The figure of the contemporary clown, artist of the gestural message that goes beyond words, to communicate brotherhood, welcome and demolition of any prejudice, is confirmed as the primary objective of the Finc – Nouveau Clown International FestivalThat After the first tranche last weekend he resumed last night at the Nike Theater in Giardini Naxoswhere it will be held until tomorrow for the grand finale of the fourth edition. Opening with the world icon Gardi Hitter, a female clownerie pioneer and winner of eighteen awards in the sector. The Swiss artist proposed, with the direction of Ferruccio Cainero, “Giovanna D’Arppo”, a fun show where a exterminated lavender transforms her laundry into a grotesque battlefield. Tonight will be the turn of the emerging talent Enrico Mazza in “From a Suitcase”, winner of the Call for Artists Under 35 of the Festival, selected by the popular jury of the “Active spectators”. An ironic and poetic visual comedy show, which combines mime, clown, manipulation of objects and improvisation. He closes in beauty tomorrow with “The letter” by Paolo Nani, a cult title of the physical theater, staged since 1992. An ironic re -proposal of “style exercises” (Raymond Queneau) where the Ferrarese actor reinterprets the same short story in fifteen different ways, playing the role of a different person with opposite styles and registers and with an intelligent Messinciana of virtuosity and comedy. The three shows are open by “Pass Pass”, performance by Jean-Pierre Bianco, a finalist at “Italia’s Got Talent” in 2013.
Also tomorrow, before the grand finale, the meeting “The Great Grock”, dedicated to the Swiss clown which has revolutionized the comedy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries inspiring generations of artists and spectators. Talk’s speaker, which will be held at the Museum of the sea, Antonio Giarola, artistic director of the Internazional Salieri Circus Award in Legnano and President of the Cedac – Educational Center for Documentation of the circus arts, the body that preserves and provided the precious photographic images of the exhibition of the festival “The clowns in the circus”, on the 250 years of the history of the clown.