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VISIONI DI FUTURO, VISIONI DI TEATRO... international festival of theatre and culture for early childhood La Baracca Teatro Testoni Ragazzi, Bologna Testoni Ragazzi rd rd Teatro Stabile d’Innovazione BOLOGNA per l’Infanzia e la Gioventù February 23 - March 3 2013 Small size, big citizens It is the project promoted by Small size, the European Network for the Diffusion of Performing Arts for Early Years. It has been approved by the European Community and will be supported by the Culture Programme, until 2014, supporting as well Visioni di futuro, visioni di teatro, one of the 16 Small size festivals. www.smallsize.org FSC® - Mixed Sources Products with a Mixed Sources label support the development of responsible forest management worldwide. The wood comes from FSC® certified well managed forests, company controlled sources and/or recycled material. Drawings by Enrico Montalbani visioni DI FUTURO, visioni DI TEATRO... 2013 Introduction 4 Shows 1 - 3 years 6 Shows 2 - 5 years 8 Shows 3 - 6 years 9 Workshops 14 International Projects 18 Conferences and Round Tables 20 Festival Programme 21 Follow and leave your comment about the Festival on Facebook (Teatro Testoni Ragazzi La Baracca) and Twitter (#VISIONI2013). Registration to the Festival €10 (free for SUPPORTING MEMBERS of La Baracca-Testoni Ragazzi) Registration includes: attendance to the conferences to be held on Saturday, February 23rd and March 2rd; the material relating to the conferences; a discount in the price of workshops; the purchase of tickets for shows at a reduced price. Workshops: Demonstrative workshops - Registration fee for one workshop: € 30; for FRIENDS and SUPPORTING MEMBERS and for those registered to the Festival: € 25. In case you registered to more than one workshop, starting from the second workshop the cost will be: € 25; for FRIENDS and SUPPORTING MEMBERS and for those registered to the Festival: € 20 - Intensive workshops - Registration fee: € 60; for FRIENDS and SUPPORTING MEMBERS, and for those registered to the Festival: € 50 International experiences: Free entry upon reservation at the Festival Office Shows: Shows for families: full-price ticket € 5; special-price ticket (children up to 14 years old) € 4; for those registered to the Festival: €4; previews €4. Subscription to 3 shows: full-price ticket € 12; special- price ticket € 9. Shows for schools: admit one ticket € 5.50; free entry for teachers. Bus € 3 The Direction of the Theatre reserves its right to modify the programme for reasons independent of its will. Teatro Testoni Ragazzi | via Matteotti 16 | 40129 Bologna FESTIVAL OFFICE +39 0514153723 - [email protected] BOX OFFICE +39 0514153800 - [email protected] www.testoniragazzi.it Visioni di futuro, visioni di teatro... is a project by La Baracca-Testoni Ragazzi Theatre is Education for Development Culture and politics are broad areas. Both are immanent in shaping life. They primarily differ in the question of how to do this: from the bottom up or from the top down? Culture is a field of activity characterised by people coming together. It’s all about cultural experiences, creative processes and cultural forms of expression. But culture is also an area of action. A number of different actors are involved in any cultural exchange. They create infrastructures and their cultural offers create demands. One of the duties of societies is to promote this development. In this way culture also becomes an area of politics. Both public support and civil society are responsible for shaping cultural policies. Each has its own different reasons for creating frameworks that allow culture to flourish. Political necessity and dramatic potential have created a theatre that uses development tools in live performances. Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA), especially Theatre for Early Years could be a kind of participatory theatre that encourages audience members to take roles in creating performance. It could be the creation of imagination. It could be an education for the arts, a fundamental experience for learning the basics of the performing arts. “Visioni di futuro, visioni di teatro”, the international festival of Teatro Testoni Ragazzi in Bologna is the leading project in the world for the development of TYA for development. “Small Size” is the vibrant artistic network behind this unique event and this year’s program including shows, Master Classes and an exchange with African Artists will be a promotion of clever concepts – in Cultural Policy for Theatre for Early Years. Congratulations to “La Baracca”, the inspiring hosting company! Welcome to Bologna, the European Capital of Kids! Take part in the future of TYA! Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schneider UNESCO Chair Cultural Policy for the Arts in Development University of Hildesheim Honorary President of ASSITEJ International Welcome to the festival! 4 I do not know if it has ever happened to you to walk the route you always walk, the same old one for the thousandth time, lift your head without thinking and find yourself in front of something you think you see for the first time. A roof-terrace, a small tower, a balcony, a small statue nestled into the façade of a building. It often happens to me, when I walk the streets of Bologna. So I stop, and marvel. And I wonder whether that detail was there the day before. I have the feeling that it was never there, that it has just been built or that it has always remained concealed. But I know it is not like that. That roof-terrace, that statue have always been there, with their beauty, someti- mes centuries-old, age and matter. So I stop and look at that detail, unknown to me until that very moment. I feel the same when I stop and look at a child who observes and listens to the world surrounding them. I get the feeling that they are really watching the world, with those eyes open wide, full of amazement and able to take in every detail. And that they feel and listen carefully to the feelings and information that sounds and words carry with them. To learn, children watch and listen. But are we able to watch and listen to little boys and girls? Is there any place to do it in our world of grown-ups? I mean a physical and mental space where we do not need to teach or guide, but only to watch and listen, and where we can only rely on children’s thoughts and images to feel complete as grown-ups. I like to think that doing art for, and with, children can in itself be one of these spe- cial spaces, where we sometimes can simply and amazingly share – children and adults together – different sensibilities. A space where our eyes can fill of amazement and listen carefully to take in new Visions... Roberto Frabetti La Baracca - Testoni Ragazzi Welcome to the festival! 5 SHOW 1 - 3 YEARS Silvia Traversi and Giambattista Giocoli - Bologna E SE UN ARCOBALENO/What if a rainbow by and with Silvia Traversi and Giambattista Giocoli On stage, a dancer and a musician. Among instruments that become characters, they tell a dream-story made of chan- ges, images and suggestions with different atmospheres. In- struments, sounds, dance and music get together and move in an imaginary place - maybe a forest - where, after the storm, the rainbow will appear. The very young watchers are approached thanks to the use of non-verbal, expressive languages, in a creative, imaginative and emo- tional vision that will be adapted to the audience time after time. Dance and music are the protagonists of the physical and emotional work, just as body and emotion are the central elements of early years. Saturday, February 23rd h 4.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. La Baracca - Testoni Ragazzi I COLORI DELL’ACQUA/The colours of water by Roberto Frabetti - with Valeria Frabetti and Andrea Buzzetti 10 years of performances... Happy birthday! Water came with the rain and the hidden garden was sud- denly brought into life. Fountains and basins were filled. Fruit, leaves, trees and plants have dusted off their colours and the rainbow appeared high up in the sky. In the middle of the hidden garden, there is someone who’s looking for water. Dippers and jugs in their hands, looking for water and colours. The yellow of corn, the deep red of to- matoes, the purple of flowers... The two protagonists accompany us in a journey to discover an earthly rainbow made of natural elements. “The colours of water” is a show about simple and naturally beautiful elements. Colours play and we discover all the nuances of the world. Sunday, February 24th h 9.30 and 11.30 a.m. – Thursday, February 28th h 9.30 a.m. Preview DelleAli - Cassano d’Adda (MI) COSA C’È...? Piccola esplorazione tra le cose dei grandi WHAT’S IN THERE? A journey through the things of the grown-ups by Giada Balestrini and Monica Parmagnani with Giada Balestrini/Monica Parmagnani Carton boxes, containers containing other containers with doors, shutters and openings where you can put your nose and eyes... and discover. Microcosms of sounds, noises, shapes, colours, pieces of world concealing other little pieces of world. Mum’s purse, the shopping bag, daddy’s toolbox, the laundry basket... The curious character on stage touches, listens, turns upside down and reveals, looking at things from the inside and from the outside. Resounding, chanting and singing he sets off on his journey. It is a show about curiosity, about opening and closing, revealing and concealing, giving and taking. A show to feel, touch and watch, in order to make the discovery of spatial relationships easier: near-far, inside-outside, on-under, in front-behind, between, up-down. Monday, February 25th h 9.30 a.m.