Academy Art of Diversity: Teatro la Ribalta
Il suono della caduta - the sound of falling
A group of four learning-disabled performers, 3 male, one female. They have their arms up in the air.
Il suono della caduta: the sound of falling
Photograph of 4 performers. 3 men are clutching at a learning-disabled woman in a flowery dress.
Nessuno sa di noi - Nobody knows about us
© Photo by: Piero Tauro
Nessuno sa di noi - Nobody knows about us
© Photo by: Piero Tauro
Personaggi - People
© Photo by: Patrizia Chiatti
A photograph depicting six performers on a set, holding onto a wooden frame.
Personaggi - People
Close up photograph of a female learning-disabled performer dancing in a light blue silk dress.
Personaggi - People
Photograph of 5 performers on a stage, which is covered in small white balls. Behind them a set of mirrors. They are dressed in 1950s style attire.
Academy Art of Diversity – Teatro la Ribalta are a professional theatre company in which disabled and non-disabled artists work as an ensemble. The actors give passionate expression to their artistic potential, dancing and acting their individuality poetically. The productions are innovative, energetic and evocative. Well-known actors, artists, and choreographers participate in productions, education, and outreach. Over years of collaboration, the Academy of Diversity, was created.
This diversity includes culture, theatre, dance, education, discussions, and artistic and social development. Their mission is to counteract exclusion and to give all involved a professional and social identity.
The Academy of Diversity- Teatro Ribalta are a household name in the theatre scene. Numerous awards, acknowledgements, the acclaim of the Italian Ministry of Culture, and many national and international guest performances confirm the high level of their work: Critics Award 2015 (Italian association of theatre critics).
Contact details
Evi Unterthiner
Marketing
Accademia Arte della Diversità
Teatro la Ribalta
Via Brennero 9A
39100 Bolzano
Italy
Artistic Directors
Antonio Viganò
Online
Email: unterthiner.laribalta@gmail.com
Website: http://www.teatrolaribalta.it
Nobody knows about us
Duration: 60 min.
Description: Never so different and never so near, it would come to say: Mattia is an expression of a pure, vital dance, a body that is a narration. Julie Anne Stanzak represents a history of dance theatre, a great interpreter, longtime partner of Pina Bausch. This duet is the history about this. Two solitude, two fragility that meet, search and reject each other.
Extra information: Choreographed by: Julie Anne Stanzak
Dramaturgy: Antonio Viganò
Coproduction
Fondazione Teatro Comunale
Auditorium Bolzano
Bolzano Danza
Lebenshilfe
People on road: 4 People from Academy Art of Diversity-Teatro la Ribalta including performers and team members.
Freight: baggage
Freight details: Props, costume and stage set can be sent as excess baggage
Personaggi - People
Duration: 60 min.
Description: Dance theatre adapted from Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author”: a drama of the personal search for self-realization, for identity and for existential legitimization. Pirandello's play on miscommunication, the social masks we wear, the roles we play... which we all think of as static but which are in constant transformation.
Extra information: Choreography: Julie Anne Stanzak
Director: Antonio Viganò
People on road: 11 People from Academy Art of Diversity-Teatro la Ribalta including performers and team members.
Freight: baggage
Freight details: Props, costume and stage set can be sent as excess baggage
The Sound of Falling
Duration: 60 min.
Description: The angels say they know what people mean by feelings, but they are incapable of experiencing emotions themselves.
The key questions of the show are: the value of life, the gravity of it, the bleeding wounds, the impermanence of love. A life to be dreamed of, without being able to realize it.
Extra information: Choreography: Julie Anne Stanzak
Director: Antonio Viganò
Coproduction
Bolzano Danza
Lebenshilfe
Supported by
European Social Fund
People on road: 11 People from Academy Art of Diversity-Teatro la Ribalta including performers and team members.
Freight: baggage
Freight details: Props, costume and stage set can be sent as excess baggage
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“The beginning is hypnotic, then explodes a cathartic ritual dancing to rhythmic images and musical paintings…
a poetic and poignant performance” (Il Sole 24 ore – Milan)
“Professionally, deliberately, and passionately, the performers with disabilities rub out any kind of voyeuristic pity and lift us with the wings of the theatre.” (La Repubblica – Milan)
“Dance in this piece gets under your skin with archaic dramatic”..(FF Magazin)
“With the security of a dreamer Antonio Viganò embarks on a journey along a narrow path which combines humour and concern with the free association with the historic material in a natural manner. In its approach this tragic comedy reminds one a bit of the celebrated holocaust movie “La vita est bella” by Roberto Begnini.It is a roller coaster of emotions.”(FF Magazin)
“The performance is touching, funny and memorable” (Salto BZ)
“Touching, surprising performance. Extraordinary as the extraordinary performer.”(Festival la Mostra d’Igualada).
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