After the success of the concert by the Piccolo choir of the Rendano Theater in Cosenza, directed by Maria Carmela Ranieri, which for the first time, on Sunday 19 April, performed in the Sila woods, cheering the numerous spectators with a song of children’s voices in perfect harmony with the sounds of nature, the festival Cultural Ecorhythms is drawing to a close. On Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd May, in Contrada Granaro, in Sorbo San Basile, workshops and artistic events will be held, in the name of memory and historical research of the Calabrian tradition.
Raising the curtain on the last weekend of the project, which, promoted by the Demetra Association, contributes to the co-financing of the Calabria Region and was made possible by the partnership with local entities, will be the laboratory CreatiVitain which the director Luca Mazzei, through gestural theatrical language and creativity, will transfer a metaphorical reading of the concept of life.
Also on Saturday, at 9pm, the show Magaria. Elegy of a lost world, with dramaturgy and costumes by Eliana Iorfida, direction and stage writing by Francesco Gallelli, it will explore the timeless and global dimension of man-nature, sacred-profane, staging an ancient and occult world, made of ritual rather than superstition, which has survived in some places in the Mediterranean, from Calabria to North Africa. An exercise that allows us to compare today’s man, deprived of the sacred and instinct, to ancestral archetypes, reconciling him with a necessary awareness.
The festival will end on Sunday 3 May with the anthropologist musician Ettore Castagna who will first lead a workshop for the construction of traditional musical instruments and then enchant the public with his Theatre/Song: Accussi reminded mea concert performed with battente guitar, lyre and other stories of musical memory, creating a sound journey of experimental traditional music.
“Nature and art are like two eyes belonging to the same gaze which needs symbolic language to evoke its suggestions. A gaze which needs to be different from the descriptive and rational one with which we see life, immersed in the places of our daily life” so Luca Mazzei, organizational manager of Ecorhythmsexpresses the meaning of the exhibition which tries to elaborate, in an actively participatory form, an idea of openness to transculturality.
In this way, the festival proves to be an effective cultural device, as Mazzei underlines, “capable of transhume the gaze from the everyday to the poetic”. “The performances are not only events, but also experiential spaces, unusual listening in which the music is inserted into the sounds of the environment and enters into connection with the other artistic forms present” he comments, retracing the new cultural rhythms that echo in the heart of Sila.