San Marino. Tomorrow Marco Martinelli meets the high school kids to talk about Dante
On Tuesday 1 March 2022 at 10.30 am at the Concordia Cinema organized by the Cultural Institutes there will be a meeting between the students of the Upper Secondary School and Marco Martinelli director and founder of the Teatro delle Albe company in Ravenna.
The meeting will focus on the text by Martinelli himself In the name of Dante. Growing up with the Divine Comedy, an original Dante biography in which Martinelli associates autobiographical memories and contemporary events with a sparkling reinterpretation of Dante’s work and life, in an original path that has its roots in the transformation of comedy into theatrical language.
The journalist and writer Rita Giannini will introduce the morning, followed by the screening of the film The sky above Kibera that Martinelli created by recounting the “coming to life” of the Divine Comedy in the immense slum of Nairobi, Kibera and working with 150 children and adolescents, thus reinventing Dante’s masterpiece in English and Swahili. And he did it with his poetic and visionary style, intertwining other images to the shooting of the show, sequences shot specifically in the slum to carry out the alchemical operation of transforming the theater into cinema.
Marco Martinelli author, playwright and director, is founder and artistic director together with Ermanna Montanari of the Teatro delle Albe (1983). Together with Montanari, an award-winning actress and director, for years the international company has been carrying out direction and Dantesque projects from Romania to the United States, including the complete edition of the Divine Comedy for Ravenna Festival, 2017-2021. He has received numerous national and international awards including: seven Ubu Awards, the “Oscars” of Italian theater, as a director, playwright and pedagogue; the “Golden Laurel” of the Sarajevo International Mess Festival; the Hystrio Prize; the Journées théâtrales de Carthage Lifetime Achievement Award; the “Enriquez Award” for directing. He has signed over fifty directories and his texts are publications and staged in Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Chile, Brazil, Senegal, Russia and the United States. Martinelli is the founder of the non-school, theatrical-pedagogical practice with adolescents that has become a point of reference in Italy and in various parts of the world.