Cortona Mix Festival

Cortona, 28th July – 5th August 2012

PROGRAMME

Saturday 28th July

17:00
MIX IN THE CITY / Band@omica
The streets of Cortona will be animated by the sounds, rhythms, melodies and musical experiments of Band@omica.
17:30
Palazzo Casali / Opening
with Andrea Vignini, Carlo Feltrinelli e Claudio Martini
The bookshop of the Cortona Mix Festival, set up in the MAEC building, the Etruscan Academy Museum and of the City of Cortona. The bookshop, which will remain open throughout the event (from the 28th July to the 19th August), will be inaugurated by the mayor Andrea Vignini and by Carlo Feltrinelli, president of the Feltrinelli group, who, with Claudio Martini, the president of the Fondazione Orchestra Regionale Toscana, will speak about the programme of the Cortona Mix Festival.
The first edition of the Mix Prize will be presented, a prize for the best book of 2011/2012, according to Feltrinelli booksellers throughout Italy. Together with the booksellers choice the public can vote for their favourite book at the Festival bookshop throughout the duration of the event.
18:00
Palazzo Casali
LOOKING AHEAD / My debut: Miradar
with Ilaria Mavilla and Mario Desiati
The Tuscan writer Ilaria Mavilla, with her novel Miradar, won the ilmioesordio.it competition, promoted by Gruppo L’Espresso, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Scuola Holden and Feltrinelli Bookshops, with more than 2500 participants. The book mixes the American loser mythology with the characteristics of the great Italian social melodrama. While we await its official publication, next September, in the “I Narratori” Feltrinelli imprint, the young author compares her dreams and hopes as a debutant writer with those of the well-known author, Mario Desiati, who is also the editorial director of Fandango Libri.
21:30
Piazza Signorelli
THE MIX SHOW
With an entrance fee / A homage to Charlie Chaplin
Screening of Modern Times
With live music by the Orchestra della Toscana conducted by Timothy Brock
The quintessential film about work. Directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1936 and amongst the last masterpieces of mute cinema. Modern Times is still today a formidable satirical fairy tale in defence of human dignity against the supremacy of machines. The film is shown in the wonderful frame of Piazza Signorelli and with the musical accompaniment of the Orchestra della Toscana, curated by the American composer and orchestra director Timothy Brock and based on the original scores of the film, held in the Chaplin Archive.

SUNDAY 29TH JULY

11:00
Piazza Garibaldi
(bus departure)
CORTONA DOC
With an entrance fee / The Mix Taste, discovering the wine making companies of the territory
One visit a day, between vineyards and cellars, with tastes of the most characteristic products and with live entertainment with classical and jazz music by the Cortona Amici della Musica Association. Today it’s the Fabrizio Dionisio wine cellar’s turn.
17:00
MIX IN THE CITY / The Banda Improvvisa Street
conducted by Orio Odori
The streets of Cortona are animated by the sounds, rhythms, the melodies and musical experiments of the Banda Improvvisa Street.
18:00
Palazzo Casali
LOOKING AHEAD / Could it be?
with Luca Zingaretti, Francesco D’Ayala, Cristina Scaletti
In its seventh edition, the Could it be? festival moves to Cortona. The great celebration of the Italian documentary will be held at the Signorelli Theatre on the 15th and 16th September. The founder and artistic director of the event, Luca Zingaretti will give us some anticipations about the programme and speaks with the journalist of RAI Tg3 Francesco D’Ayala about the language of documentaries and about their social and cultural role. The meeting will be introduced by Cristina Scaletti, the Councillor for Culture, Commerce and Tourism of the Tuscany Region.
19:30
Centro Sant’Agostino
THE MIX COCKTAIL / Our world cup
With Paolo Rossi and Andrea Scanzi
July 1982: carried by Pablito’s goals, Enzo Bearzot’s team wins the football world cup, giving Italians a moment of unforgettable collective joy. July 2012: thirty years later, for the occasion of the publication of the book 1982. My mythical world cup, Paolo Rossi will speak to us about that extraordinary summer, his dreams, fears and emotions, together with the journalist and writer from Arezzo Andrea Scanzi.
20:30
Piazza Garibaldi
CORTONA FOOD
With an entrance fee / Dinner in the square
The excellence of Tuscan enogastronomy
Between a meeting and a show there is the opportunity of discovering Tuscan cuisine.
24:00
Teatro Signorelli
VISIONS / Screening of the documentary This (hi)story by Alessandro Paris and Sybille Righetti
"Bring me God, I want to see him” Vasco Rossi used to sing many years ago with the brashness that made him into a legend straight away. The story shown here is the story of how everything started and about the small ancient world that is able to generate the only true rock star that Italy has ever had.

MONDAY 30TH JULY

11:00
Piazza Garibaldi
(bus departure)
CORTONA DOC
With an entrance fee / The Mix Taste, discovering the wine making companies of the territory
One visit a day, between vineyards and cellars, with tastes of the most characteristic products and with live entertainment with classical and jazz music by the Cortona Amici della Musica Association. Today it’s the La Braccesca wine cellar’s turn.
18:00
Palazzo Casali
THE MIX COCKTAIL / I’m not ashamed but I am indignant
with Gabriella Turnaturi, Remo Bodei, Armando Massarenti
In our society, marked by the cult of spectacularisation and hyper-individualism, shame and indignation have lost their original semantic connotations and have become easy insults to be used against political, economic or sporting opponents.
Gabriella Turnaturi, author of Vergogna (Shame), recently released by Feltrinelli, Remo Bodei, author of Ira. La passione furiosa. I 7 vizi capitali, Il Mulino (Ire. The furious passion. The 7 capital sins) and Armando Massarenti, author of Perché pagare le tangenti è razionale ma non vi conviene, Guanda (Why paying bribes is rational, but it isn’t worth it) invite us to rediscover the positive use of emotions in society.
19:30
Centro Sant’Agostino
THE MIX COCKTAIL / Women’s words, men’s silence
With Marcela Serrano and Iaia Caputo, presented by Alessandra Tedesco
Women have always been enthusiasts of words of love and have guaranteed for centuries the civilization of affections and the sentimental education of their men. Men, on the other hand, so expert in public words, have hidden their fragility behind the silence of intimacy. But today, now that places and roles are confused and in continuous transformation, is that still the case? Or can it only be like that? Two female writers discuss the male and female question with two points of view from two opposite sides of the world, presented by the journalist of Radio 24 Alessandra Tedesco.
21:30
Piazza Signorelli
THE MIX SHOW
With an entrance fee / Eleonora Abbagnato and the stars of contemporary dance
Dance show with Eleonora Abbagnato and dancers from the Opéra National de Paris, New York City Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Hamburg Ballett
A piece of magic in ten acts. Ten as in the ballets put on show by the stars from some of the most important companies in the international dancing scene: Eleonora Abbagnato and Hervè Moreau from the Paris Opéra, Ana Sophia Scheller and Joaquin De Luz from New York City Ballet, Susanne Grinder and Marcin Kupinsky from the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenaghen, Silvia Azzoni and Oleksandr Ryabko from the Hamburg Ballett. With music by Chopin and Bizet, Mahler and Berlin, and choreographies by Petit and Balanchine, Bournonville and Neumeier, a unique show that will end with a festive defilé which all of the stars will be involved in.

TUESDAY 31ST JULY

11:00
Piazza Garibaldi
(bus departure)
CORTONA DOC
With an entrance fee / The Mix Taste, discovering the wine making companies of the territory.
One visit a day, between vineyards and cellars, with tastes of the most characteristic products and with live entertainment with classical and jazz music by the Cortona Amici della Musica Association. Today it’s the Alfonso Baldetti wine cellar’s turn.
11:00
Centro Sant’Agostino
CORTONA FOOD
With an entrance fee / Cooking Classes
Cooking classes, in English, by the chefs Silvia Regi and Richard Titi. Among creativity, fantasy, colour and delights for the palate (followed by tasting of dishes and wines from the Baracchi cellars).
18:00
Palazzo Casali
MIX ART / Art according to Leo
with Annie Cohen-Solal and Marco Pacioni.
Surrealism, neo-dada, pop art, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Johns: there wasn’t been a movement or artist in the second half of the Twentieth Century that wasn’t discovered and/or promoted by Leo Castelli, an extraordinary figure that is an art-dealer and collector. The French academic and writer Annie Cohen-Solal (author of the biography Leo & C.) speaks about his activity with Marco Pacioni, a journalist and Italian literature lecturer at Georgia University.
19:30
Centro Sant’Agostino
THE CORTONA MEETINGS / Someone who passes by behind the harvesters. Meeting a storyteller
with Erri De Luca
Erri De Luca has drawn with his tales a panorama of emotions that are very close to his biography: his education in Naples, the sea of Ischia, his political militancy and the mountain. He has translated the Bible from ancient Hebrew, written for the theatre and for the cinema. Here he tells his story in what he calls “chit-chat”.
21:30
Piazza Signorelli
THE MIX SHOW / Concert by the Banda Improvvisa
conducted by Orio Odori, project and direction by Giampiero Bigazzi
Born from the meeting/junction of experiences between the clarinettist and composer Orio Odori, the Loro Ciuffenna (Arezzo) Giuseppe Verdi Philharmonic Society and the music label Materiali Sonori, since 2001 La Banda Improvvisa has undertaken the task of renewing band repertory through the contamination of different musical forms. A workshop that presents itself to the Cortona audience in all of its power and expressive riches.
24:00
Teatro Signorelli
VISIONS / Screening of the documentary Gino Severini by Sandro Franchina
An adventurous life, between Italy and Paris, always at the forefront of the artistic avant-gardes in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Gino Severini, a painter that was born in Cortona and one of the great masters of futurism, has his story told in the historic, original and affectionate documentary shot by his grandson Sandro Franchina between 1963 and 1974.

WEDNESDAY 1ST AUGUST

The cut-tuk show

With and by Martina Cortelazzo
What unites everyday and prosaic movements between pots and pans and the more abstract and poetic movements of dancing? The answer is simple: a recipe. Which is what the cook-ballerina Martina Cortelazzo will show us, in an event that starts out with the preparation of chicken marinated in prunes and ginger and end up with the liberation of the body and soul through dancing. With the artistic consultancy of Giovanna Scardoni and music by Nicola Conte and Cristiano Malgioglio.
18:00
Centro Sant’Agostino
THE CORTONA MEETINGS / The work of the future/The future of work
With Elsa Fornero e Marino Sinibaldi
The two will discuss the challenges, the critical points and the opportunities of the job market in a historic moment in which the work market is suffering the combined pressures of globalisation, the crisis and change. What are the possibilities for the future? Which paths should we go down and which should we avoid? How can we make the reinforcement of the dignity and value of work coincide with the revival and innovation of the country? In Cortona a meeting with the Minister for Employment and Social Politics Elsa Fornero, interviewed by the director of RAI Radio 3 Marino Sinibaldi. The meeting is promoted by the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation.
19:00
Teatro Signorelli
THE MIX READING Emir Kusturica Balletto Eleonora Abbagnato / Anita Caprioli
in Fairytale in music for rooks, wild dogs, curses, tyrants, sepulchers and flowering maidens
Musical pieces by Didie Caria, directed by Roberto Tarasco
A show that is loosely based on Sophocle’s Antigone (and its rewriting by Ali Smith), published in the series Save the Story by Scuola Holden-Gruppo L’Espresso. In between the words, sounds and images, with Didie Caria’s musical interventions and Roberto Tarasco’s direction, the actress offers a female voice – that is strong, resolute and rebellious – against the “tyranny” of law and male power.
21:30
Piazza Signorelli
THE MIX SHOW
With an entrance fee / Gypsy rock: Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra in concert
Emir Kusturica’s cinema career certainly doesn’t need any presentations. From Cannes to Venice, from Underground to Black cat, white cat, his films have garnered both commercial and critical success. However, not everybody knows that at the same time as working at his film career, the Serbian director also has a musical career, as the guitarist of the The No Smoking Orchestra. A high volume trip, that begins at the dawn of the ‘80’s and will see a new stage in Piazza Signorelli with its mixture of sounds: rock, punk and gypsy rhythms.
24:00
Teatro Signorelli
VISIONS / Screening of the documentary Dying of work by Daniele Segre
“Italy is a Republic founded on work”, the first article of the constitution states. Yet work has continued to change, more and more often and more and more dramatically, from being a pillar of progress and civilization into being a death trap. Daniele Segre analyses this phenomenon in a hard, uncomfortable and necessary documentary.

THURSDAY 2ND AUGUST

The cut-tuk show

With and by Martina Cortelazzo