La MaMa Spoleto Open 2013, is an event to curated by La MaMa Umbria International, an artistic residency, study and production center founded from Ellen Stewart (former founder and artistic director of La MaMa E.T.C. Theatre in New York) to Spoleto in 1990. The event, realized in collaboration with the City of Spoleto and the involvement of numerous local associations and international partners, aims to encourage the city to open up and come alive, creating an atmosphere of curiosity and ferment to give support and visibility to emerging realities in the Italian and international artistic scene.

For the 2013 edition, La MaMa Umbria Center will host Irina Brook's company in residence to prepare the new production of La Trilogie des Iles, which will premiere at the Festival dei 2Mondi. New collaborations will also be activated with the Accademia di Arte Drammatica in Rome, Teatro la Pergola and the Cultcube Association in Florence for the Florence for Fringe project. Art Talks, a series of lectures/dialogues on the art of theater, organized under the auspices of the International Theatre Institute, will also be inaugurated.

Thanks to the collaboration with the Il Borgo Association and the involvement of a number of local eateries (Restaurant 900, Pizzeria Rosticceria Zeppelin and the Mirco della Vecchia Chocolate Shop), the Piazzetta on Jesuit Street will become one of the Festival's reception and meeting places: a tasting point for typical products, wines and sweets, a lively and always active space with live music and performances of various kinds, a reference point for the public and artists, open to young people, tourists and to all citizens.

This year's program features a selection of proposals in theater, dance, music and visual arts, including a number of artists who won the 2012 international call for proposals. These have been invited to to carry out Creative Residencies at La MaMa Umbria, to create new works that will be presented to Spoleto as world premieres.

program

friday June 28 at 22.30
Saturday, June 29 at 20.30
Sunday, June 30 at 17.00 and 22.30

Cantiere Oberdan

Dancing Goat Company (Figure Theater)

the fairy and the charcoal burner and sleep.

by and with Laura Bartolomei and James Davies

The company presents two of their repertoire shows. A visually stunning miniature theater, suitable for both children and adults. Almost completely wordless, music and silence make from support for the actions of the characters, manipulated to sight. An exhibition of puppets produced by the company in recent years will accompany the performances. The puppets will be set up and exhibited in the performance space, along with some sketches and set designs.


Wednesday, July 3 at 10:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 4 at 6 p.m.
friday July 5 at 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 6 at 6 p.m.

Oberdan Yard

Cultcube Association / Pergola Theater Foundation

under the patronage of the City of Florence

PUGS OF SULFUR.

written, directed and performed from Maurizio Lombardi

Sulfur Fists is an intense monologue in Italian and Sicilian dialect. Set in late 19th-century Italy, it tells the story of a boxer's childhood, amid dreams, fears and games to escape death and the descent into the hell of the sulfur mine. Here the "carusi," seven- to eight-year-old children, break their backs to bring sulfur, Sicily's new wealth, to the surface. The text draws inspiration from from a poem by the great Sicilian poet Ignazio Buttitta (1899 - 1997), titled to li matri de li carusi, an accusation addressed to the mothers of these children sent underground, deprived of sunlight and a true childhood The bare stage is filled by actor Maurizio Lombardi, a versatile artist, who here plays multiple characters, in a performance that uses the body as a narrative tool.


friday 5 July at 6 p.m.
Saturday, July 6 at 10:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 7 at 5 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

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NI UNA MÁS

text by Mia Parissi

direction and lighting by Nerina Cocchi

with Giovanna Scardoni

scenes and costumes by Giulia Pecorari

music by Davide Fensi

virtual orchestration and sounds by Michele Busdraghi

photography by Andrea Messana and Marco Borrelli

video by Daniel Pinheiro

It is the voice of a woman calling for eyes to be opened to feminicide, to this violence that isolates, that limits, that kills. Written from Mia Parissi, staged from Nerina Cocchi and performed from Giovanna Scardoni, this monologue is also a bodily and emotional journey for the viewer. The score of text and music, contrasting to that of the actress's movement amidst a set of shards, makes the viewer experience a fracture of his own history and feeling. Guiding him or her through images of bones breaking and green eyes piercing the heart, and expressing the beauty of the human spirit that animates us, and elevates us, all, Ni una más becomes a visceral, rhythmically precise and unsettling experience that calls into question the eternal conflict between fear and action, desire and wisdom. All this to ask, really, what is a "victim." Where is the line between "no" and "yes"? Where is it that we lose consciousness of the human in ourselves and become "victims," but also "executioners," of others and ourselves?

Tuesday, July 9 at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, July 10 at 10:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 11 at 6 p.m.
friday July 12 at 10:30 p.m.

Oberdan Shipyard

Singing Actors, Seoul (Korea)

and Cole Laptop Ensemble, California (USA)

LOVE AND DREAM, PAINTED WITH SONGS

New musical vignettes

directed by Byungkoo Ahn

music director Martin Herman

A new operatic experiment, composed from a series of 5-minute-long dramatizations of various Art Songs (Lieder or Art Songs). Singing Actors is an experimental musical theater group from Korea, a collective consisting of from very talented singing actors, all with classical musical training. Their goal is to seek new forms of musical theater, different from the traditional operatic repertoire. Singing Actors' productions have been successfully performed at the Korean National Theater on two different occasions.

Love and Dream, Painted with Songs is the second part of a three-part production, a series of musical vignettes that will be developed in Residence at La MaMa Umbria, thanks to a collaboration with the Cole Laptop Ensemble of Los Angeles. These musical vignettes are mini-dramatizations of operatic songs from the tradition. Singing Actors integrates these songs with impressionistic scenes written by director Byungkoo Ahn and sound settings created by the Cole Laptop Ensemble. These non-narrative paintings present moments of lived life, taking inspiration from a character, or idea, borrowed from the most well-known musical literature. The Cole Laptop Ensemble is a group of composers/performers/audio engineers, based to Long Beach, California, who explore the boundaries between sound, contemporary art, computer music, video art, performance and interactive technologies. Recently, the Laptop Ensemble was invited to the 2012 Soundwalk Festival and MERGE Festival to Long Beach. It also performed for John Cage's 100th birthday celebration with a series of concerts to Los Angeles, drawn from Songbooks I and II selections. The ensemble is directed from Martin Herman with Seth Shafer and Zach Lovitch, assistant directors and technicians. Nick Venden specializes in theater and video production and interactivity. Performers are Glen Grigio, Matthew Lourtie, Eric Malczewski, Justin Scheid, Justin Kennedy and Nick Venden.

Tuesday, July 9 at 22:30
Wednesday, July 10 at 18:00
Thursday, July 11 at 22:30
friday July 12 at 18:00

Oberdan Shipyard

Idiot Savant/Ludwig

THE LOST HUSBAND

from George Dandin of Moliere

with Pier Paolo D'Alessandro, Matthieu Pastore, Laura Serena, Simone Tangolo, Anahì Traversi

translation Matthieu Pastor

scenes and costume Eleonora Rossi

directing assistance Mattia Sartoni

direction and dramaturgy Filippo Renda

The reference text is Moliere's George Dandin, retranslated and repurposed, focusing on two fundamental themes. The first is that of betrayal as the only way to progress and elevate the quality of life. The second is that of consistency of judgment. When one witnesses or becomes to aware of a conflict between two opposing forces, man tends to to sympathize with one of them and consequently to have aversion to the other; in short, he tends to to distribute justices and abuses. The set design is very basic: Dandin's house, a toy house, the terminal where arrivals, departures, hiding places, pulpits weave into the dramaturgical texture. The costumes will be set in the 1960s, as will the music, ironic, disorienting and disturbingly candid.


Sunday, July 14

ART TALK - DIALOGUES ON THEATER

Estelle Parsons

Dan Saffer

ART TALK NO.1
DIALOGUES ON THEATER

The first in a series of meetings with international guest speakers, theater professionals who will hold advanced training courses at La MaMa Umbria Center. During these meetings, artists will talk about their idea of theater, presenting their work and answering questions from the audience. The goal is to unveil, through engaging and entertaining informal conversations, the artists' creative process, making it accessible even to the uninitiated.

from friday June 28 to Sunday, July 14

VISUAL ARTS

at the OBERDAN YARD

opening friday June 28, from at 5 p.m.

Virginia Ryan

SHIFT/RUE DU COMMERCE

Virginia Ryan is an interdisciplinary artist who was born in Australia and trained in Australia and Italy, which has become her second home. Ryan has worked internationally for over thirty years, making a variety of works in painting, photography, sculpture, installations, solo exhibitions and collaborations with other artists, anthropologists and musicians. He currently lives and works between Italy and the Ivory Coast.

Sylvestre Zorozo Bruly Bouabre

WORKS ON PAPER 2010/13

Sylvestre Bruly Bouabré was born in 1973 à Zepreguhé, near Daloa, Ivory Coast.

The son of renowned artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, aka Cheik Nadro, he was introduced to art by assisting his father from a young from age. He has continued with his painting and is featured in several collections in Côte d'Ivoire. Sylvestre is president of the Bruly Bouabré Association. Sylvestre Zorozo Bruly Bouabre's exhibition is curated from Virginia Ryan.

La Mayou

CERAMIC SCULPTURES

in Corso Garibaldi - Art in Showcase

grand opening friday June 28 from at 4 p.m.

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