18 june / h 10.00 pm

CHIOSTRO DEGLI OLIVETANI

ALDES / ROBERTO CASTELLO

MBIRA

coreography and direction Roberto Castello
with Giselda Ranieri, Ilenia Romano (dance/voice), Marco Zanotti (percussions, limba), Zam Moustapha Dembélé (kora, tamanì, voice, balafon), Roberto Castello
music Marco Zanotti, Zam Moustapha Dembélé - texts Renato Sarti, Roberto Castello and the collaboration of Andrea Cosentino
production ALDES – Teatro della Cooperativa - photos Carlo Carmazzi
with the support of MIC / Direzione Generale Spettacolo, REGIONE TOSCANA / Sistema Regionale dello Spettacolo, Romaeuropa Festival

ALDES supports the critical information work of NIGRIZIA magazine, to which the proceeds from the sale of the show's t-shirts go - thanks to the Odissea social cooperative

How much has Africa contributed to making us who we are?
For many centuries, Europeans and Arabs have explored, colonized and converted every corner of the planet. Today many cultures are lost and the Western one has become in many ways the universal reference. It is impossible to say whether it is a good or a bad thing or to know if the colonized before the colonization were more or less happy. The fact is that the world is getting smaller and less varied, full of televisions that broadcast the same programs and identical shops that sell identical products from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego, from California, to Madrid, to Riyadh, to Tokyo. But often in the colonization process it happens that the conqueror changes irreversibly by coming into contact with the culture of the conquered. Mbira tries to talk about this, a concert for two dancers, two musicians and a director who - using music, dance and words - tries to take stock of the complex relationship between our culture and that of Africa.

ALDES is an association of artists and cultural operators that since 1993, under the direction of Roberto Castello, produces and promotes works of choreographic experimentation with particular attention to the border forms between dance and visual arts, dance and new technologies, dance and theater, creating shows, videos, installations, performances and events that have as their object the body, movement and their representation. Starting from 2008 in the province of Lucca ALDES gives life to SPAM! network for contemporary arts hosting residences and multidisciplinary programming of shows, workshops, educational activities, meetings.

duration  60‘

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