Tema: Culture

16 January 2022

Voice: Ermanna Montanari
Music: Luigi Ceccarelli
Subject: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
Direction: Marco Martinelli
Cinematographer: Alessandro Tedde
Editing: Marco Martinelli and Francesco Tedde
Production: Ravenna Teatro/Teatro delle Albe together with Antropotopia

With Sergio Scarlatella, Ermanna Montanari, Luigi Dadina, Roberto Magnani and citizen of Ravenna. With the contribution of Assicoop Romagna Futura agente generale UnipolSai Assicurazioni. In collaboration with Italian Institute of Culture of Abu Dhabi, Regione Emilia-Romagna and Ater Fondazione

In the year of the Dante 700 in the world National Celebrations, the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Italian Cultural Institute of Abu Dhabi present for EXPO Dubai fedeli d’Amore, Marco Martinelli’s fifth film that transfigures the eponymous poem ‘about’ Dante and our present day, centred on Ermanna Montanari’s extraordinary vocal research and Luigi Ceccarelli’s powerful electro-acoustic music. A “polyptych in seven panels”, suspended between everyday harshness and surprising visionary atmospheres, shot in Ravenna, and where various figures speak to us: the fog, the demon of the pit, a crucified donkey, the little devil of the “rabbuffo”, Italy kicking itself, Antonia, daughter of Alighieri

Marco Martinelli, playwright and director, founded Teatro delle Albe (1983) with Montanari, sharing its artistic direction. He has been awarded with several prizes included: seven Ubu Prizes, Hystrio Prize, Golden Laurel-Mess Festival, the Prize for Career Achievement – Festival Journées théâtrales de Carthage. He directed lover 50 performances and 5 films, his texts have been translated, published and staged in Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Romania, Spain, Bulgaria, Brazil, and the USA and selected by Fabulamundi and Italian and American Playwrights Project.  Ermanna Montanari, actress, author and set designer, for her original itinerary of vocal research, she has received acknowledgements such as seven Ubu Prize, Golden Laurel-Mess Festival, Lo straniero Prize “dedicated to the memory of Carmelo Bene”, Eleonora Duse Prize. She founded in 2021 Malagola School of vocality together with Enrico Pitozzi. Edited by L. Mariani Do, undo, do over. Ermanna Montanari in Teatro delle Albe (Titivillus) and by E. Pitozzi Akousma Figure and voice in the acoustic theatre of Ermanna Montanari (Quodlibet). 

Realized in collaboration with ATER Fondazione.

6 and 7 November 2021

A tale for music, shadows and dance based on L’oiseau de feu* by Igor Stravinsky and the drawings by Enrico Baj
*version: Igor Stravinsky L’Oiseau de feu , ballet de 1910 – réduction McPhee 45′

With three dancers
Direction and set design: Fabrizio Montecchi 
Shadow puppets: Nicoletta Garioni 
Choreography: Gloria Dorliguzzo 
Lights: Davide Rigodanza 
Costumes: Giulia Bonaldi, Anusc Castiglion, Corinne Lejeune

About twenty-five years since its debut and fifteen years since its second production, Emilia-Romagna Region and the Italian Ministry of Culture re-propose for EXPO Dubai, within the national project on puppetry arts and theatre animation, The Firebird, one of the most important and popular productions by Teatro Gioco Vita, among the first Italian realities to be protagonist of the movement of theatrical animation. 

The Firebird is a shadow and dance pièce based entirely on the “choreographic story” which Igor Stravinsky composed in 1909 for the Russian Ballet. The definition “choreographic story” is not improper as is a tale told through music in which Teatro Gioco Vita proves the great spectacular potential of shadow theatre. It chooses dance as an interlocutor, a language which gives a body to the incorporeal nature of shadows and, by its nature, is able to act as a scenic medium between shadows and music.

Shadow theatre workshops will accompany the scheduled performances as part of the school programs organized by Expo Dubai and in the context of thematic areas dedicated to children.

Watch the video.

Produced in collaboration with ATER Fondazione.

16-22 January 2022

The Short Stories host the third edition of the Italian Excellence exhibition initiative, a project to promote illustration for children conceived by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, which received in the two previous editions widely success worldwide. 

The exhibition presents the works of twenty young Italian illustrators, some of them born or working in the Emilia-Romagna Region, who stand out for their ability to make texts dialogue with images in a unique and original form: Giacomo Agnello Modica, Andrea Antinori, Michael Bardeggia, Beatrice Cerocchi, Marianna Coppo, Francesca Corso, Cecilia Ferri, Chiara Ficarelli, Marta Pantaleo, Giulia Pastorino, Irene Penazzi, Alice Piaggio, Camilla Pintonato, Michelangelo Rossato, Veronica Ruffato, Lorenzo Sangió, Francesca Sanna, Luca Tagliafico, Giulia Tomai, Veronica Truttero. 

Between books and posters, magazines, networks and self-production, between manual, digital or mixed techniques, the new generation of illustration brings its new and surprising gaze to the universe of children’s publishing at Expo 2020.

Produced in collaboration with ATER Fondazione.

23-29 January 2022

MADE IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA:
HOW CULTURE AND COMPETENCE IMPROVE HUMAN LIFE

The elements exhibited in the Short Stories space from the Emilia-Romagna Region are more than just objects: they are projects that show each phase of their realization, from the idea to the development, from the communication to the distribution, giving life to a form of innovation that is more the sum of the parts. 

The Design Is Everyday project shines a spotlight on the importance of the role played by design in the various product development phases, from the idea to its development, communication, distribution. It also highlights how the combination of these processes themselves generate forms that are increasingly new and innovative, resulting from the collaboration between the various protagonists of the productive fabric in Emilia-Romagna, a region with an exceptional creative and productive value.

The exhibition features a selection of local designs from the region. These tell a story that describes the capabilities of many companies from Emilia Romagna to generate production chains based on a weave of know-how, competences and production processes. The exhibition on everyday living focuses on human health. In particular, using tools like 3D printing, design is capable of developing new shapes and innovative materials for the orthopaedic sector and bio-engineering; but above all, design is a tool that unites robotics, the internet of things, mechatronics and competences related to surgery and physiotherapy. Additionally, it also shows how today design is increasingly more at the service of sectors that relate to the life and health of humans, for example in the creation of innovative products with ceramic materials for use in regenerative medicine.

It highlights the interweaving of different companies which use alternative processes, together developing structures, tools and skills to generate a form of innovation that becomes more than the sum of its individual parts. The result of the processes unleashed by these ‘new’ chains is the creation of unique products that are capable of improving – and in many cases safeguarding – our everyday life.

DESIGN IS EVERYDAY

Produced in collaboration with ATER Fondazione.

27-30 January 2022

The performances, presented through oculus (Shelter by Saul Daniele Ardillo, Kepler and Meridiana by Diego Tortelli), nevertheless maintain a special relationship with the viewer: technology is not the object but the language of a new work, of a digital but never abstract dance.

Ritual and sacrifice are the key to interpreting Shelter by Saul Daniele Ardillo. Diego Tortelli puts two asymmetrical bodies in dialogue in Meridiana and creates micro / macro-worlds with Kepler, an almost science-fiction choreography.

The project has the support of the Ministry of Culture / Special Projects 2021.
With the participation of AGO MODENA FABBRICHE CULTURALI.
Technological development and user experience design by RE: Lab.
Video production & Editing by RIOT STUDIO.

Produced in collaboration with ATER Fondazione.