15 october 2023

IL PICCOLO RE DEI FIORI
Balletto di Roma & Teatro Gioco Vita / Valerio Longo,
Fabrizio Montecchi

Sunday 15 october 2023, 11.00 AM
Gorizia, Kulturni Dom

Balletto di Roma & Teatro Gioco Vita / Valerio Longo, Fabrizio Montecchi

IL PICCOLO RE DEI FIORI


A work by Valerio Longo and Fabrizio Montecchi

from The Little Flower King by Květa Pacovská
Dramaturgy Enrica Carini and Fabrizio Montecchi
Choreography Valerio Longo
with Marcello Giovani and Benedetta Vecchioni         
Music Paolo Codognola
Direction and scenes Fabrizio Montecchi
Outlines Nicoletta Garioni and Agnese Meroni (from the illustrations of Květa Pacovská)
Costumes Sara Bartesaghi Gallo e Nicoletta Garioni
Voices Valeria Barreca e Tiziano Ferrari
Lighting design Anna Adorno
Dramaturgy assistant Valerio Longo e Francesca Magnini
Set and props Giovanni Mutti, Nicoletta Garioni and Agnese Meroni
Co-production Balletto di Roma, Teatro Gioco Vita
Age 4+
Duration 50’

The Little Flower King is a fairy tale that begins with the classic 'Once upon a time’. It also has a King, but in this story, he is small and curious, he lives in solitude, loves his garden and his pockets are full of tulip bulbs. The theme of this fairy tale is that of the “waiting”, the King’s long wait before the flowers bloom, and also that of “lack”. Lack of what? The King does not know, but he does know that his tulips, though beautiful, cannot make him happy. He then starts a “journey” in search of what could fill his lack.
The project explores the contamination between languages such as dance, shadow theatre and music, with a younger audience in mind.

The Little Flower King is a project around which two historical theatre and dance structures have come together: Balletto di Roma, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020 and is on the international scene with an artistic direction that welcomes research, production and collaboration projects, capable of combining tradition and innovation; and Teatro Gioco Vita, founded in 1971, which in the late 1970s embraced the shadow theatre and made an original contribution to the birth of children’s theatre, by developing new and original experiences.

interview

“The Little Flower King” explores a form of contamination between the languages of dance, shadow theatre and music, a project around which two historic structures of theatre and dance have come together: Balletto di Roma and Teatro Gioco Vita. With this work, what do you want to convey/tell the audience?
After having known both these art and production environments, I am certain that the desire is to entertain with images and movement, but also to whisper thoughts on timeless human themes and values, such as the search for happiness, which is often sought far away in other places and dimensions, without realizing that it is right before our eyes or it has long been living next door, just like in the Little Flower King.

If you had to describe your show in 3 words
Colourful, exciting, contemplative.

Tell us why we should come and see it
Coming to see the show is definitely a good way to have topics to start conversations and thoughts with the little ones.

According to your personal experience, a border is
An idea more than often doesn’t match reality!

Tell us as if you should explain it to a child: why have you started dancing?
I have no doubt on my answer! I’ll invite them to dance and move and the answer will come by itself.

Tell us why we should come and see it
To discover and to discover themselves!

A project by:

In partnership with:
SNG Teatro Nazionale Sloveno di Nova Gorica

With the support of:
Ministero della Cultura / Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia / Io sono FVG
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia

In collaboration with:
Comune di Gorizia / Comune di Cormons / Comune di Gradisca d’Isonzo / ERPAC / APT / Ente Regionale Teatrale del FVG / Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg onlus Goriški Muzej / Confcommercio Imprese per l'Italia Gorizia Kulturni Dom Gorica / Kulturni Center Lojze Bratuž Palazzo del Cinema-Hiša Filma di Gorizia / PAN ADRIA network / TIARE Shopping

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