The Napoli Teatro Festival Italia commemorates the inventor, artist, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci with two performances that combine drama, circus, and dance to evoke the genius who died five hundred years ago in Amboise. The program begins on Sunday, June 30th at the Teatro Trianon-Viviani at 9:00 PM with Leonardo and the Dove – A Timeless Circus, conceived and directed by Ted Keijser (repeated Monday, July 1st at 7:00 PM). Emiliano Pellisari celebrates the Renaissance genius again on Monday, July 1st at 9:00 PM at the Teatro Mercadante. The show evokes his research into flight through the fluctuating bodies of dancers constantly seeking balance. Many are the celebrations for the five-hundredth anniversary of Leonardo's death on May 2nd, 1519, after he left behind masterpieces in every field. The Festival also offers, in its rich program, two events in honor of the great genius. As part of the Italian section, he presents Leonardo and the Dove – A Timeless Circus, conceived and directed by Ted Keijser, with Laura Bernocchi, Orazio De Rosa, Benoit Roland, Simone Romanò, and Emanuele Pasqualini. Five hundred years after the death of Leonardo da Vinci, a new Leonardo is born, not in Vinci but in Mirano: as brilliant as the first, and just as curious and clownish. Perhaps Leonardo da Mirano will succeed, thanks to his uncle, his mother, and Colomba, his best friend, in completing his inventions and realizing Leonardo's 500-year-old dream: flying.
To create his flying machines, Leonardo studied mechanics, the anatomy of birds and the behaviour of air. Just as the genius used these different disciplines to complete his invention, this contemporary circus show intertwines the different expressive genres of theatre, circus, dance and music. For the five hundredth anniversary of the death of the great artist, the choreographer Emiliano Pellisari also celebrates his genius with Festa del Paradiso. A show created in collaboration with the Fondazione Pietà de' Turchini, with the musical programme by Walter Testolin and the choreography by Mariana Porceddu, which stages the extraordinary relationship between the immanent and transcendent aspects of humanity, in an extreme adventure in which floating dancers and musicians interact on stage in an everlasting search for balance. Bodies change shape in a world without gravity, creating original tableaux vivants, in which Platonic allegories are represented as in a Leonardo painting. In a perfect union, the choreography and the music express the magnificent richness of timbres that characterized the musical performances of the Lords' parties in the Renaissance and of the great ceremonies, producing sensorial and intellectual stimulations with an unprecedented flavour.
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