Company: Fabrizio Rosselli (France) Friday, 20 June – 7:00 pm Saturday, 21 June – 6:30 pm Sunday, 22 June – 6:30 pm Marquee – Tout public Tickets can be purchased online and at the ticket booth in Parco Moretti * Duration: 50 minutes * Recommended age: 5+ In this mimed show called Bakéké, a foolhardy character diverts himself by manipulating buckets into geometric constructions. Stubborn when faced with the impossible, this sweet dreamer offers us a playful look into the absurd and obsessional world. Fabrizio Rosselli developed his technique by enrolling in 2001 at the circus school of...

Company: La Víspera (France) Wednesday, 18 June – 8:00 pm Marquee Experimental show Tickets can be purchased online and at the ticket booth in Parco Moretti * Duration: 50 minutes * Recommended age: 12+ A woman’s body is at play, surprising, distorting, and endlessly reproducing itself. At the center of a larger scene, a Chinese pole, the backbone on which everything rests, supports and breaks down a being on the edge of humanity, between its own limits and infinity. Faces hidden beneath each other, a thousand personalities are created and undone, loved and hated. Fragments of one’s own...

with Valentina Cortese Tuesday, 17 June – 7:00 pm Marquee – Tout public Tickets can be purchased online and at the ticket booth in Parco Moretti A collective show between training and scene. Under the direction of director Valentina Cortese, the show comes to life as a choral creation: an investigation of contemporary circus language, capable of interweaving with other artistic languages and adapting to the performative contexts of festivals.This staging represents the point of arrival of a journey in stages – from Turin to Udine, from Muggia to Reggio Emilia – and, at the...

Company: Arearea (Italy) Monday, 16 June – 8:00 pm  Park – Outdoors Dance Free admission, no reservation needed * Duration: 10 minutes * Recommended age: for all ages What is beautiful, and what is ugly? What if Beauty is ugly, and the Beast is beautiful? Every beautiful person hides inside a beast, and in every beast there is beauty. Don’t forget: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. “Whether you come from heaven or from hell, who cares, O Beauty! Huge, fearful, ingenuous monster!” (Charles Baudelaire, Hymn to Beauty) Marco Pericoli and Irene Ferrara met while working as...

Company: Simone di Biagio (Italy) Monday, 16 June – 8:00 pm Park – Outdoors Experimental show Free admission, no reservation needed * Duration: 40/50 minutes * Recommended age: 12+ The performance aims to create a provisional community in which the audience, through the choices they are asked to make, questions and engages in dialogue with the others. Through dissent, disobedience to established rules and conflict, it aims to activate a mechanism for reflection on choice, on the fact that what happens is always to some extent the responsibility of the viewer. Through contemporary circus and...

Company: Manel Rosés (Spain) Saturday, 14 June – 8:30 pm Sunday, 15 June – 8:00 pm Main stage – Outdoors Experimental show for all audiences Free entry, no reservation needed * Duration: 45 minutes * Recommended age: 3+ άκρη (ákri) is a Greek word that translates as boundary or limit. It forms the first part of the compound word ακροβασία (acrobatics), which can be translated as “walking on the edge.” Ákri is a circus performance featuring an acrobat and a ladder that explores the concept of “the boundary.” The ladder, in its dual function as circus implement and stage set, represents a...

Company: Manel Rosés (Spain) Saturday, 14 June – 8:30 pm Sunday, 15 June – 8:00 pm Main stage – Outdoors Experimental show for all audiences Free entry, no reservation needed * Duration: 45 minutes * Recommended age: 3+ άκρη (ákri) is a Greek word that translates as boundary or limit. It forms the first part of the compound word ακροβασία (acrobatics), which can be translated as “walking on the edge.” Ákri is a circus performance featuring an acrobat and a ladder that explores the concept of “the boundary.” The ladder, in its dual function as circus implement and stage set, represents a...