Sicula Butoh Dance performance “IL GIARDINO SEGRETO //0”
by Valeria Geremia, choreographer and dancer International ArtExpo Festival Sicula Butoh – Mimesi The spectators are absorbed by an atmosphere of suggestive audio-visual impact; in the opening minutes of the performance the almost imperceptible lighting accentuates this effect, giving the sensation of matter in movement.The scenery consists of two cloth sheets both 3mx3m in size […]
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Così è (se vi pare!) / Right You Are (If You Think So!)
Directed by Carlo Pirozzi by the Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello Students from the Departments of Italian at Glasgow and Strathclyde University will perform Così è (se vi pare!) / Right You Are (If You Think So!) by the Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello, one of the greatest Italian playwrights of the twentieth century. The […]
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Reality
Dir: Matteo Garrone For his first film since his mafia epic Gomorrah picked up the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2008, director Matteo Garrone has set his sights on an even more insidious target: Reality TV. But where Gomorrah approached its subject with an unflinching realism, Reality tackles its topic with a boisterous energy that’s […]
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Il bugiardo / The Liar by Carlo Goldoni
Directed by Paul Collins and Felicia Cucutà Students from the Italian Department of the University of Edinburgh will stage and perform Il bugiardo by Carlo Goldoni. Il bugiardo was first staged in Mantua in 1750. Lelio, son of the merchant, Pantalone, returns to Venice after 20 years of absence and immediately sets about winning Rosaura […]
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I am Son by Sanpapié
“I am an orphan because I choose to be.” Sanpapié presents I am Son, a vivid mix of dance, music and speech – a voyage through fearless images of contemporary Italian life. Three dynamic dancers perform with variations of movement, employ irony, and switch rapidly between physical intensity and lightness. In an attempt to understand […]
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New Migration Stories: Valentina Bonizzi
Italian-born artist Valentina Bonizzi has lived in Scotland for eight years. Using photography and video, Bonizzi aims to create what she has termed an ‘Image document’ to investigate migrant experiences from 1850 to today. Her work explores the transformational experience of migration, a transitory and fluid existence which challenges the individual sense of certainty of […]
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Paolo Fresu with the The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
conducted by Tommy Smith Miles Davis was one of the coolest figures in jazz and a constant innovator. Together with the outstandingly original arranger, Gil Evans, he created in Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead two of the great jazz achievements of the 1940s and 1950s which shaped new movements in jazz at the […]
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Italian Films at the Glasgow Film Festival
The 9th Glasgow Film Festival promises a programme of international premieres, star guests and unique events at venues all across the city. The 2013 Festival will once again highlight a number of titles of special interest for lovers of Italian cinema, including the Taviani Brothers’ Cesare Deve Morire / Caesar Must Die which won the […]
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Lingua e identità a 150 anni dall’Unità d’Italia
Edited by Matteo Brera and Carlo Pirozzi PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES WE HAD TO CANCEL THE EVENT. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MIGHT CAUSE. Presentation, Q&A with the editors and Professor Arturo Tosi (Royal Holloway University of London). Lingua e identità a 150 anni dall’Unità d’Italia aims to investigate 150 years […]
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Massimo Bartolini Exhibition
Contemporary Art The exhibition is one of two complementary and overlapping exhibitions of Bartolini’s work (the second is at S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent in April 2013). Relatively small in scale and of necessity not representative of every aspect of Bartolini’s work, admits us to the core of his practice, showing one recent […]
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