PALAZZO DEL MONDO
Bouche Theatre Collective, Signdance International, & Piacenza Kultur Dom (Italy)TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE THEATRE
PALAZZO DEL MONDO
Conceived of by Isolte Avila, Carolina Migli & Jack Paterson
Devised with the International Ensemble
April 2022 | Farnese Palace (Piacenza, Italy)
Signdance Collective International (UK), BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (Canada), Chezactors & Piacenza Kultur dom (Italy)
Press
“This project makes it very clear. It is our responsibility to ensure the availability of art to everyone. that it is not just about making shows for certain types of people but all the people. Art must be accessible on every level to everyone.”
– Jonathon Papa Marenghi, Minister of Culture, Comune di Piacenza
“Accessibility as a springboard towards new forms of communication. Accessibility not simply as a practice for otherwise excluded audiences, but as added value. Accessibility as a creative challenge and experimentation with new languages.”
– Antonella Patete, www.redattoresociale.it
Ivani Ca & Golda Dahan (Signdance Collective) in PALAZZO DEL MONDO
Carolina Migli (ChezActors) & Golda Dahan (Signdance Collective) combine BSL & shadow puppetry
About
Working closely with stakeholders in the community, our Active Access Design Labs. examine how to integrate Access tools and Cross Sensory Translation directly into the generative process of theatre weaving access into the very fabric of a work. Almost 2 years later to the day after the Atlantide Project, we are thrilled to return to Italy and Teatro Trieste 34 with an international team from the remarkable Signdance Collective International (UK), and ChezActors (EU) for 2 weeks of Active Access Design research and exploration.
Creative Team
Bouche Theatre Collective Team (Canada)
Joel Grinke (Creative Technologist), Jack Paterson (Devisor, Director, Translator), Anika Vervecken (Sur-title Artist/ Access Co-Ordinator).
ChezActors (Italy)
Ricardo Arias Callejas (Architecture), Fabiola Filace (Dancer), Carolina Migli (Playwright, Performer, Director), Silvia Rastelli (Dancer), Alice Robbi (Dancer), Ranjana Siva (Traditional Dance).
Signdance Collective International (UK, Portugal, & Croatia)
Isolte Avila (Coreographer), David Bower (Dancer, Actor), Ivani Ca (Performer), Robert Corcoran (Media), & Golda Dahan (Dancer)
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Arts Council of England, The Canada Council for the Arts, & Comune di Piacenza.
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Our Partners
SIGNDANCE COLLECTIVE INTERNATIONAL (UK)
“Hypnotic, poetic, and unruly. The Signdance Collective represents the ungovernable energy of art itself, railing and raging against tyrannical forces. Beautiful to behold” – Caridad Svich
Signdance Collective International is a UK & European-based dance theatre company. We are the pioneers of Signdance Theatre. A fusion of sign (language) theatre, dance, and live original music. The Company is led by a collective of Deaf, disabled, and diverse artist/producers. www.signdancecollectiveinternational.com
CHEZACTORS (Italy)
CHEZACTORS is a collective of professional artists working in a fusion of theatre, photography, activism, live music and electronic sessions, fashion, film, figurative, graphic and graffiti arts led by director, divisor, dancer Carolina Migli. With a focus on the now, the company revolutionizes the relationship between community and professional artists through new participation/ creation models.
PIACENZA KULTUR DOM & TEATRO TRIESTE 34 (Italy)
Founded in 1997, Piacenza Kultur Dom is a cultural association, cultural center and theatre that creates, produces, and presents live theater and the live performance arts in all its forms in Piacenza. Under the leadership of Filippo Arcelloni, we are the only independent producing theatre in the Piacenza region. For the last 20 years we have provided a home for independent music, contemporary dance, new works and creation, clown, and visual arts. Our productions are performed throughout Italy.
BOUCHE THEATRE COLLECTIVE (Canada)
Founded in 2012, Bouche has been bringing artists and audiences together separated by language, distance, and culture locally, nationally, and internationally. With a specific focus on the cross pollination between Canadian francophone and anglophone artists and the international community, Bouche reaches out through translation, multi-lingual work, and devised creation. www.bouchewhacked.com
On Active Access & Cross Sensory Translation
“…smashing nationality and accesibility borders in a Total theatre that merges so many artistic languages in a full emotional voyage…” – IMA Magazine
Active Access Design was born from work with Global Hive Labs., an international network of artists and companies, co-founded by Jack Paterson and Denise Yvette Serna, working together in devised creation. With collective members across multiple countries, we identified access as a priority.
The 2019/20 International collaborations Medusa USA (Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre) and Medusa UK (London’s The Pleasance Theatre & The Cockpit), we focused on incorporating Audio Description and Touch Tours into Dramatic Narrative.
Feb. 2020, in collaboration with Global Hive Labs. (Int.) and Teatro Trieste 34 (Piacenza, Italy), we asked ourselves, how could we take this further? on the devised creation project Atlantide, we were able to test the early concept of Active Access Design (AAD). The potential was revealed.
“…a full house for Teatro Trieste 34 and Global Hive…a fusion of epic and contemporary, myth and poetry, in a fascinating total and inclusive theatre, triggering emotions and new perspectives…” – La Liberta
Atlantide (Italie’s Teatro Trieste 34 with Chez Art, Global Hive Labs. and Bouche Theatre Collective): 3 people in white are silueted against a background video of melting ice.
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