Time Table

Thursday, 13 June, 2024

Opening: 28^ edition of the International Performing Arts Festival - Artisti in Piazza

Diddy Sweg is a pop-jazz-funk band from Birmingham consisting of musicians Alex Astbury on trumpet, David Sear on trombone, Felicity Evans on baritone saxophone, and Filippo Radicchi on drums. Unpredictable bursts of energy, satirical and bizarre songs, brass-soaked chaos and madness for an assured live-act party!

NATIONAL PREMIERE
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.

In Edukikan, the performers are happy to be able to dance and respond to the centuries-old tradition of stilt walkers accompanied by two percussionists. When they realize that this is no longer enough, they begin to create original figures that take them further beyond the traditions.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3

The Italian-Australian puppet theater company Di Filippo Marionette was created by Remo Di Filippo in 2010 and has continued to grow since Rhoda Lopez joined in 2014. Piuma is the newest member of the family and he is also the smallest! It's is a "pocket puppet", 28 cm tall and weighs 352 gr. And he doesn't want to work. What can happen between the little puppet and her very tall puppeteer Remo? 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3

The Gulls: audacious rock rebels that are taking on the world from the back of their beaten-up, old, motorhome. Their music: an eclectic fusion of rock, blues and folk with flavours of psychedelia. The Gulls possess a great gift for igniting crowds with their undeniable charisma and electrifying presence. Forever championing the spirit of rock & roll.

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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.

The Saint Melonians are Wales’ number one comedy calypso band. Trapped in the rainy UK their dream is to drink rum in the Bahamas, but until they earn enough money to do that they’re bringing the Bahamas to you! Pairing vibrant 3 part harmonies, frenetic musical accompaniment and sunny comedy the Saint Melonians will have you dancing and laughing in equal measure.

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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.

David Celia is an innovative singer-songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire, known for his spontaneous live performances. His songs have an alternative-folk style that has also been described as "Beatlesque."

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.

Compagnie de l'Echelle presents puppet shows for a wide variety of audiences. The subjects are inspired by matters of life and suggest, with great poetry and love, another view of the world. Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino is a veritable miniaturized Italian-style theater that, thanks to a mechanism, recreates in the narrowness of minimal size the magic of the stage, the audience and the actors. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +6.
SHOW WITH VERY LIMITED CAPACITY: 10 SEATS (access managed by the Company).

Women climb trees when they disobey. And every woman who disobeys is the daughter of the first, the most celebrated and damned of them all: Eve. Eva could only be punk, after all she has been through. Urban transposition of the oldest of stories, told by an old friend who had a lot to forgive: God. An itinerant tale that lives through urban space, but wants to bring us closer to Nature. Follow Eva, from the highest branches you can see a different ending.

Preview performance, work in progress. Outcome of the training IL CIRCO NELLO SPAZIO (Boarding Pass Plus 2023-2024).

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +4. ITINERANT.

Armonicadance's is a show of original music between Blues and 80s sounds. Gianluca Caselli (live electronics) and Andreino Cocco (blues harmonica) experiment with the contamination between the pure and raw sound of Cocco's harmonica with the new sounds offered by samplers and electronics. All the music comes from improvisation and the development of a rhythmic idea; this is what led to the name of the album "Armonicadance - Electroblues," just released by Bloos Records.

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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99

Game and joke lovers Nik and Frank, the DuoFlosh, present Cabaret Zuzzurellone. A show suitable for all ages, this is a seething artistic cauldron, chock-full of acrobatic acts, juggling and borderline coherent comedy gags. Overwhelming involvement, crackling energy and shoehorned rhythm characterize this Variety. Live music, balancing acts and virtuosity at the Chinese pole will leave audiences enraptured.

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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3

Compagnie de l'Echelle presents puppet shows for a wide variety of audiences. The subjects are inspired by matters of life and suggest, with great poetry and love, another view of the world. Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino is a veritable miniaturized Italian-style theater that, thanks to a mechanism, recreates in the narrowness of minimal size the magic of the stage, the audience and the actors. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +6.
SHOW WITH VERY LIMITED CAPACITY: 10 SEATS (access managed by the Company).

Skizzo and JF are two "perfectionists" of street art. Their meeting in the performing arts was born in Latin America. The great passion for circus and street theater that they have in common makes the show fun and original, very engaging for children's audiences and captivating for adults. Circus Off is a hilarious parody of the classical circus where the company, left without performers, is in disarray. The last heirs of the family, the brothers "Skizzo and Jf," without a gig, find themselves on the road starting from scratch.

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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +2.

Imagine Paris in the early 1900s, the soundtrack of a silent film and a picnic in the shade of a cherry tree... A journey between France, Eastern Europe and Italy, enriched by original songs and improvisations with a swing flavor. Duo Baguette are Organetto and Accordion, two traditional instruments that, starting from tradition, come out of the closet to reinvent it and meet new languages and musical forms.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99 

For the Madame Rebiné company, live performance is a means of sublimating insecurities, and rediscovering in laughter and disinhibition empathy for human beings and for life in general. STRIKE! - Clowns on Strike is the new show created in co-production with Ultimo Punto. A traveling performance in which three old clowns take to the streets to go on strike. There will be many reasons for their protest--none will make people laugh, forbidden! 

SUITABLE FOR ALL. ITINERANT.

Pedro Tochas is The Sculptor Clown, a Portuguese master of crowd interaction who builds silent movies before your eyes, complete with love, heroes, and villains. Witness The Sculptor Clown crafts a complete story from nothing more than his imagination and a touch of help from the audience. A visual treat for all the family that will entertain and amaze.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 -99

From cold mountains to festival bliss there still remains some unfulfilled desire, a forbidden fantasy. What if all it takes to become the undisputed icon of all time is a breath? In a hilarious centrifuge of cabaret classics, Angela Delfini will use every means and person to achieve the timeless Hollywood dream. From Los Angeles, it comes all the way here, the BeautyFool Angela Delfini.

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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3

Wear the Tunic. Follow the Light. Await the coming of THE WHITE LORD.
What leads a man to seek a guru? How does your life change when you meet a master? What drives a man to “go through” this kind of experience? Think of a unique and transcendental experience. Imagine that you are the protagonist. Through this journey you will experience some of the emotions that only mystics, believers or cult followers have been able to experience. Fear not, The White Lord Loves You Deeply.

Preview performance, work in progress. Outcome of the training IL CIRCO NELLO SPAZIO (Boarding Pass Plus 2023-2024).

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +8. ITINERANT. 

Centre de Titelles de Lleida, founded in 1986 by Joan-Andreu Vallvé and Julieta Agustí and located in the old Santa Teresa convent in Lleida, promotes the art of puppetry. Kujira is a traveling show where an imposing blue whale makes its way through the city making its song heard. The viewer questions the collective responsibility toward the climate emergency. ​

NATIONAL PREMIERE
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. ITINERANT.

With the support of the Institut Ramon Llull. 

Headmix, skilfully combining bagpipes, fiddle, accordion, Irish whistles, melodica and heartfelt vocals with a stonking rhythm section, create an irresistibly dancey and unforgettable live experience. Folk meets ska, reggae, drum & bass and disco!

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.

The Saint Melonians are Wales’ number one comedy calypso band. Trapped in the rainy UK their dream is to drink rum in the Bahamas, but until they earn enough money to do that they’re bringing the Bahamas to you! Pairing vibrant 3 part harmonies, frenetic musical accompaniment and sunny comedy the Saint Melonians will have you dancing and laughing in equal measure.

OFF
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.

The Italian-Australian puppet theater company Di Filippo Marionette was created by Remo Di Filippo in 2010 and has continued to grow since Rhoda Lopez joined in 2014. Piuma is the newest member of the family and he is also the smallest! It's is a "pocket puppet", 28 cm tall and weighs 352 gr. And he doesn't want to work. What can happen between the little puppet and her very tall puppeteer Remo? 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3

A mime, a peculiar clown with a weird little voice. It is a totally improvised show, typical of the greatest street performers. He has the extraordinary skill of involving the people he wants to play with. Enjoyment is guaranteed for all of the family. Ete can shift from anger to laughter in a twinkle, leaving a pleasant memory in those who have the chance to watch his show.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

La Diògenes is a company founded in Barcelona in 2022 by Pau Garcia and Laia Campamá, which was born out of the need to explore and experiment with body mime, object manipulation and puppetry. In Folie à Deux, two characters find themselves trapped in silences and unexpressed feelings. In this world without texts, they try to share their madness again and dance, with those words they have never said, their last dance.

NATIONAL PREMIERE. 
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.
With the support of the Institut Ramon Llull.

Mime is not the most fashionable form of entertainment, but Kano Mami really does something special: her acting is closer to comic performance than to traditional mime. In Time, Time, KANO's Time!, wearing her distinctive blue work shirt, she creates his own precise pantomimic universe, with silence and laughter as her only tools.

NATIONAL PREMIERE
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.

Compagnie de l'Echelle presents puppet shows for a wide variety of audiences. The subjects are inspired by matters of life and suggest, with great poetry and love, another view of the world. Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino is a veritable miniaturized Italian-style theater that, thanks to a mechanism, recreates in the narrowness of minimal size the magic of the stage, the audience and the actors. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +6.
SHOW WITH VERY LIMITED CAPACITY: 10 SEATS (access managed by the Company).

D'es Tro is a circus company created in Majorca in July 2019 and formed by Guillem Vizcaíno, with a strong desire to discover a new and own language and to experiment with new forms of staging. Poi is the story of a country man trapped since childhood by the gyroscopic effect of his spinning top. A journey full of twists and turns that transports us into play, one of the most important states of life. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +8.

With the support of the Institut Ramon Llull.

The diablo is a thousand-year-old invention of Chinese origin. It was used before Christ to drive away evil spirits. Brunitus recovers this mystical origin in his new show Gùshi (storie coi diabli) to generate a journey. A journey through feelings, a poetic and intense proposal. Diablos spin, fly and intertwine like stories.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.

Caterina Fort is a dancer of earth and air, curious about everything related to expression through movement. Ida Est is theatrical incursion, it is twisted clown, it is interaction with the audience, it is improvisation, and it changes according to atmospheric pressure and astral climate. Ida is the neighborhood madwoman, loved and despised like a magnet.

SUITABLE FOR ALL. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.
ITINERANT.

Compagnie de l'Echelle presents puppet shows for a wide variety of audiences. The subjects are inspired by matters of life and suggest, with great poetry and love, another view of the world. Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino is a veritable miniaturized Italian-style theater that, thanks to a mechanism, recreates in the narrowness of minimal size the magic of the stage, the audience and the actors. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +6.
SHOW WITH VERY LIMITED CAPACITY: 10 SEATS (access managed by the Company).

KillaBeatMaker is not only an accomplished Dj, he has also established a vibrant Live Band that performs globally to thousands of people all over Europe and The Americas. The show brings a grooving and mystical combination through an energetic performance with unique instruments from the motherland.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +12.

For the Madame Rebiné company, live performance is a means of sublimating insecurities, and rediscovering in laughter and disinhibition empathy for human beings and for life in general. STRIKE! - Clowns on Strike is the new show created in co-production with Ultimo Punto. A traveling performance in which three old clowns take to the streets to go on strike. There will be many reasons for their protest--none will make people laugh, forbidden! 

SUITABLE FOR ALL. ITINERANT.

The performances of the circus company My!Laika are the result of long chains of distorted associations that avoid a linear narrative and immediate understanding. In Winter we find ourselves in the ruins of an old museum where strange characters traverse the stage and multiple stories. The "magie poubelle" technique brings the drama out of the desperate feeling of being frozen on this planet. Thus, the play questions itself to find a way out of itself and its unusual specters. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +7.
LIMITED CAPACITY. ON-SITE RESERVATION. 

Théâtre Jaleo was born from the meeting of Arnaud Vidal, actor and set designer, and Alice Alban-Zapata, dancer and percussionist, who create the company to defend popular theater, mixing their artistic disciplines. Eden is a cabaret of the shadow that explores the human soul, inviting viewers to reflect on themselves: seven deadly sins, seven intertwined stories, each reflecting an aspect of humanity.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE.

SHOW WITH LIMITED CAPACITY - On-site reservation

From his comic torn and restored newspaper routine to the famous Houdini Sword Box of Death, Tony Rooke is handcuffed, blindfolded, locked in a tiny box and speared through the body as the audience laugh and gasp. He mixes music, clown, magic, audience involvement and physical comedy to present a world class spectacular.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99.

Game and joke lovers Nik and Frank, the DuoFlosh, present Cabaret Zuzzurellone. A show suitable for all ages, this is a seething artistic cauldron, chock-full of acrobatic acts, juggling and borderline coherent comedy gags. Overwhelming involvement, crackling energy and shoehorned rhythm characterize this Variety. Live music, balancing acts and virtuosity at the Chinese pole will leave audiences enraptured.

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SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3

Armonicadance's is a show of original music between Blues and 80s sounds. Gianluca Caselli (live electronics) and Andreino Cocco (blues harmonica) experiment with the contamination between the pure and raw sound of Cocco's harmonica with the new sounds offered by samplers and electronics. All the music comes from improvisation and the development of a rhythmic idea; this is what led to the name of the album "Armonicadance - Electroblues," just released by Bloos Records.

OFF
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99

Compagnie de l'Echelle presents puppet shows for a wide variety of audiences. The subjects are inspired by matters of life and suggest, with great poetry and love, another view of the world. Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino is a veritable miniaturized Italian-style theater that, thanks to a mechanism, recreates in the narrowness of minimal size the magic of the stage, the audience and the actors. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +6.
SHOW WITH VERY LIMITED CAPACITY: 10 SEATS (access managed by the Company).

Imagine Paris in the early 1900s, the soundtrack of a silent film and a picnic in the shade of a cherry tree... A journey between France, Eastern Europe and Italy, enriched by original songs and improvisations with a swing flavor. Duo Baguette are Organetto and Accordion, two traditional instruments that, starting from tradition, come out of the closet to reinvent it and meet new languages and musical forms.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: 0 - 99 

In Edukikan, the performers are happy to be able to dance and respond to the centuries-old tradition of stilt walkers accompanied by two percussionists. When they realize that this is no longer enough, they begin to create original figures that take them further beyond the traditions.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +3