Mbira di Roberto Castello / ALDES

UBU Award 2019 finalist – best dance show

A concert of music, dance and speech which, by combining scores and improvisations, writing and orality, has a party as its epilogue. Mbira is a Shona word around which a surprising amount of stories are intertwined that offer the ideal pretext to talk about Africa and highlight how little, guiltily, is known, in the belief that the most subversive gesture today is to remember that , before affirming certainties, in general it would be wise to know the subject we are talking about. ph Carlo Carmazzi See

Choreography and direction Roberto Castello music Marco Zanotti, Zam Moustapha Dembélé texts Renato Sarti and Roberto Castello, with the precious collaboration of Andrea Cosentino interpreters Giselda Ranieri and Ilenia Romano (dance / voice), Marco Zanotti (percussion, limba) Zam Moustapha Dembélé (kora, tamanì, voice, balafon), Roberto Castello produced by ALDES – Teatro della Cooperativa with the support of MIC General Direction for Live Entertainment, TUSCANY REGIONAL Entertainment System, Romaeuropa Festival

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