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A contemporary performance, a bridge between performing and viual art

Directon: Gabriele Boccacini;Original score:Roberto Marsella, Corradino Corra Corrado;Performer: Adriana Rinaldi, Dario Prazzoli, Stefano Bosco;light design: Andrea Sancio Sangiorgi;;PProduction: Stalker Teatro

“Box Theatre” is cicle of performance by the histori-cal italian theatre company Stalker Teatro.

A bridge between performing art and visual art. A performance event developed along educational and research lines, addressed to a wide-ranging au-dience, that can be staged either in door or in the street.

"A repertory performance by Stalker Theatre, "Dear mother dear father" was created in the 80s as part of "Box-Theatre": a wider experimental project inve-stigating, according to the poetics which are typical of the company, the relationship between visual arts and theater.The idea behind the performance is the creation of a "sculpture-text": starting from wooden boxes filled with various visual and audio materials, the performers bring objects to life through minimal and evocative actions.OnOn stage, the traditional figures of folktale are in this way progressively evoked - the King, the Queen, the Son, the Beautiful Maiden, the Monster - and, through the simple exchange of an object or a hat, they are handed on from performer to perfor-mer, as in a card game.

Drawing from the classic study by Vladimir Propp on folk tales and the "hero's journey", Stalker Theatre goes back to the origins of the narrative process, identifying the issues and stereotypes of diversity in order to create an intriguing perfor-mance with a surprise ending."

Drawing from the classic study by Vladimir Propp on folk tales and the "hero's journey", Stalker Theatre goes back to the origins of the narrative process

VISION

OFFICINE CAOS Each year, a staff of thirty people from the Stalker Theatre, many guest artists and experts, along withmore than a hundred citizens taking part in the the-atre workshops and over ten thousand spectators, all give life to an innovative social theatre where theutopia of a popular and shared contemporary art isconsciously and socially turned into reality.

Stalker Teatro permanent turin base. An extensive theatre location dedicated to the creation of cultu-ral events together with local inhabitants. Workshop areas for the formation, education and research of theatre for local schools and for youths in collaboration with the city's university insitutes.A new and multi-functional theatre space located in Piazza Montale, in the Vallette district of Turin, for all kinds of shows: theatre, dance, concerts, happe-nings, art performances, art settings and meetings.

In relation with the initiatives of the City Councils ofTurin and Biella, the “ArteTransitiva” programme pursues an aim of great educational and cultural in-terest, such as presenting and applying the langua-ges of the contemporary arts to a social scale.A cultural research and production centre, offeringworkshops for every one to create artistic events and performances intended for the entire city area and presented for international exchange.