Possible worlds, when music and dance break down every barrier

Use live music to work on inclusion and reduction of physical, cognitive and sensory barriers in the production processes and use of live entertainment. This is the idea behind the project “Possible worlds – or the history of the lady of music and traveler”, which will be staged on the stage of the Milan Auditorium on Saturday 8 February at 11.30 and at 3 pm, which unites In an innovative way live music, LIS (Italian language of signs), performance, theater-division and assistance technologies, such as the Subituti and the audiodegital, which are perfectly integrated into the dramaturgical structure of the show.

It is a musical fairy tale, which tells of the meeting and the possible interaction between different communication methods personified by two characters: the musical language, which passes through hearing, is incorporated to the lady of music (Francesca Mannino) while the language of body inside which Lis is located, which passes through the sight, is entrusted to the interpretation of the traveler (Diana Anselmo/Diana Denisa Bejan, Lis Performer).

“At the basis of the project – says Marilena Lafornara, project manager and coordinator of the project at the Toscanini Foundation – there is the idea of ​​making music accessible to anyone in any way and form and by any means, working on the synaesthesia and the possibility of A multisensory use, also by the public with disabilities. Starting from the motto ‘Nothing about US Withut US’, the project makes the action and thought of the artists with disabilities protagonists of the show (Francesca Mannino – Soprano, Diana Anselmo – Lis Performer, and Simona Iuorio – composer), especially in the Search for effective solutions to the elimination of physical and sensory barriers “.

The Symphonic Orchestra Foundation and Symphonic Choir of Milan Giuseppe Verdi, always attentive to the issues of inclusiveness and accessibility, marries and supports this important initiative. “For our Foundation – observed President Ambra Redaelli – it is a great honor to participate in the possible worlds project, not only an invitation to reflect on the importance of accessibility in today’s world, but a real example of concrete and innovative Involvement of artists and artists and an audience with disabilities, in the perspective of increasing inclusion by the world of live entertainment. A precious opportunity to reflect on the wealth of diversity and the need for education to empathy as a development key for a better world.

“Together with the string quartet consisting of Luca Santaniello and Gianfranco Ricci (violini), Gabriele Mugnai (Viola) and Mario Shirai Grigolato (cello), the artistic team presents 4 Under35 artists with disabilities: the composer Simona Iuorio, the soprano Francesca Mannino And two interpreters and performers Lis, Diana Anselmo and Diana Denisa Bejan. The artistic team Manuel Renga, director and playwright of the show, are completed, Stefano Zullo who signs the costumes and scenography, Valeria Fornoni, assistant director, the soprano Sara carved, involved as the cover of the protagonist soprano, Kaiming Liu, author of the illustrations, and Pietro Landini e Bianca Ponzio, voices off.

The show is impregnated with music: in Mozart’s songs (The wedding of Figaro) and Rossini (La Cinderella) sung by Francesca Mannino join pieces created specifically by Simona Iuorio. The project is the result of a co-production in collaboration with some important Italian concert institutions: Arturo Toscanini Foundation (leader of the project), AS.LI.CO./Teatro Sociale di Como, Haydn Foundation of Bolzano and Trento, Symphony Orchestra Foundation e Milan Symphonic Choir G. Verdi, Paolo Grassi Foundation, ICO Orchestra della Magna Grecia, with the contribution of the Directorate General Entertainment and in collaboration with the University of Macerata and Ali – Accessibility Languages ​​Inclusion, a company specialized in the provision of accessibility services to show, media, art and culture.