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Different origins, approaches, and visions have contributed to the enrichment of a concept found in the chosen place, the ideal humus to re-elaborate the relationship between man and the environment as a starting point for listening to the call toward own roots. This is the meaning of the residency Ischeliu/Richiamo (Recall). This short film is the result.
Read moreJan. 23, 2023 6:00 pm
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065 -USA
with Ermanna Montanari, Marco Martinelli, Frank Hentscker
fedeli d’Amore (Love's faithful) is the new stage poem by Marco Martinelli focused on the exceptional vocal research of Ermanna Montanari (awarded “2018 best Italian actress” for this performance). The text revolving around Dante and our own present times, has been selected by Italian and American Playwright Project curated by Valeria Orani and Frank Hentschker and published by PAJ (Performing Arts Journal) Publications directed by Bonnie Marranca
About ULYSSES XXVI (director’s note)
As we began developing the idea for this film, Ermanna and I asked ourselves, “What voice would Dante’s Ulysses have?” A Ulysses more “gothic” than Homeric emerges from the pages of the Divine Comedy. Could we really hear his voice of fire, filtered through the maelstrom of preaching and popular legend? And if his voice is the “murmuring” of a flame, as Dante describes it, what voice does that flame have? Sometimes the questions we ask at the beginning of a project find no immediate answers, but it turns out that the making of the work shows us the way. Like Bruno Munari said, “If I make, I understand.” Given the many years we have spent with Dante and his work, we gladly accepted Adl’s proposal that we produce a short film about Canto XXVI of the Inferno, to be screened at the conference “Dante and Other Classics: from Petrarch to Wole Soyinka”, which took place April 28 & 29, 2021.
Some months before, on the suggestion of our architect friends Massimiliano Casavecchia and Stefania Gambirasio, we had visited in Ravenna the crypt of the Church of Santa Maria in Porto. That underground chamber where monks were once buried struck us as the right place to insert the shades of Dante and Virgil in the eighth chamber of the eighth circle of Hell. It was there, with the kind permission of Father Lukanowski, that we shot the first part of the film. The second part, with the flames, was shot on the stage of Teatro Rasi, formerly the Church of Saint Clare, dating to the 13th century, where we imagine Dante, a Franciscan, must have regularly attended mass. Ermanna discovered the “voice & figure” of Ulysses: the intimate, stunning tone of a soul consumed by fire, transforming the entire space into a mirror of flame; and a diaphanous body, both carnal and transparent, that renders the ungraspable manifestation of that voice, revealing itself as it slips away.
Marco Martinelli
Ermanna Montanari (actress, author and set designer) and Marco Martinelli (playwright and director) founded the Teatro delle Albe (1983) and share its artistic direction. For her original itinerary of vocal research, Ermanna Montanari has received acknowledgements in Ital y and all over the world. S he’s the founder and director - together with Enrico Pitozzi - of MALAGOLA, I nternational C enter for the Vocal and Sound Research , based in Ravenna (awarded with Premio Ubu 2022 for the Special Projects).
Marco Martinelli’s texts have been published and staged in ten languages, and he has been awarded with several prizes in Italy and all over the world. He is founder of the Teatro delle Albe’s non - school, a theatre - educational practice with adolescents, which has become a focal po int for many scholars and which Martinelli has taken all over Italy and the world.
Frank Hentschker, Currently executive director and director of programs at the Segal Center, Hentschker has transformed the center into the nation’s leading forum for public programming in international and U.S. theatre and theatre studies; each year, he curates and produces more than forty events—staged readings, lecture-demonstrations, symposia, works-in-progress, and conversations with theatre scholars, theatrical luminaries, and emerging voices in the international, American, and New York theatre scenes.
Jan. 24, 2023 6:00 pm
Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò
New York University
24 West 12th Street
(btw 5th and 6th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
screening (Documentary, Italy, 2019, 43 min.)
Q&A moderated by Stefano Albertini with Ermanna Montanari, Marco Martinelli
more info + General RSVP and Casa Italiana’s Member Reservation here
A workshop directed by Marco Martinelli inspired by the timeless work of Dante Alighieri.
Marco Martinelli (ph. Francesca De Paolis ©)
Dante’s Divine Comedy begins with an “I” who is lost in a “dark wood” which is not simply a forest at night, but a wilderness of all fear, all anguish, all failure. It takes courage to admit you’ve lost your way, but that courage will guide us into the light.
Marco Martinelli, seven-time winner of the Ubu Prize (one of the most important awards for Italian theatre) as a playwright, director, and teacher, will work with participants on the first two cantos of the Inferno, which describe Dante lost in the woods, his anguish, and his courage to wield a poetry of hope to overcome that fear; a poetry that becomes a saving gift for us all. The current century and the one before have specialized in Infernos with no way out, but no matter how evil grabs us by the throat, we find the means to rise again. We know the stars point us to our destiny.
It is precisely there in the dark, when the curtain seems to have come down forever that we find the strength for an incredible leap into the Good. The poet whispers in our ear: “the good that I found there”: from pitch darkness we set out on our journey to the light. Paradise is already here; in the first step we take away from despair.
Schedule:
Jan. 25th, 2023 from 4 to 7 p.m. – La MaMa Great Jones Studios
Jan. 27th, 2023 from 4 to 7 p.m – La MaMa Great Jones Studios
Jan. 29th, 2023 from noon to 3,00 p.m.– La MaMa ETC Downstairs Theater
Performance open to the public
Jan. 29th, 2023 at 4,00 p.m. – La MaMa ETC Downstairs Theater
The workshop is free: no theatre experience is required; there will be no auditions
Registration is first-come-first-served
The workshop requires participation over three days, with no absences.
Information at: ifoundmyselfworkshop@gmail.com
Performance on the stage poem by Martinelli, focused on the vocal research of Ermanna Montanari (awarded “2018 best Italian actress” for this work).
Read moreA film by
Cecilia Mangini e Paolo Pisanelli
Italy, colour e b/w, 2021, 53’
production ISRE – Sardegna
in association with OfficinaVision
in collaboration with RaiCinema
With the support of Sardegna Film Commission
(Italian with English subtitles)
MusaMadre Festival second edition - Rebeccu (Bonorva - SS /Sardinia - Italy) Aug 1-6 2022
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Nuraghe Santu Antine - Torralba - MusaMadre 2021 (ph. by Sabrina Fasanella)
Antonio Marras (photo by F. Magnani)
XVII Giornata del Contemporaneo (Contemporary Italian Art)
APORÌA - ἀπορία
reaching unfamiliar locations - transitional experience
an installation by Antonio Marras.
From Dec.7 2021 to Jan. 31, 2022 - Monday through Friday, 10AM to 4PM
A site-specific installation titled: Su per le antiche scale (Up the ancient stairs) by Italian artist and designer Antonio Marras. The opening will also host a performance directed by the choreographer Marco Angelilli - based on drawings by Marras - with Gabriel Da Costa and Francesco Napoli, and the voice of contralto Maurizio Rippa.
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Recording of the performance at the opening IIC Youtube channel
Join us for an evening celebrating the publication of NEW PLAYS FROM ITALY vol. 3. (Martin E. Segal Theatre Publications - New York City 2019) with a reading of Event Horizon by Elisa Casseri, translated by Adriana Rossetto.
The reading will be followed by follow by a conversation with playwright Elisa Casseri and Italian theatre critic Graziano Graziani, jury member of Premio Riccione Per il Teatro.
