Controluce was born in 1994 when Jenaro Meléndrez Chas, biologist and painter, met Cora De Maria and Alberto Jona, musicians, in Turin, Italy. The idea was to join pictorial arts and the...
"Controluce Shadow Theatre" is a mixture of arts, genres and languages. Features performances with music, motion images, painting and literature...
Controluce's workshops are mainly a path into contemporary Shadows Theatre, following the company's 20 years old experience in staging performances inspired from modern and classic music, often opera. All aspects are included, from technique requirements to construction of puppets, but mainly drammaturgy and stage direction are involved.
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The twenty days of Torino
dedicated to Guido Ceronetti
TEATRO BARETTI, TURIN
11 december, 20:00
direction, shadows animation and voice
Cora De Maria
live music
Umberto Fantini, Manuel Zigante
scenography Alice Delorenzi
original music Umberto Fantini
original silhouettes Cora De Maria
production
CONTROLUCE Teatro d'Ombre
Inside INCANTI D’INVERNO
Duration 50' circa buy the ticket
The show is based on the novel The twenty days of Turin by Giorgio De Maria, a text published in muted form in 1977 and rediscovered, through extraordinary coincidences and after the death of the author, in 2017 in America where it was a great success. In Italy it was republished by Frassinelli the following year.
The novel is a dystopian and prophetic tale, full of deeply disturbing still current ideas that range from the much discussed prophecy on social networks to the description of a claustrophobic and exhausted society: ’the twenty days of Turin were neither a war nor a revolution, but a phenomenon of collective psychosis with what underlies this definition of epidemic.
The noir atmosphere of the novel finds in the shadow theater a perfect visual accompaniment, the silhouettes created for the show are the result of a careful reconstruction of the 70s in which images of iconic photographs and tributes to artists of those years alternate.
The creator, who will perform the show alone, is Cora de Maria, the daughter of the author. In telling the novel of her father, also faces her difficult relationship with him. A tribute to a father who was, even for her, a late rediscovery, through his masterpiece.
The original music of the show will be performed live by: Umberto Fantini (violin) and Manuel Zigante (cello).
Organized from the Giardino Forbito, with the contribution of Controluce - Shadow Theatre and Fine Arts Accademia Albertina of Turin (Ajani Scenography department), the Rose Garden of Moncalieri's Castle will achieve an impressive display of lights, silhouettes, shapes and colors with the atmosphere of the time in which the ancient lanterns fascinated children and adults with magic projections of colourful pictures in motion.
INAUGURATION Thursday 2nd december 2021
The twenty days of Torino
dedicated to Guido Ceronetti
VIAGGIO NEL MONDO DI BARBABLU' Controluce Teatro d'Ombre introduces the opera on stage at Teatro Coccia di Novara
from and with con Cora De Maria
Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20 and Friday 22
from 16:00h. to 18:00h.
Teatro Coccia di Novara
dramaturgy Alberto Jona
voices off Irene Jona, Nicola Morucci
Subjective images on the story of Bluebeard entrusted to shadows and narration.
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