Caorle, at the start of “La Luna nel Pozzo”, the international festival dedicated to street theater

CAORLE – Excellences of juggling, acrobatics, clowning, circus art, music and theater invade squares and calli of Caorle for the XXVII edition of The Moon in the Well, the international festival dedicated to street theater which from Wednesday 31 August to Saturday 4 September transforms the historic village into a crossroads for artists from all over the world (info lalunanelpozzofestival.it). “Those who danced were seen as crazy by those who did not hear the music.” The artistic director Marco Caldiron starts from this famous aphorism by Friedrich Nietzsche to tell a festival dedicated to complexity. «Those words – he says – teach us that we must go back to listening to those around us, learn to respect him, to welcome him, to understand him. Only then will we all return to dance together. Theater, music, the circus are a formidable means of communication and can help us to dialogue without polarization, without barriers, without closing our ears ».

World stunts

There are 18 guest companies of the 2022 edition for a total of over fifty shows. From Ukraine comes the mimi quartet Dekru, considered spiritual heirs of Marcel Marceau, between poetry and social satire. From Argentina come the Cia Es with their magical white ribbon, the Compañía Per Se, which will bring to Caorle the show for two Trashedys, Torpeza Ritmika, a clown with a delicate heart but ready to disturb the order of the world, and the Mundo Costrini with their musical clowning in The Crazy Mozarts. From Hungary the Flame Flowers will enter Caorle with the dance show Waltz of Flames. The French company Los Putos Makinas will amaze the audience with a mix of theater and improvisation, while the Belgian 15Feet 6 will dance with pole vault poles. And again, the show Curtain Call by the German artists Circus unARTiq between circus techniques and acrobatics, while from Spain, Italy, France and Portugal the members of the companies Vaya and B-Side present the acrobatic show I See You.

Italian circus

The Italian artists will not be outdone. The Dynamic musical trio will propose classics of Italian song, the Kilowatt Electric Company with Rex will pay tribute to the scientist Tesla, Elisa di Cristofaro arrives with her Chiquitin Circus in miniature, Ermelinda Coccia in Life runs along the thin thread that binds us to life, while the Artemakìa company invites to get on the road. And if the planet earth is not enough, Fabio goes as far as the moon, played by an actor with Down syndrome, protagonist of the theater show I want the moon of the Teatro Giovani Teatro Pirata. Fabio Lucignano’s Sebastian Burrasca is instead a character of fresh air, and in the puppetry of Adele Felici of Operabuffa Teatro there is Lelo and his world made up of energy, perceptions and emotions. And Luigi Ciotta in Abattoir Blues talks about animal abuse. Finally to make the audience dance the marching band Funkasin Street Band, which already on August 31st will begin to warm up the engines of the festival.

Caorle, at the start of “La Luna nel Pozzo”, the international festival dedicated to street theater