OPENING NIGHT SpotLight.Italy at The Canadian Stage Company

The Berkeley Street Theatre complex was transformed into an Italian salon where audiences can see four groundbreaking Italian contemporary dance and theatre productions, along with a series of free events featuring Italian fashion, music, food and art that will create a festival atmosphere. Between performances, guests can relax over Italian antipasti and a glass of wine in the Berkeley lobby while enjoying live music, contemporary light installations by BRUNO BILLIO and fashions by Versace and Carlucci, with different events taking place each night.

"LA NATURA DELLE COSE"

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.

Mar 15 – 19 at 7:00 pm

Berkeley Downstairs 



 "NUNZIO"



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.

Mar 15 – 17 at 8:30 pm, 

Mar 18 – 19 at 9:15 pm

Berkeley Upstairs

Dominic Mancuso  

Tuesday, March 15, 8:30-10:30 pm

2010 Juno Award winner for "World Music Album of the Year" and 2010 Canadian Folk Music Award winner for "World Solo Artist of the Year" Dominic Mancuso weaves in the warmth and passion of Sicilian folk sensibility, with the sliding quarter notes of the myriad sounds of the Mediterranean rim, with the vibrant elasticity of the idiom of soul and the wild swing of jazz and Romani freedom. Mancuso is an artist that transcends cultures and borders making old world new.



Everyday: Internationally acclaimed Italian artist BRUNO BILLIO uses light to transform the Canadian Stage Company's Berkeley location for Spotlight on Italy. At once an installation artist, a sculptor, and a designer, Billio's centrepiece will be an 18' tall Black and Yellow Tower. Everyday: Pieces from Versace's and Carlucci's latest collections will be on display.

 

 

Francesco Sframeli and Spiro Scimone cast of NUNZIO







BRUNO BILLIO with a performer from
LA NATURA DELLE COSE



This International theatre festival, Spotlight on Italy, is a two-week celebration of Italian arts and culture at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley Street) from March 15 to 26, 2011. Tickets are $22 or $32, with Spotlight 4-packs available at $80 to $116 at 416.368.3110 or www.canadianstage.com

This is a must see event!

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

Preview Photography's of BRUNO BILLIO's and Giovanni Cerri's work at The Canadian Stage Company

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery with The Italian Institute of Culture presents an installation by BRUNO BILLIO, at The Canadian Stage Company in occasion of “SpotLight on Italy” in honour of the 150th anniversary of the reunification of Italy. Tonight is the opening night of "La Natura Delle Cose", Berkeley Location.



Staging the front of the enterance of the
Canadian Stage Company by BRUNO BILLIO



"Black and Yellow Tower" by BRUNO BILLIO

"Black and Yellow Tower" by BRUNO BILLIO along side
CARLUCCI ~ by Fashion Desinger Juliana Carlucci

Courtyard staged by BRUNO BILLIO

 

Oil on Canvas by Giovanni Cerri


There is still time for you to get tickets for the opening night. Join us there at 6:00 when the doors open. "La Natura Delle Cose" starts at 7:00 p.m.
http://www.canadianstage.com/italy

 

BRUNO BILLIO

This installation consists in a 24-foot black and yellow sculpture and a transformation of the exterior and the interior of the building using The Canadian Stage Company's signature colour “yellow” in the mediums of light and yellow stripes. BRUNO BILLIO has exhibited in Milan, London, Miami, New York and Los Angeles.

De Luca Fine Art | Gallery is currently exhibiting “Stacked = Retrospect” a retrospective of over 15 years of works by BRUNO BILLIO. The show will run from March 10^th to March 31^st, 2011.

For More information on this event, BRUNO BILLIO or Giovanni Cerri, please contact the gallery: contact@delucafineart.com 

CARLUCCI is a women’s wear luxury brand.  Canadian born designer, Juliana Carlucci, is a recent graduate of Canada’s premiere Fashion school, Ryerson University. Her collections are practical, elegant and sophisticated, always striving to make women look and feel beautiful.
Please contact: Juliana Carlucci
info@julianacarlucci.com
http://www.julianacarlucci.com/

The Canadian Stage offers up Italian talent with “Spotlight”Program salutes anniversary of Italy’s unification,
shows by Sieni, Simone and Sagna
By Letizia Tesi

La natura delle cose.

The stylistic refinement of Virgilio Sieni, the tragic depth of Spiro Scimone, and the suggestive and the talents of Caterina Sagna, for an in-depth look at Italian contemporary theatre and dance, while also offering a taste of Toronto’s variegated multiculturalism. This is the objective Canadian Stage has set for itself, which from March 15 to 26 will present at Berkeley Street Theatre, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, “Spotlight on Italy”, an international theatre festival centred completely on Italy, both on and off the stage.
“‘Spotlight’ was conceived to reflect on the artistic and cultural diversity of Toronto,” says Matthew Jocelyn, Artistic and General Director of Canadian Stage. “We’re honoured to bring these artists to Canada – who with their art and talent will contribute to make the festival period unique.” Two weeks during which Berkeley Street Theatre will be completely transformed into an Italian pavilion where the public will not only get first opportunity to watch shows by Sieni, Simone, and Sagna, but also to enjoy a series of satellite events that fully reflect Italianità, from contemporary art and music, to cuisine and fashion.
Between shows in fact, audiences will be able to enjoy a glass of wine and a carefully planned selection of antipasti while strolling through installations by artist BRUNO BILLIO who took care of set-up and lighting.
Among music groups performing will be Domenic Mancuso’s ensemble, – he won a Juno last year – jazz guitarist David Occhipinti, the Antonio Ciacca Trio, best bass-player award-winner Roberto Occhipinti, Michael Occhipinti with his Sicilian Jazz Project, Vesuvius Ensemble with its repertoire of Neapolitan Baroque music, and Marco Calliari from Montreal. The fashion show – another expression of “Made in Italy” – will feature Versace and Carlucci, along with various other events each evening.
Italy is the first country to be highlighted by Canadian Stage, but the theatre company’s idea is to organize a biennial festival that displays the best of contemporary culture from communities that make up the variegated Toronto mosaic.

To Read more: http://www.corrieretandem.com/section.php?subsection=theatre&sectionno=10

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