The Catalyst| summer festival is in its fifth edition Corsini Theatre, The Rebirth of Beauty, a project among the winners of the 2023 Art Bonus Competition.
The rebirth of beauty continues the lines of the winter programming, aimed at an audience of adults and families and "occupies" the most evocative places in the Barberino area with shows of great quality but with a light "impact". The summer also becomes an opportunity to reconsolidate Catalyst's strong relationships with the cultural realities of the area, inserting its programming proposals into events such as Wednesdays in the Square or the Flood Festival, a Filo di..., enriching and defining the program of these initiatives.
Theatre, music, circus shows, open-air cinema and a festival dedicated to the little ones in September for a rich and varied program in terms of genres and proposals.
Below are all the details on the programming!
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The events of the Rebirth of Beauty:
THE GREAT CHALLENGE OF ART COMEDIANS
THURSDAY 4 JULY 9.15 PM – PIAZZA CAVOUR
The students of the first year of CRF present
On the one hand the Compagnia dei Gelosi, founded in 1568, among its most famous actors Isabella and Francesco Andreini, on the other the Compagnia dei Confidenti, founded in 1574, subsequently at the service of Giovanni dei Medici, whose comedians will stage the most famous masks of the time: Zanni, Pantalone, Pulcinella, Arlecchino, Il Capitano while the actresses will try their hand at Franceschina, Lisetta and the various roles of the lover.
A series of jokes, improvisations, dances and songs will take us back to a revolutionary period in which the theater saw women on stage for the first time.
CAMILLOCROMO "WALKING AROUND NEW ORLEANS"
WEDNESDAY 10 JULY AT 9.15 PM – HISTORIC CENTER, BARBERINO DI MUGELLO
Camillocromo “Strolling around New Orleans”!
The sextet's repertoire ranges from the 1920s to the 1940s, covering the entire period from Dixieland or early jazz to the birth of swing. A music that is born popular, from dance, as an expression of vitality and joy of living, even when living is not always easy...
with Francesco Masi, Jacopo Rugiadi, Rodolfo “Foffo” Sarli, Gabriele Stoppa, Giordano Geroni, Francesco Baglioni
Free entry event
MASTER MASTS
THURSDAY 11 JULY AT 7PM
Master Trees is a traveling and experiential performance to discover the world of trees and plants, the principle and metaphor of life itself. A journey of encounter with the plant world, with its astonishing existence, with its complexity, its intelligence and its incredible ability to analyze and resolve complex situations, to act online, to deal with traumas and aggressions. Guided by a performer, the audience will live an intense sonic, poetic and visual experience through a path that will lead them towards an empathic and emotional awareness of the extraordinary community of plants and trees, the oldest living beings on the planet which, like great giants , they witness the passage of generations, the precession of the equinoxes, the ice ages, as well as the movement of a small insect on their bark. A journey, collective and individual at the same time, through the threshold where the human and arboreal universes meet.
composition in space Michele Losi
dramaturgy Sofia Bolognini, Michele Losi
sound Luca Maria Baldini, Diego Dioguardi
on stage (alternating) Liliana Benini, Sofia Bolognini, Noemi Bresciani, Michele Losi, Stefano Pirovano, Benedetta Brambilla, Sara Milani, Marialice Tagliavini
a project by Pleiadi, Campsirago Residenza | in collaboration with The International Academy for Natural Arts (NL)
tickets: €10
SCANNING THE SKY
SATURDAY 13 JULY AT 9.15 PM – CORSINI THEATER, BARBERINO
The project “SCRUTATING THE SKY – let's hope it ends soon then we go home” connects with the national drama laboratory “In peace with conflict” a three-year 22/24 project of Permanent Laboratories, Catalyst, Boarding Theatres. At the center is the word “conflict”. Internal, human, armed conflicts. Conflict is the basis of dramaturgy and theatre, as Aristotle theorizes.
The project sees as its protagonist the staging of "Mother Courage and her children" by Bertolt Brecht whose reduction (and new translation) will focus on the main tragedy that characterizes every war: the annihilation of the young generations, the cynicism to which l he human being comes with his senseless greed to destroy and be destroyed.
To support professional actors in staging this impressive text, the project involves the involvement of community members in minor roles to offer an artistic and life experience that embodies the spirit of Brechtian theatre.
first study around the themes of "Mother Courage" by B. Brecht
text and direction by Alberto Fortuzzi
music by Dante Borsetto
with Caterina Casini, Amerigo Fontani, Matilde Zavagli, Michelangelo Fortuzzi
and with the choir composed of the local community
production Permanent Laboratories, Catalyst, Boarding Theaters
tickets: €10
LAMMERICA
WEDNESDAY 17 JULY AT 9.15 PM – CORSINI THEATER GARDENS, BARBERINO
Lammerica is a show inspired by the private diaries of Chiara Calda and Teresa Luongo, two twentieth-century women who lived through the period of Italian migration. The show, the result of a work of research and artistic experimentation, tells the story of two intense journeys of two ordinary women, one towards America, the other towards Italy, through an exclusive scenic and sound elaboration of the pages of the two autograph texts .
direction and artistic supervision Riccardo Rombi
with Giorgia Calandrini and Dafne Tinti
original live music by Giovanni Magaglio, by Temporeale
tickets: €10
BEARD FANTASY SHOW
THURSDAY 18 JULY AT 7PM – FLOOD FESTIVAL
Barba Fantasy Show is a show that grows, listens and sees: the audience, above all, who unknowingly becomes the great protagonist of the staging, but also the situation, the moment, the space. The elegant character on stage changes, mutates and transforms at will, depending on the creativity of the actor-painter-juggler-clown. An irreverent and poetic little man with small eyes, who hides behind a heavy, fantastic and imaginative beard, which becomes a mask and source of inspiration for every joke and idea.
Barba Fantasy Show is a show for everyone: it amazes children and entertains adults.
Barba Fantasy Show is a stage, theater and street show... it is very versatile and knows how to adapt to the situation..
by and with Edoardo Nardin
Show included within the FLOOD Festival
Free entry
GIULIVO SHOW
FRIDAY 19 JULY AT 7PM – FLOOD FESTIVAL
Mixed arts cabaret. Juggling, clowning and theater suitable for adults and children.
by and with Giulivo Clown
Show included within the FLOOD Festival
Free admission
BOLLESTRABELLE
FRIDAY 19 JULY AT 8.45 PM – FLOOD FESTIVAL
“The bubble wizard”, with a unique and personal style. In his shows, bubbles are the main scenario embellished by the poetics and mimicry of the clown and physical theatre, an art that he studied with numerous famous masters, such as the French theater actor and clown Jean Meningue. Between one show and another, 2021 arrives, when the artist from Grosseto "enters the homes of Italians by participating in the Canale 5 program Tú Sí Que Vales.
by and with Thomas Goodman
Show included within the Flood Festival
Free entry
ON THE ROAD Life is like a journey
SATURDAY 20 JULY – FLOOD FESTIVAL
6 PM
Circus workshop
curated by Milo Scotton and the Artemakia Company
8.45pm
show ON THE ROAD – Life is like a journey
A delicate balance between circus and theater creates an intense system of gestures, breathtaking acrobatics, music, lights and scenography. A show to excite, entertain, the first step towards the beginning of a journey...The spectator will witness the transposition of reality in a surreal key thanks to small madnesses and sweet poetry, which allows you to excite and entertain by recalling intimate memories with irony, lightheartedness, fun and joy. A poetic universe that involves and envelops through technical gestures in which the laws of gravity are subverted and transformed. A bizarre theatrical game that is intertwined with threads of poetry with circus disciplines: Chinese pole, acrobatic ladder, juggling, acrobatic dance, aerial disciplines, and roue cyr.
direction and dramaturgy Milo Scotton
ARTEMAKIA Company
Show included within the Flood Festival.
Free entry
PLAY AREA AND KITE WORKSHOP
SUNDAY 21 JULY 6.00 PM – FLOOD FESTIVAL
Kite making workshop by PM Model
Show included within the Flood Festival
Free entry
ROM & GAGÈ ORCHESTRA
WEDNESDAY 24 JULY AT 9.15 PM
An unconventional repertoire that passes with ease from Rossini to Rock&Roll seasoned with the fantastic gypsy world.
The Rom & Gagè orchestra was born from the desire of clarinetist Paolo Rocca to explore the world of Eastern European popular music together with traveling companions who come from different regions. The paths followed by the nomadic musical tradition are in fact reflected by uniting, within the group, Romanian (Roma) and Italian (non-Roma, indicated in the language of the nomadic tradition with the term Gagè) musicians.
Active for years on the concert scene and in the theater, the musicians who make up the Rom and Gagè ensemble are professionals who collaborate with various groups and also perform as soloists, leveraging the three characteristics that historically belong to the furrow of their tradition: an astonishing ease in virtuosity, an animated and engaging musicality, an ability to metabolize every content with which they come into contact through the work of musical inventiveness.
with Paolo Rocca, Nicu Nelutu Baicu, Marian Serban, Petrica Namol