VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival - Amore e Carne

Amore e Carne

Concerto

Pippo Delbono / Alexander Balanescu

17/10/2011 , 21:00

Ideation Pippo Delbono e Alexander Balanescu
Violin Alexander Balanescu

Running time 1h 20'

Saturday 15th of October 2011
Sala Truffaut/Via Degli Adelardi, 4-Modena
At 4,00 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Screening of the film
AMORE CARNE
Directed by Pippo Delbono 75’ (Italy/Switzerland 2011)
with: Pippo Delbono, Irène Jacob, Marisa Berenson, Sophie Calle
The film will be screened at Modena after its première at the last edition of Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica Biennale in Venice

Those who have the tickets of Pippo Delbono’s performances, Dopo la battaglia (14-15/10) at Teatro Storchi in Modena and Amore e Carne (17/10) at Teatro Comunale in Carpi, both in VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival programme, can get a reduced ticket to the film at Sala Truffaut (4 €).
Members of the audience of the film Amore Carne, showing the ticket of Sala Truffaut can get a discount of 5 € for the show Amore e Carne on October 17th at Teatro Comunale di Carpi

A journey within music and poetry.
Amore e Carne born from the meeting of two great artists: Alexander Balanescu and his violin by one side and Pippo Delbono and his voice by the other. The Romanian artist is a great musician, he is now a world’s citizen. He is the leader of his quartet and in this show he will meet verse by poets and high-brows of the past century such as Paolo Pasolini, Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman and Thomas Stern Eliot, declaimed on stage by Delbono.

This concert is my meeting with my violin, the violin my father used to play in the evening, when he came back home. The violin one day he sold. The violin I have not heard playing any more. The violin that belongs to an assumed family tie that I have with Nicolò Paganini. Devil’s violinist. When I heard Alexander Balanescu playing violin, I heard inside him that notes were coming out like soul’s screams. I heard again those notes that did not made me sleep when I was a child. And I heard inside him the poem of many other lives, of the pride of a people, the poem of a bitter-sweet land: Rumania.
Voice and violin came closer mixing themselves with the words of Pasolini, Rimbaud, Whitman, Eliot to find those secret, maybe magic, wires which put together people and stories, despite all differences, beyond nations, beyond languages, beyond being here and alive, beyond being already passed away. Who knows, maybe music is that secret tale that gives harmony and links things together.

Pippo Delbono / Alexander Balanescu

Pippo Delbono, author, actor, director, was born in Varazze (SV) in 1959.
He began his studies of dramatic art in a traditional school he left in research for a new theatrical language. He decided to study the principles of eastern theatre, where is central a detailed and strict work of the actor on the body and on the voice, where theatre and dance meet and merge.
At the beginning of the Eighties, he founded Pippo Delbono Company with whom he represented all his performances, from Il tempo degli assassini (1987) to La Menzogna (2008). The are not representations of theatrical texts but entire creations where the actors are part of a stable core that grows up through the time.
The meeting with people coming from emarginated areas of society brings a turning in his poetical research. From this encounter came out Barboni (1997). Some of these actors, for example Bobò, a deaf-and-dumb person met in the mental hospital of Aversa after 45 years spent there, strenghtened their work inside the company and are today a basic part of the experience.
The performances - La rabbia, dedicated to Pasolini, Guerra, Esodo, Gente di plastica, Urlo, Il silenzio, Questo Buio Feroce and the other already mentioned- have been represented in more than 50 countries.
The experience of Pippo Delbono Company has been hosted in a lot off different theatrical International festivals, between them Avignon Festival which welcomed the company three times, coproduced the performance Urlo and hosted “La Menzogna”, the last theatrical production, in July 2009. A lot of theatres dedicated a retrospective to Pippo Delbono work, one of these the Théâtre du Rond Point in Paris.
Enrico V, the only creation based on a theatrical text- the historic drama by Shakespeare – has been represented – as the only Italian performance - at Royal Shakespeare Company.
Since a lot of years Pippo Delbono made researches on the language of cinema. In 2003 after the tournée in Israel/Palestina, he has shoot the film Guerra, presented at Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, and at David of Donatello as the best documentary. His second film, Grido (2006), has been presented at Festa del Cinema in Roma. For Teatro Sperimentale of Spoleto he realized the opera Studio per Obra Maestra. Actually he is working at his third film and at different artistic, cultural and editorial projects.
He published Barboni – Il teatro di Pippo Delbono with Ubulibri; Mon théâtre, edited by Actes Sud; Le corps de l’acteur, edited by Les Solitaires Intespestifs; El teatro de la rabia, edited by Punto Aparte; Récits de juin, edited by Actes Sud; Racconti di giugno, edited by Garzanti; Ecrivains de plateau, by Bruno Tackels published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs; Teatrul Meu, edited by „Fundatia Culturala Camil Petrescu“ and Corpi senza menzogna with Leonetta Bentivoglio and edited by Barbes.
He won the Ubu special prize for the performance Barboni, the Olimpic prizes for theatrical innovation with the performances Gente di Plasitca and Urlo, the Critic prize for Guerra and the Europa Prize for the new theatre in Wroclaw (Poland) in 2009.
In 2008 he participated as actor to the film Io sono l’amore by Luca Guadagnino and in 2009 he shot with his mobile phone the film La Paura.

Alexander Balanescu is one of the most visionary, touching violinist and prolific composer this day and age. His repertoire it’s based on contemporary music, but Balanescu has always had a gaze toward the future. Born in Romania, he started to attend the special music school in Bucarest when he was seven years old. He continued his studies in Jerusalem at the Rubin Academy with Yair Kless, in London at the Trinity College with Bela Katona and from 1975 to 1979 in New York at the Julliard School with Dorothy Delay. When he moved back to London, he collaborated with several groups among the most important of the musical scene of the 80s, as for example the London Sinfonietta. In 1979 Balanescu has become director of the Michael Nyman Ensemble, with which he has travelled around the world for 15 years. In the same period he took part in the Gavin Bryars Ensemble. Before he has constituted his own quartet in 1987, going on tour all around USA and Europe, Balanescu has taken part in the Arditti Quartet for four years. Until now the Balanescu Quartet has played over 25 compositions ordered by musicians such as Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Kevin Volans or written by Balanescu himself. In 2007 the Opera North entrusted him with the task of setting a sonnet by Shakesperare to music, for the presentation of Shakespeare’s complete work by the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the same year released The Way I Spent the End of the World, a Rumanian film presented for the first time to Cannes, for which Balanescu obtained the prestigious Gopo Award for best soundtrack.
His more and more intensive tie with his Rumanian roots made him start the collaboration with the great singer and actress Ada Milea, with who he collaborated to the pièce The Isalnd and to other projects that will be achieved soon.

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