BIOGRAPHY
TEATRO DELLE ARIETTE
Via Rio Marzatore 2781
40050 Castello di Serravalle BO
tel e fax 051- 6704373
info@teatrodelleariette.it
www.teatrodelleariette.it

Artistic management: Paola Berselli & Stefano Pasquini
Organization: Claudio Ponzana
Tecnichal management: Maurizio Ferraresi

Teatro delle Ariette is a cultural association, studying, producing and promoting theatre. It was born in 1996 and since then it has created, performed and/or promoted events in houses, bakeries, hospitals, schools, streets, piazzas and in fields, but also in important national and international theatres. The association is named after the name of the farm where everything started: The “Ariette” (Castello di Serravalle in the Bologna municipality), and where we (Berselli and Pasquini) have been living since 1989, leading the farm. In 1999, in the middle of the fields, we autonomously built the “Deposito Attrezzi” (=the warehouse) literally with our hands, intended as a country building for theatre. We are authors, builders and producers of our theatre in every sense. Teatro delle Ariette is not only a company of players, but something more: an experience, a daily practice to search a place where art, life and work live together and are the same thing.
Our theatre is a “land theatre”, made by hand, experienced through the body. Our search is a journey trough what is human, a constant work to open the door that brings inside: in the invisible theatre of the heart. Where our theatre is.
 

The shows produced by Teatro delle Ariette

“Mother Courage” 1996
participated into Festival dei Teatri Invisibili

“Banks” 1997
finalist for the “Scenario Prize” ETI 1997  

“Antigone and the Others’ reasons” 1998
realized with old people of Castello di Serravalle  

“The sorrow” 1998
from Marguerite Duras

“Brothers of Italy” 1999
“Festival Opera Prima” in Rovigo 1999

“The song of the white rose” 1999

“Theatre to eat?” 2000
Volterrateatro nomination Special Prize “Ubu” 2001

“Before PASOLINI a natral event” 2002

“Land Theatre” 2002
in collaboration with Volterrateatro

“According to Pasolini an unnatural event” 2003

“The Summer.The end” 2004
co-produced by Festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri

“The absent one” 2005

“MARIAGES – CARAVANE ARIETTE” 2005
coproduced with Théatre de Chambre

“DANS MA MAISON – BOITE ITALIE” 2006
coproduced with Théatre de Chambre

“Lives” 2006
coproduced with Gianmaria Testa-Produzioni Fuorivia

“Beasts (... time for tears is over)” 2006
coproduced with Volterrateatro

“Time for tears is over: the great footbathing night” 2007

“The sentimental zoo" 2007

“Our Father" 2008

Our shows deal with the autobiographical relationship of man with rough matters, with animals and other men, with land. Our shows include contradictions, investigate past and future and search for a deep sharing of present between actors and audience. Besides thoughts and feelings, there are dishes, knives, wheat and water, cheeses, carrots, eggs, animals and songs in these shows. We speak about love, joy, life and death.
We went all over Italy and throughout Europe (Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland and Portugal).
Our shows are made of our life, of water and bread.

Following, there some of the most important events, we participated into:
Volterrateatro 2000–2001–2002–2003–2004–2005-2006-2007-2008
Primavera dei teatri (Castrovillari) 2001 - 2003
Opera prima (Rovigo) 2001
CRT Teatro dell’Arte (Milano) 2001 – 2002 - 2003
Santarcangelo dei teatri 2001 - 2004
Drodesera (Dro) 2001 - 2003
Ogliastra teatro (Tortolì) 2001 - 2003
Milano Oltre 90 (Milano) 2001
Naturalmente arte (Asti) 2002 - 2003
Il Filo di Arianna (Belluno) 2002 - 2005
Festival Letteratura (Mantova) 2002 - 2007
Festival Città Spettacolo (Benevento) 2002
Festival Teatro dei luoghi (Lecce) 2002
Berliner Festspiele (Berlino) 2002
Le Vie dei Festival (Roma) 2002
Teatro delle Passioni (Modena) 2003
Teatro Fraschini (Pavia) 2003
Festival Inteatro (Polverigi) 2003
La Notte Bianca (Roma) 2003
Blickfelder Festival (Zurigo) 2004
Festina Lente Teatro (Fidenza) 2003
Festival Contemporanea (Prato) 2003 – 2005 - 2007
Festival L'Arpenteur (Les Adrets, Grenoble) 2003–2004–2005-2007
Festival Radicondoli 2003
Les rencontres de la Villette 2004 (Lille) capitale europea della cultura
Festival VEO (Valencia) 2005
Schlachthaus Teater (Berna) 2005
Le Channel (Calais) 2005 - 2008
Festival VIE (Modena) 2005 - 2006
Le Manège (Maubeuge) 2006
Le Bateau Feu (Dunkerque) 2006
Fundaçao Serralves (Porto) 2006
Tracce di Teatro d’Autore (Bologna) 2007
La Rose des Vents (Lille) 2007
Bassano Opera Festival 2007

Since 1997, we’ve been working on the project TO THE THEATRE, IN THE HOUSES (A Teatro nelle Case). We hosted shows and meetings at our place and in many others buildings of the area we live: the Samoggia valley.
We’ve always worked to bring contemporary theatre in real places, in everyday life where people meet and know each other.
The theatre helps us to raise the sense of community, it pushes us to think about our history and our future, it deeply moves us during the shows when actors and audience are so close to become one.
People who opened their houses to artists and audiences, changed their private places into public spaces of sharing and culture.
During these 10 years we performed in so many places. Sometimes we had to leave our cars and walk through the fields to reach them. And after the show we stayed a little bit, together with our audience, to drink and eat something, to speak.
We hosted famous artists and unknown ones, high-quality productions of stable Italian and International theatres.

Over the last ten years, the project TO THE THEATRE, IN THE HOUSES (A Teatro nelle Case) hosted 95 shows (for a total of 163 performances) and included all our works (for a total of 110 performances). Overall, 273 days of theatre. 55 different places in the Samoggia Valley.
 
Following, some of the hosted shows:
Centro Teatrale Bresciano “Schifo”, Ravenna Teatro-Luigi Dadina “Narrazione della pianura”, Matteo Belli “Recital”, Armando Punzo e Nicola Rignanese “Teatro No”, Stefano Vercelli “Amnesie”, A.T.I.R.-Fausto Russo Alesi “Alexander”, Ascanio Celestini “Radio clandestina” e “Scemo di guerra”, Sergio Diotti “A veglia col fulesta”, Koiné “Cuocere il mondo”, ERT-Magda Siti “Ex Proff”, Giuliana Musso “Nati in casa”, Gianmaria Testa “Concerto in solo”, Laura Curino “Olivetti”, Enrique Vargas “Sancocho de cola”, Marco Baliani “Tracce”, Davide Enia “Schegge”, Cesar Brie “Solo gli ingenui muoiono d’amore”, Cuocolo-Bosetti “The secret room”, “Private eye”, “The diary project”, “La natura delle cose”, Antoine Choplin “La manifestazione”, Giuliano Scabia “L’insurrezione dei semi”, Mimmo Cuticchio “Di padre in figlio”, Mariangela Gualtieri “Sue lame, suo miele”, Compagnia della Fortezza “Sing Sing cabaret”, Théatre du Soleil “Musiques de cinq continents”, Théatre de Chambre “Mariages”, “Dans ma maison”, “Appuntamento”, Pippo Delbono “Racconti di giugno”, Antonio Catalanoo “Universi Sensibili” e “Storie di pane”.

7 meetings to study and discuss the new theatre in relation with land, society and audience were organized:
2000 “Il teatro nelle case” (To the theatre, in the houses)
2001 “Fuori dai teatri?” (Out of theatre?)
2002 “In altri luoghi, in altri modi” (Other places, other ways)
2003 “Le radici di un'idea: di cosa è fatto il mio teatro” (the source of an idea, what is my theatre about?)
2004 “Passato presente. Storie di famiglie teatrali” (past present. Stories of family theatre)
2005 “Utopie e passioni” (Utopiae and Passions)
2006 “The secret room: uno spettacolo e un libro” ( The secret room: a show, a book)
2006 “Storie di famiglie teatrali: scrivere l'esperienza” (Stories of family theatre: writing experience)


We also produced and edited books and audiovisual materials of significant experiences. We did it working on our land, with the energy and professions from our territory, believing that every experience can become something to share.
 

ANGELO GARAGNANI fornaio
Images and Editing by Stefano Massari
2008