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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09/06/2021 Today will take place a public performance of Uscimmo a Riveder le Stelle by the students of Madrid Italian School, on texts by Dante, Primo Levi, Bertold Brecht and Erri de Luca, directed by Antonio Martire and Cristiana Ponsetto.
The Italian Council of Ministers approved the directive establishing the National Day dedicated to Dante Alighieri on 25 March. "Every year, on March 25, date recognized by scholars as the beginning of Divine Comedy's journey into the afterlife, will be celebrated the Dantedì, with many initiatives that will see a strong involvement of schools, students and cultural institutions...”
Let's Celebrate Dante
project Tell ourselves in Scene
Controluce Teatro d'Ombra will be at the Scuola Italiana di Madrid between 10 and 14 May for the staging and direction of a part of the didactic-performative project Tell ourselves in Scene “Let's celebrate Dante”, on the occasion of the celebrations dedicated to Dante.
The theme on which the work will be centered, realized in collaboration with Antonio Martire, is the journey to and from hell, from mythical imagery to contemporaneity. On May 14 the performance resulting from the workshop will be open to students and teachers of the school in the Aula Magna from 14:30.
The MUFANT Museolab del Fantastico e della Fantascienza di Torino (Museum of Fantastic and Science Fiction of Turin) hosts The Twenty days of Turin, concomitant with the temporary exhibition Note di Paura (Notes of Fear).
Performances dates: 7, 14, 21, 28 May and 4 June at 18,00h.
Maximum audience for each performance 12 people
Tickets: 12€ including performance and Mudeum visit
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GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
chamber opera by Bruno Moretti, libretto by Rosa Mogliasso, staging and direction Controluce Teatro d'Ombre,
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