Final performance of the second Playing Memories art residency will take place at the Conservatorio de L’Aquila Friday, January 17 at 6:45 p.m. and then leave for Georgia and perform on January 20 inl Tbilisi State Conservatoire.
Playing Memories is a project of experimentation and creative research, resulting from the meeting of twelve young talents, chosen from the best students of the most prestigious institutions of higher artistic education.
The cast, consisting of seven Italians, one Brazilian, one Sri Lankan and two Georgians from the Tblisi State Conservatoire, spent 15 days in artistic residency at the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in the city of L’Aquila, with the intention of bringing to life a performance of music, dance and visual arts.
Forty minutes of performance, a short time, suspended between past and present, where memory takes center stage. Playing Memories is an immersive experience, a visual and emotional experiment, in which the timeless melodies of great Italian composers resonate under the fingers of a jazz ensemble, which reinterprets them in a new, current and vibrant guise.
But it is not just music. It is movement, gesture and images overlapping and telling.
Dance intertwines with notes, images merge with bodies, and together they reshape the most iconic scenes from eight masterpieces of Italian cinema.
Every dance step, every musical note, every visual brushstroke becomes a reminder, a play between what was and what could be. Playing Memories turns out to be an ode to memory, to the magic of that cinema that marked entire generations, and to its immortal music, which helped spread the Italian brand around the world.
An experience that doesn’t just relive the emotions of a film, but invites us to look at them with new eyes, to feel them as if it were the first time, to remember them as if it were the last.
Playing Memories is a co-production joining forces with the Saint Louis College of Music, Tblisi State Conservatoire and the Alfredo Casella Conservatory of L’Aquila. A collaboration that, like the performance itself, bridges cultures disciplines and generations.
Jan. 17, 2025, h 18:45 – Auditorium Conservatorio A. Casella L’Aquila, Via Francesco Savini, 7 – L’Aquila
Jan. 20, 2025 – Tbilisi State Conservatoire, 10 Alexander Griboedov st.
