“Those who danced were seen as crazy by those who didn’t hear the music”. It is inspired by this famous aphorism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche there XXVII edition of La Luna nel Pozzointernational festival dedicated to street theater that from Wednesday 31 August to Saturday 4 September will transform the charming historic Venetian village of Caorle (VE) in a crossroads of artists from all over the world.
Excellence in juggling, acrobatics, clowning, circus art, music and theater they 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 internationality that only festivals of this level can offer.
For its high artistic quality, The Moon in the Well was inserted between 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 La Luna nel Pozzo International Festival. – comments the Councilor for Tourism, Mattia Munerotto – This 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 crowd our beautiful Caorle, its fields and its streets. We also decided to involve Viale Santa Margherita among the festival locations. 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 – tells Marco Caldironartistic director of La Luna nel Pozzo – it teaches us that we must go back to listening to those around us, to 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“.
The program
They will be altogether eighteen companies who will perform in this 2022 Edition for a grand total of over fifty shows.
FromUkraine the award-winning mime quartet will arrive 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 fromArgentina. Like the Cia Ex with their magical white ribbon; there Compañía Per Sewhich will bring the show for two to Caorle Trashedy; 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 they will bring on stage not one, but even two Mozarts even crazier and funnier than the original.
FromHungary will make their entrance in Caorle i Flame Flowers with Waltz of Flames, dance show with a high technical level of skill, where fire creates an unprecedented visual component and surprising couple choreographies. There francese Compagnie Los Putos Makinas it will amaze the audience with a mix of completely different styles ranging from theater to improvisation, with a curious obsession for objects. While I Belgians 15Feet 6with pole vault poles, will pay homage to Muhammad Ali “Floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee”.
The Moon in the Well will also have the pleasure of hosting the first national team of the show Curtain Call of German artists 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 dizzying height, becomes the soundtrack of a vertical dance on a rope ladder.
They unite Spain, Italy, France and Portugal company members Vaya and B-Sidegathered in Caorle for the acrobatic show I See Youa 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 shades of color.
The artists of the our Peninsula. 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 will pay tribute to the scientist Tesla on a surprising journey of people electrically transformed into musical instruments, juggling with high-pressure fluorescent water, manipulating sticks and lots of talcum powder.
Elisa di Cristofaro will arrive in Caorle with his Chiquitin Circusa 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 of moving it as we wish. The contemporary circus company Artemakìa will invite us to place ourselves On the roadreminding us that everything is change, crossing of lives, collisions of moments.
And if the planet earth is not enough, then 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 from Fabio Lucignano instead he is 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 Bluesthe latest show of his Trilogy of Abundancededicated 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.
To make the audience dance to the rhythm of pop, disco and rock will take care of it marching band Funkasin Street Bandwhich already the August 31 will begin to warm the engines of the festival.
The festival The Moon in the Well is promoted byMunicipal Administration of Caorle and organized by the cultural association Arci Suspended Loads of Paduain partnership with United for buskingthe Italian network of international street art festivals and in collaboration with Tourism Promotion Consortium of Eastern Veneto.
The Festival is recognized and supported by the MiC (Ministry of Culture) and enjoys the patronage of Veneto regionwhich this year awarded to Caorle the prestigious recognition of the Venetian City of Culture 2022.
The complete program of the Festival is available on the website