Miming legacies of Marceau unveil at the "Parallel Narrations" festival in Bardonecchia
The Narrazioni Parallele Festival, a unique cultural event, is set to begin tomorrow at the Palazzo delle Feste di Bardonecchia. This experimental festival, under the artistic direction of Willy Merz, combines hybrid narrative forms and literary innovation, aiming to revitalize imagination and critique traditional poetics.
The festival invites audiences to embark on a journey between mountains and cities, between stories and languages, and between visions and perceptions. The program will unfold through installations, site-specific performances, and multidisciplinary creations, transforming spaces into true narrative worlds.
One of the highlights of the festival is the French collective Les Farfadais, founded by the Turin-born brothers Alexander and Stéphane Haffner. They will present the world premiere of "Envol", a suspended adventure, an immersion in an enchanted universe populated by magnificent creatures.
Another anticipated performance is by Dekru, an award-winning Ukrainian mime quartet considered the heirs of Marcel Marceau. Tomorrow at 9 PM, they will perform a humorous and evocative exploration of the relationship between the corporeal and the digital. Without words, props, or scenery, they bring to life scenes capable of evoking emotions through the flexibility of their bodies transformed by their imagination.
Interaction is possible in several performances at the festival. Performances are experienced 'on safari', inviting the audience to move, listen, touch, and be surprised.
The Narrazioni Parallele Festival inherits the long tradition of "Scenario Montagna" and unites different artistic languages. Appointments for the festival will also be held at the Forte di Fenestrelle and the Fondazione Merz di Torino.
On September 20, at the Fondazione Merz, Madaski, together with other artists, will perform the project "Terra". Meanwhile, on Sunday 10, at the Forte di Fenestrelle, Cristina Dona will perform "La musa e l'orizzonte".
The festival likely focuses on hybrid artistic expressions that explore narrative and poetic innovation, possibly with influences from new aesthetic ontologies and critical approaches to tradition, as suggested in discussions about poetic and narrative experimentation and the recovery of “Fattore Fantasia” (Factor Fantasy) in contemporary culture. It aims to engage audiences with evolving narratives that reflect current cultural dynamics and question historical or social conventions of tradition and identity.
In summary, the Narrazioni Parallele Festival is an invitation to be involved, to be amazed, to walk on the thin line that unites past and future, person and landscape, art and life. Don't miss this extraordinary event starting tomorrow in Bardonecchia!
- The average festival-goer at the Narrazioni Parallele Festival might find themselves immersed in an 'enchanted universe', as Les Farfadais present the world premiere of "Envol".
- The program of the Narrazioni Parallele Festival is not only a critique of traditional entertainment but also an exploration of the relationship between the corporeal and the digital, as demonstrated by the award-winning Ukrainian mime quartet, Dekru.
