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GREY HAIR AFTER 50? P. 29 IF YOU HAVE BATTLED WITH WHETHER TO MAINTAIN COLORING OR TO GO GREY .

GIORGIA MELONI

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How the far-right obtained out of the doghouse...

PAZZI LAZZI TROUPP.50 LA COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE.

When You Dream About Someone... P. 18

MARCELO GUZZO THE MOST PROMINENT P. 38

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CONTENTS

ITALY 10 Giorgia Meloni

How the far - right obtaneid hout of the doghouse...

George Simion, the chief of Romania’s far-right social gathering, Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), celebrated Meloni’s win in Italy, saying his social gathering is more likely to observe their footsteps.

BLOGGING 14 Sister Cristina Scuccia leaves the consecrated/life.

Sister Cristina, the winner of The Voice Of Italy 2014, has decided to embark on a new path, leaving the consecrated life and continuing to think about music

14 Alec Baldwin

Baldwin’s match was submitted in Los Angeles County Superior Court as a crossissue from a previous game in which a different crew participant called Baldwin and the other offenders.

MUSIC 26 Marcelo Guzzo

Hailed as “strong and charming” by The New York Times and “majestic“

by The Boston Globe, Marcelo Guzzo is considered one of the most prominent singers of his generation. Interviewed by IM Italian magazine.

ART 04 Pazzi Lazzi Troup

La commedia dell’arte. Interview with Chiara Durazzini

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CONTENTS PERFORMANCES 71 Arti & Archi

Mirror interview! Arts & Strings: what exactly does it mean?

76 Valerio Neri

A balance influenced by social aesthetics, the law of natural forms, and individual interiority.

LITERATURE 64 Poetry and the need to write The interview with Alessandra lombardi

ISPIRATIONAL 18 When you dream about sameone

Dreams are a sequence of images, thoughts, and emotions a person experiences during any stage of the sleep cycle. REM sleep is the stage where the most memorable dreams are produced.

29 Gray after 50?

If you If you have battled with whether to maintain

coloring or to go grey finally-- I hope my story can aid you.

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How the far-right obtained out of the doghouse...

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uropean far-right politicians stormed to victory in Italy after attaining historic leads to France and Sweden.

“In all Europe, folks aspire to retake their future into their very own fingers!” stated Marine Le Pen, the chief of France’s farright Nationwide Rally Celebration.

However, if you suppose there’s a new wave of right-wing radicalism sweeping Europe, you’d be incorrect.

One thing else is occurring.

Evaluation by Ballot of Polls suggests far-right events within the common area didn’t enhance their assistance by even one share level between the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and this time.

downward development ending at nine p.c in the final month’s election.

Within the Italian polls, voters primarily switched between rival right-wing camps.

The far-right has moved from the fringes of politics into the mainstream, not solely influencing the political heart but additionally coming into the world of energy.

“There’s a normalization of far-right events as an integral part of the political panorama,” stated Cathrine Thorleifsson, who researches extremism at the College of Oslo.

“They’ve been accepted by the voters and by different, standard events.”

“The rise of far-right events is barely a part of the story. The facilitating and mainstreaming of far-right events and the adoption of far-right frames and positions by different events is a minimum of as vital,” tweeted Cas Mudde, a number one scholar on the problem.

This may occasionally destabilize Europe much more than successful a few share factors within the polls.

Italy’s far-right firebrand Giorgia Meloni is a clear-cut instance.

Whereas her social gathering attracts its origin from teams based by former fascists, she’ll now lead the EU’s third-largest financial system.

Appeared on the median and common enhance of all events organized by right-wing European Parliament teams of Identification and Democracy, the European Conservatives and Reformists, or unaffiliated events with far-right political positions.

In total, the outcomes point out that if a rise in assistance occurred for far-right events, it happened several years in the past.

The Sweden Democrats’ first surge occurred after the 2014 election, when the social gathering grew from around ten p.c to twenty p.c, the one-fifth equal share of the vote they obtained in this 12 months’ In Sweden, the center-right social election. gathering has begun coalition talks for minority authorities which must The far-right Different for Germany draw on opposition assistance, more AfD in Germany increased in 2015 than likely from the far-right Swedish and 2016, reaching 14 p.c in polling Democrats. Far-right events have tracker. In Italy, the Northern League additionally entered governments overtook Forza Italia for the primary in Austria, Finland, Estonia, and Italy. time in early 2015. It peaked in 2019 Different international locations are at 37 p.c, earlier than beginning a more likely to observe.

George Simion, the chief of Romania’s far-right social gathering, Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), celebrated Meloni’s win in Italy, saying his social gathering is more likely to observe their footsteps.

The conservative Folks’ Celebration is between 5 and 7 factors forward of the Spanish socialists in all of the printed polls. However, it’s unlikely to garner sufficient votes to save a governing majority outright. This means it could have to return to a settlement with far-right social gathering Vox, whose chief, Santiago Abascal, is an ally of Meloni’s. Whereas the Folks’ Celebration refused to manipulate Vox, final spring, its newly elected chief, Alberto Núnez-

Feijóo, greenlit a coalition settlement with the ultranationalist group in Spain’s central Castilla y León area. Tom Van Grieken, the right-wing Belgian politician, additionally pointed to Spain as the subsequent seemingly instance, mainly due to the attainable cooperation with the PP. “Throughout Europe, we see conservative events who’re contemplating breaking the cordon sanitaire,” he stated, referring to the refusal of different events to work with the farright. “They’re uninterested in compromising with their ideological counterparts, the events on the left finish the spectrum.”

photo / Giorgia Meloni / Getty images

Spain heads to the poll field subsequent 12 months, and socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez could have a troublesome time with successful re-election.

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his means it could have to return to a settlement with far-right social gathering Vox, whose chief, Santiago Abascal, is an ally of Meloni’s. Whereas the Folks’ Celebration refused to manipulate Vox, final spring, its newly elected chief, Alberto Núnez-Feijóo, greenlit a coalition settlement with the ultranationalist group in Spain’s central Castilla y León area.

Tom Van Grieken, the right-wing Belgian politician, additionally pointed to Spain as the subsequent seemingly instance, mainly due to the attainable cooperation with the PP. “Throughout Europe, we see conservative events who’re contemplating breaking the cordon sanitaire,” he stated, referring to the refusal of different events to work with the far-right.

“They’re uninterested in compromising with their ideological counterparts, the events on the left finish the spectrum.”

Chairman of the Flemish Vlaams Belang social gathering, Tom Van Grieken | Stephanie Le Coq/EFE through EPA This didn’t occur in a single day. The far-right labored arduously to shrug off their extremist, neo-Nazi picture.

“In a few of the reporting on the Swedish Democrats, you’d suppose they’ll deport folks on trains as quickly as they’re in the energy. Come on, these events have modified,” stated one EU official with right-wing affiliations.

The far-right invested in “picture adjustment and attempting to tread fastidiously with some points, whereas unashamedly catering to others,” stated Nina Wiesehomeier, a political scientist at the IE College of Madrid. “That is significantly apparent in Italy proper now, with Meloni sticking to the slogan of ‘God, homeland, household,’ as a continuation, whereas having tried to purge the social gathering from extra radical components.”

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In Belgium’s northern area of Flanders, the right-wing Vlaams Belang (Flemish Curiosity) explicitly dismisses the “extreme right.” Identical to his counterparts in Italy, Sweden, and France, Van Grieken, the social gathering’s president, denounced the different extremist positions of his group’s founders and moderated his political message to make voting for the far-right socially acceptable.

Chairman of the Flemish Vlaams Belang social gathering, Tom Van Grieken | Stephanie Le Coqc/EFE through EPA

Overt racism is taboo. As an alternative, the rhetoric modifications to criticizing an open-door migration coverage.

By fastidiously catering to centrist voters, the far-right goals for an even bigger slice of the cake while driving the anti-establishment discontent.

“There’s a clear fault line between the winners of globalization and the nationalists,” Van Grieken advised “This comes on high on the issues about mass migration, whether or not it’s in Malmö, Rome, or different European cities.”

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As Europe is battling to report inflation and Europeans are concerned about excessive heating payments, governments warn about the political implications of a “winter of discontent.”

“It’s a large drainage of European prosperity,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo advised just lately. “Within the present state of affairs, it’s arduous to imagine in progress; it’s very arduous to make progress.

So there’s a pessimistic feeling.”

The present warfare in Ukraine is the newest in a succession of crises — in world finance, migration, and the pandemic. Consultants argue that that is key to understanding the rising assistance of the far-right.

“Such existential crises have a destabilizing impact and result in a concern,” stated Carl Devos, a professor of political science at Ghent College.

into extra right-wing wins throughout the continent. “The far-right presents nationalist, protectionist options to the globalized crises, stated Thorleifsson. “We see how the migration subject was momentarily off the agenda throughout the pandemic; however, now it’s again.”

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“Worry is the breeding floor for the far-right.

Folks are inclined to translate that concern and outrage into radical voting behavior.”

Due to the Ukraine warfare and rising power costs, migration and identification politics within the media. However, they’re nonetheless vital points in the right-wing debate.

In Austria, the coalition events fought over whether or not or not asylum seekers ought to obtain local weather bonuses. In the Netherlands, the loss of a child’s life in the asylum heart of Ter Apel led to a renewed debate over overcrowded migration facilities.

The mixture of these points is more likely to feed

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lessia Piperno, a 30-year-old Italian woman detained in Iran since September, has been released from prison and will soon return to Rome, the prime minister’s office announced Thursday.

“After intense diplomatic work today, Alessia Piperno was released by the Iranian authorities and is preparing to return to Italy,” read the statement from Palazzo Chigi.

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni informed the woman’s parents of the news by telephone personally, according to Palazzo Chigi.

At the end of a press conference with NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg in Rome, Meloni paid tribute to Italy’s “intelligence services, Undersecretary Mantovano, and the foreign ministry for the extraordinary and silent work to bring this girl home.”

Piperno, a travel blogger and digital nomad, was detained at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran during the crackdown by Iranian authorities on the wave of protests following the death in custody of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini after she was held by ‘morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic republic’s dress code.

Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri welcomed the “wonderful news,” writing on Twitter: “We can’t wait for her to come home to Rome and see her safe in the arms of her loved ones.”

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Sister Cristina Scuccia leaves the consecrated\ life.

She had won The Voice.

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ister Cristina, the winner of The Voice Of Italy 2014, has decided to embark on a new path, leaving the consecrated life and continuing to think about music. Now she is Cristina Scuccia.

“If I look back, I look at my journey with a deep sense of gratitude - says Cristina Scuccia - Change is a sign of evolution, but it’s always scary because it’s easier to anchor yourself to your certainties rather than questioning yourself. Is there a right or wrong? I believe that with courage, one should only listen to one’s heart!”.

The nun with the most prominent voice in Italy told today, for the first time, in the studio on Verissimo, a program broadcast on Canale 5 hosted by Silvia Toffanin, that she does not intend to abandon her journey of faith and that she is grateful for everything that he has lived up to now.

The success Leaped to the headlines after her participation and victory in The Voice of Italy in 2013, Sister Cristina

Scuccia had become a celebrity on the Italian recording scene, duetting with the big names in international music, recording two albums, and participating in various television broadcasts.

After years of great success, however, a period away from the scene, the latest news about Cristina dates back to just before the pandemic with her participation in Dancing with the stars in 2019. In the same year, the information of having taken final vows, definitive entry into the religious order of the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family.

Sister Cristina, the winner of The Voice Of Italy 2014, has decided to embark on a new path, leaving the consecrated life and continuing to think about music. Now she is Cristina Scuccia. “If I look back, I look at my journey with a deep sense of gratitude - says Cristina Scuccia - Change is a sign of evolution, but it’s always scary because it’s easier to anchor yourself to your certainties rather than questioning yourself. Is there a right or wrong? I believe that with courage, one should only listen to one’s heart!”.

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he nun with the most prominent voice in Italy told today, for the first time, in the studio on Verissimo, a program broadcast on Canale 5 hosted by Silvia Toffanin, that she does not intend to abandon her journey of faith and that she is grateful for everything that he has lived up to now.

A path, the one within the religious world, which began when she was very young: “I chose consecrated life when I was nineteen when I met the Ursuline nuns playing the role of Sister Rosa, the founder of the congregation, in the musical organized in occasion of their centenary. My mom learned of this possibility and, of the desire to get closer to the Church, she proposed this thing to me. At first, I said no, I didn’t want to deal with nuns and priests, with any religious figure, then in a second moment, I thought that doing nothing at the time could be an opportunity to sing and learn new things.

When we presented the musical for the first time in 2008, something lit up in me; I looked at the nuns and felt that something in me was changing. Then came the call.”

The success Leaped to the headlines after her participation and victory in The Voice of Italy in 2013, Sister Cristina Scuccia had become a celebrity on the Italian recording scene, duetting with the big names in international music, recording two albums, and participating in various television broadcasts.

After years of great success, however, a period away from the scene, the latest news about Cristina dates back to just before the pandemic with her participation in Dancing with the stars in 2019. In the same year, the information of having taken final vows, definitive entry into the religious order of the Ursuline Sisters of the Holy Family.

Today things have changed, and, as a guest in the Sunday 20 November episode of Verissimo, the Canale 5 talk hosted by Silvia Toffanin, Cristina is back in the spotlight for the first time with a new look or, better, without a dress. In a long face-to-face interview with the presenter, the woman, now 34, revealed that she had definitively abandoned her vows: “It’s been almost fifteen years of religious life, I think the best years of my life, because in any case, it’s an important and intense life experience that made me grow a lot, and I believe that what happened is nothing, in particular, there wasn’t anything in particular, but it was a change of mine, a growth.”

In 2013 her decision was taken by mutual agreement with the other sisters to participate in the Rai 2 talent show, where J-Ax chose her in her team to win the victory. From there, then television and success: “I’ve never seen the conflict between these two realities, because I did my novitiate in Brazil and there seeing nuns, priests, religious singing on stage is very natural, also because when you meet God you want to dance, sing, praise, thank him. Brazil has somewhat purified that passion of mine; it has become that gift to give. I still believe today in the power of music to transfer important messages like this”.

Two opposing worlds which, despite the attempts to reconcile them, have repeatedly put her in difficulty: “The nuns have tried to protect me, but probably the excess of protection for me was starting to turn into a limitation towards that idea that I had some religious life. Success hasn’t been easy, but it hasn’t put my vocation in crisis. It was an inner change that made me do it as if all this exposure to success had placed me before the enormous responsibility of being exposed throughout the world as a witness of God. This made me come to terms with myself and make a transition to adult life. For me, The Voice paved the way for a change in my growth.”

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aldwin’s match was submitted in Los Angeles County Superior Court as a cross-issue from a previous game in which a different crew participant called Baldwin and the other offenders.

It is among many lawsuits stemming from the catastrophe of Oct. 21, 2021, which is additionally under criminal investigation and can lead to New Mexico state fees.

Baldwin’s cross grievance names armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, initially assistant director Dave Halls, prop distributor Seth Kenney and prop master Sarah Zachry. Attorneys for GutierrezReed, Halls, and Kenney did not respond immediately to requests for statements for their client’s protection. Reuters might not locate a lawyer for Zachry.

All four were likewise named as offenders in addition to Baldwin in the original suit submitted by a manuscript manager who asserted the shooting triggered her severe emotional distress.

Baldwin’s cross problem alleges negligence and also seeks damages to be determined at the test for the “tremendous despair” he endures.

“This catastrophe happened since online bullets were supplied to the set and packed into the gun, Gutierrez-Reed failed to check the bullets or the weapon thoroughly, Halls fell short of scrutinizing the gun as well as yet revealed the weapon was risk-free before commending Baldwin, and also Zachry failed to disclose that Gutierrez-Reed had been acting recklessly offset as well as was a safety danger to those around her,” Baldwin’s cross problem claimed.

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Alec Baldwin

Actor Alec Baldwin filed a suit on Friday against the armorer and three other team members over the deadly shooting on the collection of the Western movie “Corrosion,” in which a gun that Baldwin was utilizing during a practice session eliminated cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

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The fit was composed by Luke Nikas, a Baldwin lawyer with the company Quinn Emanuel.

Hutchins was killed when a revolver Baldwin was rehearsing with throughout the shooting in New Mexico discharged a live round that hit her as well as film supervisor Joel Souza, that endured.

In a tv interview, the star claimed he did not pull the trigger of the Colt.45 revolver, and also, it fired after he cocked it.

An FBI forensic examination of the singleaction revolver located it “generally functioned” and would certainly not terminate without pulling the trigger.

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We spend approximately one-third of our lives sleeping. For a substantial portion of that time, we dream. Sometimes those dreams are entertaining, occasionally romantic, erotic, and at other times, it’s downright horrifying.

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When You Dream About Someone...

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Some plans are recurring, and when you see the same person in your dreams over and over, it’s only natural to wonder, when you dream about someone, are they thinking of you?

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e are still determining why we dream or the meaning of dreams. But it is widely believed that dreams reflect our subconscious mind where we bury our deepest fears, gut-wrenching traumas, and unspeakable desires. For more clarity on the meaning and significance of dreams, we spoke to Kreena Desai, an astrology and Vastu consultant.

“Dreams are a sequence of images, thoughts, and emotions a person experiences during any stage of the sleep cycle. REM sleep is the stage where the most memorable dreams are produced. They are usually associated with an overactive mind.

Sometimes dreams are also related to something that has stayed with a person throughout the day.” According to research, an average person dreams four to six times per night. You might spend as much as 2 hours dreaming throughout one night’s sleep.

Why Do We Dream?

Kreena says, “We dream because it helps the brain process emotions, consolidate memories, and gain practice to confront potential dangers. Dreams also help us in solving problems. Let’s say a person has been too preoccupied with the stresses of a particular problem during the day. It could be financial or relationship stress affecting his mental health. The dreams that follow could be either an answer to the problem or show you the root cause of the problem.” This theory is based on three factors: - Things you see in a dream - The environment - Your association with the items/objects you see in the dream Dreams continue to inspire intrigue and interest among researchers since a lot has yet to be discovered in this realm. The concept and reasoning behind plans still need to be determined. However, one thing is for sure – dreams are good for us.

Recent research has found that not dreaming is as bad as sleep deprivation and can lead to many health problems.

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They found that dream loss is an unrecognized public health hazard that silently wreaks havoc with our lives, contributing to illness, depression, and an erosion of consciousness.

That’s why we must dream for at least 2 hours a night.

Features And Types Of Dreams According to the National Sleep Foundation, we typically dream about four to six times per night. That is four to six types of dreams per night. You might not believe this because humans need to remember over 95% of all plans.

Describing the features of dreams, Kreena says, “Dreams are mostly visual, and they are in color. However, some people dream in black and white as well. It all depends on the emotions you went through during the day. The more stressed you are, the more unpleasant dreams you will experience.”

Before we delve into the interpretation of different types of dreams and address the question of when you dream about someone, are they thinking of you, let’s take a closer look at what these figments of our consciousness are made of. There are exactly 5 types of dreams:

Daydreams Daydreaming is when we dream when we are wide awake. It’s an attempt to escape from reality. To put it simply, daydreaming is imagining fake scenarios to distract ourselves from what’s happening. For instance, you could feel insecure in a relationship, which is why you daydream about a better situation.

There are many positive effects of daydreaming as well: - Daydreaming boosts productivity - It alleviates stress and anxiety.

- It can also help you solve problems, giving you a fresh perspective on situations.

- It enhances creativity.

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Ispirational False awakening A false awakening is when a person is still sleeping but believes that they have woken up from their slumber while still in the middle of a dream. This usually occurs during REM sleep. This can be the most confusing and disorienting among the different types of plans.

Lucid dreams Lucid dreaming is one of the types of dreams when a person knows they are dreaming and can control their body and thoughts within the plan. They become aware that they are currently in a state of dreaming and have the ability to control their body.

Nightmares What do nightmares mean? Nightmares are dreams that induce feelings of horror and dread. This could be because of a person’s stress every day, and these scary dreams become the brain’s way of finding an outlet for these stressors. Some common causes of nightmares are poor eating habits, previous traumatic events, emotional baggage, illness, sleep deprivation, sleep disorders, or medication.

Prophetic dreams Prophetic dreams are a sequence of images, feelings, and sounds that hints at the happenings of the dreamer’s future. The dreams will display the things that will happen in the future.

Meaning And Interpretation Behind The Most Common Dreams They say a dream uninterpreted is like a letter unopened. They are an integral part of our consciousness, and developing an insight into them can help us better understand our psyche. While each person’s dreams can be unique to their experiences, there are some common themes related to dreaming that people have experienced all over the globe at least once in their lives. We try to decode some of them here:

What does it mean when you dream about your ex?

Of all the different types of dreams we see, this one definitely has us wondering, “When you dream about someone, are they thinking of you?” Well, not necessarily. Elaborating on the meaning behind dreaming about an ex you don’t talk to anymore, Kreena says, “This dream can have many interpretations. However, the most obvious answer to the question, “What does it mean when you dream about your ex?” is that you haven’t let go of some trauma or hurt related to the breakup, even if you have let go of your former partner.”

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If you are asking, “Why do I keep dreaming about my ex?” then the answer lies in your separation.

If the breakup was ugly and you have suppressed your emotions, then this could be one of he reasons why you are constantly dreaming about your ex. One of the other reasons why you are dreaming of your ex could be that you still have feelings for them and are secretly hoping for a reconciliation.

Dreaming about your current partner

Kreena shares, “Let’s say you are dreaming about a person you are currently dating, but a strong negative emotion permeates the dream. It could be a warning sign that this person could have the same patterns/traits as your previous partner or that they’re not right for you.”

However, if you have cute dreams about your boyfriend/girlfriend, it’s only natural because you are just starting to fall in love or you are already in a relationship where you are content and happy.

Dreaming about death What does it mean when you dream about someone dying? Dreams about death can scar you. You might be terrified about seeing a loved one die in your dreams. Death dreams can seem like a bad omen.

However, Kreena offers a different interpretation of the meaning of dreams where we see death. She says, “When you dream of someone dying, it’s usually because you are afraid of change.

“It could also mean that you are dealing with some kind of ending in your life. It could be your job. It could also be one of the signs your relationship is ending, or you could be leaving your home and moving to a new place.” Some other death dream interpretations include fear of abandonment or your subconscious telling you that you need to let go of a person and move on in your life.

Wet dreams Wet dreams are when a person orgasms in their sleep because of an erotic experience. Both men and women have wet dreams. If you are dreaming about having sex with your boss, then it means that you find them attractive and you fancy them. Kreena says, “Don’t freak out if you dream about being intimate with someone who is not your spouse or partner. It’s just because you are attracted to them. It’s like any other dream and nothing to feel guilty about.”

Dream about getting married Marriage is a lifelong commitment. You could be dreaming this because you are getting married, and wedding plans dominate your headspace 24×7. However, when you dream about getting married but are single in real life, there is a possibility that some other sort of commitment is heading toward you, and you aren’t ready for it.

Kreena says these dreams are symbolic and may indicate a significant change in your life. Whatever change is coming toward you, this dream is a sign hinting that you need to get ready.

Dreams about cheating on your partner Here is an exciting finding on dreams about infidelity: In a study conducted with nearly 1,000 people, it was found that 60% of women have had a dream about cheating on their partner. So, what do dreams mean about an affair, especially when you and your partner are in love and the foundation of your relationship is strong?

Kareena answers, “Dreams don’t know boundaries. We know what’s wrong and right when conscious and wide awake. If those cheating dreams have nothing to do with you in your real life and you are honest with your partner, then you have nothing to worry about.”

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Ispirational Dreaming about marrying your ex Why do I keep dreaming about my ex getting married? It’s because there are unresolved issues. Not with your ex but with yourself. Maybe you are struggling to move ahead despite ending the relationship. Use these dreams as a reminder to let go of things that don’t bring or add value to your life.

At times like these, you can’t lose sleep over thoughts like “when you dream about someone, are they thinking of you too?”. You need to move on and accept that your ex is not coming back, and you need to move ahead in life.

Dreaming about a high school sweetheart If you are no longer in touch with the person you dated in high school, but the two of you were very much in love, it could simply mean that you miss the bond you once shared with them. When you dream about your crush or lover in high school, it means you miss the carefree days and their company.

Kreena says, “It’s natural to wonder when you dream about someone, are they thinking of you too? Not necessarily. But when two people are connected by memory, they may appear in each other’s dreams.

It could also mean that you missed the days when you didn’t have much on your plate. You missed the times when you hadn’t financial worries and major relationship stressors.

When You Dream About Someone, Are They Thinking Of You? What does it mean when you dream about someone you like? These dreams are a manifestation of your wishes. They are just your thoughts and emotions being positively reflected in your sleep. You want them to be a part of your life. If you have just started seeing someone but haven’t been exclusively dating them, and they appear in your dreams, it could be a positive sign that this person will be good to you and have good intentions.

But, when you dream about someone, are they thinking of you? Kareena answers, “There is no real proof to back this theory that when you dream about someone, they think of you as well. It’s an indication from the universe that there is some unfinished business between the two of you, and you need to resolve it.”

However, if you keep dreaming about this person and it’s a happy dream every time, chances are she or he thinks about you a lot but doesn’t say it. When we have been with someone for a long time, we create an undefinable bond with them. There is always an intense energy between soulmates and twin flames.

When you dream about someone with whom you are in love, and they reciprocate the love, there is a good chance that you desire them because they’re on your mind.

Facts About Dreams Now that we know why we dream and the reason behind some of the common dreams, we’d like to leave you with some interesting facts about plans: While dreaming helps you manage and process your emotions, it may also help your brain store memories.

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According to research, women have more nightmares than men. And their nightmares are emotionally more intense than men’s nightmares.

It’s always challenging to understand your dreams. There is no science behind understanding objectives.

Spiritual healers and astrologists can shed light on the symbolism hidden in your goals based on your life and experiences.

You can improve your ability to remember dreams by maintaining a journal.

Everyone’s dreams differ based on their culture, upbringing, values, thoughts, and beliefs.

Every single person on earth dreams. Even animals see visions.

People who are born blind can’t dream. Whereas people who lose their sight later in life have dreams.

However, the images and landscapes may appear different to them.

Research suggests that smell can affect the quality of a person’s dreams.

You always have multiple dreams each night.

Key Pointers - Dreams are a period of mental activity that occurs when we are asleep.

- Not dreaming is as bad as not sleeping and can lead to many health risks.

- Dreams represent our thoughts, emotions, and fears.

- Dreams reflect your past, present, and future fears, concerns, happiness, and aspirations. They are a complex and dynamic process that has inspired and intrigued me since the beginning of time. While we are inclined to look for the hidden meaning behind our dreams, it could be our mind’s way of solving problems and storing information.

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you have battled with whether to maintain coloring or to go grey finally-- I hope my story can aid you. To tell you the fact, I welcomed my grey hair ‘doing what came normally’! I have always been an encouraged and informed female who dancings to her very own drum and likes it this way. Going grey has been an allnatural development of that!

I should confess no one has followed my lead! Various strokes for various people. I still love them anyway !!!

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f you have battled with whether to maintain coloring or to go grey finally-- I hope my story can aid you. To tell you the fact, I welcomed my grey hair ‘doing what came normally’! I have always been an encouraged and informed female who dancings to her very own drum and likes it this way. Going grey has been an all-natural development of that!

For many years I spotted my all-natural redhead hair with golden touches of blonde. One day, on a whim, I allowed a hairdresser to provide me with a crew cut (do not neglect to have fun with your hair and switch up your style, friends!).

I viewed in the mirror as my blonde touches were up to the flooring. You can’t imagine how fascinated and stunned I was when I saw myself as an all-natural brunette with a few all-natural grey streaks!

I am fortunate that my natural grey can be found in white and also intense, as not all grey does. As well as I was lucky that the grey started in the front and facility of my hairline, providing my brand-new quick crew cut an artistic look!

After wearing my hair in a crew cut for a few years, I decided sufficient was enough with shortshort hair. By coincidence, I occurred to accompany my mother on a buying journey for a wig.

To my surprise, the woman servicing my mama noted that I was attempting to expand out a crew cut and came back with a wig for me! It was thick and lengthy and made from lovely natural salt and pepper hair-- my exact color. I also purchased the wig and liked it, adding one just a couple of months later.

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f you have not gone grey because the concept of expanding out your dyed hair in front of the globe has you worried, try a wig! My stunning wigs conserved me that initial stress and irritation of expanding out my crewcut, and also, in just two years, I had a head filled with hair with natural silver highlights.

My grey hair can look different depending on the light-- often much more white, occasionally golden blonde, but I enjoy all of it the same.

Why have I embraced my natural grey?

Don’t be afraid to embrace and also celebrate your natural grey hair! Age is simply a number besides! Self-identity and self-acceptance are what genuinely makes you lovely-- at any age!

Welcome the knowledge that has featured those shiny grey locks!

I have taken the course of seeing my grey hair as taking a look all its own. It’s a silver accessory. It fits my inner as well as outer designs.

Accepting it may not come overnight, so provide yourself grace. Have we not discovered after 50 that life is full of brand-new adventures? Just as we have tried out a brand-new style, a new haircut, or a brand-new style-- going grey can feel like a fascinating journey for life!

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Preparing to go grey

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hen you get the urge to go grey, prepare yourself emotionally and give yourself some poise. The very first six months are the most challenging. You will have to find out the art of persistence!

If you’re naturally restless, consider my ideas on acquiring a wig (I began my journey by buying two, yet this was my experience).

When I was preparing to go grey, I found a fantastic and knowledgeable beautician that had taken many other women through the growing-out procedure from blonde or dyed hair to their natural grey, and also I saw her frequently! Significantly if your hair does not expand according to your plan, consider having your stylist add lowlights and highlights in tones of silver that can mix perfectly with your natural grays.

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hen I was preparing to go grey, I found a fantastic and knowledgeable beautician that had taken many other women through the growing-out procedure from blonde or dyed hair to their natural grey, and also I saw her frequently! Significantly if your hair does not expand according to your plan, consider having your stylist add lowlights and highlights in tones of silver that can mix perfectly with your natural grays. I likewise recognized that I was required to update my diet plan and charm regularly to accommodate this brand-new change.

How I updated my diet plan and physical fitness regimen I started eating many more omega-3 fats, especially avocados and oily fish! Remaining hydrated was likewise crucial. Hydration is essential! Consume drink beverage water. Consider buying a fashionable canteen or adding points to your water to make it extra enjoyable! My faves are lemon, cucumber, lime, mint, shimmering Pellegrino to half a glass (that doesn’t enjoy the bubbles ?!), or even dice of frozen fresh fruit juice. I saw going grey as an entirely new change in my way of life and dealt with my position at a pilates workshop (I still do!), where I learned to love my core! I got lots of sleep! Cells fix themselves during rest, and the body renews-- including your hair.

Exactly how I upgraded my beauty and also design Since going grey was a modification mostly in my appearance, I wished to raise the remainder of my charm and design regularly. I began rubbing a percentage of argan oil in the hands of my hands as well as with my hair to give it a luster. I elevated my skincare routine by buying a new structure, a different shade of blush, and lipsticks in shades of pinks, wine reds, and reds.

Consider seeing a skilled make-up artist who can assist you find new tones that perfectly match your brand-new grey hair! Or attempt a terrific gift such as this to locate the excellent shade. I even bought a few new items of clothes in grey as well as white and included some extremely trendy silver as well as pearl earrings, too. Silver has come to be a new core color in my closet!

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How I treat my gray hair?

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y regular hair routine involves visiting my lovely stylist, Colette, at Beauty Parlor Duo in Chicago for a wash and design. I follow up in the middle of the week with cleaning the house. I have numerous shampoo and cream conditioners I utilize, but presently, I love the Hair Biology silver hair shampoo and silver conditioner.

Going grey is an individual journey for every single female.

As I sit in my ‘house overhead’, seeing the sunlight showing up over Lake Michigan, I think about several close friends and their choice of hair color. 75% are bleached blondes. 20% are dyed brunettes, and also 5% are usually grey. What does that tell you? Darling, it is evident. Grey hair is connected with growing old. Believe me, beloved, even if accepting grey might make you feel more senior, you can welcome the wisdom that has featured your life trip, and naturally, you can still be hot and young in mind!

Every woman, particularly a woman over 50, has made the right to strut her stuff; walk her stroll, talk her talk, smile, be honest, and most importantly, stay interesting. Whether she has grey hair or otherwise is her option, she still has earned this right!

A grey-haired female at any age might appear more youthful than their bleached blonde or brunette sweethearts since they have involved terms with their genuine selves. She has determined to age with dignity. This lady can be over 50 or under 50; can I inform you?

Exactly how do I feel after going grey?

I feel a lot more effective! Extra truthful and also positive. I can be more opinionated, which others will certainly pay attention to due to my knowledge!

And, beloveds, my hair suits me. I feel more comfortable now with fashionable grey hair because I recognize I am not acting. My hair is salt and pepper, similar to my personality!

Having grey hair, for yours truly, is about mindset and also credibility. It is likewise emotionally appealing to push back against culture’s concept of what makes a female after 50 appearances gorgeous. I am leading the way for my friends, though I should confess no one has followed my lead! Various strokes for various people. I still love them anyway !!!

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MARC ELO-G UZZO Hailed as “strong and charming” by The New York Times and “majestic“ by The Boston Globe, Marcelo Guzzo is considered one of the most prominent singers of his generation.

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arcelo Guzzo has gained international acclaim performing leading operatic roles in distinguished theaters around the world.

Julio Mario Santo Domingo in Bogotá, Colombia, after taking the stage of New York City’s Chelsea Factory in the world premiere of Tomas Cabaniss’ FireSongs, presented by Bare Opera and National Sawdust.

Celebrated for his magnificent voice, magnetic stage presence and authentic charm. His portrayal of De Siriex in 2021, in a filmed version of Puccini’s Fedora at Teatro Grattacielo in New York City, was praised by Opera News Magazine for bringing a “welcome darkness of timbre and presence to his dramatic scenes.”

He launched the 2020/2021 season with his debut as Macbeth at Opera North, following his notable debut at Hong Kong Opera as Don Giovanni, a role he performed again at The Kursaal in San Sebastián, Spain in February 2020.

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In the 2019/2020 season, he appeared as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Ópera de Colombia, Payador in Piazzola’s María de Buenos Aires with New York City Opera & Valentin in Faust at the Festival Amazonas in Manaus, Brazil.

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MARC ELO-G UZZO Hong Kong Opera Don Giovanni

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ighlights of his previous seasons include acclaimed performances as Alfio in Cavalleria Rusticana at Taormina Festival and with Opera San Antonio; Wolfram in Tannhauser conducted

by Gustavo Dudamel; Don Giovanni at the Solis Theatre in Uruguay; Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Solis Theatre & Theatre of Fine Arts in Bogotá, Colombia; Escamillo in

Carmen with Omaha Opera; Germont in La Traviata in Tel-Aviv; Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with the Dallas Opera; Marcello in La Bohème with Theatre of Fine Arts in Bogotá, Princeton Festival and Fresno Opera; and Payador in María de Buenos Aires for Opera Hispánica in New York City.

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Mr. Guzzo has also performed in concerts with Andrea Bocelli, conducted by Plácido Domingo, and appeared on tour throughout the U.S.A. in the Lincoln Center Theater’s Tony Award winning production of South Pacific, in the leading role of Emile De Becque.

Further notable performances include his debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall as a guest artist with the Puccini Foundation; a multi-city concert tour throughout China; his first National Broadcast live by WQXR radio where he sang the world premiere of Prestini’s “De Deo” with the New York City Opera; the recording and world tour of the opera “Oh My Son” and appearances in community programs sponsored by Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Guzzo attended the Mannes College of Music in New York where he sang the title roles in Don Giovanni & Gianni Schicchi and Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro. He studied at the College of Charleston’s School of the Arts where he sang at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He also graduated from the National Lyric Arts School in Uruguay where he was declared the “Best Uruguayan Lyric Voice of 2001” at the Giuseppe Verdi International Singing Competition.

He has performed in numerous concerts and recitals throughout the United States, France, Italy, Spain, Israel, China and Uruguay.

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Everything started with the Italian culture, and the Italian school of bel canto singing has always been my inspiration. The Florentine school created the concept of beauty, supported by the artistic commitment of spending your entire life perusing it.

Even if I were born in Uruguay, I would hold Italian citizenship. There is so much of an Italian presence in Uruguayan society. With the travels, the time I spent living in Italy, and the values I grew up with, I feel at home every time I step into the country.

Who has been your point of reference in your artistic career?

There are so many unreachable artists as ideal singers that it’s challenging to have only one inspiration. But again, the Italian singers were always leading the way. I grew up listening with my grandfather to the old recordings of the great B. Gigli, Di Stefano, Di Lucca, and later on, Capucilli, Taddei, Bruson, Merrill, and MacNeil. So many outstanding singers. Over the years, I had the great opportunity to work with some fantastic artists like G. Baquier, Sherrill Milnes, Regina Resnik, and Anna Moffo, among other great teachers. While developing talent, you always try to figure out and take inspiration on how this singer was able to phrase that passage, how and where guys took a breath, etc.

The challenge is that you can only succeed if you find how your instrument works; we are our unique sculpture. You can get inspired but can not imitate anybody; the Artist’s development is an individual walk.

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An audience not introduced to the world of opera, and in particular young people, are familiar with the Tenors, voices exalted in the past by Pavarotti, Domingo, and Carreras, what are the characteristics of a baritone?

At some point, all the voices should reach the same characteristic on the listener. Singing should move, engage, wake up emotions and feelings and transcend the experience that travels with the presence of the voice in the theater.

When singers are on the stage, we create with the public an imaginary sculpture, a painting of expressions. We slowly curate together the energy exchange carried by the voice and the music.

If we are perfect enough, we create that sculptor representing the experience of the expression at that time, something that is irreplaceable and can’t be reproduced, not even in recordings, because the nucleus of the expertise disappeared at the last mayor. This is the main difference with performing arts, which is why we always want more.

A difference between the great Painters and sculpturists was that they could transcend time by encapsulating their emotions in their pieces that we can access every time we visit a museum. In performing art, the sculptors or paintings we create vanish with the last note of the score. This intangible experience makes us hungry to return to the theater and immerse ourselves in the background again. As a Baritone, I commit selfishly to that goal, sometimes with more or less success.

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Marcelo Guzzo affirmed artist and constantly around the world, how do you reconcile this with Marcelo Father and Husband?

I am a fortunate man. My son and my wife are the true motivation of my life. I found a true partner that references all good things in life, and my son they are the light and north of my life. They are the true inspiration. Having a real partner close to you, it’s life-changing. It’s so easy to get lost in this carrier that sometimes it’s unforgiving. Building a prosperous family in this business takes a lot of work. I will never negotiate not being a father and husband first. That automatically transports you to a higher ground of importance, and then everything makes sense.

New York - Montevideo - Milan What feelings do these three cities inspire in you?

I fell in love with NYC after 5 minutes, not for the city’s beauty but for the experience of sharing with the people in the town. The exchange with the people was exhilarating. The city transformed who I am not only because I met my wife but so many fascinating people over the years.

Montevideo represents today, at a distance, an infinite resource of fundamental values where I found the real friend and family mirrors. It’s always a place that I look forward to coming back to.

Milano was always the dream, and I remember embracing the city full of dreams as a student. I remember the boldness of spirit that such a city gives to you. I treasure Milano as one of my favorites and Italy in general, where I always hope to return soon.

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“Pazzi Lazzi Troupe” ~ Susanna Casubolo

A BOSTON-BASED COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE COMPANY

The Pazzi Lazzi troupe has the power to transport the audience to a 16th century Italian piazza. The skits have the commedia dell’arte’s traditional bright comedy without leaving out references to the modern world. With great stage presence, charisma, and comedic timing, the actors create an absolutely unique and fun performance. They use biting wit and notable mimicry. From Arlecchino to Pantalone, to Colombina and Pulcinella, you are in for a bunch of laughs!

- Stefano Marchese, Musician and Educator

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Chiara Durazzini Chiara Durazzini is a native of Florence, Italy, and is Pazzi Lazzi artistic director. After performing both in Italy and in the U.S., in 2013, with her long time actor friend Emanuele Capoano, she co-founded the troupe for which she performs, teaches and directs. She is also the aristic director -along with Eleonora Francesca Cordovani- of the affiliated Italian theatre company All’italiana – Boston Italian Theatre Company which involves Italian speakers in staging shows by Italian playwrights. With these two companies, Chiara has acted and directed original shows like “Aria di Commedia” (2014) and “Isabella Unmasked – The Legacy of an Italian Renaissance Woman” (2017) and “Pinocchio – A Commedia Adventure” (2020), and renowned plays like “Questi Fantasmi” (2018) by Eduardo De Filippo e “La Giara” (2019) by Luigi Pirandello. Some of her other American credits include Tinker Bell in “Pan” (Company One), Carmen in “The Balcony” (Boston Directors’ Lab) and the Virgin Mary in “Anger Box” (Apollinaire Theatre).

She had also previously appeared in numerous Italian productions, including plays by Moliere, Goldoni and Pirandello. She has trained with the actors of Odin Teatret and studied extensively Commedia dell’Arte at the Scuola Sperimentale dell’Attore near Venice.

She obtained her Master’s degree in Art, Music and Theatre from the University of Bologna, Italy.

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We have Chiara Durazzini, co-founder and artistic director of the “Commedia dell’Arte Company” based in Boston.

What is your company in Boston which works in the Italian “commedia dell’arte?

Yes, then I studied at Dams university in Bologna a few years ago, and I fell in love with the “Commedia dell’arte,” thanks to some workshops that bring a great deal with an artist from Pordenone, Claudia Contin Arlecchino, does. I did various workshops with her. And I really fell in love with the commedia dell’arte. Then, when I came to Boston about twenty years ago, I started doing theater with the Americans.

I inserted myself a lot into American life; I did shows with local American theater companies, which was very nice. But at one point, a university (did you know that Boston is full of universities and cultural centers...) contacted me to ask for a show of Italian culture. And then I thought: I must return to my ancient passion for the “Commedia Dell’arte.”

And so I made this offer to the Northerner University ( we still often work together) a “Commedia Dell’arte” show where it was just me, with a Renaissance music group. I mixed monologues I invented from the various characters of “Commedia dell’Arte” with musical pieces of this group.

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an Meyers is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, Dan Meyers is a flexible and engaging performer of both classical and folk music; his credits range from premieres of contemporary chamber music, to headlining a concert series in honor of Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival, to playing Renaissance instruments on Broadway for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Company. He is a founding member of the early music/folk crossover group Seven Times Salt, and in recent seasons he has performed with the The Folger Consort, The Newberry Consort, Hesperus, The Henry Purcell Society of Boston, Early Music New York, Amherst Early Music, The 21st Century Consort, In Stile Moderno, and the Cambridge Revels, making concert and theatrical appearances in NYC, Washington DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, Memphis, Santa Fe, at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont, and at at the “La Luna e i Calanchi” festival in Basilicata (Italy).

He enjoys playing traditional Irish music with the bands Ulster Landing and Ishna, as well as eclectic fusion from around the Mediterranean with the US/Italy-based group Zafarán; he also played winds and percussion for over a decade with the award-winning Italian folk music group Newpoli. As an educator, he teaches historical wind instruments for the Five Colleges Early Music Program in Massachusetts. He has also taught at Tufts University, for the Pinewoods Early Music Week, and at festivals around the Northeast. Dan holds a Master of Music degree from the Longy School of Music, and BA degrees in Music and English Literature from Whitman College. www. danmeyersmusic.com

And as I began to be successful because I was contacted by other cultural centers and universities.

I said to myself: “Stop here, I found my niche!” so I contacted a colleague, Emanuele Capuano, and with him, I founded Pazzi Lazzi Troupe in 2013, and from there, we started doing Commedia Dell’arte shows but above all, teaching what commedia dell’arte is in schools, universities, and cultural centers in the Boston area and the neighboring regions. We also arrived in New York, and we went to California. In short, we have been to various places in the United States, especially universities. I said to myself: “Stop here, I found my niche!” so I contacted a colleague, Emanuele Capuano, and with him, I founded Pazzi Lazzi Troupe in 2013, and from there, we started doing Commedia Dell’arte shows but above all, teaching what commedia dell’arte is in schools, universities, and cultural centers in the Boston area and the neighboring regions. We also arrived in New York, and we went to California. In short, we have been to various places in the United States, especially universities.

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So we are in the 16th-century Italian square, Renaissance music in the background, and... what happens?

With Emanuele, we created original canvases based on love letters from “The Boston Globe,” the local newspaper, but also on the old canvases of the beautiful 600. So we did small sketches of twenty minutes because this length was acceptable in schools but also in universities. We could have made containers of several tea towels. Of course, we did them in English because the primary purpose of madmen, jokes, and troupes is to teach Americans what “Commedia Dell’arte” is and how commedia dell’arte shows.

At the time, they were also, let’s say, mixed with music, and for this reason, I still collaborate with Renaissance musicians, in particular with my collaborator Dean Mayer, who is a musician renaissance multi-instrumentalist, that is, he plays everything. All you ask him give me some flute, and he goes with the flute. Still, I would like a little bit of harp, and it goes with the harp, percussion, and goes with percussion. It’s incredible. Our repertoire is in English or Italian; it depends on who we are and who hires us.

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I wrote this show in collaboration with an Italian writer, Walter Valeri, and it’s just me on stage with my musician Dean. It is a beautiful show based on a real-life character’s exciting life. Isabella Andreini, actress, one of the first “Commedia dell’arte” actresses of the late 1500s, she was part of a vital commedia dell’arte company. She was a very, very strong character, a powerful woman who then brought in scenes, not only female characters.

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It’s the most famous, it’s Isabella, the noblewoman. But she transformed herself and also brought male characters to the stage. He interpreted everything, especially during the day; nowadays, we care a lot about gender fluidity. Isabella Andreini, Isabella, a Masked show, we did in Italian, and this was most recently, in July, for Middlebury College. She offers six weeks of Italian school every summer, only in Italian. Therefore I sometimes teach Commedia dell’Arte there, then we give a show absolutely and only in Italian.

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I have reminiscences of when I was studying in elementary school a long time ago, and they had told me about the commedia dell’arte; if I’m not mistaken, there were the men who did the female characters. They didn’t exist, right?

Susanna, congratulations. If you remember this vital fact...

I always explain this to students. That is, I tell you. One of the most important things about the commedia dell’arte is that it passes precisely from the fact that women were not allowed to act, and therefore, it was men who played male roles.

But finally, in Italy, with our commedia dell’arte, some company he manages to have women play women on stage and, at first, were women who only had cultural roles. Let’s say they recited poems, sang, played the lute, and then, slowly, the female roles got bigger, up to the famous servant Colombina Franceschina.

The reason why there are women finally on stage in the Commedia dell’Arte is a reason, let’s say, of marketing.

Because the commedia dell’arte has another significant novelty and is considered by historians to be the first professional theater view.

Therefore, since these people were able to earn money and thus earn their lives by staging shows in the squares and in the streets, it is clear that having a woman.

On stage, it was a great advantage for them, a lot more an audience, a lot more people. And so this was a bit of the reason why in the end, women finally are, they also managed to act, and Isabella Andreini, along with others, is not the only one. She was one of the first professional actresses, one of the first professional actresses. And imagine Susanna that nowadays, when we do theater, they are almost all women , and it is challenging to recruit men.... so men!? Come and do some theater that would be good for you!

So you do workshops? What kind of people participate in your workshop?

Everyone is open to everyone at the door. Even having a theatrical experience comes. There are also people. Who have never done theater sometimes, who maybe are passionate about history or want to do it, or perhaps sometimes they are dancers because the workshop is very physical, so Maybe they want to expand their debut practice. Sometimes they improvise. For example, some attend courses on improvisation.

The commedia dell’arte was typical no for improvisation; I want to explore more, so yes, we have students in quotes because these have also happened to people of a certain age and are open to all.

We invite everyone, and we clearly adapt, but they are always very open-minded and flexible students. We play, we always have fun, and we always end up making friends.

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So, while we say what practice goes to, We suffer these workshops, these shows mainly in English, even if of Italian culture. realized there were, of course, a good number of Italian expatriates, therefore native speakers, who have often asked me: but you offer, you do Italian theater, why do you not provide Theater workshops in Italian?

So a colleague of mine created a small improvisation group.

Among other things, a researcher created a small group of Italian improvisation in Italian, in which I participated. Then he left for other countries. I inherited this group in 2019 and called it the Italian Boston Italian Finger Company. And we continued this little tradition of improvising theatrical Italian with native Italian speakers. To these native speakers, I tell you, Susanna, they are just many, I must say, about the brain drain arriving in Boston from Italy, many researchers, many scientists. Then there are also many teachers of Italian in schools, in public schools, or teachers of Italian universities. And then I realized that there is a need. They needed one evening a week to come to a laboratory, have a couple of hours of Theater workshop, then do dramatic improvisation exercises and readings in Italian.

We set up with them in 2019, but unfortunately, we had to close immediately for the Covid, we put on La Giara by Luigi Pirandello.

Even there, they see in the series that, in fact, you can see the poster on one side or Isabella, and on one side, I have La Giara, and even there, I mixed music with my fellow musicians. Folkloric music from Southern Italy. One of the actresses is a vital folk singer from Southern Italy, so she pinches Tammurriata and Tarantella, and she is a part of the jar but also sings. So it is a beautiful competition because it is a musical competition and a bit of a dance. The peasants and the wives dance at once, so that is gorgeous.

Here, Pirandello’s Giara. We have it during the Covid. We met online and continued practicing as much as possible for a while. But on March 30, we will do it again in Boston, in a university at Benchley University, and we are all happy. We started rehearsing, and we started rehearsing the dances. In short, it is a remarkable, remarkable, beautiful project.

And then, with the same Italian, the same Italian theater company in Boston, which, in any case, I direct with a colleague, is called Eleonora Francesca Cordova.

Indeed, she is my co-director because she is an outstanding theater educator who has worked a lot in Italy as a theater educator. So with her, we run the workshops, and we teach together. But she also has a beautiful project that she has just started. We asked for all the rights, and we got them. The project is called I Sing alone. Stories of women who never gave up are a project against violence against women. It’s a series of monologues.

We are four actresses, a series of monologues of real people who have suffered violence? An example is a famous monologue by Franca Rame. There is a monologue. My colleague created it from the testimony of Artemisia Gentileschi’s trial.

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Eleonora Francesca Cordovani Eleonora Francesca Cordovani is originally from Tuscany, Italy, where she started studying theater in College and with the Isole Comprese Teatro Company, focusing on Theatre Therapy. She then worked as an acting teacher, director and actress. She continued her studies with Mamadou Dioume in Trieste and Bethany Caputo in NY. among others.

In 2012 Eleonora moved to the US where she decided to spice up her career graduating as a yoga teacher. Finding a deep connection between yoga and theatre, she likes to use her theater skills when she teaches yoga and vice versa. Eleonora is also very involved in social justice, all her classes are inclusive to everyone regardless of their background and abilities, and her performances often delve into social topics.

She is currently the Artistic Co-director of All’italiana - Boston Italian Theatre Company together with Chiara Durazzini, and she is studying to become a Yoga Therapist.

Rossella Mancullo Rossella moved from Naples to Boston in 2016, after finishing her high school diploma. She is currently attending Bunker Hill Community College and completing her associate degree in Liberal Arts. To finish her bachelor degree, she plans to move to a theatre major in a four-year college. During High school she helped in a theatrical production of Eduardo De Filippo’s play “Sogno di una Notte di Mezza Sbornia”, with an amateur troupe of actors, writers and directors. During the Summer of 2017, for five months, she worked as a Hotel entertainer with the Swiss Animation company Life Tourism & Entertainment in Rhodes, Greece, performing on stage every night. Both in 2018 and 2019 she participated to different events and was part of few shows with Pazzi Lazzi troupe. In 2019 she took three classes of Improvisation at the Improv Boston School, in Cambridge (MA). As of 2020 she appeared in “The Oil Jar” a play by Pirandello with the Impronati theater company and is now working as an actress in the production of a radio play.

Marco Zanelli Marco is happy to be collaborating with Pazzi Lazzi as actor and director.

Past roles include Malvolio in “Twelfth Night”, Solyony in Chekhov’s “The Three Sisters”, Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Parolles in “All’s Well That Ends Well”, The Sexton in “Much Ado About Nothing”, Baron Van Swieten in “Amadeus”, Tim in “Noises Off”, Carlino in “Wait Until Dark”, John Thoreau in “The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail”, Scrooge and Jacob Marley in separate productions of “A Christmas Carol” Reginald Beresford in “The Big Audition” in Hollywood, CA and The Narrator in “Pasqual D”Angelo, Una Vita” in L’Aquila, Italy. Marco had also spent 4 years acting with the Boston Youth Theater and has acted in industrial film and video, feature films and in promotional spots and programs for WCVB-TV, WHDH-TV, WVBF-FM, WBZ-TV, WFSB-TV in CT and NBC-TV. Marco has studied acting in Los Angeles with Diane Salinger, Chris Game, and Gina Gallego, and in Boston with Spiro Veloudos and Ingrid Sonnichsen. Marco holds a B.A. from Emerson College and an M.A. from Middlebury College.

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Thank you very much for making our dream of these characters and with this commedia dell’arte so very human, and I wish you the best in everything you do.

Thanks, among other things; you can also see something on our site and the YouTube channel: www.pazzilazzitroupe.com.

Very gladly, I will be back with you. When you want, it is a pleasure, Thanks to all. Thanks, Susanna, and thanks to IM Italian magazine.

Watch the complete interview with Chiara Durazzini, on the Youtube channel, Media by Hoffmann & Hoffmann.

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by Roberto Castellucci

POETRY AND THE NEED TO WRITE

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ALESSIA LOMBARDI

Irene Carlevale

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Literature POETRY AND THE NEED TO WRITE: ALESSIA LOMBARDI

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Alessia Lombardi talks about herself in an interview in Ciociaria Oggi newspaper; she is twenty-six; she graduated with in Philology of Italian literature at the University of Cassino; she is a literary and musical critic, singer, actress but above all, a poet.

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When did you get into writing?

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have been writing for almost twenty years, but since I was a child, in the library of my paternal grandfather in San Giovanni Incarico, and before learning to read, I knew what attention, care, and love for books are. An important turning point was the discovery of Giacomo Leopardi’s work; it was perhaps the first strong love of my life, with which I began to appreciate that lofty poem, sublime and lyrical worthy of opposing the present, banal and empty.

What does “The Keys” (Solidarity Editions Forma Mentis, 2022) represent for the author?

It is a path of redemption and rebirth from mostly pathological addictions, disturbances, and obsessions. For a good part of the work, the poetic ego is prey to a delusional fever, which is the engine of words. Writing becomes an urgent necessity for survival but, simultaneously, confusion and open wounds.

There needs to be a stable balance between reality and writing. The two planes stand out on the horizon of life, once coinciding, another overlapping or intersecting. The game of the parts between them continues to the point that reality is indistinguishable from poetry and vice versa. In this sense, it is usual to quote a phrase present in the volume, which attributes a particular adjective to the author, “stoned with writing.”

What is poetry for you?

It is the only truth I know, the only actual image I can find and deliver to others without hiding. I think poetically and act poetically even when I’m not actually writing. It is a vital, necessary and continuous act.

Why do you use the “sillage” form?

While writing, I realized that the collection of literary essays in anthological Form is the genre most congenial to my mindset and my modus operandi. This conviction was discovered in me when, around the age of sixteen, I read the first demanding novel, “The White Nights” by Fedor Dostoevskij, and I started it from the end. I understood, in that circumstance, that I had this strange need, that is, to know everything immediately. For Sigmund Freud, it could be a symptomatic manifestation of anxiety, and he wouldn’t be completely wrong. Even the collection, like the novel, tells a story, but each poetic text composes it is a circle that closes. We connect it to the rest through our experience, experience, and sensitivity.

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s if it were a subtle and studied psychological game, an interlocking of different interpretations and visions that create the unity, the naked and incontrovertible one, of our contradictory being.

But there was a better way: I needed to build myself, my voice, to truly leave a mark. Being yourself is the first step toward immortality. And I am not speaking of glory but of a constructive trace in the history of humanity, whether global or local, does not matter.

What are the themes dealt with in “Unstable Affection” (Alessia Lombardi and Irene Carlevale, PlaceBook Publishing, 2022)?

During the so-called “phase 2” of the Coronavirus pandemic, there was a lengthy discussion of “stable affections,” the only ones apparently allowed to rejoin. This claim, however, to establish a priori criteria in such a susceptible sphere, I remember, annoyed me, creating many problems in my literary inspiration. So Irene Carlevale (the co-author, ed), champion of absent, suffered, unstable affection, came to my aid to collaborate on a shared poetry project. This is how “Unstable Affection” was born, a book as intimate and personal as it is universal and shareable, which intends to restore dignity within an inhibited and still categorizing social macrocosm to the fragments of a love discourse, to quote Roland Barthes, to the emotional life of clippings, occasions, unattainable but devout clandestinity.

What, in your opinion, is the purpose of the poetry?

I reply with an extraordinary sentence I read in Pierluigi Cappello’s comment on Ida Vallerugo’s “Border Room”: “Poetry has nothing to say but itself, nothing to report but its own heroic inadequacy.”

Do you have a dream in the drawer?

Yes, to publish my latest work, “Napoli diplomatic,” in Bianca Einaudi and then make a film of it, directed by Paolo Sorrentino and with a soundtrack by Nick Cave.

Actually, our poet Alessia would like to be a teacher, so Ciociaria Oggi’s wish is to realize her dream as a leading teacher.

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ARTI & ARCHI T he idea of ​​​​this Performance comes from a desire and a search for a material and good symbiosis, an artistic osmosis that Roberto Sironi, Italian artist, painter, musician, and writer, and Elizabeth Boudjema, French musician, violinist, and composer, propose in a “live” and an impromptu performance of painting and music that meet and intertwine in a set of colors, musical notes, good gestures, and motionless movements!

Mirror interview! Arts & Strings: what exactly does it mean?

Arti & Archi is an artistic synthesis, a visual and musical performance, created by two artists who, each in their own improvisation, create works of a material and sound nature: Roberto Sironi paints on canvas with acrylic colors, spatulas, and chiffons, while in the exact moment Elizabeth Boudjema composes and plays with her violin and with another violin called “tenor,” impromptu music!

The heart of this ​​ Performance’s idea is undoubtedly in the contemporaneity of the two performances that mix, amalgamate and then merge into a single artistic work in which matter and sound

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become “sound matter or materic sound!” What is meant by “sound matter or material sound?” We have tried to give a new vision of both painting and music, and inevitably we have had to deal with sound and matter, two creative solutions that seem to be opposites, like air and earth, and instead are intimately accomplices in a particular osmosis that becomes a creative and inspirational exchange! Without pyrotechnic intellectualism, we can say that this Performance is another way of making a “show,” of making “entertainment,” of presenting painting and music to the public in another guise than being proposed with the bond of improvisation, “everything, here and now!”, and a good dose of recklessness, becomes an artistic bet in equilibrium between fantasy and reality, imagination and appearance, inventiveness and a concrete Author’s Proof!

Does this Performance, show, or entertainment have a direction, a common thread, a text, a plot, an organization, or a preparation?

Absolutely not!

Rehearsals, tests, and verifications are never foreseen, and above all, a direction is never foreseen; everything is extemporaneously performed when the Performance begins and ends!

Each Performance is always different

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from the other. If the spectator is not in the audience at that time and in that place, he will never be able to attend that Performance again. It is inevitably unique, exclusive, and unrepeatable because there will never be two identical performances!

This is one of the central values​​​​ of Performance, and it is also a different but authentic vision of a new way of doing “entertainment!”

So can we say there is a breath, a hint of suspense in this Performance?

In reality, the two protagonists of this “artistic thriller” are just two characters from the same story, so let’s say yes! Indeed, during the Performance, a state of curious attention and sympathetic tension is created in which the spectator is involved with his imagination, stimulated by colors and sounds. In fact, you never know how the Performance begins, continues, and ends!

Metaphorically, this Performance is a Performance within the Performance of life! Where do these performances take place?

In the theatre, on stage?...

The doors are always open, even if we think that the future of Art and Music, in general, will no longer be the usual “spectacular” rite with a large audience but a more intimate and more intimate moment in which spectator and artist will interact differently, therefore with another spirit and another degree

of participation! In this sense, we propose this unique show formula wherever there is the possibility of an audience response even with limited attendance, which means, for example, in private form, house concerts, on special occasions, and within particular events…

So, could this form of “show” be compared with artists’ performances a few centuries ago?

Certainly yes, in fact, it is somewhat from an idea of ​​this kind that Arti & Archi was born to re-establish the “natural and original” relationship between the artist and the public, which is certainly not that of a stadium crowd, but rather from an intimate frequentation of the space in which the unusual magic of the creative moment happens!

We are not inventing anything new; just think, just as a quote, that Chopin played for thirty people and that in the courts of the Renaissance, the artists performed in front of a tiny audience! Finally, as far as the pictorial part is concerned, we can say that this Performance can be identified as a visual space between silent cinema and cartoon. At the same time, the musical piece, like a soundtrack, extemporaneously and compositionally supports the very action of the pictorial creation!

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If we wanted to organize a Performance, what should we expect?

Just a great curiosity on the part of those who organized!

What are your future projects for Arti & Archi?

It would be interesting to offer this Performance all over the world, in other cultures and thought areas, with different improvisational intuitions and extemporaneous inspirations.

We want this performance to be known and developed as much as possible… We believe that over time the Performance can always more to evolve also in other artistic complexities, in other representative models, but always remain in the world of painting and music; on the other hand, “Improvise humanum est!” and it is the only authentic, natural and intuitive way to challenge the most mysterious laws of artistic gravity!

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Valerio Neri The sculptor - Roberto Sironi

Who is Valerio Neri?

He is a young man who struggles to deeply understand who he is and his mission at this time.

What brought you to approach Art, therefore, to Sculpture?

My passion for drawing has been there since I was a child; they failed me at the scientific high school because I ignored the lessons, and I always drew in class. So much so that some teachers and, finally, my parents advised me to pursue artistic studies.

The Sculpture came later; obviously, over the years, many people who have loved me have undertaken to show me an appropriate path for the type of creativity I was manifesting. From painting to video art, music performance, etc., my need to dialogue with space through the miracle of form in three dimensions appeared in more adulthood. A genuine need to penetrate reality by any means possible. Only Sculpture, together with architecture, can dialogue so deeply with space and society.

How was this passion born?

I played the drums for a long time, convinced that this art form suited me best. When I was thirty, during a difficult and frustrating period, I started painting again to avoid succumbing to negative thoughts. I approached larger canvases than ever, and I tried to conquer more and more space. I received good responses from the surrounding environment regarding my work. Having rediscovered specific stability and personal security, I decided to finish my studies which had been frozen until then and to specialize in Sculpture without abandoning the job in catering that I did for a living. In 2019 I enrolled in the master’s degree in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. Studying and working was one of the most challenging, formative, and satisfying tests I could face.

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Aren’t painting and sculpture two distant disciplines?

They obviously require commitment and dedicated time, each according to their own technique. Many of the many languages ​​of sculpture require a technical specialization.

They differ from each other, from lost wax for bronze to modeling, the “forming” in plaster, and the hammer and chisel for stone. Furthermore, we can say that painting, too, has its own material dimension. Beyond that, I admit that I can’t give up the stimulus that color and sign give to the mind. I sculpt with speed and energy, but I am passionate and exalted by the “deception” that the colors exercise when I see them distributed slowly on the canvas. I have the impression that painting strengthens my sculpting skills, and so does sculpture with drawing and the study of light.

We know how essential the preliminary drawing is for sculpting. The all-around is essentially nothing more than a sum of many possible profiles of a subject they taught me at school.

Even ancient Greece, for example, teaches us how much the mother culture of our West did not want to give up sculptural form and color. In fact, Greek sculptures were decorated with very bright colors, art historians confirm.

Studies aside, how do you become a sculptor?

For me, the academy was fundamental as a place to learn how to do research.

In addition to studying, you need courage, availability, and humility to become a sculptor.

Courage to constantly step out of your comfort zone, challenge yourself, start over with new materials, and enter new environments and languages, without stopping.

Willingness to change, listening to others, discussing with colleagues or anyone who decides to enter into dialogue with your work. Any authentic point of view brings a gift; we cannot remain deaf to interactions with our environment.

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he Humility necessary for this journey must be infinite. Very hard. The Buddhist master I have been following since 2009, Daisaku Ikeda, reminds his disciples, who are also artists, that up to the age of seventy or eighty, one is still an apprentice! This is a reminder to keep alive the vitality that comes from learning. If you stop wanting to learn, you not only stop, you go backward.

What does investigating marble mean?

Marble is an exhilarating miracle of nature. The word marble comes from the ancient Greek “Marmaris,” a shining stone. It is a material that can sustain incredible plastic tensions and is very pleasant to the touch; it is genuinely the stone to be carved par excellence. Its crystal structure makes it a unique material capable of interacting strongly with light. A stone that is linked to the natural titanic forces of the sea - the calcium carbonate comes from the shells of primordial shells - and of the earth, which forms the mountains. It is an honor and a fortune to interact with the reality of Carrara, which has been involved in the extraction and processing of marble for millennia. And immediately, we cannot fail to think of the respect we owe to this stone and how much the intensive technological extraction of marble is a severe problem for the Apuan Alps.

Your myths or masters, if you have any, who are they?

As already mentioned, I have a spiritual master. In the artistic field, I follow the major emerging contemporary artists via the internet with great curiosity; I also study and explore as much as I can see the life of the great protagonists of modern and contemporary Art. I also need to approach the aesthetics of the artistic expressions of some waned civilizations, from the neoclassical imperial France of the 19th century, up to Greco-Roman antiquity or tribal realities. For my degree thesis, I also focused on the role of prehistoric wall paintings. Every era has its myths, which are a source of wisdom, knowledge, and aesthetics. Culture survives the test of time, and the rest crumbles.

To create, I draw on everything that remains from this step.

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What role does Art play, and therefore sculpture, in society?

Art serves to think it is not mere decoration. Stimulates dialogue and cultural development.

In proportion to how much a company decides to progress culturally, it invests and focuses on artistic research. Capitalism and the private art market have advantages but can slow down this genuine development of thought.

What relationship do you have with artists?

No artist in history has developed his own language without confronting at least one other artist. I connect with as many artists as possible. But also critics, private collectors, and enthusiasts.

What is a taste for you?

A balance influenced by social aesthetics, the law of natural forms, and individual interiority.

In which ways could the future of Art go through? And how do you imagine this future?

The ability to appreciate and generate high-level Art understood as Art capable of contributing to society’s value and “health,” invariably requires education and a high degree of general knowledge. Art is becoming, as never before, a phenomenon immersed in the social fabric. Often in history, only a few influential people decided the taste and commissioned works. Now everything is massified, amplified. On the one hand, the community must re-appropriate artistic expression as a natural human need to reconnect with the environment, implement a catharsis on its existential anxieties, and recognize Art as a unique and highly effective social glue. On the other hand, we must strive to follow virtue and knowledge, avoiding all of us, to remain as we are. It is necessary to internally weaken the current values ​​ of easy money, violent supremacy, happiness without effort, and the obstinacy to inhabit a sterile present without history or descendants based on consumption as the only form of enjoyment.

Does the web help Art or reduce it to a simple visual pastime? Let me explain better: do images retain their expressive power, or have they become a way to color our interests?

Reducing any work to the size of a smartphone screen can be dangerous. We are bombarded with images and saturated with visual and audio stimuli. But it is also true that despite everything, we still can be surprised by what artistically has its own power and charm. And the internet’s ability to let us know what is happening in the world in these areas is crazy.

The web is used profitably when it stimulates people to deepen and interact in reality. If I don’t know the museums in my city and have never thought of going there, videos and shots of the masterpieces that appear in my daily images can push me to go and visit them.

In conclusion, images have their own objective expressive power, which interacts with our cultural depth! It is a stringent law; from my experience, I have noticed that those who are less willing to know and know less the less they enjoy the things around them. Especially about creativity and aesthetics - be they of any kind - as refined aspects of human intelligence.

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Che ruolo ha un artista contemporaneo nella società, e la figura dello scultore nello specifico?

Dalla lezione del maestro del ‘900 Joseph Beuys, si apprende quanto l’artista contemporaneo sia per la nostra società l’evoluzione della figura dello shamano guaritore delle tribù ataviche. Penso che in questo momento storico ci sia bisogno di molte di queste figure, ognuno con una propria sensibilità e raggio d’azione.

L’artista credo che debba essere disposto ad abbattere le ipocrisie del suo tempo attraverso il superamento delle proprie. L’artista è colui che sceglie di conoscersi a fondo attraversando i totem e i taboo sociali grazie alla spinta derivata dalle proprie opere d’arte, per ricostituire un nuovo terreno comune di dialogo tra gli individui.

Lo scultore è colui che attua questo procedimento attraverso il rapporto con lo spazio, la gravità, il volume, e a volte la fatica fisica vera e propria. Fatica fisica che può essere considerata anche come un elemento poetico e di catarsi.

C’è qualcosa che manca nel mondo della scultura attuale?

Parlo da fruitore non da scultore, ci sono stati grandi passi avanti ma la scultura emergente è ancora troppo poco seguita e poco promossa. Abbiamo una iper-attenzione su pochissimi emergenti. Bene, ma questi nomi non credo che siano gli unici degni di attenzione, e penso che sia molto difficile che riescano a rappresentare tutta la categoria in toto.

Prossimi impegni?

Affermarmi sempre di più in questo mondo, attraverso concorsi e mostre personali, per acquisire sempre più capacità e conoscenza. Le possibilità di arricchimento individuale attraverso l’arte e la cultura sono infinite, sono avido di crescita personale e di nuove modalità di dialogo.

Un’ultima domanda: Si dice che con la cultura, con l’Arte non si mangia, tu cosa ne pensi?

Che sia uno dei falsi miti da abbattere. L’arte e la cultura muovono capitali da capogiro questo è oggettivo. Ho notato invece che c’è un grande desiderio di conoscere e riappropriarsi della cultura come sapere umano. Ma anche come antidoto per opporsi al vuoto nichilismo senza speranza che ci sta divorando in questi anni. Chi dice che con la cultura non si mangia probabilmente è perché non la conosce, e non ne percepisce il potenziale infinito. Aggiungo che l’arte e la cultura non possono solo essere viste in termini di spendibilità sul mercato.

Riappropriarsi della grande cultura - parlo ad esempio dell’Italia- e sostenerla, è il primo passo da fare per iniziare a risolvere tantissimi dei problemi che in questo momento attanagliano le persone. La cultura è una cura e un privilegio, non è solo mercificazione del sapere.

Fare arte e fare cultura richiede impegno da parte di chi la produce, la divulga e anche per chi ne usufruisce. Nessuno è escluso, ma i risultati sono di portata positiva infinita. Con la cultura posiamo rianimare intere città, far rivivere borghi perduti, portare turismo, creare posti di lavoro, recuperare opere del passato, riappropriarci di una sana identità culturale, rivitalizzare l’artigianato artistico e le maestranze, apprendere dagli errori dei nostri avi.

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