BETWEEN THE SEAS 2015-E.sperimenti Dance Company
The innovative ‘made in Italy’ Company E.sperimenti Dance Company has been invited to participate in the 2015 edition of Between the Seas, a festival of performing arts,focused on the Mediterranean cultures. E.sperimenti Dance Company, presents the acclaimed ‘Per…Inciso’, featuring Italian songs from Modugno to Jovannotti. 7 performers on stage, with background ranging from contemporary to […]
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THE BROTHERHOOD
An exhibition of animated video-paintings by Federico Solmi. Known for his hand-drawn, color-saturated, satirical videos, Solmi seeks to portray a dystopian vision of a present-day society that inexorably continues to regenerate and to renew itself, even as it falls apart in front of our eyes. In this new video portrait series Solmi parodies the iconography […]
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HAPPENCHANCE: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945
Photographs by Alfonso Carrara, American 5th Army scout during the war Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012). Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-photographer, documented the exhausted, disoriented populations and war-ravaged architecture of Italy’s small towns and villages during the Allied northward advance through the countryside in 1944-45. […]
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Red Roses and Domestic Acid
Rosa , raped by her husbands cousin , is convinced into committing suicide by her husband himself. When she fails he tries to strangleher and the whole matter ends in Court, but…A true case of grotesque domestic violence of the late ’70 Italy , in a multimedia satirical show with music and pantomime by cosmopolitan […]
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BATTERY DANCE FESTIVAL
Battery Dance Festival, New York City’s longest running public dance festival, will feature -for the first time in Festival history – an Italian company: Enzo Celli’s VIVO Ballet.
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CONVERSING CONVERSION
The Greatest Poet in Italian History. The Eccentric Conversationalist of the Counter Reformation. The First Kiev-Rus Martyrs. What possible connections do they display? What lessons convey? Dante converses with the inhabitants of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. How do his conversations with sinners and saints lead him (and his readers) to “conversion”? His fellow Florentine, Philip […]
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Porcelain Raft (Album Release Party!)
Mauro Remiddi once ran away to join the circus. The circus was in Berlin and Mauro was 21 years old and at the time he was a street musician earning his living in Florence. Traveling with the circus he played accordion and percussion and violin while acrobats flew above the stage and magicians plied their […]
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CIMA CLOSING WEEKEND FESTA
CIMA invites you to a Free Open House to celebrate the closing weekend of the Medardo Rosso exhibition! The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) is a non-profit organization located in SoHo promoting Italian modern art through yearly exhibitions, fellowships and public programs. For the closing weekend of our Medardo Rosso exhibition we will host […]
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THE GHOST FREQUENCY North American Premier
LA FREQUENZA FANTASMA paints a portrait of a crumbling village nestled on the mountains of Calabria, in the south of Italy. It is the story of a place suspended in time and space, a place of sounds, smells, and numberless thresholds where the memory of a mythical past and the present are inextricably intertwined. It […]
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The flute in Contemporary Music:the Italian experience and the ‘Rome School’
Concert-lesson by:Gianni Trovalusci, flute Starting from the 50’s / 60’s took place a musical revolution, destined to change composition and interpretation and the very idea of the musical language in the fields of Contemporary Music, having as one of its important medium a musical instrument: the flute. In particular, during the first years of the […]
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