Two women are waiting in a train station. One is an Italian woman from the years after the second word war, coming back from Belgium where she lost her husband in the mine of Marcinelle; the other one is a today's Senegalese woman, looking for her husband who disappeared during his travel towards Italy. Meeting each other, they give voice to the wives, mothers, daughters and all the characters of an intense and touching journey through real testimonies and worlds hanging over that Mediterranean sea, that's becoming more and more a big, blue cemetery. Frightening. Like the black abyss of a mine.

Tales, dance and aerial acts narrate the wrecks and hopes of a timeless story.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

SYNOPSIS

“Nothing dispels prejudices better than meeting populations that have habits, laws and opinions that differ from our own; a difference that with little effort teaches us to drive back all the things in which people differ from one another and to consider everything in which they are alike as the voice of nature: the primary laws on nature are quite the same for all people. Do not offend anyone, give everyone what it's owed to.”

Albrecht von Haller, German naturalist and philosopher, 18th century.

An evocative and poetic aerial act. A past times aerialist draws a ring from a little case and starts thinking of her past great love. It's a flying memory, a wordless monologue. On the sound of De Andre's song Canzone dell'amor perduto, in its masterly version played by Klezroym, a dancing memory comes to life.

VOCAL AND INTERPRETATIVE TRAINING
Customized training courses for dancers, performers and circus athletes who are interested in integrating prose elements in their performances.

AERIAL CHOREOGRAPHY MONTAGE
Customized training courses for actors, dancers and performers who need to learn or improve the execution of choreographies on silk, trapeze and aerial hoop.

THEATRE WORKSHOPS:

• • Recitation and voice use workshop:
This course is dedicated to those who want to start a path of knowledge of their own voice and of its correct use, learning the basis of breathing, delivering, elocution and correct pronunciation.


• • Interpretative reading workshop:
This course is dedicated to those who want to learn how to read and stage a theatrical work, analysing and experimenting its different interpretative possibilities.

AERIAL ACROBATICS WORKSHOPS:

Dedicated to those who wants to have a try at this fascinating art, but also for actors, dancers and performers who want to expand their fund of knowledge in physical expression.
The work will be divided into a first part of warm-up ground exercises, a specific training set up for those who approach the circus for the first time.
A specific series of movements adapted from yoga and contemporary dance will prepare the body to face the next exercises in the best way. The second part of the work will be aerial, hanging form the suspended tools (silk, trapeze and aerial hoop), learning static and dynamic figures and creating aerial choreographies. Part of the work will be dedicated to the research on expressiveness on the apparatus.

CIRCUS WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE:

A playful and amusing course through theatre and circus, in order to stimulate the creative universe of the participants, favour socialization and develop the knowledge of the physical self.
The kids will have the chance to approach disciplines like preacrobatics (somersaults, headstands...), aerial acrobatics, acrobalance (team balance figures for two people performed by parent and child together) and theatrical improvisation games.