2023-24 archive - teatro san materno

24.09
Sunday
at 17.00

CHF 20.– / CHF 15.– *

Fermati al limite

Bianca Berger

DANCE

A choreographic score born out of a mathematical theorem.
How can dance and mathematics, two disciplines apparently so different, interact with each other?

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06.10
Friday
at 20.30

CHF 25.– / CHF 20.– *

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The Poetic Universe of Carolyn Carlson

Dance Conference

DANCE

Words, gestures, inks and poems to discover the poetic universe of dancer Carolyn Carlson. Performance by Sara Orselli and narration by Hélène de Talhouët.

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21.10
Saturday
at 20.30

22.10
Sunday
at 17.00

CHF 20.– / CHF 15.– *

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Chaise à pointes

Compagnia Giovani Tiziana Arnaboldi and Cie Brigitte Roman

DANCE / NEW CREATION

Eight young dancers are bringing to the stage the encounter-clash between the apparent lightness of classical dance and the apparent weight of contemporary dance. From their meeting comes a new vision.
Choreography by Tiziana Arnaboldi and Nuria Prazak.

With the support of Fondazione Pende.

* * * * * * * * * * places sold out * * * * * * * * * *

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19.11
Sunday
at 17.00

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Opposti flussi

by and with Marco Baliani

THEATRE

The actor and director Marco Baliani carries the viewer through a storytelling path based on oppositions: voice and writing, reality and imagination, nomad and settled, man and nature.

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26.11
Sunday
at 17.00

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Servito a zero

by and featuring Gianluca Grossi, Live music by Danilo Boggini

THEATRE

Photo-journalist Ellis Trallen decides to destroy his vast archive.
This erasure of memory represents the only gesture of active resistance against a society that is no longer interested in seeing, nor in remembering and to which he decides to leave nothing as a legacy.

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02.12
Saturday
at 20.30

03.12
Sunday
at 17.00

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Corpi tra le nuvole

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

DANCE

Dance performance inspired by the artist and poet Jean Arp (1886-1966).

Performance created in collaboration with the Marguerite Arp Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition 'I was born in a cloud. Jean Arp" (2022)

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15.12
Friday
at 20.30

16.12
Saturday
at 20.30

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From the Big Bang to Homo Stupidens

By and with Enrico Ferretti and Gerardo Mele

THEATRE

The assistants of a well-known anthropologist find themselves having to stand in for him at a presentation on the history of humanity.
With enthusiasm, they throw themselves into the enterprise but their difficulty in chronologically placing the facts leads them into absurd and tragicomic situations.

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28.01
Sunday
at 17.00

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Seems Infinite

Federico Albanese and Cie Tiziana Arnaboldi

MUSIC & DANCE

The notes of the composer and pianist Federico Albanese and the gestures of the dancer Marta Ciappina carry the viewer on a journey through memory. A dreamlike encounter between piano and contemporary dance.

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09.03
Saturday
at 20.30

10.03
Sunday
at 17.00

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Da 1 a 12 note – Danzando Ligeti (From 1 to 12 Tones - Dancing Ligeti)

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi and Gabriele Leporatti

DANCE AND MUSIC

Tribute to the Ascona scholar
Wolfgang Oppenheimer (1923)

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A century after the birth of the pianist and composer György Ligeti, Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi reprises its collaboration with the pianist Gabriele Leporatti to create a dance based on a 12-tone structure; a rhythmic structure used in the fifties by Ligeti to create a "new music".

* students, apprendisti, AVS, AI, “e-venti culturali” and “club rete due” members

16.03
Saturday
at 20.30

17.03
Sunday
at 17.00

CHF 15.– / CHF 10.– *

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Danc’in Cinematic Spaces

POOL – Movement Art Film Festival

VIDEODANCE

A selection of international and contemporary movement-based films co-curated by Pool Movement Art Film Festival Berlin and the Teatro San Materno.

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Two evenings in which dance and cinema converge to give life to a single form of movement-based art. A playful exploration of the human body in relation to architecture and a reflection on man's relationship with nature.

* students, apprendisti, AVS, AI, “e-venti culturali” and “club rete due” members

14.04
Sunday
at 17.00

Free entry

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Che sapore hanno i muri (What do walls taste like)

Paolo Aleotti

LITERARY MEETING

Journalist and author Paolo Aleotti tells us of his experience in the Bollate prison, where he directed a journalism and communication workshop for nine years.

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This is the subject of his book Che sapore hanno i muri (2023). In an exchange with Lisa Ferretti, the author will sketch the stories of life, damnation and the opportunities for redemption which emerged during his years among the prisoners.

* students, apprendisti, AVS, AI, “e-venti culturali” and “club rete due” members

28.04
Sunday
at 17.00

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A Number

By Caryl Churchill

THEATRE

With Giuseppe Pestillo and Massimo Rigo
Scenes and direction by Luca Mazzone

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On 5 July 1996, an event occurred that would change the fate of science and eugenics. In fact, this was the first example of the cloning of a living being: that of the sheep Dolly. She would not survive long, just enough time to generate reflections on the concept of uniqueness and identity. A replica that can undermine the "I" and the "We".

* students, apprendisti, AVS, AI, “e-venti culturali” and “club rete due” members

12.05
Sunday
at 17.00

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Smagliature

By and with Livia Bartolucci “Residenza San Materno” Festival Presente Futuro Award (Teatro Libero Palermo)

DANCE

SMAGLIATURE is a dance solo that carries the traces of the change of a human body.

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Through the daily hypnosis, it may happen to be able to grasp a threshold, a glimpse of another world that invites us to change course, to leave the path already traced, in order to discover what our space and our time on this Earth are like.

* students, apprendisti, AVS, AI, “e-venti culturali” and “club rete due” members

25.05
Saturday
at 20.00

26.05
Sunday
at 20.00

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Boucler la boucle (Full Circle)

Caroline Denervaud

PERFORMANCE - EXHIBITION

Caroline Denervaud paints, dances inside her own works and films her performances.

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Three artists create performances inspired by the unique architecture of the Teatro San Materno, designed in 1924 by architect Carl Weidemeyer. They explore how the body responds to the spirit of the place.

* students, apprendisti, AVS, AI, “e-venti culturali” and “club rete due” members

16.06
Sunday
at 18.00

Free entry

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Ioannis Mandafounis
Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company

As part of the Lugano Dance Project
A LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura production

DANCE AND ARCHITECTURE SERIES

Released

Ioannis Mandafounis is directing the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company in a choreography especially conceived for Teatro San Materno as part of the Lugano Dance Project.

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19.07
Friday
at 20.00

20.07
Saturday
at 20.00

CHF 15.-

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Cantiere aperto

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

DANCE AND ARCHITECTURE SERIES

Choreographic journey around the connection between inner and outer space, between earth and sky, between creative body and spiritual body.

* * * Friday sold out * * *

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Fermati al limite

Bianca Berger

DANCE

The Poetic Universe of Carolyn Carlson

Dance Conference

DANCE

Chaise à pointes

Compagnia Giovani Tiziana Arnaboldi and Cie Brigitte Roman

DANCE / NEW CREATION

Opposti flussi

by and with Marco Baliani

THEATRE

Servito a zero

by and featuring Gianluca Grossi, Live music by Danilo Boggini

THEATRE

Corpi tra le nuvole

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

DANCE

From the Big Bang to Homo Stupidens

By and with Enrico Ferretti and Gerardo Mele

THEATRE

Seems Infinite

Federico Albanese and Cie Tiziana Arnaboldi

MUSIC & DANCE

Da 1 a 12 note – Danzando Ligeti (From 1 to 12 Tones - Dancing Ligeti)

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi and Gabriele Leporatti

DANCE AND MUSIC

Danc’in Cinematic Spaces

POOL – Movement Art Film Festival

VIDEODANCE

Che sapore hanno i muri (What do walls taste like)

Paolo Aleotti

LITERARY MEETING

A Number

By Caryl Churchill

THEATRE

Smagliature

By and with Livia Bartolucci “Residenza San Materno” Festival Presente Futuro Award (Teatro Libero Palermo)

DANCE

Boucler la boucle (Full Circle)

Caroline Denervaud

PERFORMANCE - EXHIBITION

Ioannis MandafounisDresden Frankfurt Dance Company

As part of the Lugano Dance Project A LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura production

DANCE AND ARCHITECTURE SERIES

Released

Cantiere aperto

Compagnia Tiziana Arnaboldi

DANCE AND ARCHITECTURE SERIES

Ioannis Mandafounis
Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company

As part of the Lugano Dance Project
A LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura production