Puglia Showcase Kids starts on Tuesday 2nd July at Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, directed for the third year by Ruggero Cappuccio. Theatre, dance, music, cooking and food and wine will be the protagonists of the Puglia showcase from 2nd to 5th July. The busy four-day programme, together with the twelve theatre and dance companies with shows for kids, will also bring to the Neapolitan city musical bands, show cooking, debates and meetings between operators in the sector according to what was a successful experiment born last year in Rome and has now been transformed into a format that travels throughout Italy, declining different themes and sectors of live entertainment.
The first time that a Festival hosts a showcase of regional theater and dance, Puglia Showcase is a project of the Puglia Region - Department of Tourism and Cultural Industry - Management and Territorial Development, conceived and created by the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, and financed by FSC 2014-2020 "Interventions for the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage and for the promotion of intangible heritage", Development and Internationalization Project of the Cultural and Creative Supply Chain of Live Entertainment - Teatro Danza. This edition is part of the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, in collaboration with the Fondazione Campania dei Festival.
The Cortile delle Carrozze of Palazzo Reale and the stage of the Teatro Nuovo in Naples will be the evocative locations that will host the four days, with three shows per day of theater and contemporary dance for children. All the shows were selected following a public tender procedure and chosen by a commission of experts made up of a representative of the Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, an expert in Children's Theater and a representative of ARTI (Associazione Reti Teatrali Italiane). The Showcase will be aimed not only at the Festival audience, but also at national and international operators and the press. Representatives of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, the National Theaters and Theaters of Significant Cultural Interest, the Regional ARTI Circuits and the directors of the most important festivals in Italy will be invited. With the Showcase it will be possible, therefore, to show and evaluate the shows to a varied and composite audience of professionals, who will be able to choose to program the Apulian shows in the different contexts from which they originate.
To accompany the section dedicated to Apulian children's theater (also on stage Little Red Riding Hood and White Fang of the Wild Nature, recently awarded at the Eolo Awards), inside the Dopofestival every evening to entertain the public and guests there will also be the Puglia Village with typical products of Apulian food and wine. Always conceived and created by the Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, with the support of the Puglia Region - Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with Pinzimonio Hub and Tenuta Melofioccolo, with the sponsor Fratelli Parisi Luminarie and special guest Chef Gianvito Matarrese - Evo restaurant, the Puglia Village will offer its guests wines, craft beers, street food with the products of typical Apulian cuisine, together with concerts by musicians who are also an expression of Apulian artistic creativity.
Puglia Showcase Kids 2019 will be held with three shows a day (morning/afternoon/evening) in the Cortile delle Carrozze of Palazzo Reale and at the Teatro Nuovo: four days, twelve contemporary theater and dance shows for kids, in a focus entirely dedicated to Puglia with an eye on the national and international panorama, meetings between operators and productions and thematic study moments.
With Puglia Village, which sees the support of the Department of Agriculture of the Puglia Region, the usual Dopofestival at the Giardino Romantico – Palazzo Reale del Napoli Teatro Festival will offer a food and wine moment and open-air concerts. Guests Cesare Dell'Anna and Opa Cupa, Terraross, Kalascima; a soul-inspired Puglia Showcooking with Nick Difino and Tuppi B dj (Tielle, tiane and other Puglia stories); the Concert of the Apulian Youth Chamber Orchestra, a youth chamber orchestra directed by Teresa Satalino composed of musicians between 13 and 25 years old from all the Puglia music conservatories; the Tarallo Lab, a cooking workshop for children aged 5 to 10 and their parents by Tenuta Melofioccolo. The Puglia Village concerts begin at 22.30:19.00 pm, access to the area is permitted from XNUMX:XNUMX pm, opening time of the bar.
Puglia Showcase Kids 2019 will also propose the forum “THEATER FOR CHILDREN IN ITALY”, in collaboration with ARTI (Association of Italian Theatre Networks) at the Palazzo Reale on Thursday 4 July, from 10.00 to 13.30. An in-depth focus moderated by Laura Palmieri (“Il Teatro di Radio3” – Rai Radio 3) on the state of theatre dedicated to children in Italy, which will develop two central themes to be debated with all sectors of the sector:
– the strategic importance of Children's Theatre for the cultural growth of the territories, not only for the creation of new audiences, but above all for the social value that active participation in the theatre entails in the young generations;
– the resources and attention that MIBAC and MIUR, Regions and Territorial Entities dedicate to this sector in relation to the development of the supply chain. The introduction will be entrusted to a thought by Jetse Batelaan, artistic director of Theater Artemis, Leone D'Argento at La Biennale Teatro 2019, in a video interview by Ileana Sapone. Giorgio Testa (President of Casa dello Spettatore) will then speak. Institutional greetings by Loredana Capone (Councillor for Tourism and Cultural Industry, Management and Promotion of Cultural Heritage, Puglia Region), Vincenzo Santoro (Head of the Department of Culture and Tourism, ANCI), Giuseppe D'Urso (President of Teatro Pubblico Pugliese), Ruggero Cappuccio (Artistic Director of Napoli Teatro Festival Italia). Introduced by: Salvatore Giuliano (Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education, University and Research – MIUR). Speakers: Carmelo Grassi (President of ARTI – Association of Italian Theatre Networks), Fabio Naggi (Vice President of the Association of Children's Theatre – AS.TRA), Ruggero Sintoni (President of the National Association of Contemporary Art Theatres – ANTAC), Clara Cottino (Board of Directors of the National Association of Theatre Innovation Companies and Residences – ANCRIT), Laura Valli (President of C.Re.S.Co. – Coordination of the Realities of the Contemporary Scene), Rossella Marchi (Eolo Award), Cristina Cazzola (Artistic Director of SEGNI New Generations Festival), Giovanna Palmieri (President of ASSITEJ – International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People) – Italy. Conclusions by Onofrio Cutaia (General Director of Live Performance for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities – MIBAC)
THE COMPANIES AND THE SHOWS
Stop Palmizi will bring Constellations. Ready, set…space! with the choreographic conception and direction of Giorgio Rossi, a fantastic and playful journey that starts from the Earth and heads towards the stars of dancing constellations (ages 4-5 years; 2 July – Teatro Nuovo Napoli). Tonio De Nitto, author and director for Factory, will be present with Diary of an Ugly Duckling, inspired by the great children's classic by H. C. Andersen, a co-production between Fondazione Sipario Toscana and Tir Danza (ages 6 and up; 2 July – Teatro Nuovo Napoli). Flavio Albanese and Marinella Anaclerio of the Compagnia del Sole, in co-production with Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro Gioco Vita, will present Canto la storia dell’astuto Ulisse, a journey into the world of Ulysses populated by gods, heroes and magical creatures, where the protagonist is the word, combined with the charm of the shadow figures created by the great set designer Emanuele Luzzati (age: from 8 years; 2 July – Cortile delle Carrozze di Palazzo Reale). Another dance show with Qualibò (Maristella Tanzi and Francesca Giglio), Tutina and the deer, the story of Tutina, a little explorer of the world, and a wary deer who scouts everything, told in a simple, ironic and poetic style (ages 2-5; 3 July – Teatro Nuovo Napoli). The Crest of Taranto with the sets, lights and direction of Michelangelo Campanale, Snow White the true story, a show that won the 2018 Eolo Award in which the last of the seven dwarfs witnesses the arrival of a brave little girl who prefers the protection of the unknown forest to the known but dark gaze of an envious mother (age 6 and up; July 3 – Teatro Nuovo Napoli). Production Koreja of Lecce, Operastracci, from an idea by Enzo Toma and Silvia Ricciardelli, where actors who manipulate a mountain of rags tell the relationship with emotions and with the changing body (ages from 8 years; July 3 – Cortile delle Carrozze of Palazzo Reale). There is also Paolo Comentale (Granteatrino), in a comic-musical work for puppets with music by Gioacchino Rossini Pulcilele…homage to Emanuele Luzzati, in which Pulcinella is the absolute protagonist, for whom Maestro Luzzati designed the puppets (ages 6 and up; 4 July – Teatro Nuovo). Between Saying and Doing and The Moon in Bed with Little Red Riding Hood (Eolo Award 2019), written and directed by Michelangelo Campanale, with choreography by Vito Cassano and with the dancers of the EleinaD company (age: from 6 years; 4 July – Teatro Nuovo Napoli). The double direction of the close-knit Francesco Niccolini and Luigi D'Elia (ass Cult Inti) for Zanna Bianca della natura selvaggia (also this Eolo Award 2019), texts by Francesco Niccolini, freely inspired by the novels and the adventurous life of Jack London (age: 4-14 years; 4 July – Cortile delle Carrozze of Palazzo Reale). Manfredonia Bottega degli Apocrypha with Swing Nutcracker, by Cosimo Severo and Stefania Marrone. Teatri di Bari with AHIA!, by Damiano Nirchio (Eolo Award 2017), where on one side there is a little soul who doesn't want to come into the world for fear of the "ouch!" she might encounter, and on the other the director of the Birth Office busy convincing her to "come out". From Giovinazzo-Ruvo, Raffaella Giancipoli with Livio Berardi, Rossana Farinati, and Annabella Tedone (Kuziba) will bring Bluebeard's Castle (ages 7-12; July 5 – Carriage Courtyard of the Royal Palace) to the stage, a journey into curiosity that allows us to reflect on how, at times, disobedience can be a fundamental step towards growing up.
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