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Alessandria: Fantasy Festival, VI edition in Frassinello Monferrato

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Alessandria: Fantasy Festival, VI edition in Frassinello Monferrato.

It returns from 7 to 9 April 2023 “Fantasy – Festival of Contemporary Circus, Street Art and Music of Monferrato”, a project by MagdaClan circus, created in collaboration with the Municipality of Frassinello M.to, Pro Loco of Frassinello M.to and San Salvatore M.to, Destinazione Monferrato, with the support of MIC-Ministry of Culture, which brings renowned artists to a hilly context international.
The 2023 edition will take place thanks to the support of all the donors of "Don't leave us in your underwear", the crowdfunding set up to allow the three days of shows to take place, which had seemed at very high risk.
To date, 11.777 euros have been collected, donated by 157 people via the Produzione dal Basso platform to this link
Fantasy was born from the determination of two artists from the MagdaClan circus company, Elena Bosco and Giulio Lanfranco, originally from Monferrato, with the desire to "bring home" European artistic experiences of contemporary circus, with a project based on sharing and exchange.
In its five editions, it has hosted 28 companies from all over the world, increasingly broadening its audience and its activities.
The organizers explain: “Spring is upon us and, with a very high business risk, we will dive into the creation of the Fantasy, bringing the scent of contemporary circus to the hills of Monferrato. It is not an easy country for cultural events, but we will not stop believing in their importance and realization. They are a need and necessity for the entire community. With Fantasy we want to create an opportunity for social, cultural and human encounters and give the Monferrato public the opportunity to live a new experience, to watch high quality shows, to spend days dedicated to art, to return home with a smile. At the same time, we want to transform a small village into a popular festival for everyone, make Monferrato known to artists and the circus public, promote the beauty of this territory, its products, its hills, its people. Fantasy, as always, will be held at Easter. We like the idea of ​​being among the Festivals that open the season of contemporary circus and street art events in Italy, and because very often it coincides with the awakening of nature and the first warming sun, and so do we with Fantasy we want to accompany the public in this awakening."
The Fantasy 2023 schedule:
Friday 7 April, Borgo Frassinello M.to
Circo Extra_ordinario / Magda Incanta
Site specific itinerant performance in the private gardens of Frassinello with the artists Lullo Mosso, Lupa Maimone, Luna Papia and MagdaClan. A poetic experience where the public will be guided by the artists through the streets of Frassinello to admire how the circus can overturn the "ordinary" spaces ” and make views and landscapes of the country even more poetic.
An original walk which, by blending artistic experimentation with the particularity of the village of Frassinello, will create an extra_ordinary relationship between the artists, the public and the space.
From 19pm to 30pm: ticket office opening at the Sports Field
– 20pm Traveling performance begins
– 23pm return to the tent and PnP DJ set
Reservations required, limited places
Prices: €20 adults / €18 reduced / €15 children
The artists of Magda Incanta:
“Il Mototrabbasso” - Lullo Mosso
The cross between a motorbike and a double bass takes us on a journey into music and around the world. A musical narration for adults and children. Its pilot, played by the actor/author and musician Luigi “Lullo” Mosso, tells of a journey into the universe of music: from the song of the Berber camel driver to the German twelve-tone composition, from the Missisippi blues to the French existentialist chanson, from the forrò, to the rap, to jazz, from ethnic music to hard core, with surprising irony and incredible vocal and instrumental technique. Lullo Mosso has been staging “Il Mototrabbasso” since 2000, with over 500 performances in theatres, clubs, festivals, streets in Italy, France, Holland, Switzerland, Slovenia, Russia, Serbia. “After more than 15 years” states the author, “each replica becomes a new and different journey”.
“Zoologia” – Lupa Maimone
on stage Lucrezia Maimone, Oltrenotte Production.
Zoology is a choreographic research project for the creation of various imaginary beings of a zoolatric nature, a bestiary of horrifying and fantastic wonders. To achieve a profound connection with this imaginary nature, the performance recreates the natural and fantastic habitat of beings to offer the viewer both an imaginative/narrative experience and the most picturesque aspect of the work. Lucrezia Maimone is a multidisciplinary performer active on the national and international contemporary scene. She trained at the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School in Denmark, the Escuela Internacional de Circo y Teatro CAU in Granada in Spain and the Escuela Zirkozaurre in Bilbao in the Basque Country.
“Air Castles” – Luna Papia
Castelli d'Aria was born from Luna's need to highlight the importance of finding one's identity and respecting one's way of being, which are often put aside in this society. Luna Papia, after a past as a rhythmic gymnast and an Anthropology student, fell in love with the circus, graduating in 2018 from the "Rogelio Rivel" National Center for Contemporary Art and Circus in Barcelona and in 2021 from the FLIC-circus school in Turin as a trapeze artist. Ballant. Her specialty is swinging, dancing, jumping 10 meters high: she gives the public a rollercoaster of adrenaline but at the same time makes being at such heights simple and natural.

P'n'p – DJ Set under the tent:
PnP, better known as Stefano Pancot & Daniele Porcu, were born by chance. They love music, with a DJ set that is truly out of the ordinary. They will steal your soul with the sound of trash.

Saturday 8 April, Frassinello M.to Sports Field:
The Officina Clandestina play area opens from 15pm
Officina Clandestina travels to bring a wooden playground (all rigorously recycled) designed to create a moment of meeting and fun for all ages to festivals and urban spaces. The project, with its 30 games, offers the socializing and playful atmosphere typical of a traveling amusement park. Movement, logic, socialization, challenge, skill. The games are recovered from tradition, from memory and from the inventiveness that arises from time to time while building. They are curated to be safe, as well as fun. All tested…. playing!
16pm Amore Pony, Margherita Mischitelli.
A journey to discover femininity between fairy-tale suggestions and grotesque implications. A show narrated by an eccentric and naïve protagonist who will lead you into the elusive world of desire made up of unstable balances and miniponies.
Margherita Mischitelli graduated in 2016 from the FLIC Circus School of Turin, in the discipline of the Cyr wheel. She immediately felt the need to combine the circus with comic theatre, so she also attended the Philip Radice physical theater school (Lecoq) and took part in clown workshops with André Casaca, Antonio Villella, Emanuele Lavallée, Fraser Hooper.
17pm Paidia, Teatro del sottosuolo company
Paidia is a show with the flavor of nonsense and a noir aftertaste.
A touch of madness, a propensity to find oneself caught between thrill and error, a complicity in preferring the latter and an indispensable intellectual curiosity have given life to this contemporary circus creation. Circus techniques and experiments with juggling and acrobatic cycling express the nuances of danger and fun. The music is original and played live.
The Teatro del Sottosuolo is a theater production company based in Sardinia which since its inception (1995) has been committed to the valorisation of theatrical art through a continuous search for new forms of expression. The artistic line starts from the choice to recross the paths followed by the Masters of avant-garde and traditional theatre, contaminating them with the modern styles of street, urban and new circus theatre.
18pm Marabata, Bromos company.
At the edge of an imaginary world, in a desolate landscape, live two grotesque characters: the "Marabata". Abandoned by their population of origin, the "Marabata" are bound by an indissoluble bond: their destiny as marginalized people. The daily aim is to entertain oneself in a timeless wait, suspended and immobile in an infinite present. They travel but don't go anywhere; they play but do not establish rules; they dance but they don't go to the rhythm; they play but they don't know how to play. All that remains is the other, the only witness to the existence of others.
Bromos Company.
The Bromos company was born in Bologna in 2010 from the meeting between Andrea Montevecchi and Nicolò Antioco Ximenes. Coming from different paths, they share a scenic style that unites them. And they make you cry. They make you cry laughing. Over the years they strengthened their working relationship by creating various shows and projects, collaborating with other realities such as Par Tòt Parata, Circo Paniko, Arterego and Circo Inzir. After a period dedicated to their individual projects, the two return to the scene together with the new show entitled "Marabata".

19pm Marlon Banda in concert – in collaboration with Mon Circo.
“Marlon Banda Show” is a hilarious, explosive variety concert, where physical and verbal comedy, accompanied by live music, ranges across the various areas of theatrical comedy. A band without a director or direction that tries in every way to stay on course, but madness often takes over... and the music can't help but adapt!

Under the tent, reservation required, for a fee:

21pm Show ¡DALE!, by Los Hermanos Gonzalos.
Technical virtuosity, family drama and laughter mix in a delirious performance with breathtaking pace. The Gonzalos brothers kidnap the audience and transport them to a world that they themselves don't know and they get lost together. “¡DALE!” It is a neoreal example of how it is possible to entertain and move the public without knowing why. A fake flamenco is the soundtrack to this performance which, rather than being self-deprecating, seems to be profoundly stupid as only reality can sometimes be.
Prices: €15 adults / €12 reduced / €10 children

Sunday 9 April, Frassinello Sports Field M.to.
The Officina Clandestina play area opens from 15 pm
Outdoor shows, without reservation, with final free offer:

16 pm Tendre Orage, work in progress, Kopek companies (FR).
Solene Maureau and Tiphaine Rochais:
The house is our habitat, it contains our way of life, it says a lot about us and our being. In this performance the relationship between people, living together and supporting each other is underlined. The intent is to transport the audience into an imaginary world through which we can speak to the child inside each of us, creating a contact between the emotions of the audience and those of the characters. Thanks to the beauty of innocence, we aim to touch on universal themes linked to the human condition. Kopek is a French theater company made up of three young women who want to eradicate clichés, and at the same time, move the audience.

16.30pm Sdisordine, Henri Camembert

“Sdisordine” is elegance and madness, but above all fun and contact with the public. It's a show that feeds on people's energy, transporting them into a series of numbers that go from cleverness to total disaster without a clear line between order and disorder. This is how the scene is seen crossed by an ethereal crystal ball or by apples torn to pieces and spat out, by torches and shaky wooden wheels and by increasingly incredulous volunteers.
It is a partly written show, a sort of "unfinished" one that the public will contribute from time to time to complete.

Henri Camembert (born Enrico Formaggi)
Hand-to-hand and platform porter, juggler, clown, street artist, tightrope walker. Since 2010 he has dedicated himself to circus and scenic arts, honing his training at the Galante Garrone theater school in Bologna. In 2012 he attended the training course for contemporary circus artist and performer Circo Art in Rome. In 2012-2014 he attended the FLIC circus school in Turin specializing in acrobatic portés. He works as a single artist with the show "Sdisordine", in duo with "A wheel free" of the Tandem Flop company, in 2015 he founded the company Laden Classe bringing "193 problems" to the stage. In 2019 he collaborates with MagdaClan on Opera MasNada, and in 2020 he is co-founder of the Officina Clandestina project.

17.15pm Castelli d'Aria, work in progress, Luna Papia

18 pm Paidia, Teatro del sottosuolo company

19pm Bubbles for Adults, Fabio Saccomani, show from the Mon Circo series.
Reservation required, prices: responsible ticket, choose whether €5 / €10 / €15 / €20

Bubbles for Adults, Fabio Saccomani
A show that can be enjoyed in all circumstances, where the language and jokes are calibrated to the type of audience. His artistic activity began as Mastro Bolla, a character who is still active today, who became known as an eccentric and bizarre soap bubble artist and who toured squares and theaters in Italy. The shows done as Mastro Bolla are certainly sweeter and less cutting, but the character retains this caustic characteristic.
Fabio Saccomani
His first and most important school was the street, where he refined his natural predisposition for interaction and entertainment. However, he availed himself of the teachings of many excellent trainers. He has a strong vocation towards spoken and interactive entertainment, with a provocative and satirical modality, based on spectacular effects free from a precise technical basin. He uses mixed instruments and techniques (from knife throwing to guitar) to create a relationship with the audience. Fabio Saccomani is not a circus performer, but a jester, that is, someone who brings "high" culture to a popular level and in doing so ridicules prejudices and powers.
Under the awning:
21pm Grand Gala with all the artists of the Festival
telephone reservation required, final free offer
The Grand Gala is the traditional final show of the Fantasy: all the artists of the Festival will stand under the tent, in a single day of rehearsals, to create a show that does not yet exist, dedicated only to the Fantasy audience.
What will come of it? A cabaret made of Circus, Theatre, Music, No Sense, Friendship, Improvisation.
We don't know what will happen, but it will be special.
Like last year, Fantasy Festival will also dedicate a special event to the schools of Frassinello Monferrato and the surrounding area: thanks to the tenacity and spirit of initiative of Federico Andreone, the Mayor of Frassinello Monferrato, "Paidia", a show by the Compagnia Teatro del Sottosuolo, presented exclusively for school groups on the mornings of the days preceding the Festival.

USEFUL INFO:
Reservations by calling 331 1388336 / info@magdaclan.com

Alessandria: Fantasy Festival, VI edizione a Frassinello Monferrato

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