Fiesta

"I've been on a journey in South America. I've seen people, mountains, drums and masks. I've listened to voices, danced. I've read stories that told about strange adventures, sailors and people from small villages: a fat woman that always has to be carried, a young coloured girl who plays with love, a photographer on a bicycle, a salesman selling everything and nothing".

For the spectator a street parade is always a meeting with something extraordinary, with some amazing elements that enter our daily context - our streets and houses. And it touches some of our most secret emotional cords: the surprise, the involvement...

The preparing of such a particular performance is an occasion for the actor to measure himself with his craft and with a new audience. He has to reconsider his profession and maybe he must learn new techniques (play an instrument, walk on stilts) or use already familiar instruments in different ways (f. ex. the voice). Then he has to tempt the communication with people that are not used to theatre and in an unusual context, outside the theatrical buildings and rituals.

Fiesta inserts in the recent Italian parade tradition (the use of stilts, of percussion instruments and music) and at the same time it respects a classical pattern: the calling, the transfers, the stops to play scenes.

With time it has become a very alive performance, the mechanisms are now consolidated, the language is a kind of non-sense dialect that however is understood by everybody, it allows the actors to play with well-known sayings, to make jokes. Actually, this parade is most of all a making-fun and a having-fun, a playing, however with extreme interpretative severity, which transform the pure telling of a story into a meeting - a feast - with the public.