Thursday, February 19, 2004
IN MASCHERA SUL GHIACCIO
Start time: 10:00
Place: Campo San Polo
The first ice-skating ring ever created in Venice
Partecipation costs: Free
CINA – MOSTRA FOTOGRAFICA DI Michael Yamashita (Padiglione Italia)
Start time: 11:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Partecipation costs: Free
GIAPPONE – LA VIA DELLA SETA
Start time: 11:00
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Reading Japan, by Adriana Boscaro, Luisa Binati and Bonaventura Reperti in collaboration with the Department of Studies on Oriental Asia – Ca’ Foscari
Partecipation costs: Free
VANIUSKA MAIS
Start time: 11:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Nando D’Andria and Maila Sparapani present
VANIUSKA MAI
Musical performance with juggler, acrobatics and use of trapeze made by fabric’s bandages.
Partecipation costs: Free
MTV – TOTAL REQUEST LIVE SULLA VIA DELLA SETA
Start time: 14:30
Place: Campo Santa Margherita
TOTAL REQUEST LIVE ON THE SILK ROAD
Live show with Giorgia Surina and Marco Maccarini
Partecipation costs: Free
Corsi di Arti marziali
Start time: 15:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Partecipation costs: Free
Microcirco Acquarone-Ferraris
Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo San Polo
In the middle of the Campo a circus tent capable of holding up to 150 seats, will host performances for kids such as theatre, clownerie and prestidigitation
Partecipation costs: Free
El Vecio Carneval
Start time: 15:00
Place: Via Garibaldi
El Carneval del Popolo, El Carneval del Mondo: musical performances, games and entertainment in the traditional setting of Garibaldi Street
Partecipation costs: Free
VANIUSKA MAI
Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Musical performance with juggler, acrobatics and use of trapeze made by fabric’s bandages.
Partecipation costs: Free
Il mobile didattico della musica
Start time: 15:00
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Kids learn music playing with an educational installation dedicated to music
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – PUTHANA MOKSHAM
Start time: 16:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Performance of kathakali, classic dance-theatre of Southern India. The story is based on the great Hindu epic poem Bhagavatham. The kathakali is an art of great energy that combines within itself literature, theatre, dance and music. Its vital and soft movements are based on mime, symbolism and on magnificent and elegant theatrical expressions. The power of kathakali comes from the fusion of the moving content of the stories on Hindu divinities with the beauty and the grace of acting and dance. It has an unique role in the theatre of the world.
Partecipation costs: Free
Sfilata di Maschere in Piazza San Marco
Start time: 16:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
The most beautiful masks will parade on the Square’s catwalk
Partecipation costs: Free
GIAPPONE – LA GEISHA SUL FILO
Start time: 17:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
THE GEISHA ON THE ROPE
An incredible character tall one meter and 90, shaven head, long beared, and dressed up as a geisha presents a performance on a tight rope. Would you be more attracted by the fired torchs or by his legs’ hairs? Only by attending the performance you would find that out.
Partecipation costs: Free
IL RITORNO DI MARCO POLO DAL CATAI (PARTE III)
Start time: 17:00
Place: Campo S. Maurizio
Organizer: Compagnia de Calza “I Antichi”
PART III – ORIENTAL MYSTERE. Venice celebrates the return of its great traveller with an ancient popular feast in costume. Among jugglers, musicians and acrobats, Marco Polo tells his adventures. The travel, the love affairs, the mysteries, the war and the coming back.Access reserved to the masks.
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – FRECCE DI MIELE
Start time: 18:00
Place: Arsenale – Teatro Piccolo
HONEY’S DARTS
(Classic Indian theatre-dance Orissi style)
ORISSI: Indian classic dance pre-eminently feminine. Even if archaeological evidences document this dance to be one of India’s most ancient one, the definitive structures of its choreographic language, that determined its current status of classic dance, was defined at the end of the Fifties. At that time, some of the most eminent Orissi’s exponents determined its characteristics on the basis of the classical treaties and of the iconographic tradition and with the help of the most expert maharis (priestesses). Its fascination comes from a particular form of mysticism full of tender sensuality, that inspired the maharis of Jagannath, the great divinity of Orissa (Eastern India) to whom the dance is dedicated. Orissi’s practice of the great Aloka Panikar comes directly from one of the remembered Maestro, the Guru Maya Dhar Raut.
Partecipation costs: Free
CINA – JINAN ACROBATIC TROUPE OF CHINA
Start time: 18:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
JINAN ACROBATIC TROUPE OF CHINA Spectacular performance of a 23 elements’ group of extraordinary acrobatic skills accompanied by recorded music. Repertoire: Martial Arts, Hula Hoops, Pass Through Barrels, Lion Dance, Foot Juggling, Group Contortion, Jar Juggling, Diabolos Girls, Hoop Diving, Group Bicycles.
Partecipation costs: Free
Rummellai, il Carnevale
Popolare
Start time: 19:00
Place: Erbaria (Rialto)
Ethnic music with National and International artists at the Rialto’s Erbaria, in collaboration with the association “Il Sestiere della Musica”
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – YORGUI THEATER Parade
Start time: 19:00
Place: Da Santa Marta a Campo Santa Margherita
Yorgui is a high quality street performance. Indian style acrobats, men on stilts, fireworks, masks and musicians, will create a moving and enthralling an hour and half long, parade. The performance is produced by Begat Theatre Compagnie of Paris.
Partecipation costs: Free
BALLO TIEPOLO
Start time: 20:30
Place: Palazzo Pisani-Moretta
Organizer: C.C.I.
Resplendent in historical costume, our guests will attend the official Ball of the Venice Carnival. Enter in the magic world of the Venetian 18th Century.
In the candle-lit setting of palazzo Pisani-Moretta, overlooking the Canal Grande and frescoed by Giovanbattista Tiepolo, mimes, magicians and acrobats will perform while you enjoy your cocktails and the superb Dinner. Two orchestras will play to accompany your dances ‘till early morning.
Dress Code: Historical Costume.
Partecipation costs: Euro 390
I CONCERTI DI SANTA MARGHERITA
Start time: 20:30
Place: Santa Margherita
Musical groups will play on stage for two hours of music
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – SHANTALA SHIVALINGAPPA
Start time: 20:30
Place: Palafenice
Performance of one of the greatest and youngest Indian contemporary dancer. Born in Mandras, grown up in Paris, Shantala is daughter of both the East and the West. She has grown up in a world full of dance and music into which she had been started up, from her childhood on, by her mother, the dancer Savitry Nair. Deeply inspired by the style of the maestro Vempati Chinna Satyam, Shantala devoted herself to the Kuchipudi and she receives from her maestro an authentic and rigid teaching. Very soon she feels the need to widespread Kuchipudi in the West and she performs in many festivals and in important theatres. Artists and experts of Indian culture in India and in Europe, consider her both a great dancer and an eclectic artist who is capable of combining a high technical quality with a remarkable sensibility. Since she was thirteen she had the great privilege to work with the greatest: Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, Bartabas, Pina Bausch. Thanks to these formative meetings, Shantala had the possibility to live different, high quality artistic experiences.
Partecipation costs: Free
Festa Medioevale a Ca’Zanardi Organizzato da Nicolas Arnita
Start time: 21:00
Place: Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi
Organizer: Incentive Harmony di Nicolas & Jeanne-Bénédicte Arnita
Let’s return to the Year Thousand to celebrate the mysteries and fabulous entertainments of the fascinating Middle Ages. Dancers, jugglers and buffoons will make you relive the magical atmosphere of the crazy medieval parties.
The Ball begins at 9.00 p.m with an elegant welcome cocktail, goes on with a seated buffet dinner with the performance of a medieval ensemble composed by musicians and dancers who will introduce you to the most gracious dances of the Middle Age, like the noble pavana or the antique branle.
After dinner, the party will go on with a great ball on light music.
Dress code: Costume & Mask
Partecipation costs: Euro 235
INDIA – ACHANAK
Start time: 21:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
Experts of bhangra music whose English, Indian native, dj and musician Panjabi Mc is one of the most famous leading figure. The original six elements group working together since 1989 has reached the highest level of the bhangra industry through pop-video productions broadcasted and produced by the most popular television networks of the world. The group is considered the leader of “New Wave Bhangra” which is the fusion of music and traditional chants with the “dance” western rhythms. This music expresses itself at its best through “live” performances.
Partecipation costs: Free
Carnival Nights
Start time: 21:00
Place: Campo San Luca
Live concerts in Campo S. Luca
Partecipation costs: Free
Concerti
Start time: 21:00
Place: Campo Santa Maria Formosa
Live concerts in Campo S. Maria Formosa
Partecipation costs: Free
I Concerti alla Fondazione Levi
Start time: 21:00
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Music meetings at the Concert Hall of the Levi Foundation
Partecipation costs: Free
SOGNO DI UNA NOTTE DI MEZZA ESTATE
Start time: 21:00
Place: Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
by William Shakespeare
The play, adapted and directed by Giuseppe Emiliani, is a new production created at the end of the laboratory on theatrical practices, “Fare Teatro”, that took place from September to December 2003 at the Fondamenta Nuove Theatre and directed by Giuseppe Emiliani with the collaboration of Mario Valgoi, Marcello Bartoli and Graziano Gregori. The production will involve the participants of the laboratory and it will represent the professional growth in their important formative experience. A dream of an Indian night dominated by the exciting and evasive world of senses, and of love emotions. A love that forces the self to come out, to loose the balance in reaching the loved person, to open itself to the fusion with the other person gaining the courage to walk through the unphantomable areas of existence. All this can be found in the words of the great Indian poet Bihari Lal (XVII century):” Who does not fall into the games of love, will drown.Instead, the other shore will be conquered by whom immerge oneself in it, entirely”
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – LA NOTTE ETTNIC@: FESTA RITUAL TRIBAL
Start time: 23:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Main Hall: Dj Asian/Indya ettnic@ GroupChill Out Hall: Dj Ogun/Video ettnic@
Partecipation costs: Free
