LUGANO KEYNOTES

Lugano Keynotes. Insights into contemporary performing arts

Are a series of appointments and masterclasses organised by LAC and FIT Festival and edited by the working group of the Quaderni del FIT, publications that aim to be a space for reflection and sharing of views on contemporary art. The working group behind them – Lorenzo Conti, Maddalena Giovannelli, Francesca Serrazanetti, Renato Palazzi, Carmelo Rifici, Paola Tripoli – will accompany the LAC’s 2021/22 artistic season as it unfolds with further in-depth studies and keynotes.

Born on the occasion of the 25th edition of the International Festival of Theatre and Contemporary Scene in 2016, the FIT notebooks develop in-depth studies on the themes suggested by the Festival. They are a forum for artists, operators and critics, and at the same time a tool for discussing theatre and theatre-related issues from a dual point of view: critical/theoretical perspectives and the different practices of the scene. From year to year, each volume in the series focuses on the professions and fields that make up the variegated mosaic of the performing arts.

With Lugano Keynotes we will try to answer many questions throughout the year, even outside the usual FIT Festival dates, and many personalities from the world of art, but not only, will meet our path, often crossing the border with our appointments in nearby Italy, a favourite place for Italian-speaking culture in our canton.

Università Statale,
Piazza S. Alessandro A9

MON 21.03.2022
10.30
Presentation by Maddalena Giovannelli and video projection of the show
Attempt on Dying

TUE 22.03.2022
14.30
Meeting with BORIS NIKITIN.
They will talk to him: Maddalena Giovannelli, Marco Castellari, Lorenzo Conti

Admission is free while places last
In English and Italian

Boris Nikitin

SWITZERLAND

This is the second stage of Lugano Keynotes, a series of appointments and masterclasses and masterclasses organised by LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, FIT Festival Internazionale del Teatro e della Scena contemporanea and curated by the working group of Quaderni del FIT, will bring Boris Nikitin, born in Basel and son of Ukrainian-Slovak-French-Jewish immigrants, is a director of the international independent scene.

He is one of the most singular figures of the new generation of German-speaking Swiss theatre.  For more than ten years, his shows have explored vulnerability and the ways in which identity is created, culturally fabricated.

Attempt on dying, a play that is both radical and intimate, where Boris Nikitin combines his coming out as a homosexual and his father’s courage during his agony.

Nikitin: “I tell myself it is a social revolution: learning to live by learning to die. Not having to be in order to finally be’.

As part of Marco Castellari’s German theater course.

With the support: Swiss Arts Council, Pro Helvetia.
Under the patronage of the: Istituto Svizzero di Milano

Swiss Institute Milan
THU 30.09.2021
18.00

Admission is free while places last

Insights into contemporary performing arts

ITALY
Talk

 

What are the most lively trends in contemporary performing arts? What relations are established between the stage and other areas of cultural production? These are some of the questions from which the discussion with Gianni Turchetta and Stefano Laffi will start. A reflection that will start from five key words to talk about the contemporary: politics, biography, reality, loss, actor. Gianni Turchetta will reflect on the explosion of biographies and autobiographies in the contemporary scene, Stefano Laffi on the theme of loss, in relation to the pandemic moment, in dialogue with Carmelo Rifici and Paola Tripoli, respectively artistic directors of LAC Lugano and FIT Festival.