Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo became a professional theatre group in 1973. Its history can be summed up in numbers: more than 100 productions; over 3000 performances viewed by almost one milion spectators; part of the programme of the most famous international festivals; guest performer in 34 nations in 4 continents; subject of several reviews and critical studies in various languages, present both at a National and International level with papers, workshops, symposia and ateliers.

In 1974 the first experiments on street theatre were carried out and have in the following years been improved and enhanced; in 1977 began the TTB’s research on the Eastern stage culture, particularly the Indian Dance Drama, that lead the theatre group to spread its artistic and critical knowledge in the West. Its particular nature has consciously kept the TTB out of the conventional and commercial circuit, but nonetheless close to a popular audience.

Valse

Valse is an open space performance built around a myth-category of European social culture, namely, the waltz. As it is well-known, in this dance various elements are condensed: anthropological and cosmological ones: the spin as hypnotical bewilderment but Pythagoric homology with the rotation of celestial spheres as well. The context is therefore impressive: The TTB has been trying over the course of time, following the usual slow scansion of its works, a series of approaches, the result of which is now being proposed in its full edition. A red thread, like the one in the British Navy hawsers, runs through the weaving: a restless girl, eluding the surveillance of her tutor, opens her large eyes wide into the world of adults at the great ball; a silly and sly monkey tempts her with its golden ball. Stilts, which are by now classical accessories of open space theatre, expand the composition of low-cut dresses, tulles and dinner jackets into an oniric-fabulous swirl evoked as a possible reaction to the dreary atmosphere that stagnates on the leaden wasteland of our cultural life.

CAST:

Direction Renzo Vescovi

Musics: Johann Strauss, Berlioz, Boccherini, Händel, Schubert, Puccini, Paisiello, Sarasate

Lighting and sound: Alberto Gorla

Actors: Tiziana Barbiero, Silvia Baudin, Luigia Calcaterra, Francesco Carrà, Christian Cestaro, Beppe Chierichetti, Mauro Danesi, Rosa Da Lima Iannone, Ruben Manenti, Alessandro Rigoletti, Caterina Scotti, Clara Rigoletti

ZAPPEIO 17/10 - 21:00