Messina returns to dance. And it does it in style.
Saturday 12 April the Multicultural Center Officina will host Sven Väth, one of the absolute legends of the world electronic scene. An event that already has the flavor of the rebirth, a small great signal for a city that has stopped believing it, but which, perhaps, is finding the right rhythm.
Sven Väth has no introduction: icon of the Techno movement since the 80s, visionary and innovator, founder of the Cocoon label, capable of making Dancefloor vibrate around the world, from Berlin to Ibiza, from Tokyo to New York. And now, also Messina.
A name of this caliber had not been seen for some time on the shore at the Strait. Because the truth is that for too many years the Peloritan capital has remained motionless, spectator of a cultural torpor that has turned off music, creativity, aggregation. Between anti-Movid ordinances, early closures and a free fall demography, it seemed that the nightssese nights had lost their soul.
Still, there is a generation that wants to dance. He wants to do it with awareness, with respect, but also with joy. He wants to regain possession of his own spaces and rights: among these, the right to have fun. Not on the run to other cities, not forced to travel hours to reach a club, with all the risks of the case, but here. At home.
Because for too long the world of clubbing has been poorly interpreted, labeled as a deviant, as a simple “noisy music”. Yet, precisely that “noisy” music continues to fill squares and festivals, to create communities, to make the economy of culture and night turn. And closing the doors to this world has meant losing an opportunity.
The event of April 12, therefore, is much more than a simple evening. It’s a spark. It is the possibility, for Messina, to question, to open the ears – and the minds – to a new vibration. It is the demonstration that culture can also be made through the night.
And then Saturday, when the vinyl begins to turn and the bass will shake the walls of the workshop, it will not be the only techno. It will be an act of resistance, it will be an explosion of freedom.
It will be Messina who finally returns to dance.
Full sodrying expressed by Andrea Di Pietroorganizer of the event: “Bringing artists of the caliber of Sven Väth who will perform for the first time in my hometown is an immense satisfaction. It is an opportunity to revive the spirit of the club even in a context that often has been a little closed to certain sounds. For years, those who wanted to live this type of experience had to move to Palermo or Catania. Now, finally, Messina also has its time.” – he continues -” The workshop is ready to welcome an icon of the world techno on the occasion of the World Tour of its 60 years the only date from Rome down, I am proud to be part of this change. My goal is to revive the authentic spirit of the club here too, opening new cultural and musical perspectives to the city. “