mittelfest 2023

mittelfest 2023

from 21 to 30/7

inevitabile

(inevitable)

In the heart of an ancient eastern city, there seems to be a secret place, apparently an ordinary shop, but full of miraculous objects: anyone passing by and brushing quickly and distractedly against its door would see nothing abnormal. They would end up moving on. Instead, the young traveller, devoid of purpose and pretensions, rich only in his time and curiosity, who can wander hungrily through the tangled network of old streets, will have the good fortune to cross its threshold. Then the white-haired owner, an alchemist, will show him, perhaps, that strange mirror, which reigns in the centre of the room. The traveller’s attentive eye has already noticed the oddity of its reflection. It is not a mirror, but a portal to the years. On the right side of the frame, he is told, one can see that same place twenty years from now. On the left side, instead, one can see that same place twenty years ago. Anyone can pass through the portal, for the future as well as the past. The traveller, seduced by his irrepressible curiosity, passes through it from the right, to seek the self of tomorrow. What will life hold in store for him? Will he still exist, will he be rich or doomed to beg? The young man will find himself, older and wealthier, ready to welcome him with generous advice and thoughtful silences. When, restless and stunned, he returns from the portal, the traveller will resume the usual course of his time: he will risk, endure, rejoice, toil, until he becomes a wealthy and experienced merchant, rich in a wisdom that knows how to dispense advice and righteous silences. Only then will he return to the portal, no longer to pass through it, but to thank the mysterious alchemist, satisfied with how he reached the end of his life: he feels he has lived wisely, but he does not know whether because of his choices or because of inevitable destiny.

Our time, when viewed backwards, stretches out linear and secure, like the thread woven by the Latin Parcae, or the Germanic Norns, the arcane spinners of intricate human events. Any event reveals itself as an inevitable moment in a single and long history. So much is true of the life of each of us, individually, so much is true of the life of everyone. So, does this mean that the choices we make are not such, because they are determined by a given destiny? Do we glide swiftly, like balls on an inclined plane, straight towards a destination that cannot be avoided? What if, just a few steps away from arrival, something happens and the course of events changes? If one of the balls jolted off the plane, would that also be an inevitable fact?

Having reached, as Italo Calvino noted in his challenge to the labyrinth, “the phase of total industrialization and automation”, are we perhaps forced to act like automatons, to submit to the implacable mechanisms of an algorithm, to take inevitable steps in a world where “machines are ahead of men and things command consciences”? What is the margin still given to the decisive choice, to the one capable of changing the course of a mechanism that seems immutable.

Like the traveller passing through the portal of the years, or like those seeking answers for their future from the design of the tarot cards and the persuasive voice of the fortune teller, the vision of a distant future, standing there before us, however clear and defined it may seem at first glance, remains deceptive, because nothing reveals the long road it takes to get there. Seen from a distance and isolated from the rest, the goal of a distant future, whether seductive or terrible like the fortune of the tarot cards, can seem as definite as it is inevitable. Yet, as soon as one gets back into the maze of events, its features become blurred again. Once again one finds oneself settling or struggling with the decisions made and missed, never knowing whether, for better or worse, the point of arrival that awaits us is or is not inevitable. Who knows, maybe every destiny is a choice.

Giacomo Pedini, Artistic Director

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Friday 21/07
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Music

Janoska goes symphonic

Janoska Ensemble/FVG Orchestra

90 minutes
Janoska goes symphonic is the irresistible encounter and inevitable attraction of two musical universes: the polyglot and heterodox one ...
Saturday 22/07
10:30
17:00
Departure from Borgo di Ponte
Theater

Deriva Urbana
A part not apart from a place

Eléctrico 28

80 minutes
In the street performance Deriva Urbana / Urban drift the public is invited to rediscover the beauty of relationships ...
17:00
Museo Archeologico Nazionale Cividale
Dance

Mechanics of Distance

Máté Mészáros

50 minutes
How much can dance explore a space? In Mechanics of Distance three dancers explore the halls of the ...
18:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
Circus

Fili di inchiostro e nuvole

Circo all’inCirca

90 minutes with intermission
Fili di inchiostro e nuvole (Threads of ink and clouds), based on literary suggestions, investigates the narrative power of ...
19:00
20:30
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Music

THAT TREE

KOOB

45 minutes
When the artist KOOB, stage name of Valeria Dele, decided to move to Berlin in 2020, after the political crisis in ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Theater

Il visconte dimezzato

Italo Calvino/Vinicio Marchioni

75 minutes
War is raging in Bohemia. Viscount Medardo of Terralba makes an assault, he is hit by a cannonball and is ...
Sunday 23/07
10:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
L’inevitabile errore (The inevitable mistake) – workshop for children aged 5 to 9 The circus artist trains a lifetime to try to ...
10:30
17:00
Departure from Borgo di Ponte
Theater

Deriva Urbana
A part not apart from a place

Eléctrico 28

80 minutes
In the street performance Deriva Urbana / Urban drift the public is invited to rediscover the beauty of relationships ...
11:45
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Fatalis

Ruggiero Fiorella

60 minutes
Mittelfest 2023 returns to host one of the talented pianists who will reach the final stages of the International Piano Competition ...
17:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
L’inevitabile incontro con l’altro (The inevitable encounter with the other) – workshop for children aged 10 to 13  In a ...
18:00
Teatro Ristori
Theater

La Sarta

Gardi Hutter

95 minutes
Supported by

In The tailor, among rag dolls and mannequins dancing, the clowness Gardi Hutter sews the plot of the show ...
19:00
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Music

What If…?

Lavish Trio

60  minutes
In What If…? Lavish Trio mixes composition and improvisation, exploring the inevitability and unpredictability of the future ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Tre Fenomeni (Three phenomena. Piovani-Vivaldi concerts of nature) is a refined weave of musical references, where Vivaldi’s celebrated ...
Monday 24/07
19:00
Chiesa di San Giovanni in Xenodochio
Music

Clessidra

Enrico Malatesta

50 minutes
Clessidra (Hourglass) is a sound performance freely inspired by the short stories of the Serbian poet and writer Danilo ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Dance

Proper Mess + Pyrodise

Duo Two Many/Firebirds/Flame Flowers

70 minutes with interval
Proper Mess + Pyrodise, presented here together, explore the wonders and dangers of circus art and vertical dance. In ...
Tuesday 25/07
10:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
L’inevitabile errore (The inevitable mistake) – workshop for children aged 5 to 9 The circus artist trains a lifetime to try to ...
17:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
L’inevitabile incontro con l’altro (The inevitable encounter with the other) – workshop for children aged 10 to 13  In a ...
19:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Il castello di Barbablù

Béla Bartók

65 minutes
A great hall in the castle of Duke Bluebeard, who enters it together with Judith, his last wife, in almost ...
20:30
Teatro Ristori
Theater

Le Gratitudini

Lucia Vasini/Lorenzo Lavia/Paolo Triestino/Valentina Bartolo

90 minutes
“Have you ever wondered how many times in your life you have said a real thank you? To whom?”  ...
Wednesday 26/07
10:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
L’inevitabile errore (The inevitable mistake) – workshop for children aged 5 to 9 The circus artist trains a lifetime to try to ...
17:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
L’inevitabile incontro con l’altro (The inevitable encounter with the other) – workshop for children aged 10 to 13  In a ...
18:30
Monastero di Santa Maria in Valle
Music

Questo è un nodo avviluppato 

Piccolo Opera Festival

60 minutes
Questo è un nodo avviluppato (This is a tangled situation), conceived by Piccolo Opera Festival in Gorizia, stages duets, trios ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Music

Besh o droM 

Besh o droM

75 minutes
Besh o droM, a renowned Hungarian world music band, has been captivating audiences around the world for two decades with ...
Thursday 27/07
10:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
L’inevitabile errore (The inevitable mistake) – workshop for children aged 5 to 9 The circus artist trains a lifetime to try to ...
17:00
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
L’inevitabile incontro con l’altro (The inevitable encounter with the other) – workshop for children aged 10 to 13  In a ...
17:00
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Music

Minotauri

Anaïs Drago

50 minutes
In Minotauri (Minotaurs), the young violinist and composer Anaïs Drago, winner of the Top Jazz 2022, Isio Saba and Amadeus ...
19:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Cadenza perfetta

Conservatorio Statale di musica Jacopo Tomadini di Udine

65 minutes
Refined baroque geometries precipitate into the memorability of certain pop passages, while the mellowness of rock melodies conceals the ancient ...
21:00
Teatro Ristori
Theater

Marlene

Haris Pašović / Mirjana Karanović

to be defined
In Marlene Haris Pašović, one of South-East Europe’s most influential and prolific directors and playwrights, stages ...
Friday 28/07
10:30
11:00
17:00
17:30
Departure from Borgo di Ponte
Music

Tempo rubato
Walk with me

Strijbos & Van Rijswijk

90 minutes
Supported by

Exploring the relationship between sound and space, Strijbos & Van Rijswijk – already guests in 2021 with Signal in Forum Iulii – have ...
16:00
Park - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
Theater

La fiera degli altri

Effetto Larsen

150 minutes
If you were asked to face a fatal game and form a team among a group of strangers, who would ...
18:00
Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Battuti
Dance

Something Else

Collectief MAMM

30  minutes
In Something Else five performers explore in their choreographic construction the social pressure to achieve immediate success. In ...
20:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Toonzetters

Primo Ish-Hurwitz/Jos van Kan

75 minutes
Supported by

What do today’s twenty-somethings sound like? Toonzetters brings together the works of twenty young Dutch composers, a ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Music

Quadri di un’esposizione

Musorgskij/Gadjiev/Fracassi

60 minutes
Ecphrasis: the challenge of those who want to recreate the magic of a painting in words. Great was the challenge ...
Saturday 29/07
10:30
11:00
17:00
17:30
Departure from Borgo di Ponte
Music

Tempo rubato
Walk with me

Strijbos & Van Rijswijk

90 minutes
Supported by

Exploring the relationship between sound and space, Strijbos & Van Rijswijk – already guests in 2021 with Signal in Forum Iulii – have ...
16:00
Park - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
Theater

La fiera degli altri

Effetto Larsen

150 minutes
If you were asked to face a fatal game and form a team among a group of strangers, who would ...
17:00
18:30
Auditorium - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
Theater

The game of Nibelungen

Laura Gambarini

45 minutes
Supported by

An epic of bloody object theatre, in gestural German Imagine yourself in an afternoon, sneaking into a school, maybe your ...
18:00
19:30
Park - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
Dance

Drunken Master

Noah Chorny

20 minutes
In Drunken Master, acrobat Noah Chorny has drunk more schnapps than he should, and tipsy and doddery decides to ...
19:00
23:00
Chiesa di San Francesco
Circus

CM_30

Kolja Huneck

50 minutes
Sit back. Relax. Listen and watch. Let yourself go with the inevitable flow of what you perceive. Meditate, if you ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Music

Le Rose di Sarajevo

Erri De Luca/Cosimo Damiano Damato

90 minutes
Le Rose di Sarajevo (The Roses of Sarajevo) is a tribute to the poet Izet Sarajlić, who wrote about ...
Sunday 30/07
10:30
11:00
17:00
17:30
Departure from Borgo di Ponte
Music

Tempo rubato
Walk with me

Strijbos & Van Rijswijk

90 minutes
Supported by

Exploring the relationship between sound and space, Strijbos & Van Rijswijk – already guests in 2021 with Signal in Forum Iulii – have ...
10:30
Chapiteau - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
Music

Chüssi

Lowtech Magic

25 minutes
Supported by

In Chüssi the protagonist is a large, soft, vaporous object positioned in the centre of the scene. ...
11:45
Chiesa di San Francesco
Music

Solo bianco e nero

Geniušas/ Geniushene/Rojac

65 minutes
Solo bianco e nero (Only black and white): to the eye a simple and opposite two-tone, behind which lies ...
16:00
Park - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
Theater

La fiera degli altri

Effetto Larsen

150 minutes
If you were asked to face a fatal game and form a team among a group of strangers, who would ...
18:00
19:30
Park - Convitto Nazionale Paolo Diacono
Dance

Drunken Master

Noah Chorny

20 minutes
In Drunken Master, acrobat Noah Chorny has drunk more schnapps than he should, and tipsy and doddery decides to ...
19:00
Teatro Ristori
Theater

Tesla

Ksenija Martinović/Federico Bellini

75 minutes
Nikola Tesla is credited with the decisive invention of alternating current, as well as 700 other patents that guide and determine ...
21:30
Piazza Duomo
Music

Fast Animals and Slow Kids

Orchestra Arcangelo Corelli

75 minutes
Irruptive and electric, they mix the energy and distortion of rock with the most poetic sentimentality. The Fast Animals and ...
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