Longobardi, ‘Brancaccio starts from dance, words that are too exploited today’

“After a very long and difficult year we are starting again from dance. It is certainly an act of madness. But today the words are too exploited and distorted”. Thus the artistic director of the Brancaccio Theater in Rome, Alessandro Longobardi, presented ‘Futuro Festival’, the international festival of contemporary dance and culture that will take place from 5 to 30 July. A melting pot of cultures, a crossroads of gazes, a collector of heterogeneous styles, a place of contamination between different languages ​​of the past and present with an eye, always, towards the future. The review (directed by Alessia Gatta) will see on stage some historical Italian companies (Roberto Zappalà with ‘La Nona’), international ensembles (Compagnie Hervé Koubi with ‘Boys dont’ cry ‘, Sasha Riva & Simone Repele with a series of paintings taken from ‘Lili Elbe Show’) alongside young Italian performers and choreographers. ‘Reopening in autumn without quota, I am confident in the awareness of the institutions’ And Alessandro Longobardi explained: “this is only the beginning, we hope to finally be able to reopen in autumn, but without any quota. I am confident in the awareness of the institutions. With 500-600 euros no artist can make ends meet, let alone those who, like me, are also independent producers. The pandemic has killed ‘many of our projects. Only those who were able to take advantage of the Ministry’s money were saved and the banks certainly did not come to meet the’ actors’, everyone had great difficulties “. stico of the Brancaccio Theater then continued: “Let’s not hide it, the situation is extremely critical. I wonder if the public will return to the theater, if we will ever regain the coveted normality. But I want to be confident and positive. Everything depends on us – he concluded – but certainly also on the news disclosed by the media. “Opening therefore on 5 July with a capacity of 500 seats, an indoor space but certified ‘covid free’ after the works carried out by the Brancaccio Theater for the installation of the ‘air system of XHP photocatalyst bactericidal sanitizing lamps’, which cut down viruses and bacteria by 99 percent. Next events of the summer season at the Brancaccio Theater, on 21 June (from 6 pm) with the inauguration of the Namuda Fest, a new festival to celebrate the world day of music in tandem with yoga, while on June 23 Fabio Canino is expected at Brancaccino with his Italian lessons, a pop talk shop, written by Canino himself with Mike Harakis, a series of meetings with guests different, every evening, to tell the universe of knowledge.