Time Table

Thursday, 1 June, 2023

Opening: 27^ edition of the International Performing Arts Festival - Artisti in Piazza

Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson form BASKERY, a trio of sisters from Stockholm, Sweden. The group's motto, go where the music takes them, has created organic growth and their energetic and diverse live shows have made them an attractive and sought-after live band. They were chosen as support groups for Gary Clark Jr, Robbie Williams, Seth Lakeman, Lukas Nelson and Brandi Carlile.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

ANTIPODI (Antipodes), the title of COMPAGNIA DROMOSOFISTA's show, is the union of different styles and techniques of figure theater, from Chinese shadows to object manipulation to physical theater. Three characters invite the audience to follow them on a journey to the antipodes of the world. It is a surreal journey on a miniature horse, amid wacky characters and tiny shadow men on the run.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

The RiCiclo GIOSTRA A PEDALI (Pedal Carousel) project proposes to interact and entertain children from 2 to 10 years old in a simple and genuine way, with an eco-carousel composed of eight black horses, made from recycled materials and pushed by a carny in the center. A journey back to the simplicity of gestures, it gives amazement to adults who are enchanted and stay to watch.

SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN 2-10 YEARS OLD

An-ki, the new show by ORTIGA, is the fantasy created by a girl, Adja, to sustain the reality of her world, where waves of ghosts appear among the woods, bringing down her dreams.
Adja and her family will search for the roots of their past and hope for the future to cope with the bleak existence that surrounds them. 

NATIONAL PREMIERE | NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 8 YEARS OLD

The SAMOVAR COMPANY is an artistic weave of musical clown, comic-poetic theater and gimmicks that has its artistic roots in Eastern Europe. OFFICINA OCEANOGRAFICA SENTIMENTALE (Sentimental Oceanographical Office), 15 minutes of apnea to understand how deep the sea is because thought like the ocean you cannot block it. All of us, from Odysseus to Noah to Aylan, have gone through water to search for life. Performance of spatulas, casters and waves for 7 travelers in the Roulotteatro.

SUITABLE FOR ALL (RECOMMENDED AGE +4 YEARS)

IL SOGNO CLOWN & BUBBLES - A bizarre clown with an old-fashioned cart leads the spectator on a journey with an ancient flavor, where the real stars are the giant soap bubbles that fill the space, enveloping the spectator in a dreamlike, evanescent and poetic reality.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

JON KENZIE is a soulful performer and singer-songwriter from England with musical roots in blues and folk. He has a powerful and deep voice that can enrapture and amaze listeners. At Artisti in Piazza he will perform songs from his new solo album Silent Applause.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

Two voices, an accordion and a mini drum set ready to amaze the unwary passer-by and the intrepid listener with cheeky and ironic mashups that definitively break down gender differences. Pioneer of the drum'n'fisa sound, WUNDER TANDEM mix hits and catchphrases from Billboard in a caustic and unpredictable way.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

Combining analog synths, didgeridoos, percussion, hang drums, children's toys, beat-boxing and a loop station, Riccardo's "one-man-band" project, TRIBALNEED, is at the forefront of electronic-tribal sounds.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

ERMELINDA COCCIA's research links pictorial and multimedia techniques and finds meaning in Sand Art. LIFE is a thin thread that binds us to life, a thread that gently draws our destiny, sometimes leaving us with the ability to move it as we wish.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

The TEATRI MOBILI troupe returns to Pennabilli with an en plein air version: four open-air theater spaces are formed around the Truck Theater. The first is dedicated to Emotional Theaters (Electro-mechanical Theaters for one person at a time). The second space intended to host "Manoviva" by the Girovago & Rondella Company and the third stage intended for the Dromosophista Company with the show "Antipodes." The fourth will present a new attraction, co-produced by Ultimo Punto: "The Wandering Puppet Museum".

CIRCUS IN MOTION is a contemporary circus arts company that offers social circus workshop and visually captivating circus performances.
LE PETIT BAR (The little bar) is a circus and juggling show centered on the objects typically found in a bar to leave you breathless! The artist performs truly bizarre tricks with his dishes: stacks glasses on the blade of a knife and bottles that can multiply, mixes fried chicken with wine but soon the chicken comes to life!

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

THIS MAAG has been performing for more than 30 years throughout Europe and overseas with its hilarious and engaging street theater shows. In Pennabilli, the artist presents the show DAS IST DER GIPFEL! (This is the summit!), an extraordinary Alpine folly with EU-certified Swiss humor! A quirky comedy that questions conventions, from gender boundaries to self-image, with a comedy reminiscent of Leo Bassi's performances.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

The SAMOVAR COMPANY is an artistic weave of musical clown, comic-poetic theater and gimmicks that has its artistic roots in Eastern Europe. OFFICINA OCEANOGRAFICA SENTIMENTALE (Sentimental Oceanographical Office), 15 minutes of apnea to understand how deep the sea is because thought like the ocean you cannot block it. All of us, from Odysseus to Noah to Aylan, have gone through water to search for life. Performance of spatulas, casters and waves for 7 travelers in the Roulotteatro.

SUITABLE FOR ALL (RECOMMENDED AGE +4 YEARS)

FROM A SUITCASE is the one mime show of ENRICO MAZZA, a mime as elegant as he is wacky, who will take the audience into an upside-down world where even the most common objects, such as a roll of scotch tape or a letter envelope, change nature and become play. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE 
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PERHAPS CONTRAPTION is an award-winning brass band from London. Part choir, part chamber orchestra, part avant rock, they create a truly unique musical experience fusing elements of jazz, punk, art pop and post-minimalism.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

ANTIPODI (Antipodes), the title of COMPAGNIA DROMOSOFISTA's show, is the union of different styles and techniques of figure theater, from Chinese shadows to object manipulation to physical theater. Three characters invite the audience to follow them on a journey to the antipodes of the world. It is a surreal journey on a miniature horse, amid wacky characters and tiny shadow men on the run.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

The SAMOVAR COMPANY is an artistic weave of musical clown, comic-poetic theater and gimmicks that has its artistic roots in Eastern Europe. OFFICINA OCEANOGRAFICA SENTIMENTALE (Sentimental Oceanographical Office), 15 minutes of apnea to understand how deep the sea is because thought like the ocean you cannot block it. All of us, from Odysseus to Noah to Aylan, have gone through water to search for life. Performance of spatulas, casters and waves for 7 travelers in the Roulotteatro.

SUITABLE FOR ALL (RECOMMENDED AGE +4 YEARS)

ECHO TOWN are brothers Ric and Rob Harrison. They bring to the stage a tribal percussive fire with a powerful drums, a didgeridoo with deep reverberation, uplifting voices and a happiness that can only be experienced live.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

CHO KAIRIN is a master of balance, precision and strength, the last of a long family dynasty of acclaimed Chinese acrobats. Chinese Super Acrobat Cho Kairin is a traditional show (with a few thousand years of history) featuring acrobatics, acting, juggling, transformation and more. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE | NATIONAL PREMIERE 

ERMELINDA COCCIA's research links pictorial and multimedia techniques and finds meaning in Sand Art. LIFE is a thin thread that binds us to life, a thread that gently draws our destiny, sometimes leaving us with the ability to move it as we wish.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

Singing or...not singing? Just making sounds? Just a big group of people using their mouths? STEPHEN TABERNER has 30 years of experience in getting ordinary people to make extraordinary sounds. In THE BIG SINGLET all voices will be joined together in a wise and foolish exploration of mash ups, percussive bon bons and fragments of vocal anthems to make something that is beautiful, loud, and above all, human.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE 

NANCY & GINO are two giant puppets. They come out of a trunk and there is magic! A grandiose unexpected Tango. Born from the imagination of Elisa Conti, they have been brought to the Stage by Wanda since 2022.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (RECOMMENDED AGE: + 6 YEARS OLD)
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An-ki, the new show by ORTIGA, is the fantasy created by a girl, Adja, to sustain the reality of her world, where waves of ghosts appear among the woods, bringing down her dreams.
Adja and her family will search for the roots of their past and hope for the future to cope with the bleak existence that surrounds them. 

NATIONAL PREMIERE | NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 8 YEARS OLD

MAURO PAGANINI builds his own instruments, puppets and sets to create highly personal performances where aesthetics and music serve a dramaturgy that is both social and topical as well as surreal and funny. FAMIGLIA GARDELON (Gardelon Family) invites us to experience the complicated reality of a family of immigrant artists traveling through Europe, offering their art and searching for their identity through humor, music and theater.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (RECOMMENDED AGE +7)

The TEATRI MOBILI troupe returns to Pennabilli with an en plein air version: four open-air theater spaces are formed around the Truck Theater. The first is dedicated to Emotional Theaters (Electro-mechanical Theaters for one person at a time). The second space intended to host "Manoviva" by the Girovago & Rondella Company and the third stage intended for the Dromosophista Company with the show "Antipodes." The fourth will present a new attraction, co-produced by Ultimo Punto: "The Wandering Puppet Museum".

IL SOGNO CLOWN & BUBBLES - A bizarre clown with an old-fashioned cart leads the spectator on a journey with an ancient flavor, where the real stars are the giant soap bubbles that fill the space, enveloping the spectator in a dreamlike, evanescent and poetic reality.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

JON KENZIE is a soulful performer and singer-songwriter from England with musical roots in blues and folk. He has a powerful and deep voice that can enrapture and amaze listeners. At Artisti in Piazza he will perform songs from his new solo album Silent Applause.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

LA BURLA (The Prank) by MADAME REBINÉ deals with the theme of change by recounting the denouement of a business. The three characters confront their emotions in search of stability.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

Oizulí - A Sweet & Sweat Music Show is a dramatized concert, an exciting mix of rhythms, languages and melodies, original and traditional, in search of spices and spaces between music and theater. Interpreter of a repertoire without labels, SAFFRAN! connects on an imaginary line the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Latin America, to reflect in music what its polyglot soul has always spoken.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

APOCALYPSO is a co-production between the company BUFFPAPIER (CH) and the company TÊTES DE MULES (FR). In a revolving, tilting trailer that serves as a walking shooting gallery, six characters flail madly in a frantic race toward success: "Get close, pull, win, pick a prize! ". But what is success when playing with the Apocalypse? With drums, guitars and trumpet, the colorful troop of this merry-go-round sails straight toward its certain destruction. Clichés are twisted, plastic is eaten, guts spilled, mass consumption sung, and all that, in order to finally appreciate.... the silence.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE | NATIONAL PREMIERE

A new attraction lands in the square: the Wandering Puppet Museum (Il Museo delle Marionette Erranti), a collection of automated puppets from 5 continents, 7 small theaters, 7 distant and related places on the journey inside the cloister museum. Between the exhibition and the performance, the cloister invites the audience to an initiation into the ancient and surprising world of animated figures.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (MINIMUM RECOMMENDED AGE +3 YEARS)

Combining analog synths, didgeridoos, percussion, hang drums, children's toys, beat-boxing and a loop station, Riccardo's "one-man-band" project, TRIBALNEED, is at the forefront of electronic-tribal sounds.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

The SAMOVAR COMPANY is an artistic weave of musical clown, comic-poetic theater and gimmicks that has its artistic roots in Eastern Europe. OFFICINA OCEANOGRAFICA SENTIMENTALE (Sentimental Oceanographical Office), 15 minutes of apnea to understand how deep the sea is because thought like the ocean you cannot block it. All of us, from Odysseus to Noah to Aylan, have gone through water to search for life. Performance of spatulas, casters and waves for 7 travelers in the Roulotteatro.

SUITABLE FOR ALL (RECOMMENDED AGE +4 YEARS)

NANCY & GINO are two giant puppets. They come out of a trunk and there is magic! A grandiose unexpected Tango. Born from the imagination of Elisa Conti, they have been brought to the Stage by Wanda since 2022.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (RECOMMENDED AGE: + 6 YEARS OLD)
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CIRCO MARAVIGLIA presents I FRATELLI MARAVIGLIA (The Maraviglia Brothers), the peninsula's favorite fakirs of grandmothers. Using only two flashlights, a board of nails and broken glass (as well as overflowing charm), the two brothers will enchant the crowds by demonstrating the ancient and secret techniques of fakirism, learned during a long journey to the mysterious lands of San Giovanni in Persiceto. 45 minutes of pure madness, including fire spitting, improbable choreography and big laughs!

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE
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CIRCUS IN MOTION is a contemporary circus arts company that offers social circus workshop and visually captivating circus performances.
LE PETIT BAR (The little bar) is a circus and juggling show centered on the objects typically found in a bar to leave you breathless! The artist performs truly bizarre tricks with his dishes: stacks glasses on the blade of a knife and bottles that can multiply, mixes fried chicken with wine but soon the chicken comes to life!

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

The RASOTERRA CIRCO company was born in Brussels in 2010 from the desire to give form to the intense physical and creative work of Damiano Fumagalli and Alice Roma. With HAPPINESS they give us a reflection on happiness: how to find the balance between being content with what one has and pursuing one's dreams? Staging small, ordinary conflicts, the two protagonists develop possible relationships by taking them to extremes to show the viewer how much "point of view" can affect one's experience.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

From the murky streets of London comes something big... and noisy! RUM BUFFALO have rocked the UK underground music scene with a unique brand of jazzy Psych-Rock and are ready to take the stage with their debut album Blood Moon.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE