Performing Arts Night 2024

Shakespeare fragments

HELD IN ENGLISH

A walking performance in the open and enclosed spaces of Bocconi University. The starting point will be the outside of the Roetgen lecture hall, and from there we will lead a journey through perhaps the bard's 6 best-known plays: Macbeth, The Tempest, The merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Romeo and Juliet.

A few scenes, monologues, dialogues and stories will compose this Shakespearean fresco full of humanity, passion and politics.

We suggest taking a look at the plots of these plays so you can be free to be transported with us into William Shakespeare's world.

Directed by Manuel Renga and Riccardo Vanetta, professors of theatre direction at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi

Sumer is icumen in

The arrival of the beautiful season inspired, in Britain eight centuries ago, the oldest chant in Rota form known to date. It is a brilliant example of how voices can intertwine, never overpowering each other, creating by very simple means of expression an effect that is still evocative today. This is precisely the added value of the instrument-choir: each voice becomes an essential and authentic component ready to convey emotion. This also happens in the other canon pieces (Gaudeamus Hodie and Canon in D , where the voices become sounds without text), and in the songs that the Choir offers drawing from various repertoires and musical traditions. From the African one (Banaha, a children's song that later became a military song), to the cosmopolitan one of Nel blu dipinto di Blu, to Chilcott's moving song about a dialogue between two boys one of whom cannot speak or hear (Can you hear me?), not forgetting the Work songs (Day-O). Then returning to a dance from many centuries ago , Tourdion, whose text added later tells of a war, this time fortunately not fought with weapons but aimed at defeating succulent food and intoxicating flasks of wine.

By Aleksander Zielinski, pianist and choral teacher

“Once Upon a Time in … Bocconi!”

HELD IN ENGLISH

“Once Upon a Time in … Bocconi!” is intended as an homage to some of the greatest american songs written between the 1950s and the early 2000s.

From Harry Belafonte’s über-famous song “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” to the cheerful pop-candy “Happy” by Pharrell Williams, our students will take the audience to a fun pop journey with a bit of a ballet mood.

GuiDance’s mission is to give students the opportunity to approach and study ballet in an inclusive and judgement-free zone, with no strict requirements like previous training, dress code, hair policy, body type etc….

GuiDance is our way to make ballet accesible to everybody in a safe and fun environment.

Bocconi’s Academic Fellow Marco Pelle, along with former La Scala soloist-dancer Beatrice Carbone, has created a fun program that is open to everybody Bocconi, from students to faculty to staff.

The tracks used during class are either Opera arias, Pop Music songs or Musical tracks played specifically for a ballet class.

Special Guest: Teatro alla Scala’s First Principal Dancer Antonella Albano

Tennessee Blues

HELD IN ITALIAN

by Tennesse Williams

With:

Fabio Conigliaro, Asia Minuti, Martina Achilli, Ipek Erkaya, Delfina Fazzini, Ilaria Adami, George Manea, Sofia Simone

Directed by Marco Brambini and Giuseppe Fresa

Three one-act plays in which Tennessee Williams presents us with three frescoes of realities of human existence that we too often try not to see.

At first two young boys, Tom and Willie, try to find among trains, kites and memories their lost boyhood.

Then Bertha after a series of disappointments tries to overcome her illness by imagining herself reconnecting with an old love.

Finally, a little old woman is dribbled by relatives until "In her brain, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and cousins pass before her like sheets of rapidly flipped albums: some loved as sons, but none really sons, and all strangely indifferent to the self-sacrifice and affection she so generously bestowed."