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The presentation of the 2023 edition of the event took place today (Tuesday 20 June) at the Open Baladin in Piazza Foro Boario in Cuneo, which after two years of restrictions and last year’s edition, which marked the big – and hoped for – restart looks in the future: on environmental sustainability, inclusion, gender equality and everything that each of us can do in small ways through our own actions to have a better earth and world today and to leave a livable planet for future generations.
protagonist of the meeting Fabrizio GavostoPatron of Mirabilia, who illustrated the dense program of events that will take place – as Mirabilia has accustomed us – in the form of itineraries of discovery of the most innovative areas of performing arts, participatory, itinerant, intimate, research shows and much more An event where languages mix , genres and styles will be deconstructed, showcasing physical theater and research theatre, contemporary dance and young emerging circus productions, spoken theater and traditional circus.
The Mayor of Cuneo was also present in the audience Patricia Manassero, City Councilors Cristina Clerico and Sara Tomatis and Managing Director Bruno Giraudo. The Buschese councilor Ezio Donadio, the deputy mayor of Vernante Milena Caraglio. And also Marco Chiriotti from the Piedmont region, Giuseppe Tardivo, Michelangelo Pellegrino, Gabriella Giordano from Atl del Cuneese and Giorgio Chiesa, as well as representatives from UniTo and Prismadanza.
In the service, Gavosto and the mayor comment on the return of the demonstration in the city and in the province:
The program in detail
The 17th The 2nd edition of the festival will take place in Cuneo from August 30th to September 3rd, 2023. Also this year it will be preceded by other events, the first of which will be held in the capital and scheduled for Saturday 8 July, in collaboration with the Festival Rondò dei Talenti and to the association Cuneo Illuminata Committee: Through this precious synergy a monumental municipal theater show will take place in Cuneo, for the first time in Italy, the “MU |”. “Cinématiques del Fluides” presented by the surprising French company Transe Express.
Then from July 23rd we will start with Mirabilia “On the Road” with the first stop in Savigliano in the suggestive rooms of the Piedmontese Railway Museum to continue with Alba from July 28th to 30th in the large Cortile della Maddalena and with the dance, belonging to it “occupy” the Museum Eusebius. Then Vernante on August 10th and 11th and then Busca from August 25th to 27th.
Numerous artistic excellences are for the XVII. Mirabilia edition planned in Cuneo, starting with the inauguration scheduled for August 30, with the Portuguese Leonardo Ferreira presenting Frequência, a show of great emotional impact that speaks of immortality through acrobatics. The theme is continued through the story of a “being” beyond the genre, a poetic and eternal figure, inspired by the great portraits of the silent film. Its story is a journey between past and future, between postmodern values and futuristic projections at the mercy of artificial intelligence. Time turns on itself and chronology explodes.
Also on August 30, in a new space used by the festival, the large courtyard of the IIS Sebastiano Grandis, the Spaniards of the Pau Palau Company present ZLOTY, the story of two characters, a clown and a former musician, members of an old traveling circus troupe from the beginning of the last century. A strong storm tears down the roof of their tent, destroying the space that housed their show and business and leaving them unemployed. The troupe disbands, leaving only the most innocent and unsuspecting souls of the group; the clown and the music.
And during the days of the festival, the French Les Rois Vagabonds return with the already tested Clowns Concerto pour deux, who after the great success of 2020 return in Mirabilia with the show now programmed without further problems of ratings. Pantomime, acrobatics, music and very few words: Julia Moa Caprez and Igor Sellem are two artists who speak a universal language. Everyone will still be amazed, moved, amused and enchanted by his performance.
Another unmissable example of clowning at the highest level will be VU by the French company Sacekripà, and the very special show by the company Lonely Circus, designed for Via Silvio Pellico (Project Diagonale), is waiting to be discovered. Strong emotions with Cie Bazinga and its tightrope walk show Soka Tira Osoa, whose scenography is set up on stage with the participation of the audience.
For the basic theater, it will discover the contents of the two large theater buses, the Mobile Theaters, that the Italian company Girovago and Rondella will park in Piazza del Foro Boario, as well as know CALL ME GOD, the profound and intense work of the historical company balcana SARTR – War Theater of Sarajevo – co-produced by Mirabilia together with TSAM and La Dramaturgie; Andante by Faber Teater is a traveling performance about singing and walking through natural spaces, an invitation to listen, a polyphony of standpoints for walking.
The Danza program is very rich: the EgriBiancoDanza Company will present the full version of the new EarthHeart project, which together with Mirabilia has won the 2022 tender of the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo “ARTWAVES”. For creativity, from the idea to the scene”, presented this year in the theatrical version; Abbondanza Bertoni will direct his new work FEMINA The Names of the Goddess; Cie Twain presents Performance for Corpi Soli, a scenic act that eludes both language and the concept of form, in which choreographic writing and musical writing reveal their independence through a continuous dialogue, and from this encounter an inevitable attraction for the body alone arises between the bodies themselves, underscoring the inexhaustible search that is never fully satisfied.
Many of the festival’s partnerships continue this year, including the new beautiful collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Turin, which will be present at Mirabilia ’23 to share training and academic research also with those not at the university study or work relationships through the research and experimentation projects StudiUmLab and Dance4ageing; the important collaboration with SAICuneo, Sistema Accoglienza Integrazione, with which shows and workshops organized by SAI will be offered throughout the day of September 3rd in Piazza Virginio in Cuneo; the consolidated Focus Danza was born thanks to the valuable collaboration with the Piemonte dal Vivo Foundation; the video dance projects The Dance in 1 Minute proposed with the COORPI Association and much more.
And then here are some of the special projects: in Mirabilia, the meeting of the European project Common Ground on the value and role of the performing arts in the urban space; the InterSpazi internationalization project, supported by the MiC – Directorate-General for Entertainment, through the boarding card Plus 2022 – 2023 – 2024; the Mirabilia Awards project, developed in collaboration with the Roman Dominio Pubblico association and the Risonanze network for young people in the region; The display case was developed in collaboration with the National Federation of Street Arts and Stalker Teatro Company’s hands-on show The Chairs.
Advance Purchase and the Early Mirabilia Pack
From June 1, 2023 to July 1, 2023 it is possible to pre-purchase the EARLY MIRABILIA package in an “unopened box”, trusting the proposals of the Festival, which has been synonymous with high artistic quality for over fifteen years . The carnet – purely nominative – can be purchased at the special price of €45 and gives access to 5 shows of the Cuneo program with a total saving of up to 40%.
In fact, the EARLY MIRABILIA package offers the possibility of accessing a total of 5 shows divided as follows: three selected shows from areas A and B, one show in area C and one show in area D
The package is convertible from August 21, 2023 at the central ticket office of the Mirabilia Festival. Specifically, the costs for full-price tickets will be divided into price levels this year: 20 euros for series A, 15 euros for series B, 10 euros for C and 5 for D.