A summer festival to explore contemporary poetry through the interweaving with music and dance. Piccolo Teatro di Poesia, the new cultural project promoted by VIVE (Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia), under the direction of Edith Gabrielli and curated by poet and essayist Davide Rondoni, starts on Friday, June 2025 in the Sala del Refettorio of Palazzo Venezia (Rome). The initiative includes three events with free admission, conceived as an opportunity for listening, reflection and cultural participation, hosted in one of the most evocative historical places of the Capital.
The review opens with a meeting entitled The Troubled Hope of Poets, scheduled for Friday, June 20, at 6:30 pm. At the center of the event, the poetic voice of Davide Rondoni and the choreographic interpretation of Lucia Sauro, a dancer called to give body and movement to the anxieties and desires that run through contemporary poetry. The intervention proposes a reflection on the poetic act as a form of resistance, but also as a possibility of rebirth in a time marked by profound cultural transformations. The second meeting, scheduled for Friday, June 27, also at 6:30 p.m., is entitled Answer Me, Beauty. On stage David Riondino, accompanied by the sounds of Alessandro D’Alessandro, will give life to a poetic-musical reflection on beauty as a vital echo, capable of questioning and at the same time restoring meaning to the days. Closing the festival will be, on Friday, July 4 at 6:30 p.m., the meeting entitled Daughters of Gold, Emily Dickinson & co.. It is a tribute to women’s poetry, its silent force and enigmatic core. Galatea Ranzi’s voice, Flaminia Colella’s presence and Arianna Balestrieri’s dance will take turns on stage to give body to a celebration of poetic writing declined to the feminine, between delicacy and intensity.
“Since its establishment, VIVE aims to offer the public a cultural proposal with a high scientific profile and, at the same time, with a strong popular connotation,” says Edith Gabrielli, Director of VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia. "The Piccolo Teatro di Poesia was created with the intention of actively involving the citizenry in an unprecedented and participatory artistic experience. Initiatives such as this help strengthen the VIVE’s vocation to establish itself, to an ever-increasing extent, as a living and contemporary space in the heart of the city."
The Piccolo Teatro di Poesia was created with the intention of making complex artistic languages accessible and offering the public an experience in which word, sound and gesture come together in a dialogue capable of opening new perspectives. The choice of the Sala del Refettorio, inside Palazzo Venezia, is not accidental: in fact, the goal of VIVE is to activate its spaces as centers of living cultural participation, capable of hosting high-profile proposals and at the same time engaging different audiences. The project benefits from the collaboration with two entities active in the promotion of the performing arts: the Accademia dei Silenti and Teatro Donnafugata. The first, based in Bologna, is a nonprofit association engaged in the organization of festivals and performances that promote the encounter between the arts and the public dimension. The second is a 19th-century theater located in Ragusa Ibla, recognized as one of the most fascinating examples of historic theater in southern Italy, now a reference point for the Sicilian cultural scene. The review is part of the broader cultural programming of VIVE, which since its inception aims to build an articulate and dynamic proposal, capable of enhancing cultural excellence in all its declinations. The goal is to transform the Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia complex into an open cultural center, attentive to contemporaneity, capable of stimulating the curiosity and active participation of citizens.
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