Dance
A New Zealand Swan Lake
Swan Lake by Corey Baker The swans out of the water are clumsy and the dancers outside the theaters are also uncomfortable. During the pandemic many dancing swans have colonized the web. One of the […]
REVIEWS
Art
Artists and Monument Hackers
“Hacking Monuments” project The monuments of Milano are the protagonists of the “Hacking Monuments” project, which has been curated by Simona Da Pozzo. The artists Their narrative function and the enjoyment by both activists and […]
Music
A dirty thing for Portnoy
A videoclip on the band Portnoy has just been published, director Camilla Mancini who titled it “A dirty thing”. Watching and listening to this video-musical story, you are touched by an endless sequence of artistic […]
Art
Exodus, Sebastião Salgado on show
Exodus. Travelling the Roads of Migrants If you have never been to Pistoia and are planning to spend a weekend in the Tuscan city, do not miss the exhibition Exodus. Travelling the Roads of Migrants […]
Books
Eros Magia Sacro in Julius Evola
Conference proceedings about Julius Evola: eros, magic and the sacred The book Eros Magia Sacro in Julius Evola is edited by G. de Turris, A. Scarabelli, G. Sessa (Ed. Foundation J. Evola-Pages, Rome 2020). It […]
Dance
The Summer dances
Summer dance shows 2020 Some tips about performances and summer dance shows in 2020. Pina Bausch‘s Sacre du Printemps was supposed to be the 2020 dance event. It is a masterpiece of 1975 staged in […]
Art
Depeaux’s Impressionists in Rouen
François Depeaux (1853-1920) was not among the first collectors of the Impressionists. There was a generation before him who had started to see, with interest and curiosity, this formal metamorphosis of art merchants, like Durand-Ruel. […]
Books
The Finished Stories
“The book of the finished stories”, has just been released, Fusibilia Libri publisher, edited by Dona Amati, with a forward by Ugo Magnanti. A large collection of stories are included in it, and you deal […]
Dance
Dance from all around the World, on the Internet
When are theatres reopening? In the meanwhile, the great dance companies are all active on the web. The New York City Ballet decides to show George Balanchine’s repertoire. Ballets de Monte-Carlo gives its energies thorugh […]
Culture
The Juggler by Angela Giordano
Angela Giordano has been practicing a pattern made up by the fusion of her own main skills as a teacher and as an artist. A fusion based on a sparkling and above all combative tension […]
Art
Paolo Gubinelli,Works on paper
An old acquaintance, an old high consideration. His poetics has always been stable over long times but characterized by surprising variations on the theme. His interest is letting the paper speak, giving a language and […]
Dance
Dance in Italy between local and international piéces
Dance wants to move forward: while everybody still dancing on the web and on all home screens, the push to open the live activities in the ballrooms and theaters / festivals is on the horizon. […]
Contemporary art
Venice Biennale Dance will open in October
The Venice Biennale prepares its autumn programs with a virtual exhibition The idea of the body, available online in the section of the Historical Archive: Merce Cunnigham, Steve Paxton, Julian Beck, Meredith Monk and Simone […]
Art
Allegra Ravizza, Noises and Spaces
Happily, Ravizza gallery in Lugano has broadened its content horizons. It goes on dealing with the artists of today and yesterday (all contemporary). At the same time, the firm starts a path that you could […]
Culture
As if you were seated at theatre
Theaters are closed, but remain open on the net. La Scala dancers invite you to respect the rules, to stay in your own space, but without getting lazy. The Rome Opera House unveils Laurent Hilaire’s […]
Art
The door for the distance and the key to infinity
Fernando Miglietta dedicates one of his artworks to Pope Francis. The title is “The door for the distance and the key of the infinite“. This work is part of a series called “Dialogue with the […]
Books
The Bridge, sighing and beyond
Silvio Bolognini, “Bridge Hermeneutics – Ermeneutica del ponte” Globalisation seems to make the idea of a bridge superfluous. It has been questioned if this metaphor is no longer needed, and perhaps not even the physical […]
Books
Decamerone and mystery
An anthology of fantastic literature (“Antologia della letteratura fantastica”) has just appeared by Andrea Scarabelli, director of the magazine “Antarès”, and Dalmazio Frau, a scholar of myths and an artist. They put together fifteen authors […]
cinema
Kristić, and the cinema at your home
Animation cinema is not just for a very young audience. Quite the opposite. An example is Persepolis, written by the Iranian Marjame Satrapi. In 2008, it came out in Italian cinemas telling of the role […]
Books
Sieni-Cuticchio the pattern body-puppet
In the endless ideological battle between expressing yourself or depersonalizing actors and performers on stage, dance offers every kind of possibilities from the dawn of modernity to the consequences on the new millenium. Virgilio Sieni […]