This year, for the first time, the programme features one country of the opposite coast of the Mediterranean Sea: Israel. Artists travel, get around, collaborate and this is the reason why it’s getting ever more difficult to ascribe the paternity of an artistic creation to a single country. You will be enjoying the colours of the US, of Brazil and Israel, beyond those of the European countries: Barak Marshall, an American-Israeli choreographer, is going to present a show in the gardens of Racconigi, a majestic castle specifically recovered by the festival. The other locations involved by Teatro a Corte will be: Moncalieri, Rivoli, Venaria Reale and the Royal stables of Druento, a diversified range of historical sites chosen to offer the audience the particular feeling characterizing our festival, the possibility to enjoy these charming places along with spectacular live shows. As usual, our proposals have been selected for being surprising, unprecedented and unpublished: Blanca Li will be opening with a joyful choreography inspired by street dance; a great Flemish performance will introduce us to mysterious and deserted places; the English showcase (every year we dedicate the festival to the artistic productions coming from an European country and this year it is the turn of UK) will be offering six companies showing nine performance; My dream, a project meant to support the theatre production of disabled artists, will give space to two Italian shows and to Claire Cunningham, the English artists that used her injured body as a poetical instrument. Three weeks of exciting performances, of visits to the castles and their gardens, those of the extraordinary Savoy Mansions and Palaces of Piedmont. Meetings and forums with artists and journalists, parties that see the presence of both audience and cultural operators, gourmet tastings of products of the territory. 

This exceptional festival is taking place from July 6th to 22nd: you can’t miss it.

Beppe Navello

Director Fondazione TPE

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