This year Vie Festival draws attention to the talks. During the Festival at Foro Boario, the audience could visit two expositions of photos and videos, and  attend to several moments that deal with themes linked to art and to some artists in particular. Protagonists of these talks: Thomas Ostermeier, Carla Pollastrelli and Renata Molinari, Pippo Delbono, redazione Art’O, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Belarus Free Theatre.

EXHIBITIONS
Foro Boario, via Bono da Nonantola 2 - Modena
October from 9th to 17th
11.00am/2.00pm and 3.00pm/7.30pm

Opening on 9th October at 4.00pm

 

MÓJ GROTOWSKI
Photos by Andrzej Paluchiewicz

Byi Bogda Sztencel
Production Fundacja WRO Centrum Sztuki Mediów and Centrum Kultury Zamek, Wrocław

In the course of VIE, at Foro Boario in Modena (on the occasion of the year that UNESCO designated as the “Grotowski’s Year”  in memory of this big theatre director and theatre practitioner) it will be set up  the exposition Mój Grotowski, mounted by the polish photographer Andrzej Paluchiewicz.
The exposition will be constitute of large photos, of screenings, and will be enriched with an original soundtrack composed by the American artist Timothy Imlay.
Paluchiewicz studied in the Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium since 1966 and successively he became an actor and a member of the group for more than ten years.
During these years Paluchiewicz, afterward having become a professional photographer, realized a lot of photos that today represent an exceptional proof of  what happened in the years of the Grotowskian experience in the life and in the theatre, toward a new way of perceiving the word through an unrepeatable research in the culture of the twentieth-century .
His photos, precious and personal memory of a pupil and a fellow traveller of the polish teacher, bring back to a Theatre as discipline and life and as practice that becomes theory and scene. On a present doing past in the mark of the frame, on a past taking place again in the Foro Boario.

Beside the Exposition it will be set up a video station to project the fifth episode of I cinque sensi del teatro, program edited by Mario Raimondo, produced by RAI with the Centre for Theatre Research and Experimentation of Pontedera in the 1992.

The episode titled Il Teatr Laboratorium of Jerzy Grotowski, is entirely dedicated to the experience of the Teatr Laboratorium, and to the person of Jerzy Grotowski, who let his last television interview in that occasion. Direction by Marianne Ahrne.

BELARUS FREE THEATRE

Photos by Alessandro Vincenzi/PKPosse

By Marta Posani/PkPosse and Beatrice Mancini/PkPosse

Video

Belarus secret theatre produced and directed by Tom Dumican e Karim Shah, Executive producer Jonathan Hacker, a production ORTV for Al Jazeera English.

In 2005, during the second legislation of the President Alexander Lukashenko, The Belarus Free Theatre grown up as a socio-politics alternative to an obscure and cultural stall situation, result of the strict control system of the Belarus government.

Created by Nikolai Khalezin and his wife Natalya Koliada, activists of human rights, in a few years and against the limits of the dictatorial regime, nowadays in force in Byelorussia, the Belarus Free Theatre had already reached sixteen countries all around the world.

It aims to break all the stereotypes imposed from the dictatorial regime to Byelorussian citizen, and offers a theatrical and modern alternative able to stimulate and encourage the debate on social problems and to keep high the degree of free and creative expression.

The exhibition presents the activity of this company through the photographs of Alessandro Vincenzi and Al Jazeera English.

Alessandro Vincenzi, biologist for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and professional photographer, reports through some wonderful pictures his encounter with the Free Theatre during his journey in Belarus to describe the socio-politics situation of the Country.

Based on the same motivations, Al Jazeera English ordered to Tom Dumican and Karim Shah to produce and direct a documentary film for Witness (channel entirely dedicated to documentaries). The video tells about the secret journey from London to Minsk of the famous Canadian playwright Elyssa Livergant, who decided to collaborate with the company.

Patches of light of this obscure society, evidences of the freedom of speech and expression struggle, demonstration of the power of the art.

TALKS

Friday 9th October 5.00pm
GIANNI MANZELLA MEETS THOMAS OSTERMEIER
Thomas Ostermeier is an artist whose creations are rarely staged in Italy. Not yet forty years old, he is the artistic director of the prestigious Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin. In this occasion he converses with Gianni Manzella, drama critic and careful observer of the European contemporary scene.

Saturday 10th October 4.00pm
THE THEATRE OF SHARING: ROUND ABOUT AN ACTIVE CULTURE.
The para theatre and the Theatre of References 
WITH RENATA MOLINARI AND CARLA POLLASTRELLI
An appointment especially aimed at the new generations to show the most important periods of the artistic career of Jerzy Grotowski. Renata Molinari and Carla Pollastrelli, Italian thinkers that followed with constant attention the works of Jerzy Grotowski, manage the encounter.

Monday 12th October 5.00pm
TALK WITH THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF ART’O
Art’O is a famous theatre magazine where is possible to think about the condition of the theatre and the performing arts today. The encounter is an occasion to reflect about the critical writing.

Wednesday 14th October 5.30pm
PIPPO DELBONO REMINDS PINA BAUSCH
In 1987 Pippo DelBono knew Pina Bausch personally at Wuppertal, hometown of this German artist who scared the theatre and the dance of the latest thirty years of the twentieth century. Pina Bausch invited Pippo Delbono to take part in one of the performances of the Tanztheater, collaboration that deeply marked the artistic career of this Italian director and author. In this occasion, in a memory between art and life, Pippo Delbono talks about this significant artist of the contemporary scene.

Thursday 15th October 5.30pm
ROBERTO CANZIANI MEETS THEODOROS TERZOPOULOS
Guest of the Festival with Eremos, his last artistic creation, Theodoros Terzopoulos, master of the contemporary greek theatre and star of the international scene, meets the audience. Together with Roberto Canziani, journalist and drama critic, illustrates his artistic career.

Saturday 17th October 12.00pm
GIULIETTO CHIESA MEETS BELARUS FREE THEATRE
The encounter with the company is an occasion to talk about the struggle for the democracy ,the free speech, the expression and the arts that the company strongly carries on. Giulietto Chiesa, journalist and writer, expert of the Russian political context, correspondent for the Italian newspaper “La Stampa” in the Soviet Union , leads the debate.

Free admissions for all the talks