VISIONI 2024 – Activities for operators

SHOWS

Tuesday, March 12, h. 9:30 am
La Baracca
Almost impossible stories
2+

Tuesday, March 12, h. 10:30 am
La Baracca
The little elephant
3+

Tuesday, March 12, h. 11:30 am
Kuziba (Bari)
Come SeMe/Like a seed
2+

Tuesday, March 12, h. 5:30 pm
Teatrul Ion Creangă (Romania)
Povesti cu fire/Tales with threads
1+

Tuesday, March 12, h. 6:30 pm
Compagnia TeatroViola/Cranpi (Roma)
Parlami Terra/Speak to me, Earth
3+

Wednesday, March 13, h. 9:30 am
Teatrul Ion Creangă (Romania)
Povesti cu fire/Tales with threads
1+

Wednesday, March 13, h. 10.30 am
Compagnia TeatroViola/Cranpi (Roma)
Parlami Terra/Speak to me, Earth
3+

Wednesday, March 13, h. 11:30 am
Kuziba (Bari)
Come SeMe/Like a seed
2+

Wednesday, March 13, h. 5:30 pm
DA.TE Danza (Spain)
Tu y yo/You and me
1+

Thursday, March 14, h. 9.30 am
DA.TE Danza (Spain)
Tu y yo/You and me
1+

Thursday, March 14, h. 10:00 pm
Teatro al Quadrato/Zavod Kuskus (Udine/Slovenia)
Volti d’acqua/Faces of water
3+

Thursday, March 14, h. 10:30
La Baracca
Efesto. L’arte di Inventare/Hephaestus the art of inventing
3+

Thursday, March 14, h. 6.30 pm
Teatro del Piccione/ATP ass.Teatri Pistoiesi (Genova/Pistoia)
Soqquadro/Upside down
3+

Friday, March 15, h. 9:30 am
delleAli teatro (Monza Brianza)
Alba/Aurora/Dawn/Sunrise
2+

Friday, March 15, h. 10:30 am
Teatro del Piccione/ATP ass.Teatri Pistoiesi (Genova/Pistoia)
Soqquadro/Upside down
3+

Friday, March 15, h. 11:30 am
Friday, March 15, h. 2:30 pm
TEATRODISTINTO (Alessandria)
Il labirinto/The maze
3+

Friday, March 15, h. 5:30 pm
Collectif H2Oz (Belgium)
Un tout Petit Peu Plus loin/A little bit further
2+

Friday, March 15, h. 8:30 pm
La Baracca
Almost impossible stories
2+

Saturday, March 16, h. 9:30 am
Saturday, March 16, h. 11:00 am
Kopla Bunz Asbl (Luxembourg)
Knuet/Nodo
1+

Saturday, March 16, h. 4:00 pm
Collectif H2Oz (Belgium)
Un tout Petit Peu Plus loin/A little bit further
2+

Saturday, March 16, h. 6:00 pm
deStilte (Netherlands)
Blikvangers/Eyecatchers
1+

Saturday, March 16, h. 9:00 pm
Breloque Theatre Group (Austria)
Augenschein & Blickfang/Bright spots & eyecatchers
3+

Sunday, March 17, h. 10:00 am
Breloque Theatre Group (Austria)
Augenschein & Blickfang/Bright spots & eyecatchers
3+

Sunday, March 17, h. 11:00 am
deStilte (Netherland)
Blikvangers/Eyecatchers
1+

Sunday, March 17, h. 4:30 pm
Ceren Oran & Moving Borders (Germany)
Schön Anders/Beautifully different
3+

Sunday, March 17, h. 6:00 p,
Compagnie Zapoï (France)
Zebres/Zebras
2+

Monday, March 18, h. 9:30 am
Compagnie Zapoï (France)
Zebres/Zebras
2+

Monday, March 18, h. 10:30 am
Ceren Oran & Moving Borders (Germany)
Schön Anders/Beautifully different
3+

Monday, March 18, h. 2:30 pm
Tam Teatromusica (Padova)
Un Pezzetto di Buio/A piece of darkenss
2+

Monday, March 18, h. 5:30 pm
Stick Company (Japan)
CAN
3+

Tuesday, March 19, h. 9:30 am
La Baracca
Almost impossible stories
2+

Tuesday, March 19, h. 10:30 am
Stick Company (Japan)
CAN
3+

ANDAR PER NIDI

“Andar per Nidi” has been one of Visioni 2023’s surprises. For the first time, thanks to the “ZeroThreeSix… Theatre” Protocol, the shows presented in the crèches have been opened to a limited number of professionals (10 for each performance) as an occasion to experience a performance close to very young children. In 2024, four other proposals will be presented in the crèches, as a result of the enthusiastic feedbacks received after last October launch of this activity.

Wednesday, March 13, h. 10:00 am
La Baracca
Cornici/Fames
2+

Thursday, March 14, h. 10:00 am
delleAli teatro
Alba/Aurora/Dawn/Sunrise
2+

Friday, March 15, h. 10:00 am
La Baracca
Un elefante si dondolava…/An elephant rocking…
1+

Monday, March 18, h. 10:00 am
La Baracca
Abaco/Abacus
1+

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Tuesday, March 12, h. 8:30 pm
L’ELEFANTINO/THE LITTLE ELEPHANT ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE

(in Italian)

With Bruno Cappagli, actor and director at La Baracca, Stefania Piccinelli, Head of International Programmes Department at WeWorld and Maurizio Serafini, musician and traveller

On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of one La Baracca’s most loved and represented shows, we will retrace The Little Elephant’s journeys and adventures.
The Little Elephant has been travelling the world for over thirty years now, reaching boys and girls who live in the farthest corners of the world, where the right to imagination and to a happy childhood are often set aside because of poor material conditions.
Too often, these places cannot be reached by the magic of theatre.
Strongly supported and promoted by La Baracca ONLUS, Progetto Ambasciatore (Ambassador Project) has the aim of bringing theatre and culture to boys and girls around the world.
And thanks to its simplicity, this show can be performed potentially anywhere: forests, deserts, schools, hospitals, in the street… This is its value and this is why telling its story can be a way of thinking about a kind of TYA that goes beyond the limits of a stage.
We will not only celebrate the amazing life of the protagonist, but we will also focus on future possibilities, maybe a journey of The Little Elephant through Nepal’s mountains, who knows?

Wednesday, March 13, h. 2:30
Thursday, March 14, h. 2:30
0/3 CHIAMA ITALIA

(in Italian)

With artists from: Elsinor – Centro di produzione teatrale (Milan), Noidellescarpediverse APS (Arezzo) and Compagnia del Sole (Bari).

Presentation of the work developed by the three companies in the crèches, in the framework of a special project aimed at promoting performing arts for very young children in the wider scenario of Italian TYA.
The project is centred on the importance of listening to this special audience – children from 0 to 3 years of age – to value the role of children-spectators, since their earliest age.  In Bologna, the relationship between Theatre and Educational Services is so deeply rooted it is taken for granted, but it is not the same in the rest of Italy.
So, the invited companies will be guests of both the Theatre and the Crèches of our city: it will be an opportunity to study, reflect, and find new perspectives, and at the Festival they will be able to exchange, share, and collect ideas, presenting the first steps of their future research work.
0/3 chiama Italia is an occasion to invite a few Italian companies who have never produced for this age group and offer them a new challenge: at the end of their work, they might decide to start their own artistic journey to approach the youngest spectators. What lies ahead of these first steps, no one knows, but there’s a good chance this opportunity will give life to shows for the little ones. And if this happens, they will certainly be part of Visioni 2025.
So, after the encouraging results achieved with the work developed with Il Teatro nel Baule (Naples), Teatro Koreja (Lecce) and Schedía Teatro (Milan) in 2022, we are reproposing the experience.
The presentation will be held over two days,and at the end of each presentation there will be a meeting with Lo Sguardo Altrove.

Wednesday, March 13, h. 7:00 pm
CUCÙ: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

(in Italian)

in collaboration with ASSITEJ ITALIA and CHAIN REACTION

With Andrea Buzzetti, artistic director of Visioni (La Baracca), Maria Giulia Campioli, Executive Assitej Italia, Riccardo Colombini, artistic director (Schedía Teatro, Milano), Anna de Bartolo, distribution (Teatro Koreja, Lecce), Simona Di Maio, artistic co-director (Il Teatro nel Baule, Napoli), Antonella Iallorenzi, artistic dirtector (Compagnia Petra), Satriano di Lucania (PZ), Marina Manferrari, scientific consultant Protocollo ZeroTreSei… (Comune di Bologna) e Elisa Semprini, distribution (La Baracca).

Cucù was initially devised during Visioni as a shared idea, and today it comes back to Visioni as a project, presenting a stable network open to new collaborations.
We started from the dream of sharing alliances, especially between the world of art and education, pedagogical perspectives and artistic research or, simply, between people who work with and for children every day. The companies who founded this project are those who, in 2022, took part in the first edition of Zero/Tre chiama Italia.
Ever since, the project has grown, together with the ambition of establishing a network to create connections across Italy and maybe, in the future, cross the national borders to create stable collaborations with other subjects involved in Art and Education. Supported by Vitamina Assitej, the protagonists will trace the project’s past, present and future visions.

In crèches and kindergartens: Tuesday 12, Wednesday 13, Thursday 14, Friday 15 March
Presentation to Visioni’s guests: Thursday, March 14, h. 7.30 pm

AMEY – Artists Meet Early Years

(in English and Italian)

With Alice Ruggero (Italy), Mayela Guadarrama Briones (Mexico), Laura Bernardes da Silva (Brazil) and Emily McKnight (Australia).

AmEY (Artists meet Early Years) is an international project for young artists (under 35) that offers the opportunity to observe the encounter and relationship between artists and children in the context of their educational communities – crèches or kindergartens -, where this relationship can be very different from the one established between artists, children, and their parents.
The young artists will have the opportunity to present their artistic proposals in a crèche or kindergarten, an experience that will help them develop their research work for young audiences.
They are not artists-trainers, but training artists who can count on the high quality of the educational services of Bologna and bordering municipalities.
AMEY is a project developed in collaboration with the Municipality of Bologna – Education and New Generations Area and Visioni/Comuni, with the participation of: Union of Municipalities Valli Reno-Lavino-Samoggia (Casalecchio di Reno, Monte San Pietro, Sasso Marconi, Valsamoggia, Zola Predosa), Savena-Idice District (San Lazzaro, Loiano, Monghidoro, Monterenzio, Ozzano and Pianoro). The project Visioni/Comuni was supposed to be part of the 2020 edition – the Festival that never was: it was going to be a way to expand the “public square” so that Visioni could become a heritage shared with the various municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of Bologna, thanks to the constant commitment of those who work as education and theatre professionals.

Friday, March 15, h. 4:00 pm
DRAMATURGY DIARIES

 (in English and Italian)

With Gerd Taube, author of the book and director of KJTZ-Kinder-und Jugendtheaterzentrum in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Frankfurt, Germany, Andrea Buzzetti and Roberto Frabetti, actors and directors, La Baracca

Presentation of the book “The dramaturgy of theatre for Early Years”, the last piece of the Mapping jigsaw that will now complete the range of publications presented during Visioni 2023.
The topics of research on direction and dramaturgy are too often underestimated in productions for early years. This presentation will focus on the co-production process and the common artistic research led by Gerd Taube together with the directors and artistic directors of the Mapping partners – a research work that was developed through follow-up meetings, both live and online. Also, the event will be an occasion for three people who have shared several pieces of research on this topic over the years – Mapping being only the latest – to explore the various nuances dramaturgy can take in theatre for very young audiences.

Saturday, March 16, h. 7:00 pm
BABEL talks

(in English and Italian)

With Yannick Boudeau and Roberto Frabetti, Babel Project Manager

Babel talks will be an occasion to introduce BABEL or The Art of Listening in Theatre for Children and Youth (the European project supporting Visioni 2024) and discover what it means for Babel’s partners to develop “the Art of Listening” – the art of listening to the audience during a performing act. In particular, listening to the young audience “with all the senses” gives artists the opportunity to become more and more familiar with the characteristics of the different age groups, their paces, language codes and emotional receptiveness. Artists will use these insights to adapt their work to each age group, trying to make sure the artistic act can become an intensely shared moment. Babel talks is an informal evening chat with the protagonists of the project.

Sunday, March 17, h. 7:00 pm
FOCUS FRANCE

(in Frenchj and Italian)

in collaboration with ASSITEJ FRANCE, ASSITEJ ITALIA, ALLIANCE FRANCAISE and CHAIN REACTION

With Riccardo Colombini, Mathieu Castelli, Artistic Director at Le Totem (Avignon), Joan Mompart, Artistic Director at Teatro Am Stram Gram (Geneva), Estelle Derquenne, Talulah Huyghens, Director of Projects and International Relationships, Andrea Buzzetti and Bruno Frabetti, Artistic Directors of Visioni

A meeting to present and “get to know” various subjects who work with children and teenagers in (but not only) France. It will be an occasion to nurture alliances that might turn into reality in the future, and to build bridges between different theatre worlds, just as the Babel project aims at achieving.
BABEL or the Art of Listening in Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) is the European project representing the framework of both Visioni and this collaboration, aimed at promoting communications processes, intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding in TYA and more extensively the Performing Arts for Young Audiences. La Baracca and ASSITEJ France became partners thanks to Babel, and together they will try to expand the scope of their action to various national and international festivals, theatre and projects.
Our guests Alliance Francaise, Chain Reaction, Assitej France and Assitej Italia all rely on networking to pursue a common strategic objective.
We will be sharing visions of a possible future, where festivals can become places with an open and welcoming approach at and international and intergenerational level.

Sunday, March 17, h. 9:30 pm
VALERIA FRABETTI AWARD

(in English and Italian)

The winners of the 4^th edition of the Valeria Frabetti Award will receive the awards during Visioni 2024, on Sunday 17 March. The Award is a tribute to Valeria: as artistic director of La Baracca, she supported the launch of the project “Theatre and crèches”, passionately contributing to its development for over 30 years, as an actress and directress.
The Award is dedicated to those who, as artists, pedagogues, researchers, politicians, cultural operators, or institutions, have promoted the development and diffusion of performing arts for very young children (0-3 years old) in Bologna and in the world.
The Award aims at:

• promoting the acknowledgement of young children as all-around subjects who are fully able to understand, feel and express themselves as well as their interest in establishing an artistic relationship with artists, other children and adults, teachers, and parents alike.
• recognising the important role of crèches as educational and cultural institutions in supporting the personal and social development of young boys and girls.
• supporting the cultural citizenship of the youngest of children and their right to access Art and Culture.

This edition of the Award will start with a collective performance by La Baracca: not just a celebration but a way to share our memories, so as to find a new awareness of our identity and roots.
Through a journey in time, we will rediscover who we were and who we are, with Valeria portrayed as a mother, mentor, companion of a thousand adventures. Valeria as a sister and aunt, always travelling the world.

Theatre workshop: from Friday 15 March to Tuesday 19 March
Presentation to the festival guests: Tuesday 19 March, h. 11:00 am
BABEL CREATION WORKSHOP

Visioni will host the first Babel Creation Workshop 2024, after the four already organised in in 2023 Vilnius, Breda, St. Vith and Sabadell.
The Creation Workshops are weeks of intensive artistic work led by two facilitators. Coming from different linguistic communities, the 12 performers involved in each event are carefully selected by the partners and through specific calls open to Next Generation Artists and the 5 ASSITEJ International partner Networks: Small Size, International Inclusive Arts Network (IIAN) and Young Dance Network.
The work of each group of performers is divided into two phases; for example, the 12 artists who will be working in Bologna will meet again in Breda in June, for the next Babel Festival.
These workshops for artists focus on three main objectives:

• The art of listening to the audience;
• The art of listening to the other performers on stage;
• The art of listening to artists of other generations.

The Babel Creation Workshop will be led by Brigitte Dethier, director and president of Assitej Germany, and Ives Thuwis, choreographer and performer. The selected participants will be: Sunčica Bandić, Ieva Briké, Andra Mihaela Burcă, Deborah Cobos, Rocio Dominguez, Iris Donders, Caroline Duval, Ana Hribar, Charlotte Olling Rebsdorf, Philip Vötter and Julia Keren Turbahn.

CONFERENCE

Saturday, March 16, h. 10:00 am
LISTENING TO OUR BODY
Pieces of collective storytelling expression

A collab between Visioni 2024, GNNI (Gruppo Nazionale Nidi e Infanzia – Kindergartens and Crèches National Group) and the Municipality of Bologna.

With the conference “The body: hidden, forgotten, present…” held at Visioni 2023, we started to explore the complexity of body language, firmly believing that one of the most important things we can ever tell children about is the value of our bodily expression, so that the body itself becomes a present, concrete subject, not something to be kept hidden.
Over the past few months, alongside the research work on the “present body”, quite a few different routes have been opened and explored, together with GNNI and three working groups formed by teachers and educators working in crèches and kindergartens in Parma, Rome and Bologna. Slowly and patiently, the three routes took many different directions, without the need to reach any pre-set results, allowing for surprise and amazement so as to collect as many observations, thoughts, questions as possible, without fearing the doubts and critical aspects that could emerge during the work.
As the festival approached, each group selected what they thought would be the most interesting and intriguing interpretation, to be presented at Visioni 2024. These are the three perspectives selected for Visioni:

• The body-embrace.Body contact removes all distance in gestures, tone, and gaze. It is surprise, expectation, anticipation…  It welcomes and encourages the exchange between educational practice and personal experience.

• The body-posture. The body-posture traces the boundaries of relationships in various contexts: correspondences and disalignments. It encourages to reflect upon how our body “behaves” when it is surrounded by other bodies: as a shield, a bulk or a magnet for new stimuli and explorations?
• The body-play. The body is the environment where the child belongs and acts. It is the object of their discovery, a basis for exploration; obstacle and possibility at the same time.

The pieces of storytelling that emerged from each group’s exploration will be presented on Saturday 16 March.
Since the exploration on the potential of bodily expression is almost limitless, these ever-evolving reflections will be presented as pieces of “collective storytelling”, where space will also be given to other thoughts on educational services for early years, future visions on the topic of body language from both a pedagogical and artistic perspective, as well as further steps to be taken to help us continue to “collect and explore”.

Collective storytelling with Marina Manferrari (Lo Sguardo altrove), Antonia Labonia (GNNI), Delia Guerini Rocco (Nuove Risposte), Carlotta Carpana and Caterina Bacchi (Proges), Claudia Ciccardi (GNNI), Alessandro Porcheddu (GNNI), Bruno Frabetti (Visioni Festival), Nice Terzi (GNNI) and Bianca Borriello (CMF Storytelling), Valentina Mattei e Gaia Minnella (Comune di Bologna)

WORKSHOPS

The workshops of the festival are momentary experiences, short encounters, windows that open up to offer the opportunity to wander and experiment.
Eight workshops, 2 hours and a half each, ranging from visual art theatre to dance and illustration, poetry and literature.

Fees
€25
€20 from the second workshop booked

Tuesday, March 12 h. 2:30 pm
STANFIERI, STRANFANTI E RATATUIA
A workshop to build our imagery
With Bruno Soriato, actor and director, Associazione Culturale Kuziba (Ruvo di Puglia)

Matter exists with precise and unique shapes, colours, and features. Listening to matter or an object means to understand its story and be able to tell it. Establishing relationships with objects and materials is a sort of training that prepares us to listen to the others, and at the same time it constitutes a powerful expressive potential for telling our story.

Wednesday, March 13 h. 2:30 pm
Floorwork lesson
with Antonella Boccadamo, dancer and lecturer of contemporary dance and Floorwork technique (Bologna)

During this workshop, the main features of Floorwork will be explained and presented. Floorwork is a technique of contemporary dance, based on the contact of the body with the floor. In Floorwork, the floor becomes an essential supporting element, both as a propulsive force and
a plane from which to draw energy, allowing the body to improve its flexibility.
Floorwork can teach us how to direct our energy, adjust its intensity and develop an improved self-perception.

Thursday, March 14 h. 2:30 pm
The body in the room
with Omar Meza, dancer and choreographer, DA.TE Danza (Spain)

The workshop’s objective is to create synergies between arts and education, thus promoting the emotional and physical development of the participants, who will have the opportunity to approach the representation techniques of theatre and dance – necessary to direct groups and interpreters in the creative process -, as well as to experience their body as tool for communication, integration and empowerment, both individually and as a group.

Friday, March 15 h. 2:30 pm
How to devise a story
with Bianca Borriello, communication expert and storyteller (Milan)

Learning how to devise a story means to acquire technical skills that go beyond creative writing and talent for storytelling. It means to know the stories that have already been written and the ways they helped us build a certain idea of the world; it means to learn the parts of an engine and the way a machine works: the machine of the tale, able to reduce many of the distances that separate human beings from one another.

Saturday, March 16 h. 10:30 am
Poetic biography
with Daniel Gol, actor and director, Teatrodistinto (Alessandria)

This workshop will explore the creative sphere through a personal and symbolic language. The participants will tell their own biography using their body and some small objects – which will become their own “voice” -, freely creating stories while finding their own style and sharing them with the others, also at an emotional level.

Saturday, March 16 h. 4:30 pm
An elephant rocking…
with Roberto Frabetti and Enrico Montalbani, actors, directors and trainers, La Baracca – Testoni Ragazzi

A playwriting workshop where storytelling and illustration entwine.
The title references a very famous nursery rhyme that inspired a show for the little ones produced in 2019 by La Baracca. In 2021, we created a series of short, animated stories in five episodes, and in 2024, the research work will be expanding further.

Sunday, March 17 h. 10:30 am
Sharing experiences
with Andrea Buzzetti, actor and director, La Baracca (Bologna)

The ability to share a theatrical or artistic experience is crucial for both children and adults,
but the right elements to nourish their curiosity need to be there. In my artistic experience, playing with objects and materials is essential, and it sometimes might actually give life to real works of art. Creating, defining and changing the spaces in a playful way, discovering new stories and motifs, turning them into something else – this is what this workshop is about.

Sunday, March 17 h. 2:30 pm
Theatre in the body
with Andreas Simma, actor, director and clown, and Yorgos Pervolakis, musician and sound designer, Breloque Teater Group (Austria)

In the workshop, we will consider body language as an essential tool for performance. How can we represent situations, scenes, and emotions without using our words?
We can use mime techniques, body language and dance. Music and rhythm are also basic tools. The objective? We will try to figure out how we can tell our stories so that they are understandable to everyone.

>> Festival supported by BABEL – The Art of Listening in Theatre for Young Audiences, a project co-funded by the European Union programme Creative Europe (2023-2025)