VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival

T.E.L.

Fanny & Alexander / Tempo Reale

15/10/2011 , 21:30
16/10/2011 , 21:30

Ideation Luigi de Angelis, Chiara Lagani
Dramaturgy Chiara Lagani
Direction, stage area, lights Luigi de Angelis
With Marco Cavalcoli (saturday 15), Chiara Lagani (sunday 16)
Music Mirto Baliani
Sound project and interactive systems Damiano Meacci/Francesco Casciaro (Tempo Reale)
Art advisor Tahar Lamri, Rodolfo Sacchettini
Photography Enrico Fedrigoli
Stagecraft design and realizer Nicola Fagnani (Ardis Lab)
Costumes realizers Laura Graziani Alta Moda and Laura Dondoli, based on a Loredana Longo's idea (2005/ OH HAPPY DAY/ ceremonial dresses in camouflage fabric)

Productiom Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
In co-production with Ravenna Festival, Fanny & Alexander, Tempo Reale
In collaboration with Festival delle Colline Torinesi - Torino Creazione Contemporanea, and Fondazione Teatro Piemonte Europa - Teatro a Corte, Santarcangelo 41 - Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza
And in collaboration with Rai Radio 3

Running time 1h

Reservation required

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
(The seven pillars of wisdom, Thomas Edward Lawrence)

T.E.L. is a device for utopian communications. Two actors, placed in two different places, distant in space, maybe also in time, passionately leaning out towards the same indomitable ghost. Two different audiences, simultaneous witnesses of their possible-impossible dialogue, barely aware of their reciprocal presence.

If you ride an uncertain track through the desert, any desert, you will certainly feel a kind of strange weariness, a desire to stop: after a few minutes of solitude in that place, you will seem to hear a soft sound, and you will start to ask yourself: a sound or a voice? From whom or what? How to describe it? Each sound, animal, wind, shot, voice, throat, known and unknown language will tell that somewhere else, surely not where you were stopping, something is happening, in an absolutely not discontinuous manner, with an apparently rhythmic scansion. Thus your stop will become alarmed, a part of that story of revolts and deserts, an accomplice to decisions, astonishment, horror, because the distance you listen to will be your own personal mirage, and you won't be able to stop listening: that noble and wretched sound refers to you.

http://www.fannyalexander.org

Fanny & Alexander / Tempo Reale

Fanny & Alexander is an art workshop founded in Ravenna in 1992 by Luigi de Angelis and Chiara Lagani. Fanny & Alexander produces events ranging across theatre, video and film productions, installations, performances, photographic exhibitions, conferences and study workshops, festivals and encounters. Since 2001 they have been managing the scenery workshop and production and rehearsal venue Ardis Hall, and since 2009, by means of anAgreement with Ravenna's City Council and with the cooperation of Associazione Almagià, the cultural venue Artificerie Almagià.

Luigi de Angelis, director, set designer, graphic artist, filmmaker, light and sound designer (Luigi Ceccarelli being his master), music assembler, performer. He has studied Gregorian Chant and piano. The direction and conception of his works always start from a relationship among music, sound space and scenic space, drawing on figurative arts and contemporary music repertoire.
Chiara Lagani is a dramaturgist, author, language scholar, costume designer and actress. She has been carrying out a complex work of cultural connection and thematic inquiry for years, together with scholars and researchers such as Stefano Bartezzaghi, Margherita Crepax, Florence de Meredieu, Alan Jay Edelnant, Jean Jacques Lecercle, Luca Scarlini holding not only workshops for actors all over Europe, but also lectures in academic contexts (Catholic University of Leuven - Belgium, University of Rennes - France, University La Sapienza of Rome, Dipartimento Spettacolo of Dams in Bologna) or at theatrical or cultural centres. In 1997 Marco Cavalcoli, actor, joined the company; he has cooperated with the theatre company Teatrino Clandestino in the shows Mondo Mondo (1995), Sinfonia Majakovskiana (1997), Ossigeno (2006).

Benchmark productions include Ponti in Core (1996), Requiem (2001), Alice vietato > 18 anni (2003), the three-year project Ada, cronaca familiare (2003-2005), Heliogabalus (2006), Strepito (2006), the project on Tommaso Landolfi including the shows Amore (2 atti) (2007) and K.313 (2007) and the ongoing pluriennal project on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz including the already released shows Dorothy. Disconcert for Oz (2007) Him (2007), Kansas (2008), Emerald City (2008), East (2008), There's no place like home (2009), Kansas Museum (2009), South (2009), North (2009), West (2010).

They have collaborated with the photographer Enrico Fedrigoli since 1999 and in 2003 Luigi de Angelis has been the curator together with Marco Martinelli (Teatro delle Albe’s director and dramaturgist), for the publishing house Longo, “Ravenna viso-in-aria”, a book of photos that drew a portrait in images of the city and its urban fabric depicted as a multifaceted mosaic of industrial architectural structures, bodies, theatrical visions and monuments.

In 2001 they started a cooperation on a video and cinematic opera project and on the use of video in theatre with Zapruder Filmakers Group winning the Werkleitz prize at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen for ‘outstanding artistic use of digital media’ and taking part in Biennale Cinema in Venice with their latest works in 3D.

In 2003 by arrangement with the University of Bologna they conducted training sessions involving students from the University for Interpreters and Translators in Forlì and from the Faculty of Architecture in Cesena.

Fanny & Alexander tour regularly in Italy and beyond. In Italy they have appeared in Milan, Rome, Palermo, Venice, Naples, Verona, Florence, Bari, Cagliari, Turin, Bologna, Parma, Trieste, Padua, Udine, Rimini, Mantua, Bolzano, Savona, Brescia, Cosenza and several other Italian towns. Outside Italy, invitations to appear have taken them to Berlin, Munich and Hamburg in Germany; Cardiff, Barry and Brighton in the UK; Rennes, Lille and Annecy in France; Brussels, Anvers and Louvain in Belgium; Ljubljana in Slovenia, Zagreb in Croatia, Belgrade in Yugoslavia, Sarajevo in Bosnia Herzogovina, Moscow in Russia, Budapest in Hungary, Beirut in Lebanon, Tampere in Finland, Athens in Greece, Skopje in Macedonia, Singapore, Groningen in Holland, Uppsala and Stockholm in Sweden, Evora in Portugal.

Co-productions have taken place in recent years with Ravenna Festival, Biennale di Venezia, Kulturfabrik Kampnagel in Hamburg, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts in Brussels, La Rose des Vents in Lille, Espace Malraux in Chambéry, Festival delle Colline Torinesi in Turin, Stuk in Leuven, Het-Toneelhuis in Anvers, Drodesera>Centrale Fies, CRT - Centro di Ricerca per il Teatro di Milano, Festival TTV in Riccione, Xing in Bologna, Macedonian Opera and Ballet in Skopje, Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia.

In 2002 they have implemented the web-site www.fannyalexander,org and in 2005 www. heliogabalus.org. The web-sites are conceived both as archives for communication and reporting, and as instruments of thematic inquiry and reflection.

In 2006 they have concluded a triennial project inspired by the novel by Nabokov Ada, producing theatre shows, installations and movies, publications and literary inquires. The integral presentation of the project took place in June 2006 at the Festival delle Colline Torinesi in Turin, in concurrence with the publication by Ubulibri of the book Ada – romanzo teatrale per enigmi in sette dimore liberamente tratto da Vladimir Nabokov, with an introduction by Cristina Ventrucci and essays by Chiara Alessi, Stefano Bartezzaghi, Marco Belpoliti, Margherita Crepax, Marina Grishakova, Rodolfo Sacchettini, Antonella Sbrilli, Luca Scarlini, Maria Sebregondi.

In 2007, with Zapruder Filmmakersgroup, they have published for Luca Sossella Editore the dvd Rebus per Ada: a cinematographic “slice” of the project Ada, cronaca familiare, a puzzle game in form of obsessive dream through the novel itself, with Stefano Bartezzaghi as puzzle consultant.

In 2007 the company started a new pluriennial research (2007-2010) inspired by L.F. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The first episode is a musical theatre show, paying homage to dizzy Europeras by J. Cage and including the first musical performance of Pygmalion by J.J. Rousseau and H. Coignet since the 18th Century: Dorothy. Disconcert for Oz made its dèbut at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet in Skopje, and was later performed in Hamburg and Berlin, at Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, at Teatro Palladium in Rome and at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna. In 2009 the company took part in Opera Futura, a project promoted by Regione Emilia Romagna whose first purpose was implementing an effective cooperation among opera theatres and research companies. South and North are two operas that are part of Opera Futura.

Fanny & Alexander recently completed, with the show West, the articulated project inspired by The Wizard of Oz, on which it has just produced for the publishing house Ubulibri a book titled O/Z, Atlas of a theatre journey.

In 2011 the company starts working on a triennial project on T. E. Lawrence, mostly known as Lawrence of Arabia.

As from 2009, Ravenna's City Council entrusted the management of the venue Artificerie Almagià to Fanny & Alexander, with the cooperation of Associazione Almagià. The main purpose of the Agreement and of the new management is promoting the activities and the young people's fuition of art, even if the rich and diversified programming often entwines with the paths of Ravenna Festival and Ravenna Teatro.

Tempo Reale was founded by Luciano Berio in 1987 and it is now one of the main European reference points for research, production and educational activities in the field of new musical technologies. Since its foundation the center has been committed to the production of Berio’s works, working on the most prestigious stages in the world. The development of quality and creativity criteria derived from these experiences reverberated itself in the work that is continuously carried on with other great composers and artists as well as young and emerging musicians. The main subjects of research reflect the polyhedral attitude of Tempo Reale towards music: the conception of great musical events, the study of real time sound processing and interaction between sound and space, the synergy between creativity, scientific competence, performative and educational rigour. Events, meetings and projects developed at a local level regularly come alongside the research activities in this areas. On such occasions the center cooperates with the main institutions of Tuscany, both in the field of music, theatre and dance, and in the promotion of a tight net of educational experiences.

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