ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL Sept
15 Sept. Rome’s avant-garde festival kicks off on 15 Sept with the film Dialogue 9-MAXXI which covers the programme by Sasha Waltz and Guests for the official opening of MAXXI (Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo) in 2009. MAXXI, Via Guido Reni 4a. 18-20 Sept. Sasha Waltz and Guests perform at the Cavea Auditorium Parco della Musica with their new work Dialogue/Roma 2020 created especially for this year’s festival. The work involves the dialogue between the body and space under the extraordinary measures taken to control the coronavirus pandemic. Cavea, Auditorium Parco della Musica. 29 Sept. Rasp Your Soul choreography by Kat Válastur. From ancient myths to the effects that modern technological culture, the environment and politics
Virgilio Sieni and Andrea Rebaudengo in Solo Goldberg Variations for Romaeuropa.
have on the body. Teatro Argentina, Largo Argentina. 1-2 Oct. Solo Goldberg Variations by Virgilio Sieni. Bodies reflect figures from 15th-17th century Italian art on which to build reflections about the future. In Sieni’s choreographies the body is considered a meeting place for diversity and a stage on which to work
out a series of complex gestures way beyond the usual boundaries of the art of dance. Bach’s music, performed live by Andrea Rebaudengo, functions as the structure on which the body works out a continuously changing and unusual series of intricate gestures and images. Teatro Argentina, Largo Argentina.
festivals SHORT THEATRE 4-13 Sept
Now in its 15th year, this daring theatrical initiative is born of a collaboration between festivals, embassies and cultural institutes, and takes place in venues in Rome. The festival comprises avant-garde theatre, dance, music, performance, prose, dj sets and workshops, and is staged at La Pelanda - Mattatoio, WeGil, Teatro Argentina and Teatro India. For festival programme and full details see website, www. shorttheatre.org.
FLOATING THEATRE 24 AUG-24 SEPT
Rome has unveiled a floating cinema on the lake in the EUR neighbourhood, which was launched by Oscarwinning US director Oliver Stone on 24 August. The TimVision Floating Theatre is hosted on the laghetto until 24 September, with highlights including a preview of the Oscar-
Floating Theatre at the lake in EUR.
nominated film Mister Link by Chris Butler on 13 September. The floating arena has seats for 150 spectators and entry is from Via Africa. For details see the Floating Theatre website, www.floatingtheatre.it.
INTERNATIONAL JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL 13-16 SEPT
Rome hosts the 13th edition of
Ebraica: Festival Internazionale di Cultura, taking place in the city’s Jewish Ghetto area. Under the theme Happy Hands, the four-day festival includes Jewishrelated debates, books, meetings, exhibitions, dance, music and food, and opens as usual with the Notte della Cabbalà on 13 Sept. For programme see Ebraica website, www.ebraicafestival.it.
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