Last Land and Il gioco del gregge di capre
by Maria Nilsson Waller and Fabrizio Favale Fringe Festival 2013 Last Land is inspired by frozen plains and dusty desert majesty. Maria Nilsson Waller reconstructs the vast scale and unpredictability of these contrasting landscapes in a highly physical, poetic work that invites us to consider the urgency of tectonic movement and the accelerating rhythms of […]
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XD
Collettivo Cinetico Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013 XD is an emoticon that represents a smiling face, assively used in blogs, chat rooms and in general in the written telecommunications. This piece shapes space and time in the structure of a comic. The stage is cut apart in small frames of visual space establishing with the spectator […]
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Stone Islands
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013 Jazz Italia One of the big hits of last year’s Festival was the collaboration between Sardinian saxophonist, Enzo Favata, and Scottish musicians, Colin Steele and Dave Milligan. They’re back, and with a really special 12 piece group, consisting of six of Italy’s leading jazz players and six of Scotland’s. […]
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Kekko Fornarelli Trio
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Jazz Italia The Swedish group, EST, gave jazz a new language, at the point where melody and atmosphere and jazz and rock colaesced. Italian pianist, Kekko Fornarelli, advances this musical brew – with emotions rich in colours and brightness, strong catchy beats and arching melodies. His star has been burning […]
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Paolo Alderighi
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013 Jazz Italia Perhaps the most oustanding young musician in europe playing classic jazz: rags, stride and swing. Alderighi, from Milano, has been hailed by audiences from Japan to New York as the pianist who will revive new interest in the piano music of the jazz era – from Fats […]
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Bandakadabra
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival 2013 Jazz Italia Uplifting, funny, musically clever, theatrical… the 12 piece band from Torino are a disarming group bent on making you have a good time whatever your mood when you come across them. Whether they are playing in a medieval square in Italy; in an opera house; or a […]
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Of Jewish Race
by Renzo Modiano On 16 October 1943, the German army tore 1,056 Jewish Italians from their homes, from their lives and loves, from their routine and familiar objects, and from their home city of Rome. The author of this book was not amongst them, because his father had prepared their flight. He was a Jewish […]
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Note di viaggio
In occasione della Giornata Internazionale della Musica, la Celtic Harp Orchestra, la più importante orchestra di arpe tradizionali al mondo, Vi invita al concerto benefico organizzato a favore del progetto India ” Bullet to the Heart”. NOTE DI VIAGGIO è il titolo che il M° Fabius Constable ha pensato per lasciare al pubblico il piacere […]
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Dark Matter (Materia oscura)
Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti Edinburgh International Film Festival This fascinating ‘cinematic survey’ of Salto di Quirra, a site used for military training and rocket testing since the 1950s, weaves extraordinary footage of rocket launches from the base’s own archive through the overheard conversations of local farmers and a radio broadcast of a geological investigation of […]
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International Exchange in the European Book World
Fifth Annual St Andrews Book Conference The history of the book has been built on the solid foundations of national, local and individual studies of printers, publishers and publishing networks. While this makes good sense from a practical and logistical point of view, it risks obscuring the essential fact that the production and sale of […]
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