2022-23 archive - teatro san materno

02.10
Sunday
at 17.00

CHF 25.– / CHF 20.– *

Anita Piscazzi & Michel Godard

Ferma l’Ali

For the first time, the Apulian writer Anita Piscazzi takes the stage together with the famous French musician Michel Godard.

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The melodies and warm sound of Godard's bass and serpent intertwine intimately with the intensely Mediterranean expression of Piscazzi's poetry.

Anita Piscazzi: voice
Michel Godard: serpent, tuba, electric bass

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23.10
Sunday
at 17.00

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Mario Batkovic

introspectio

Based on an unmistakable reference to minimal music, Mario Bratkovic seeks new musical possibilities for the accordion, in a blend of classic and contemporary experimental sounds.

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30.10
Sunday
at 17.00

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Building Bridges

seven bridges

Every year, seven musicians from different musical genres and different cultures meet at the Centro Incontri Umani in Ascona to develop a joint programme.

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Throughout this research, they develop a music which is fascinating, deeply authentic and unexpectedly harmonious.

Sanne Huijbregts (Netherlands): vocals, percussion
Gaurav Mazumdar (India): sitar
Oscar Antoli (Spain): clarinet
Bo Wiget (Switzerland): cello
Simone Bottasso (Italy): accordion
Nicolò Bottasso (Italy): trumpet, violin
Fan-Qi Wu (Taiwan): pipa, vocals

In collaboration with Migros Ticino Percento and Angela Hobart and Fondazione Centro Incontri Umani

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13.11
Sunday
at 17.00

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La vita comincia ogni giorno (Life begins every day)

A New Creation by Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

Dance-Theatre-Music

Letters from the Prague poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

On stage: a pianist, two dancers, an actor

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The reason for bringing the private life of Rainer Maria Rilke to the stage is his close friendship with the sacred dancer Charlotte Bara.
"Life begins every day" consists of letters which propel us into the visible world,
to talk about life, death, existence and imagination, in a hypnotic, concrete and radically experimental manner.

In collaboration with Migros Ticino Percento Culturale and the Foundation Pende

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19.11
Saturday
at 15.00

free entry

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A Conversation – the Soundtracks of Zeno Gabaglio

Gabaglio's Cosmos - Three Dates with Zeno Gabaglio

An afternoon of presentation and debate on the work of Zeno Gabaglio for cinema and theatre. The specific composition requirements for movie and theatre soundtracks will be discussed.

with the support of the Corymbo Foundation

With
Cristina Galbiati, compagnia Trickster-p
Erik Bernasconi, cinema director
Zeno Gabaglio, musician
Moderation: Giorgio Thoeni, giornalista

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19.11
Saturday
at 20.30

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Trio Niton con Giuliana Altamura e Roberto Mucchiut

Gabaglio's Cosmos - Three Dates with Zeno Gabaglio

A concert reminiscent of Charlotte Bara, in which a lot is tied up. "Cemento" is the title of the new album by Zeno Gabaglio's Trio Niton, an experimental electronic music project.

with the support of the Corymbo Foundation

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The music takes us into the sound cosmos of Zeno Gabaglio: for the first time, playing a part, are the lyrics of Giuliana Altamura, introduced in its texture by the writer herself. Roberto Mucchiut's graphic visuals, featuring historical images of Charlotte Bara and Monte Verità, complete this 'Gesamtkunstwerk'.

Zeno Gabaglio: electric cello, electronic music
El Toxyque: strings, woodwinds, sound materials, electronic music
Luca Xelius Martegani: electronic music, sound direction
Giuliana Altamura: texts, reading
Marta Malvestiti: literature
Roberto Mucchiut: visuals

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20.11
Sunday
at 17.00

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Mattia Zappa meets Zeno Gabaglio

Gabaglio's Cosmos - Three Dates with Zeno Gabaglio

The two renowned Ticino cellists could not be more different. On the one hand, the virtuous performer of classical works, on the other, the electro-acoustic cello with no stylistic boundaries and no possibilities for exploring new sounds.

with the support of the Corymbo Foundation

This unique encounter precisely feeds on this difference and on the awareness of the potential of mutual empowerment.

Zeno Gabaglio: Electro-acoustic cello
Mattia Zappa: Cello

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18.12
Sunday
at 17.00

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Andreas Gabriel Ensemble

Verändler - A Little Popular Music Symphony

With "Verändler", Andreas Gabriel created a modern popular music symphony. His work gathers an exceptional ensemble including well-known representatives of the "Neue Volksmusik" of German-speaking Switzerland.

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The somewhat alpine music gets pushed toward unexpected boundaries with minimal music, jazz and classical music. Andreas Gabriel, with no fear and with imagination, prepares the ground for the alpine music of the twenty-first century.

Andreas Gabriel: Violin
Martin Korrodi: Violin
Sabina Curti: Violin
Kristina Brunner: Cello
Pirmin Huber: Double bass, Büchel
Fränggi Gehrig: Accordion
Balthasar Streit: Trumpet
Roger Konrad: Trombone, Tenor horn, Alpine horn
Albin Brun: Tenor and soprano saxophone
Jürg Nietlispach: Guitar, Cittern

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22.01
Sunday
at 14.00

22.01
Sunday
at 17.00

CHF 15.– (limited places)

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Cenere (Ash)

Poetic Ritual 1 – For an Actress in an Empty Space

At 2 pm and replica 5 pm.

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The audience watches and takes part in a performance: a listening space – an example of future 'gymnastics', increasingly requiring the experiencing of reality (or the enhancement of reality) and involving the materiality of the body in action.

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This piece, based on traces of memory, is the result of a process embedded in it, in which the personal, the autobiographical and the collective levels merge together, with no separation between the process and the doing, between the public and the private. Resonance requires proximity. Proximity, however, is not the absence of distance: indeed, the roles are and remain clearly separated.
the performer on one side, the audience on the other.

Anahì Traversi: performer
Fabio Pusterla: texts
Nadir Vassena: music and direction

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05.02
Sunday
at 17.00

CHF 15.-

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Margini (Margins)

with Mathilde Vischer, Lou Lepori and Manolis Mourtzakis

The bilingual performance, spanning between poetry and music, is based on the prose poetry collection 'Lisières' by Mathilde Vischer, translated from French for Edizioni Sottoscala Bellinzona (December 2022). Central to this journey are the body and nature (the forest), childhood and difference, loneliness and death.

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Drifting from French to Italian (based on the translation by Lou Lepori), Mathilde Vischer's words interact with Manolis Mourtzakis' accordion.
In the theatre, some works by Muriel Zeender, the illustrator of the book, will be on display.

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05.03
Sunday
at 17.00

Fr. 15.- / Fr. 10.-

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Voice workshop: Pier Paolo Pasolini, LE CENERI DI GRAMSCI

A Scenic Reading

Curated by Fabio Pusterla
along with a group of young poetry lovers

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Led by Fabio Pusterla, this voice workshop involves a small group of young people, seriously interested in poetry, mainly chosen among the students at the Institute of Italian Studies of the University of Lugano. At its climax, the voicing of 'Le Ceneri di Gramsci', poetry collection by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a work in which the spoken word is one of the main themes.

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19.03
Sunday
at 17.00

Fr. 25.- / Fr. 20.-

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Bellezza-Dolore-Gioia

Figures for plastic thinking

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi
Based on an idea by Tiziana Arnaboldi and Fabio Merlini

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Three dancers, led by Tiziana Arnaboldi, question the mystery of art, facing the challenge of trying to represent it, or, in other words, of bringing the relationship between Beauty-Pain-Joy to life.

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01.04
Saturday
at 13.00

01.04
Saturday
at 15.00

02.04
Sunday
at 13.00

02.04
Sunday
at 15.00

Fr. 10.- (Fr. 8.- for AHV card holders, students, apprentices). Free admission up to age 16.

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“Autour du corps”

Venue: Parco delle Camelie, via Respini Locarno

For the '100 anni Camelie Locarno'

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

> Booking tickets on www.camellia.ch or phone +41 (0) 848 091 091

A cosmic journey in which everything revolves around a body dressed in nine concentric circles , evoking the cosmos and the earth. The two dancers draw traces of spirals, circles and lines, perhaps with the aim of encountering both the infinitely small point and the infinitely large point.

A tribute to the sacred dancer Charlotte Bara, who took part several times in the Festival of Camellias in Locarno.

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16.04
Sunday
at 17.00

Fr. 15.- / Fr. 10.-

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La Genesi, in Diretta

From Earth to Flesh, Paolo Borghi live

The unattainable perfection of the human body, the sculptor's endless work, immersed in their creative gesture of contemplating, modeling, shaping. The story of Paolo Borghi is a story of ancient knowledge, accompanied by a deep fascination with the human, its stories, its spirituality, from mythology to Christianity.

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In an exchange with Riccardo Blumer, Borghi approaches the secrets and stories whispered by the materials to the hands of the artist, in a moment of reflection and exploration of his admirable work, while transforming, live on stage, a block of earth into a human body.

On stage: Paolo Borghi

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23.04
Sunday
at 17.00

Fr. 20.- / Fr. 15.-

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Re-Designing Cities by means of Digital Communities

Federico Blumer and The Journey of Discovery

How about re-designing the urban space starting from the social networks?

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Federico Blumer is the head of a channel of cultural dissemination and promotion focused on the city of Venice, his adoptive city. Through the recounting of his experience, the social features of the urban space, and the potential of reconstruction of a lost community by exploiting social networks as a powerful dissemination tool, will take centre stage.

On stage: Federico Blumer

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28.04
Friday
at 20.30

29.04
Saturday
at 20.30

Fr. 25.- / Fr. 20.-

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La vita comincia ogni giorno

Letters from the Poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

Austrian poet, playwright and writer of Bohemian origin, Rilke is one of the most renowned German-speaking poets of the 20th century.

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On stage: two dancers, an actor and a pianist.

'Life begins every day' is a collection of letters which allow you to immerse yourself into a visible world, made up of human relationships, which in turn, are strengthened with even greater power and intensity in the invisible one. His thoughts are about life, death, existence and imagination, according to a hypnotic, concrete and radically experimental approach.

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07.05
Sunday
at 17.00

Fr. 20.- / Fr. 15.-

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Blue Love

The Silent Suffering of the Large aquarium

By means of the mediation of glass walls, an aquarium enforces a material separation between the aquatic and the terrestrial world, as well as an ontological separation between humanity and what we refer to as Nature.

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Its transparent character, which, at the same time, connects and separates, is the modernist expression of the relationship we have established with other species. Through a series of tales, we will descend into an impossible love story which will reveal us as losers, but perhaps, also, a little more, of our animal side.

On stage: Angela Rui

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13.05
Saturday
at 20.30

Fr. 25.- / Fr. 20.-

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ROSAROSAROSAE - La pelle delle immagini

ROSAROSAROSAE is a multimedia story which investigates the concept of living in relation to the body and the memory that lies in it.

Winner of the Festival PRESENTE/FUTURO 2022 of the Teatro Libero of Palermo and of the 'Residenza Teatro San Materno' award.

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A material and graphic project, aimed at the creation of a nomadic imaginary from which a story based on the metaphor of cinema develops.

ArtGarage – Pozzuoli

PianoBe

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03.06
Saturday
at 20.30

Fr. 25.- / Fr. 20.-

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NON MI SERVE NIENTE

by Manlio Marinelli

and costumes Luca Mazzone with Antonella Delli Gatti

Teatro Libero Palermo

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We tend to refer to the economy and labour as a series of numbers, statistics, flowcharts. Between
the 1980s and the 2010s, the GDP share in corporate profits gained 8 points, ie 120 billion euros per
year. This wealth ended up in profits instead of wages, resulting in income inequality having
widened enormously and workers' incomes plummeting. What humanity and what are the human
costs hidden behind the gap of a society in which the concept of work and value is based on social
accounting? To find an answer, Manlio Marinelli presents us a text which retraces the thought of
Karl Marx, specifically that of his early writings on philosophy and society, based on a polylogue that
explores the alienated and silently hurting humanity of contemporary society; that so-called liquid
society, which actually is, on the contrary, an oppressive swamp where the most terrible existential
butchery of the last fifty years is at play.

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28.07
Friday
at 20.30

29.07
Saturday
at 20.30

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Philosophy and Dance

Figures for Plastic Thinking

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

A show born out of the meeting of choreographer Tiziana Arnaboldi and philosopher Fabio Merlini.

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Three female figures, evoking just as many ideals of beauty (inspired by Botticelli, Dürer, Pre-Raphaelite art), highlight art's ability to transfigure pain and death into an intense experience of joy.

The show will be followed by a round table with art critic, painter and book author Dario Bianchi, choreographer Tiziana Arnaboldi, and the three dancers Eleonora Chiocchini, Marta Ciappina and Francesca Zaccaria.

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