“Those who danced were seen as crazy by those who did not hear the music.” The XXVII edition of “The Moon in the Well”, An international festival dedicated to street theater which from Thursday 1 to Saturday 4 September will transform the charming historic Venetian village of Caorle (VE) into a crossroads for artists from all over the world.
Excellences of juggling, acrobatics, clowning, circus art, music and theater will conquer the squares and streets of the “Little Venice” in a continuous mixing between genres and a contamination between artists and public in the multiplicity and in the internationality that only festivals of this level can offer. Due to its high artistic quality, “La Luna nel Pozzo” has been included among the street theater festivals recognized by the Ministry of Culture for the three-year period 2022-2024.
“After the success of the previews in June and July, we can’t wait to welcome street artists for the 2022 edition of the International Festival” La Luna nel Pozzo “- comments the Councilor for Tourism, Mattia Munerotto – Quest ‘ year the rich calendar of shows will satisfy the lovers of this wonderful art form and the many guests who at the beginning of September will flock to our beautiful Caorle, its fields and its streets. We have also decided to involve Viale Santa Margherita among the locations of the festival. “La Luna nel Pozzo” is a traditional summer appointment in Caorle, one of the most loved by tourists and residents, thanks to the excellent work always done by the artistic direction of the Festival, supported by the Municipal Administration ».
“‘Those who danced were seen as crazy by those who did not hear the music.’ This famous aphorism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche – he tells Marco Caldiron, artistic director of “La luna nel Pozzo” – teaches us that we must return to listen to those around us, learn to respect them, to welcome them, to understand them. 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. Through the choice of this year’s shows we want to suggest a small path of sharing, playing, laughing together, marveling at the extraordinary technical skills but also pausing, just for a moment, to understand how much theater is a great dance where everyone is accepted and appreciated for what they are. Let’s find out how beautiful it can be to listen to music and dance together ».
A total of eighteen companies will perform in this 2022 Edition for a total of over fifty shows. The award-winning mime quartet will come from Ukraine Dekru, considered the spiritual heirs of Marcel Marceau. Light souls who, dressed in black and made up in white, accompany the viewer on a journey full of laughter in the comedy of life, between poetry and social satire, with an ironic and delicate look at the same time.
A large representation will arrive this year from Argentina. Like the Cia Ex with their magical white ribbon; there Compañía Per Sewhich will bring the show to two Trashedys in Caorle; Torpeza Ritmika, a clown with a delicate heart but ready to disturb the order of the world; and Mundo Costrinia precious example of musical clowning, which in “The Crazy Mozarts” will bring on stage not one, but even two Mozarts even more crazy and fun than the original.
From Hungary they will enter Caorle i Flame Flowers with “Waltz of Flames”, a dance show with a high technical level of skill, where fire creates an unprecedented visual component and surprising couple choreography. The French Los Putos Makinas Companies it will amaze the audience with a mix of completely different styles ranging from theater to improvisation, with a curious obsession for objects. While the Belgians 15Feet 6with pole vault poles, will pay homage to Muhammad Ali “floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee”.
“La luna nel pozzo” will also have the pleasure of hosting the national premiere of the German artists’ show “Curtain Call” Circus unARTiq in which circus techniques such as the Chinese pole and acrobatics on a swinging trapeze provide the vocabulary for a contemporary and hopeful metaphorical language. The sounds of modern electronics mix with live music: a saxophone, playing at a dizzying height, becomes the soundtrack of a vertical dance on a rope ladder. The members of the companies unite Spain, Italy, France and Portugal Vaya And B-Sidegathered in Caorle for the acrobatic show “I See You”, a ballad for four, a mixture of circus and theater that will bring the audience into the inner way of a woman, revealing the play of her emotions and her nuances of color.
The artists of our Peninsula will not be outdone. The musical trio Dynamics will propose classics of the Italian song in a real amusement park made of games entirely built in recycled wood. There Kilowatt Electric Company with “Rex” he will pay homage to the scientist Tesla on a surprising journey made of people electrically transformed into musical instruments, juggling with high-pressure fluorescent water, manipulating sticks and lots of talcum powder. Elisa di Cristofaro he will arrive in Caorle with his “Chiquitin Circus”, a miniature circus carried around the world by a nice company of puppets. The show of Ermelinda Coccia “Life” runs along the thin thread that binds us to life, a thread that delicately draws our destiny, sometimes leaving us the possibility to move it as we wish. The contemporary circus company Artemakìa he will invite us to put ourselves “On the road”, reminding us that everything is change, crossing of lives, collisions of moments. And if the planet earth is not enough, our adventure can push us to the moon, like Fabio, played by an actor with Down syndrome, protagonist of the children’s theater show “I want the moon” of the Youth Theater Pirate Theater. The Sebastian Gale of Fabio Lucignano he is instead a character of fresh air, elegant, with attention to detail, who whirls in the world of clowns flying over the seas of the classic circus and street art.
Thanks to the puppet theater of Adele Felici from Operabuffa Theater we will get to know Lelo and his world made of substance, energy, perceptions and emotions, tensions, desires and curiosities, restlessness in front of a multiplicity of inner galaxies to be discovered.
Also not to be missed Luigi Ciotta in “Abattoir Blues”, the last show of his Trilogy of Abundance, dedicated to a hot topic of our times: the mistreatment of animals in intensive farming and the ambivalent relationship with meat, characterized by always new taboos.
The marching band will make the audience dance to the rhythm of pop, disco and rock Funkasin Street Bandwhich already on August 31st will begin to warm the engines of the festival.
The “La luna nel Pozzo” festival is promoted by the Municipal Administration of Caorle and organized bycultural association Arci Loads Suspended of Padua, in partnership with United for busking, Italian network of international street art festivals and in collaboration with the Eastern Veneto Tourism Promotion Consortium. The Festival is recognized and supported by the MiC (Ministry of Culture) and enjoys the patronage of the Veneto Region, which this year awarded Caorle the prestigious recognition of “Venetian City of Culture 2022”.