09/11/2024
Lucia Ronchetti: Gradus. Passages towards the new-Reggio Parma Festival-A Lecture by Lucia Ronchetti
The Reggio Parma Festival, its two member cities, Parma and Reggio Emilia, and its three member Theater Institutions, Fondazione Teatro Due, Fondazione Teatro Regio di Parma and Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, have created “Gradus. Passages for the New,” a project aimed at fostering and stimulating an intergenerational passage/exchange of knowledge that will boost the creative awareness of the new generation of live performance.

To hold the lectures and lead the meetings, important names from the world of culture and live performance, whose purpose is to offer suggestions and points of view, highlight critical issues and possible developments, initiate reflections and comparisons, that is, to become “masters” and “teachers” with the responsibility and awareness that this role entails in contemporary society.

The ultimate goal is the production and staging of new plays, selected during the course, which will enter the 2025 playbills of Festival Aperto, Festival Verdi and Teatro Festival.

After a call to action, 14 projects (6 foreign, 8 Italian), 32 artists (13 women and 19 men) and a total of 27 course participants were selected. The first week of classes was held in June, at Teatro Due, Parma.