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CERCO UN CENTRO
CULTURE MOVES EUROPE
Duration: 10 minute per performance (5 performances)
Genre: participatory performance
Cerco un centro is a participatory creation and artistic research process of a series of performance about in public spaces of Ragusa's city center.
Ragusa has difficulties in finding a center.
“‘Someone, no one knows who, wanted the death of the historic center’ (quote from no one knows who)”
It is the southernmost province of Italy, and it is the city where I lived until I was 19. Many, many young people who grew up in Ragusa leave to study, work and live outside. Many, many young people who come to Ragusa following a migratory process are not recognized as having a space to live there.
The city’s historic center has long remained a place of discord, a place more of the past than of the present.
The center of Ragusa it's now its' paradoxical outskirts, its underground neighborhood and the heart of the creation and research workshop.
In each meeting the participants created ephemeral performances in the public spaces of the historic center.
It was not about busking. The public didn't often know to be an audience :) The performances were intimate and shared actions to approach concrete aspects of the performing arts, explore different places and reflect on the city, identity and desire.
The reflection materialized in a dramaturgy that combined word and movement and that tried to trace a theatrical mapping of the city center. The reflection on public space of cities included thinking about open air gathering spaces that include green zones and the presence of vegetation in the city, as a source of connection among community and between people and nature, as well as a practice of sustainability.
The research and creative project Cerco un Centro was inspired by a previous research and collective dramaturgy workshop involving a group of young people living in Ragusa, in the frame of the project "Spazi ai Giovani/Cerco Un Centro".
The result is a multi-voiced drama that reflects the political vision of its young authors on their city: margin, proximity, old cows, monsters, transformation, dream, work. A mix between a thriller and a poem, a tragedy and a vernacular drama, a fairy tale and an enigma, a travel diary and a song. The workshop was an initiative of @tesserecultura, which coordinated and supported it. You can read it here.
Artistic Team
Concept, research, and facilitation performance and executive production
Nicoletta Cappello
International Partner
Associazione L'Argent
Co-production and Executive Production
Toto Biazzo, Cristina Lo Presti, Federica Schembri, Bruna Natoli, and Rita Baglieri
Photo and video
Gabriele Scrofani
Implementation period
22 March 2025 - 30 May 3035
Language
Italian, English and Spanish
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union
