AFTER THE TEMPEST
A PARTICIPATORY THEATRE PROJECT AND A LARGE OPEN-AIR THEATRICAL EVENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES IN THE PLACES AFFECTED BY THE VAIA STORM, BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE COMMUNITIES OF TODAY AND TOMORROW
1 JULY 2023
LAGO DELLE RANE – BASELGA DI PINÉ (TN)
On Saturday 1 July at Lago delle Rane in Baselga di Piné (TN), one of the areas hardest hit by Storm Vaia in 2018, AFTER THE STORM, a day of appointments and a large en plein air theatrical event on the themes of climate change, constituting the final restitution of a collective community development project, under the artistic direction of the Nogravity4monks Collective and Laurence Trembaly-Vu, produced by ariaTeatro, with the contribution of the Autonomous Province of Trento, sponsored by the Municipality of Baselga di Pinè, with the support of Azienda per il Turismo Trento e Monte Bondone, Consorzio C. O.Piné, start-up VAIA, Fondazione Luzzati Teatro della Tosse.
PROGRAMME OF THE DAY
04:00 PM
departure from Serraia Lake, parade/march of the young inhabitants who will arrive at the Frog Lake, each with a small plant that will be planted, for a total of 300 new trees to compensate for the CO2 emissions produced by the evening event
05.00 pm
Reforestation by the start-up company VAIA, one of the supporters of the project, and in collaboration with the Asuc and the Corpo Forestale. Also present will be Federico Stefani, one of the three young founders of this reality, committed to the reforestation of the Dolomites thanks to a sustainable business model, attentive to the needs of the territory and the communities living it.
07:00 pm
Francesco Boer, author of Troverai più nei boschi. Manuale per decifrare i segni e i misteri della natura, Il Saggiatore edizioni
dialogues with Sara Filippi Plotegher, author and illustrator of Street Trees. Manuale di convivenza con il verde urbano, edizioni Quinto Quarto
meeting organised by Libreria due punti of Trento.
08:00 pm
Paolo Costa, author of L’arte dell’essenziale. Un’escursione filosofica nelle terre alte, edizioni Bottega Errante
will dialogue with Michele Nardelli, co-author of Il monito della ninfea. Vaia, the mountain, the limit, Bertelli editions
meeting organised by Libreria due punti in Trento.
Around the appointments music and food at the Baita del Mett
09:45 pm
AFTER THE TEMPEST theatrical event en plein air organised by the Nogravity4monks collective
I love you, and I will show you
all the qualities of the island,
the freshwater springs, the salt pools,
the barren soils and the fertile ones.
I love you, and I will show you
all the qualities of the island,
the freshwater springs, the salt pools,
the barren soils and the fertile ones.
AFTER THE TEMPEST marks the final stage of a journey that lasted about a year (from July 2022) during which artists, citizens, institutions and companies in the area worked together through meetings, interviews, workshops, and studies of spaces to give life to a large participatory theatrical event, with a low environmental impact, that could represent a new relationship between places, stories and people affected by this recent natural disaster.
A community theatre not to forget, a stimulus to active cultural participation by citizens, an enhancement of the territory’s environmental and artistic heritage, a bridge with and for future generations.
From The Tempest Vaia and its 42 million felled trees to Shakespeare, through the daring reinterpretation of one of the great masterpieces of theatre of all time for a great site-specific staging.
The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s last works, is in fact an immense hymn to the theatre and its magic in which, evoked in a fairy-tale atmosphere, the ecocentric theme is also very present, the search for the necessary harmony between the human element and the natural element, between civilisation and wild nature, the eternal contrast between good knowledge and the bad customs of men.
A total storm, then, whose profound sense can bring us back to the sense of the biblical ‘Mabul’, that deluge or ‘time of crisis’ that affects everything but from which everything can potentially also be born. A storm that can be punishment but also an opportunity and a lesson.
Very topical themes, at a time like the present, of great emergencies and great confusion, which have led to a scenic rewriting of the Bard’s famous text in which the memory of the facts is an essential part of the narration and the people are placed at the centre of the creative process, in a continuous exchange with the artists involved.
Carlo Sciaccaluga and Elisa D’Andrea, under the artistic direction of the Nogravity4monks collective, which also takes care of the original music, sign the direction of this new adaptation starring Ariel / Laurence Tremblay-Vu, a tightrope walker who plays an 80-metre long amplified cable, accompanied by a quartet of live musicians; Prospero / Angela Baraldi, a singer and actress of exceptional strength; Caliban / Riccardo Rebaudengo, a child accompanied by the children’s choir of the minipolifonici of Trento, who unleashes the naive and primitive energy of childhood.
And then the audience, protagonist in the role of passive observer, antagonist in spite of himself, inert and therefore accomplice to the disaster.
from an idea by Elisa D’Andrea / artistic direction Nogravity4monks / inspired by the work of William Shakespeare / adapted by Carlo Sciaccaluga / directed by Carlo Sciaccaluga, Elisa D’Andrea / with Laurence Tremblay-Vu ARIEL the tightrope walker, Angela Baraldi PROSPERO the voice, Riccardo Rebaudengo and the Minipolifonici Children’s Choir of Trento directed by Annalia Nardelli CALIBANO the singing / Carlo Sciaccaluga ANTONIO the machine / musicians: Laurence Tremblay-Vu (cable), Raffaele Rebaudengo (viola), Bernardo Russo (guitar and synthesisers), Federico Fantuz (guitar and English horn), Tiziano Scali (Rhodes and synthesizers) / original music by Nogravity4monks / technical direction Tiziano Scali / light design Stefano Mazzanti / sound design Lorenzo Patellani / sets and costumes Anna Varaldo / assistant director Silvia Biancalana / costume assistant Daniela de Blasio / ariaTeatro production / with the contribution of the Autonomous Province of Trento / under the patronage of the Municipality of Baselga di Piné / with the support of Azienda per il Turismo Trento e Monte Bondone, Consorzio C. O.Piné, start-up VAIA, Fondazione Luzzati Teatro della Tosse / with the collaboration of Libreria due punti, Associazione Shemà – Baita del Mett / thanks to the children and young people of the Grest, Fire Brigade of Baselga di Pinè, Health Care Volunteers
premiered on 10 June 2023
at theAndersen Festival in Sestri Levante
Valentina Mancinelli
+39 3485300732
mancinellival@gmail.com
AFTER THE TEMPEST marks the final stage of a journey that lasted about a year (from July 2022) during which artists, citizens, institutions and companies in the area worked together through meetings, interviews, workshops, and studies of spaces to give life to a large participatory theatrical event, with a low environmental impact, that could represent a new relationship between places, stories and people affected by this recent natural disaster.
A community theatre not to forget, a stimulus to active cultural participation by citizens, an enhancement of the territory’s environmental and artistic heritage, a bridge with and for future generations.
From The Tempest Vaia and its 42 million felled trees to Shakespeare, through the daring reinterpretation of one of the great masterpieces of theatre of all time for a great site-specific staging.
The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s last works, is in fact an immense hymn to the theatre and its magic in which, evoked in a fairy-tale atmosphere, the ecocentric theme is also very present, the search for the necessary harmony between the human element and the natural element, between civilisation and wild nature, the eternal contrast between good knowledge and the bad customs of men.
A total storm, then, whose profound sense can bring us back to the sense of the biblical ‘Mabul’, that deluge or ‘time of crisis’ that affects everything but from which everything can potentially also be born. A storm that can be punishment but also an opportunity and a lesson.
Very topical themes, at a time like the present, of great emergencies and great confusion, which have led to a scenic rewriting of the Bard’s famous text in which the memory of the facts is an essential part of the narration and the people are placed at the centre of the creative process, in a continuous exchange with the artists involved.
Carlo Sciaccaluga and Elisa D’Andrea, under the artistic direction of the Nogravity4monks collective, which also takes care of the original music, sign the direction of this new adaptation starring Ariel / Laurence Tremblay-Vu, a tightrope walker who plays an 80-metre long amplified cable, accompanied by a quartet of live musicians; Prospero / Angela Baraldi, a singer and actress of exceptional strength; Caliban / Riccardo Rebaudengo, a child accompanied by the children’s choir of the minipolifonici of Trento, who unleashes the naive and primitive energy of childhood.
And then the audience, protagonist in the role of passive observer, antagonist in spite of himself, inert and therefore accomplice to the disaster.
from an idea by Elisa D’Andrea / artistic direction Nogravity4monks / inspired by the work of William Shakespeare / adapted by Carlo Sciaccaluga / directed by Carlo Sciaccaluga, Elisa D’Andrea / with Laurence Tremblay-Vu ARIEL the tightrope walker, Angela Baraldi PROSPERO the voice, Riccardo Rebaudengo and the Minipolifonici Children’s Choir of Trento directed by Annalia Nardelli CALIBANO the singing / Carlo Sciaccaluga ANTONIO the machine / musicians: Laurence Tremblay-Vu (cable), Raffaele Rebaudengo (viola), Bernardo Russo (guitar and synthesisers), Federico Fantuz (guitar and English horn), Tiziano Scali (Rhodes and synthesizers) / original music by Nogravity4monks / technical direction Tiziano Scali / light design Stefano Mazzanti / sound design Lorenzo Patellani / sets and costumes Anna Varaldo / assistant director Silvia Biancalana / costume assistant Daniela de Blasio / ariaTeatro production / with the contribution of the Autonomous Province of Trento / under the patronage of the Municipality of Baselga di Piné / with the support of Azienda per il Turismo Trento e Monte Bondone, Consorzio C. O.Piné, start-up VAIA, Fondazione Luzzati Teatro della Tosse / with the collaboration of Libreria due punti, Associazione Shemà – Baita del Mett / thanks to the children and young people of the Grest, Fire Brigade of Baselga di Pinè, Health Care Volunteers
premiered on 10 June 2023
at the Andersen Festival in Sestri Levante
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Valentina Mancinelli
+39 3485300732
mancinellival@gmail.com