1. - 9. luglio 2017
Anche questa estate si svolge un seminario di una settimana per costruire figure di festa del Medioevo, con punto culminante nella festa del villaggio in onore di Giovanni Battista. Lavorano con partecipanti locali ed internazionali per costruire una festa che intende riprodurre le tradizioni medioevali in un piccolo villaggio sulle Alpi italiane.
I Designer dei Pupazzi Alex Kahn e Sophia Michahelles istruiranno sull'arte della costruzione dei pupazzi. Il gruppo lavora in stretta collaborazione per realizzare una processione di luci per la festa del solstizio d'estate e un corteo medioevale il giorno successivo.
English (from http://www.superiorconcept.org/Morinesio/)
Pageant Puppetry Workshop in the Italian Alps
July 1 - July 9, 2017
Join us for week-long workshop in pageant puppetry, culminating in a Midsummer Procession of giant puppets and other visual elements. Collaborate with international participants and local residents to build on a event that evokes the seasonal rites of the Solstice and the Feast of San Giovanni Battista, in a remote village in the Occitan region of the Italian Alps.
Master puppeteers Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles will guide you through the production of the Pageant. Drawing on the oral histories, agrarian rituals, folk tales, and ecology of this under-explored corner of Italy, you will collaborate with local villagers to create an evening Procession of Lights and a Midsummer Pageant the following day. You will learn, through hands-on experience, how to construct and animate giant puppets, performing objects, banners, lanterns and ceremonial architecture.
Daily workshop sessions are complimented by trips to nearby Medieval churches and cheese kitchens, an Occitan step-dancing lesson, and other unpredictable wonders. The workshop is hosted byChrista and Fritz Gaebler at Casa dei Fiori, an authentically restored complex of traditional stone houses. Christa, a world-class gourmet chef, will introduce participants to the tastes of early Italian summer, through elaborate communal meals with ingredients fresh from the garden.
FESTIVAL and WORKSHOP
Started in 2002, the Pageant was initially inspired by rural Solstice traditions – celebrated in Italy as the Feast of St John the Baptist – an important seasonal turning marked in various locales with bonfires, household rituals and other observances. The workshop now integrates the Midsummer spirit with an evolving array of images and characters drawn from ongoing dialogues with villagers that range from obscure folk myths to the personal narratives recounting the hard realities of agrarian life. Each year, it is up to workshop participants to give physical form and action to a new chapter of an unfolding story.
Alex and Sophia specialize in creating lightweight but large-scale structures from recycled and non-toxic materials, most of which are sourced locally. The course covers fundamental techniques in bamboo armature construction, papier-mache casting, illuminated structures, rigging and articulation, scenic painting, and other techniques as needed. The course also explores broader aspects of processional performance, such as choreography, movement and character animation.
Participants work together - often alongside local villagers - to create elements for two separate processions: a night-time Procession of Light, and the Midsummer Pageant the following day. The Procession of Light is an intimate and serene procession to the cliffside Church of Santa Maria, illuminated entirely by hand-made lanterns. The Midsummer Pageant on the following afternoon is a more open and raucus event, as the giant puppets are brought to life by their makers and hundreds of local residents, moving in step to the rhythms of local Occitan music. We end, as all Italian rituals must, with a sumptuous feast, followed by dancing long into the night.
July 1 - July 9, 2017
Join us for week-long workshop in pageant puppetry, culminating in a Midsummer Procession of giant puppets and other visual elements. Collaborate with international participants and local residents to build on a event that evokes the seasonal rites of the Solstice and the Feast of San Giovanni Battista, in a remote village in the Occitan region of the Italian Alps.
Master puppeteers Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles will guide you through the production of the Pageant. Drawing on the oral histories, agrarian rituals, folk tales, and ecology of this under-explored corner of Italy, you will collaborate with local villagers to create an evening Procession of Lights and a Midsummer Pageant the following day. You will learn, through hands-on experience, how to construct and animate giant puppets, performing objects, banners, lanterns and ceremonial architecture.
Daily workshop sessions are complimented by trips to nearby Medieval churches and cheese kitchens, an Occitan step-dancing lesson, and other unpredictable wonders. The workshop is hosted byChrista and Fritz Gaebler at Casa dei Fiori, an authentically restored complex of traditional stone houses. Christa, a world-class gourmet chef, will introduce participants to the tastes of early Italian summer, through elaborate communal meals with ingredients fresh from the garden.
FESTIVAL and WORKSHOP
Started in 2002, the Pageant was initially inspired by rural Solstice traditions – celebrated in Italy as the Feast of St John the Baptist – an important seasonal turning marked in various locales with bonfires, household rituals and other observances. The workshop now integrates the Midsummer spirit with an evolving array of images and characters drawn from ongoing dialogues with villagers that range from obscure folk myths to the personal narratives recounting the hard realities of agrarian life. Each year, it is up to workshop participants to give physical form and action to a new chapter of an unfolding story.
Alex and Sophia specialize in creating lightweight but large-scale structures from recycled and non-toxic materials, most of which are sourced locally. The course covers fundamental techniques in bamboo armature construction, papier-mache casting, illuminated structures, rigging and articulation, scenic painting, and other techniques as needed. The course also explores broader aspects of processional performance, such as choreography, movement and character animation.
Participants work together - often alongside local villagers - to create elements for two separate processions: a night-time Procession of Light, and the Midsummer Pageant the following day. The Procession of Light is an intimate and serene procession to the cliffside Church of Santa Maria, illuminated entirely by hand-made lanterns. The Midsummer Pageant on the following afternoon is a more open and raucus event, as the giant puppets are brought to life by their makers and hundreds of local residents, moving in step to the rhythms of local Occitan music. We end, as all Italian rituals must, with a sumptuous feast, followed by dancing long into the night.
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