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ARTICLES YEAR 2011
"SCONTRO DI CIVILTÀ PER UN ASCENSORE IN PIAZZA VITTORIO": ALL'IIC DI TORONTO LA PRESENTAZIONE DEL LIBRO DI AMARA LAKHOUS
http://www.aise.it/cultura/istitaliani-di-cultura/81731-alliic-di-toronto-la-presentazione-del-nuovo-libro-di-amara-lakhous.html
http://www.aise.it/cultura/istitaliani-di-cultura/81886-qitalianissimoq-stefano-montanari-dirige-la-tafelmusik-a-toronto.html
http://www.aise.it/cultura/istitaliani-di-cultura/81665-il-maestro-vincenzo-scalera-a-toronto-per-lopera-week-celebration-concert-.html
http://www.aise.it/cultura/la-cultura-del-martedi/81586-il-giardino-della-speranza-di-antonello-faretta-agli-hot-docs-di-toronto-e-a-cannes.html
http://www.aise.it/cultura/la-cultura-del-martedi/81580-shaping-an-identity-ladattamento-delle-opere-letterarie-italiane-in-un-convegno-alla-university-of-toronto-.html
http://www.aise.it/cultura/istitaliani-di-cultura/81267-qsongs-of-the-celestial-sirensq-al-trinity-st-pauls-centre-di-toronto.html
Published On Thu Jan 27 2011
Are playwrights taking a page from reality television?
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/theatre/article/929182--are-playwrights-taking-a-page-from-reality-television
QUESTO BUIO FEROCE
Italian director Pippo Delbono’s shows are wildly unrealistic in a theatrical way, as they incorporate music and dance and have been compared, aesthetically, to the films of Federico Fellini and David Lynch. Still, he has always made use of so-called “non-professional” actors in his company, including one with Down’s Syndrome and another who spent 40 years in a mental asylum, acting alongside “professional” performers. It just seems more honest to him to use “real people” onstage.
“In my company there are people who bear the marks and different life experiences that a dead society may consider outsiders, but they are great actors and artists that bring a truth and needs that are rare amongst so-called ‘normal’ actors,” he says. “These actors give me and my company the true and revolutionary sense of acting.”
World Stage presents Delbono’s latest work, Questo Buio Feroce (The Wild Darkness), this week at Fleck Dance Theatre, a show inspired by Harold Brodkey’s memoir about dying of AIDS. Delbono’s first encounter with the book is the stuff of myth.
“I was in Burma in a place without water, gas or electricity, lost in the gulf of Bengal and there I found that book,” he says. “I was struck by a narration so full of spirituality of a non-religious man who approaches death sick with AIDS. As he approaches death he acquires a conscience and lucidity on the meaning of life and death.” It’s a subject with personal resonance to Delbono, who is HIV positive.
“I felt the need to narrate the battle of many that has also been my battle for many years,” he says.
The director feels it is important for his theatrical work to combat the superficiality of society, and his company of so-called “misfits” helps him achieve that. “In a society where there is a predominance of social climbing, television aesthetics, beauty proposed by commercial models, it is fundamental that theatre and art in general be nourished by those artists that do not follow these schemes.”
Review: The Wild Darkness is a wild ride
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/theatre/article/929342--review-the-wild-darkness-is-a-wild-ride
Robert Crew Special to the Star
Questo Buio Feroce
(The Wild Darkness)
(out of 4)
Adapted and directed by Pippo Delbono. Until Jan. 29 at Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W.
It’s almost a racing certainty that Questo Buio Feroce (The Wild Darkness), now at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre, is unlike anything you have seen before.
The production, from Italy’s Compagnia Pippo Delbono, is part of Harbourfront’s ongoing World Stage. And if that festival’s mandate is to present challenging, unusual, boundary-pushing shows, this one — with its blend of theatre and movement — certainly fits the bill.
Pippo Delbono adapted Questo Buio Feroce from Harold Brodkey’s 1996 essays Wild Darkness: The Story of My Life, written as he was dying of AIDS. It is presented in English and Italian, with occasional English surtitles.
It takes us inside the mind of the poet during his journey through the valley of the shadow of death. It is fantastical, strange, unsettling.
It opens with a blinding white light and a thin man crouched on the floor. The stage gradually evolves into a chilling hospital waiting room where numbers are shouted out as everyone waits, and waits, for treatment or diagnosis. Strange patients sit patiently; white-coated technicians move in and out.
From there, the poet’s journey takes us ever inwards. There’s a brief evocation of pain; it’s clear that this is a battlefield. Then one of the ensemble sings “My Way.”
And onwards. Seemingly random thoughts and memories are sparked – of an Italian family in Ohio, a bitter reflection on our acquisitive, capitalist society, a sense that the whole world is dying along with the AIDS sufferer.
There’s a feeling of carnival as a grotesque kind of fashion parade takes place, complete with a couple of Harlequin figures. There’s a section on loneliness, the dating game and sexual fantasies.
Suddenly Cinderella and several ugly sisters appear, trying to squeeze their feet into a shoe and win a dance with Prince Charming. There’s a vision of a funeral, complete with a group of family mourners that are first cousins to the Addams family.
And so to death, with a final image of sailing on calm waters into peace.
This is ensemble work of the highest order, a blend of theatre and movement that’s disciplined and precise, with every moment carefully shaped.
It’s a remarkable product of Pippo Delbono’s vivid and unique theatrical imagination, a cool and unsentimental vision of the last firings of the brain’s synapses. For me, there were odd moments that didn’t quite add up and times when a little more warmth and humour might have served well. That said, catch it if you can. It has a short run, ending this Saturday.
ARTICLES YEAR 2010
Martin Stiglio says goodbye to Toronto
Director of the Italian Cultural Institute reflects on achievements
Published on: 2010-12-12
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10775
Precision is key for Prof. Scarpa
Translator of technical-scientific texts says “mastery” of language is possible
By Letizia Tesi
Published on: 2010-11-21
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10715
Creating figures that come to life
Sculptor Silvio Mastrodascio showcases retrospective in Toronto
Published on: 2010-11-21
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10725
A cinematic trip around the world
Italy’s We Can Do That part of European Union Film Fest
Published on: 2010-11-14
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10690
A journey through Italo Calvino’s mind
The European Book Club will feature Invisible Cities this Nov. 13
Published on: 2010-11-14
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10692
“Italians have a weak conscience of language”
Maraschio of Accademia della Crusca says English is considered chic
Published on: 2010-11-07
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10664
Compelling Paradise by the River
Play explores internment of Italians during WWII
Published on: 2010-11-07
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10670
From grammar to international influence
Scholars took part in Italian language convention at U of T
Published on: 2010-10-31
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10644
RAI expands information bridge
Network connects Italian-speaking community in Canada
Published on: 2010-10-24
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10636
Committed to a future that honours roots, culture
Conference with Team Italia members focuses on importance of educational resources
Published on: 2010-10-24
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10637
Italian Language in the World Week
U of T conference looks at impact of globalization
Published on: 2010-10-24
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10618
“An intellectual? Even a dentist is”
Italian scholar and writer Claudio Magris goes against the grain
Published on: 2010-10-17
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10601
Pianist unearths 19th-century treasures: Alessandro Marangoni
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/873752--pianist-unearths-19th-century-treasures
Pinocchio in the 21st century
Professor from Venice speaks about modern day rewrites of classic fairytale
Published on: 2010-10-03
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10559
Deeper look at La Malapianta
Q & A with ‘Ndrangheta experts Nicaso and Gratteri
Published on: 2010-09-26
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10532
Memory Studies and the Identity Problem
A cross reading of European and Canadian cultural traditions
Published on: 2010-08-22
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10416
For the love of Mother Earth
Director Olmi and Slow Food focuses on biodiversity
Published on: 2010-07-04
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10316
Searching for your family tree
Ontario Genealogical Society presents three-day convention on ancestry
By Letizia Tesi
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=10175
Ricercatori italiani riuniti in Ontario
All’Istituto Italiano di Cultura la conferenza di presentazione dell’Ario
Di CATERINA ROTUNNO Pubblicato: 2010-04-27
http://corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=98418
Una conferenza sulla Sicilia “antica e moderna”
Relatori dell’evento organizzato dalla Sicilian Cultural Society sono stati i professori Spencer Pope ed Ernesto Virgulti Di MARIELLA POLICHENI
Articolo pubblicato il: 2010-04-28
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=98461
Conferenza al Columbus Centre: “Sicilia: antico e moderno”
Articolo pubblicato il: 2010-04-16
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=98162
Le donne futuriste e le loro tante anime
All’incontro ha partecipato anche Luca Somigli, professore della UofT, esperto dell’avanguardia novecentesca Di LETIZIA TESI Articolo pubblicato il: 2010-03-31
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=97767
Petrolio e futuro dell’economia, incontro con Jeff Rubin
L’economista canadese di fama mondiale presenterà il suo ultimo libro all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Articolo pubblicato il: 2010-03-01
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=96913
Borsa di studio per imparare l’italiano a Perugia
Articolo pubblicato il: 2010-02-13
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=96556
“L’eleganza del riccio” incanta Toronto
Incontro lettura sul bestseller della scrittrice Muriel Barbery
Articolo pubblicato il: 2010-01-11
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=95550
Articles year 2009
Il futurismo per Craig all’Istituto di Cultura
Terzo appuntamento all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura per il centenario della corrente
Articolo Pubblicato il: 2009-11-26
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=94221
Al Bata il lusso delle calzature del Rinascimento
Prestiti anche dal Museo Bardini (Firenze), dal Castello Sforzesco (Milano) e da Palazzo Mocenigo (Venezia)
Di LETIZIA TESI
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-11-18
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=93909
Convegno sullo scrittore Carlo Bernari
Esperti di varie università italiane e della UofT all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-10-27
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=93042
I giovani precari all’Eh!U di Toronto
Due commedie crude e ironiche sui laureati solitari e disillusi costretti a lavori a singhiozzo
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=93891
Far-ranging contributions in all fields
Italian Language in the World Week honours know-how
By Letizia Tesi
http://www.corrieretandem.com/viewstory.php?storyid=9531
L’universo raccontato dal nipote di Marconi
Francesco Paresce Marconi ha tenuto una conferenza all’Istituto Italiano per la “Settimana della lingua italiana”
Di LETIZIA TESI
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-10-21
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=92825&page=2
Serata Camilleri a Toronto
Il 7 aprile presso l'IIC della città canadese si terrà la serata dedicata allo scrittore siciliano ed alla Sicilia
http://www.newsitaliapress.it/pages/dettaglio.php?id_lnk=9_150543
Al via oggi il "Toronto Festival of Storytelling 2009"
http://www.newsitaliapress.it/pages/dettaglio.php?id_lnk=9_150503
Va in scena “Maria. Storia di tre donne”
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-03-20
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=85310
Jersey Boys, un sogno in musica «Una storia dal copione geniale»
A Toronto il musical di Broadway su Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Nel cast anche l’italoamericano Joseph Siravo
Di SIMONA GIACOBBI
Articolo pubblicato il: 2008-11-24
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=81247
Va in scena “Maria. Storia di tre donne”
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-03-20
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=85310
Viaggio nel plurilinguismo alla University of Toronto
Tra gli ospiti la visiting professor Carla Marcato, il docente Alfredo Luzi e il regista Enrico Bernard
Di CONCITA MINUTOLA
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=85371
Alla UofT convegno internazionale di italianisti sul “pluralismo letterario”
Pietropaolo: «Quest’anno la relazione principale è della docente Carla Marcato»
Di CONCITA MINUTOLA
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-03-18
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=85186
«I dialetti non muoiono, cambiano»
Carla Marcato: «C’è una rivalutazione della lingua e della cultura locale»
Di CONCITA MINUTOLA
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=85373
Gastronomia italiana all'estero: cultura da esportazione
Per il Presidente di Ciao Italia, Ciccardini, gli IIC vanno coinvolti nella selezione dei migliori ristoranti
20.02.2009 18:02:52
http://www.newsitaliapress.it/pages/dettaglio.php?id_lnk=5_150066
L’IIC di Toronto incontra lo scrittore Nino Ricci
6 febbraio 2009
http://www.italplanet.it/interna.asp?sez=276&info=13869
Conferenza di Lamberto Tassinari su John Florio
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-02-02
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=83613
Omaggio ad Anna Magnani, icona del cinema
Al Columbus Centre da giovedì una retrospettiva dedicata all’attrice per eccellenza del dopoguerra
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-01-20
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=83177
Music on Canvas organizza Viva Carnival!
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-01-14
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=82944
A well deserved honour for Nicola Sparano
Corriere Canadese sports writer receives Antonio Maglio journalism award
By Simona Giacobbi
Originally Published: 2009-02-01
http://www.tandemnews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=8881
Un concerto di Gioacchino Rossini per ricordare il Giorno della memoria
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-01-13
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=82901
Toronto celebra Anna Magnani
19.01.2009 20:01:10
http://www.newsitaliapress.it/pages/dettaglio.php?id_lnk=7_149482
Media & Ethnicity Conferenza del prof. Peppino Ortoleva
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-01-10
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=82819
La creatività di Enzo Mari in mostra a Toronto
9 gennaio 2009
http://www.italplanet.it/interna.asp?sez=276&info=13505
Le opere del designer Enzo Mari in mostra
Articolo pubblicato il: 2009-01-05
http://www.corriere.com/viewstory.php?storyid=82612
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