(ANSA) – SAN GINESIO, 04 BELOW – Live performing arts at the service of the community, to encourage the revitalization and repopulation of one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, San Ginesio (Macerata) in Marche, than in 2016 it was badly damaged by the earthquake. E’ the San Ginesio Fest, 2/edition: from the 20 to 25 August proposes, between the streets, the squares and the art sites of the center of the Marche region, a theater billboard, performance, dance and music.
A courageous project, born in the pandemic year 2020, and strongly desired by the Municipality, in one place – told the mayor Giuliano Ciaboco at a press conference – where the theater has always existed and which owes its name to the one who is known to be the patron saint of actors and theater people”. And in the name of its patron, San Ginesio, the mime martyred in 303 by Emperor Diocletian, the town is a candidate to become the Borgo degli Attori and to start a profound reflection on the reform of a fragile sector strongly penalized by covid. There will be a debate on the rights of workers in the show business. "The hope – added the artistic director Milena Mancini – is that it is a festival of rebirth, and that the cracks left by the earthquake and Covid allow light and creativity to emerge ". Signed in the artistic direction by Mancini and Vinicio Marchioni, the San Ginesio Fest did not lose momentum between one lock-down and the next, and wants to make its mark with the San Ginesio Prize for the art of the actor, to the second edition, assigned on patron's day (on 25 August hours 21) to an Italian actor and actress, by a jury chaired by Remo Girone. Many appointments on the bill – readings, shows, conferences and masterclasses -, all free and open to the public, per “a widespread festival, integrated into the life of the local community”, the organizers explained. Many guests and personalities from the world of culture, including Michele Mele, Gabriele Di Luca, Fausto Malcovati, Linda Dalisi, Letizia Russo, Eleonora Danco, Vittorio Salmoni, Francesca Merloni, Lucia Mascino, Katia Ippaso, Gino Castaldo, Ernesto Assante, Francesco Calcagnini, Orfeo bodywork, and many others. Between the performances, Francesco Montanari together with Riccardo Sinibaldi will stage “Why read the classics, from Italo Calvino to Umberto Eco” directed by Davide Sacco, the Canaglie company in “Dog Days”, Roberto Latini in “The Song of Songs”, Sonia Bergamasco and Maria Grazia Calandrone in the reading “Stories in the flesh”,k and the aerial dance of the ResExtensa company. For the entire duration of the Festival they will be guests of the community of San Ginesio 15 young actors of the Academies, for a training course. (ANSA).
