Polis Teatro Festival – 6^ edition with Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco
curated by Riccardo Giagni, Rai Radio 3 suite – Panorama, May 1 2023
Here the PODCAST (from min. 8′ 30”): https://www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2023/05/Radio3-Suite—Panorama-del-01052023-ec88dc36-8371-44f0-a5a6-e19d9266e609.html
Polis, a festival to reflect on the end of the ex Yugoslavia
Livia Grossi, “Corriere della Sera”, April 30 2023
https://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/23_aprile_30/polis-festival-riflettere-fine-ex-jugoslavia-b0abc0bc-e763-11ed-b581-fd3e8cfc5b91.shtml
“Die like a country” by Dimitris Dimitriadis. An interview to Gemma Hansson Carbone
Gilda Tentorio’s interview to Gemma Hansson Carbone, “PAC – Pane Acqua Culture”, April 28 2023
https://www.paneacquaculture.net/2023/04/28/muoio-come-un-paese-di-dimitris-dimitriadis-la-vertigine-della-storia-e-le-sue-orme-culturali-intervista-a-gemma-hansson-carbone
Another new development of POLIS Teatro Festival 2023 is the collaboration with the Centro Europe Direct della Romagna, which has also led to the creation of a podcast, within PodDARE LIVE – a project by DARE (Municipality of Ravenna in collaboration with Informagiovani Ravenna), in which some of the main protagonists of the sixth edition of the festival were interviewed: ErosAntEros, Qendra Multimedia, ZONE -poème- and Žiga Divjak / Mladinsko Gledališče.
Listen to the PODCAST here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/15382099/polis-teatro-festival-2023-balkan-focus_1
POLIS teatro festival 2023 on Radio Citta Fujiko in Breakfast Club In Scena curated by William Piana.
PODCAST to listen the presentation of POLIS 2023 from the press conference. From min. 3′ 20”.
The POLIS Teatro Festival 2023 press conference was held on April 19th, at Artificerie Almagià.
From May 2nd, Polis Teatro Festival: the contemporary theater festival dedicated to the Balkans
ErosAntEros’ interview, Ravenna Web TV, April 19 2023
https://www.ravennawebtv.it/dal-2-maggio-polis-teatro-festival-il-festival-del-teatro-contemporaneo-dedicato-ai-balcani/
The video of the interview:
POLIS Teatro Festival – Balkan Focus: from May 2nd to May 7th the contemporary theater festival curated by ErosAntEros
ErosAntEros’ interview, Ravennanotizie.it, April 19 2023
https://www.ravennanotizie.it/cultura-spettacolo/2023/04/19/polis-teatro-festival-balkan-focus-dal-2-al-7-maggio-e-poi-il-10-e-11-giugno-la-rassegna-di-teatro-contemporaneo-europeo-curata-da-erosanteros/
The video of the interview:
In 2023 POLIS Teatro Festival reaches its 6th edition, after five successful years for one of the few Italian theatre festivals investigating fundamental issues such as the defence of civil rights, climate change, and the role of art in society.
In 2023 POLIS comes back with a Balkan Focus with some of the most interesting artists of the European theatre scene!
Among the new features of POLIS Teatro Festival 2023, thanks to the collaboration with Scoppio Autolinee srl, is the activation of the bus service for Sunday, May 6 to get to Teatro Socjale from the center of Ravenna.
DEPARTURE: meet at 11 am at the bus stop in Via di Roma between Teatro Rasi and MAR
RETURN: meet at 2 pm at Teatro Socjale with arrival at the same place as the departure
Ticket infos for the performance at Teatro Socjale:
Full price with bus* 15€ | Full price 10€ | Under30 with bus* 8€ | Under30 3€
*only available in presale
More tickets info: https://polisteatrofestival.org/tickets/?lang=en
From Tuesday, April 11 2023, it is possible to purchase tickets for the performances of the sixth edition of POLIS Teatro Festival both online (https://www.vivaticket.com/it/tour/polis-teatro-festival/2996) and at Teatro Rasi, on Thursday afternoons from 4 to 6 p.m.
From May 2 to May 7 2023, the city of Ravenna welcomes POLIS Teatro Festival, which, in this edition, strengthens its vocation as a European theater festival with an international focus on the Balkans and an extraordinary epilogue in collaboration with Ravenna Festival on June 10 and 11 2023, with the debut of GAIA, for which tickets can be purchased at Teatro Alighieri or online at the Ravenna Festival website (https://www.ravennafestival.org/events/gaia/).
-> All the tickets info: https://polisteatrofestival.org/tickets/?lang=en
The Fondazione Casa di Oriani has displayed at its location a showcase dedicated to POLIS Teatro Festival 2023 and its BALKAN FOCUS, carefully selecting a bibliography to offer to its users.
A space to find more resources and sources to deepen and better understand the topics addressed by the festival.
Biblioteca di Storia Contemporanea Alfredo Oriani
via Corrado Ricci 26, 48121 Ravenna
The complete bibliography is available here: https://scoprirete.bibliotecheromagna.it/opac/list/balcani/527514215239
POLIS TEATRO FESTIVAL 2023 BEGINS, WITH A FOCUS ON THE BALKANS.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION by Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros
Anna Maria Monteverdi, www.annamonteverdi.it, March 30 2023
https://www.annamonteverdi.it/digital/al-via-polis-teatro-festival-2023-con-un-focus-sui-balcani-direzione-artistica-di-davide-sacco-e-agata-tomsic-erosanteros/
Friday, March 31 2023
11 am
CittAttiva
via Giosuè Carducci, 14 Ravenna
Meeting with social cooperatives and social workers from Ravenna at CittAttiva.
ErosAntEros, which is directing POLIS Teatro Festival since 2018, presents the Suspended Tickets project and the POLIS 2023 program to local social cooperatives. A meeting moment, coordinated by Villaggio Globale, to introduce and collaborate the world of culture with the world of social work, within the city of Ravenna.
ErosAntEros opens a call to address the issue of climate change together with the citizens. The theater workshop is linked to the production of the new work GAIA, which, co-produced by Ravenna Festival and POLIS Teatro Festival, will debut in June 10-11 at Teatro Alighieri, with the involvement of non-professionals on stage.
The workshop is reserved to a maximum of 20 people, sensitive to the climate emergency, with whom the artists will share the creative process of the production and involve the participants on stage during the performances of GAIA in Ravenna.
The schedule includes several meeting between April and June 2023.
The first meeting is on April 4 at 8 pm at Circolo Il Portoncino (via Portoncino 4, Ravenna), followed by weekly 2-hour meetings every Tuesday at 8 pm at the same place. Then the participants will be involved in some rehearsal: May 30 and May 31 at the Teatro Socjale in Piangipane; June 8 and June 9 at Teatro Alighieri. The schedule will end on June 10 and June 11 at Teatro Alighieri with the debut of the performance.
To join the workshop, it is necessary to fill out the online form by March 31, at the link: https://forms.gle/JynDAnwHs2z1CUdi7
(Submissions are extended to Tuesday, April 11 by filling out the online form or by coming to Circolo Il Portoncino at 8 pm for the second workshop meeting).
POLIS Teatro Festival triumphs at the Ubu Awards: a double win for Compagnia Licia Lanera’s Con la carabina, a performance co-produced by POLIS Teatro Festival, which made its national premiere at the festival in May 2022 with 4 dates and an extraordinary replica due to the great success of the audience. Licia Lanera wins the “best director award”, while Pauline Peyrade goes for the “best foreign text staged for the first time by an Italian company”.
The good news for POLIS Teatro Festival does not end there: the “special Ubu award” goes to Fabrizio Arcuri, who opened the 2022 edition of POLIS at Teatro Alighieri with the great Filippo Nigro in the participatory performance Every Brilliant Thing.
POLIS Teatro Festival 2022 has come to an end, meeting the challenge of programming in a difficult and uncertain time nearly 20 events including performances and meetings, promoting dialogue between cultures and different generations of artists, scholars and spectators, pursuing the idea of a theater that fights marginality and becomes a place of fiction where the sorrows of the present can be addressed. Most importantly, POLIS has successfully become an international festival of contemporary theater!
Thanks for the support!
Here the photos by Dario Bonazza.
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And here the final video:
Thanks to all the people who were with us and made this fifth and courageous edition special. We are waiting to find out how the institutions will decide to reward our boldness or not, and we continue to work to make the next editions of the festival possible.
The man behind the scientist is put on stage at POLIS
Anna Maria Monteverdi, “In The Net”, July 15th 2022
https://www.inthenet.eu/2022/07/15/la-macchina-di-turing/
POLIS Teatro Festival, directed by Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco / ErosAntEros since 2018 in Ravenna, enters the Ministry of Culture’s Fund for Performing Arts for the three-year period 2022-2024, achieving the highest artistic quality score in the entire Italy in the Theatre Festival category!
POLIS, which as of this year has taken on the new form of an international festival by placing an international focus on contemporary French dramaturgy at the center of its program, after its success with audiences and a large following from national critics, is now also being rewarded by the Ministry of Culture. This is a great recognition for a festival that has grown so much in just five years to the point of opening up to the international scene.
POLIS Teatro Festival is supported by Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Ravenna, Fondazione del Monte of Bologna and Ravenna, Otto per Mille funds from the Valdese Church, Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Ravenna.