Art EnchantsIs it possible to rewrite reality through art? What kinds of scenarios can we imagine with it? National Geographic Society Emergency Journalist Fund supported this series of choral scenes, portraits, and details reflecting the border between fiction and reality. Together with fellow journalist Stefania Prandi, we met eight artists during a pandemic year: actors, actresses, and dancers from freelance and small Italian theatre companies. Through their words and eyes, we enacted joy, hope, sadness and exhaustion moments. We created a continuous dialogue between reality and fiction, as if on a film set where actors, actresses, and dancers play themselves. Using a directorial mode approach based on their stories as inspiration, we created a visual narrative that breaks from the pandemic. Published on Radar Magazine and live from Teatro Sociale Novafeltria – Italy
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A dream of white
"The moment everything closed, I immediately began memorizing texts, poems. It was always something I did in difficult times, even in the past. The first poem was composed by Arsenij Aleksandrovic Tarkovsky about a child who recalls seeing a white nurse from his hospital bed when he became ill. I also thought of the color white during the pandemic: others were enveloped in a white glow."
Isadora Angelini is an award-winning independent actress, dancer and director. She performs at international festivals like Santarcangelo. In 2006, she cofounded Patalò Theatre company with Luca Serrani.
Project Elisabetta Zavoli and Stefania Prandi
Photo by Elisabetta Zavoli @elizavola
Words by Stefania Prandi @stefania.prandi
Setting by Elisabetta Zavoli, Stefania Prandi, Luca Serrani
Styling and Make up by Elisabetta Zavoli and Isadora Angelini
Location ex-Corderia Santarcangelo (RN), Italy
Assistant Luca Serrani @luca_serrani
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