Monday, February 28, 2011

SpotLight.Italy Schedule at the Canadian Stage Company

The Canadian Stage with the assistance of the De Luca Fine Art | Gallery and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in honour of the 150th anniversary of the reunification of Italy, is proud to present  SPOTLIGHT.ITALY, running March 15 - 26, 2011. This two-week festival features productions by innovative Italian companies and an abundance of artistic events, classes and experiences that honour modern Italian culture and art.


A BRUNO BILLIO and Jade Rude collaboration.
SPOTLIGHT ON ART
Everyday: Internationally acclaimed Italian artist BRUNO BILLIO uses light to transform the Canadian Stage Company's Berkeley location. Billio's centrepiece will be an 18' tall Black and Yellow Tower.




SPOTLIGHT.ITALY 10.11 marks the first year of our international Spotlight series, which will see the entire Berkeley complex transformed into a celebration of the groundbreaking contemporary theatre and culture of a particular foreign country.
LA NATURA DELLE COSE 
Choreography by Virgilio Sieni, collaboration on dramaturgical writing and translations Giorgio Agamben, with Ramona Caia, Massimiliano Barachini, Jacopo Jenna, Csaba Molnar, Daniele Ninarello.
Inspired by Lucretius’ ancient Roman text On the Nature of the Universe, this compelling dance theatre piece was conceived and choreographed to examine and explore the idea of the origin of things, vacuousness and nothingness.
March 15-19, 2011 Berkeley Downstairs

NUNZIO 

Text by Spiro Scimone, Directed by Carlo Cecchi, with Francesco Sframeli and Spiro Scimone.
A dialogue takes place between an ailing man who is happy merely to “wait and see” and his tough nomadic hero who is soft at heart – both alone in the world and partners in misfortune.
March 15-19, 2011 Berkeley Upstairs

BASSO OSTINATO

Choreography by Caterina Sagna, Text by Roberto Fratini Serafide,with Alessandro Bernardeschi, Antonio Montanile, Mauro Paccagnella.
Following an evening meal, three men converse with words, fragments, and gestures in this criticism of contemporary human efforts to mask decay and death under virtuosic form.
March 22-26, 2011 Berkeley Downstairs

LA FESTA

Text by Spiro Scimone, Directed by Gianfelice Imparato, with Francesco Sframeli, Spiro Scimone, Gianluca Casali.
La Festa is a brilliant examination of the family microcosm. Set in a small, abstract kitchen while preparing for a party, a father, mother, and son act out one day — amongst many — in a cruel but delightfully funny game of reciprocal intolerance.
March 22-26, 2011 Berkeley Upstairs


For more information regarding this show or for BRUNO BILLIO's work:
T: (1) 416-537-4699 contact@delucafineart.com
de luca fine art | gallery
1153-A Queen Street West, Unit 203
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 1J4