European Diploma
Federparchi - Europarc Italia
Home » EUROPARC 2010 » Conference
Special events
Thiasos TeatroNatura Cultural Association.
Thiasos TeatroNatura, the theatre group was founded in 1992 and since then has created plays and workshops in parks and natural reserves throughout Italy.
Up until today, its purpose is to bring together theatre with the countryside, its contemplation and experience, its perception and feeling.
The aim is to further develop a direct connection between human beings, their territory and the other "living beings" which inhabit it.
The plays are conceived so as to be performed in different hours of the day, generally from dusk until night, or from dawn until day time.
Therefore, the natural light's trans-colouring is part of the dramaturgy, directly imprinting its' meanings and qualities.
This is why the plays do not use artificial lights, stages or amplifications.
Through its plays, Thiasos TeatroNatura investigates the possibility of this dialogue between human and natural world today, of ecology as care for inhabiting the earth, and the role that ancient myth, art, theatre and chants might have in re-weaving a broken tissue.
The actors, immersed in the countryside, listen to, touch and dialogue with trees and stones. Finding themselves within the space of the scene, the spectators share with the actresses the natural light's variations, the flying of a birds' storm, the wind whistling through the leaves.
They experience a relationship with the space that is all but neutral.
The wind, the cliffs, the changes of light and the night's obscurity, intervene with all its power and immensity.
In the year 2000, Thiasos TeatroNatura, received the prestigious European Parks Federation EUROPARC Prize for "the best project interpreting the territory".
Sista Bramini and Francesca Ferri have founded and co-direct the group.
On Wednesday September 29th the "Theatre Walk" (10:00-13:00) of Othiasos Teatro Natura Cultural Assossiation, with Sista Bramini, Eva and Silvia Paciulli Balossi. (piece of the itinerant show "ICORPINUOVI" form Ovid's Metamorphoses, directed by S. Bramini)
Poetry has always been considered the insight of the complexity, of the interdependence and of the mysterious correspondence among all living things, and Ovid, the Latin poet born in Sulmona in Abruzzo, evokes in his remarkable poem a universe where the human, animal, vegetable, and divine world blend together.
The moving and funny story of the nymph "I" turned into a cow, prisoner of Argos the monstrous one hundred eyes shepherd and saved from the pan flute charmer god Mercury, masked as a shepherd, is a new and interesting way to discover a place as the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park, where its beautiful landscapes and pastoralism were for centuries an essential aspect of its identity.
On Wednesday September 29th the Concert "IN THIS WORLD" evening after dinner
Concert with the vocal Trio Francesca Ferri - Camilla dell'Agnola - Valentina Turrini. Original music scene and traditional polyphony.
Much of the original music is written by Francesca Ferri for the theatrical shows and rearranged for ductile and tonally evocative voices of the trio.
The "fatigue-resistance" to transformation, the main theme of Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the recurring themes. Here appear the transfiguration of Narcissus, of Daphne, of the Phaeton's sisters, here is the rising of the sun chariot which will cause its destruction.
And yet the history of "Io", the first nymph transformed into a cow by a jealous goddess and finally, after long agonies, transformed into the powerful and merciful goddess "Iside".
An other transverse theme is the desire of an uplifting union with nature, through the gift of the death of the empty lifeless spaces within ourselves that hinder live-giving transformation.
Finally, two musical pieces of poems written by the Italian writer Pasolini, where the main theme of the concert comes about: the need to break free from this reality and to keep going on, clinging to memories that we regret.
Some traditional songs from different backgrounds will alternate, from time to time, to original songs in a concert that speaks to the present through the metaphorical language and poetic theatrical fiction.
On thursday September 30th, non-members who do not attend the General Assembly will have the opportunity to participate at "The Animal and the Mask", drama Workshop for the "representation" of masks inspired from animals, with final parade, for children and creative adults.
"Danzò Danzò": itinerant-theatre play (PDF 540KB)
