“Antigone’s pride performing society – Logbook of a journey” in Lecce and final online conference
After a long European journey, consisting also of seminars and in-person and online meetings, the material collected during the various stages in Spain, Poland, Greece and Italy, made up of feelings, emotions, gazes, environments, voices, songs and all that is kept in the memory, is recounted on December 20 and 21, 2023.
On Dec. 20, at 6 p.m., in the Astràgali Sala in Lecce, during the public meeting “Antigone’s pride performing society – Diary of a journey“, there will be Fabio Tolledi (Director of Astràgali Teatro and artistic director of the project), Roberta Quarta (actress of Astràgali Teatro and coordinator of the project), Prof. Lucio De Paolis (Department of Engineering, University of Salento), the operators of the Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory of the University of Salento Carolina Gatto, Sofia Chiarello, Giada Sumerano, and the other Italian protagonists of the project.
On December 21 at 6 p.m. on Astràgali Teatro’s youtube channel and facebook page, the final conference of the project “Antigone’s pride performing society” will be held live streaming with the participation of Fabio Tolledi, Roberta Quarta, Lucio De Paolis, Luis Llerena Diaz (Dance Foundation “Alicia Alonso” of the University of Madrid “Rey Juan Carlos) and Jarosław Siejkowski (Grotowski Institute of Wroclaw).
The Project “Antigone’s pride – Performing Society” is Astràgali Teatro’s latest international project, supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe program.
The locations chosen for Italy were Lecce, Torre Chianca, Parco Rauccio and the state natural reserve, WWF oasis, Le Cesine in Vernole. Here, very intense was the mingling of international cultures, local communities, artistic actions, nature, conviviality and walking experiences that involved international artists, for a rendering of the work in progress, multilingual and site-specific, designed “to provide the tools to deal with the social and economic crisis of recent years that has forced artists and cultural and creative industries to interrupt the physical mobility and the corporal interconnection between cultures, knowledge and artistic languages that are the basis of European cultural collaborations.”
“Antigone’s pride – Performing society” was produced in partnership with the Laboratory of Augmented and Virtual Reality of the Department of Engineering for Innovation at the University of Salento, the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw (Wroclaw – Poland), the “Alicia Alonso” Dance Foundation of the University of Madrid “Rey Juan Carlos” (Madrid – Spain) and Theatro Tsi Zakynthos (Zakynthos – Greece).
The figure of Antigone is central, starting from the text “The Tomb of Antigone” by Maria Zambrano, which puts Antigone in relationship with the people who led her to decide her fate. From myth to contemporary, Antigone is a woman who chooses, decides, and carries out her own ideas.
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