This edition will be subdivided into 3 different sections: “Miti”, which focuses on the esthetics and the beauty of physical movements linked to the music, “Scene dagli anni Ottanta”, which comes back to the origins of contemporary times through some of the masterpieces of dance’ history, and “Platel e les ballets C de la B”, which explores the op position between pain and hope through the enchanting poit of view of Alain Platel and his company.

Torinodanza festival 2010 will be inaugurated with Balanchine-Kylián of the Royal Ballet of Flanders on Tuesday 7th September at Teatro Regio in Turin with its first Italian premiere. The company from Belgium will arrive to Turin with three titles: Theme and Variations by George Balanchine, Forgotten Land and 27’ 52” by Jirí Kylián.

The second show offered by Torinodanza will be “you PARA │ DISO”, which will include one of the most famous choreographer in Europe, the Italian Emio  Greco, who now lives in Amsterdam. The show will go on the stage on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September at Fonderie Limone in the town of Moncalieri. After HELL and [purgatorio] POPOPERA, you PARA│DISO will end the cycle inspired from the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, with a choreography that wants to reveal the deepest memory of body.

The second section, “Scene dagli anni Ottanta”, will come back to make us think about the power of the 80s. on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd October, the company Rosas will be present at the Cavallerizza Reale with Rosas danst Rosas, with the choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The show will focus on the representation of tensions and the contrast between rationality and emotions.

The third section, “Platel e les ballets C de la B” will take place together with Prospettiva 2, the theater festival connected to contemporary times at the Teatro Stabile in Turin, this year at its 2nd edition.

With the director and choreographer Alain Platel we will explore the op position between suffering and the need of revenge, between pain and hope: the secret of human life.

On Friday 29th and 30th October, at Cavallerizza Reale, there will be the Italian premiere of “Primero erscht”, the new creation by Lisi Estaras with les ballets C de la B.

On 9th and 10th November at Fonderie Limone in Moncalieri, there will be “Out of Context - for Pina”, in order to pay homage to the great artist Pina Bausch.

Finally on Friday 15th October, an Extra section at Teatro Carignano will present “Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day” a dance solocreated in 2008 by the master of contemporary art Jan Fabre together with Ivana Jozic.
Further information about events in Turin are available on the website www.aboutturin.com

The 78th edition of the event “Estate Musicale Chigiana” has begun on Sunday 18th July with a concert of Sofia Festival Orchestra, and the next appointment is scheduled for Saturday 24th July with the cello Antonio Meneses, followed by Joaquin Achucarro at the piano on Tuesday 27th.

Also in August, the appointments will be many: from 4th to 25th, several concerts are scheduled, having has protagonists instruments such as viola, violin, cello, piano, double bass, clarinet and some of the greatest international artists.

But the summer dedicated to the music in Siena continues. As a matter of fact, the great Siena Jazz Festival 2010 comes back to wonder spectators with great guests from all over the world.

From Friday 23rd July until 7th August 2010, the Fondazione Siena Jazz, the institution for high quality jazz training, once again organizes this great musical event, with the presence of great artists coming from America and Europe.

Where is Siena Jazz Festival 2010? Obviously in the most charming and striking places of the city! Jam sessions and extraordinary live performance will wait for you.

This year, visitors will find on the stage great international names such as John Taylor, Aaron Goldberg, Michael Blake, Jim Snidero, John Riley, Kenny Werner, Bobby Watson, Avishai Cohen, Glenn Ferris, Seamus Blake, Drew Gress, Ferenc Nemeth, Reuben Rogers, Eric Harland, Anders Jormin, Peter Bernstein, Ben Monder, Kenny Wheeler, Joel Frahm, Scott Colley, Omar Avital and Jeremy Pelt.

In addition, also many Italian artists will be present, such as Riccardo Del Fra, Stefano Battaglia, Bruno Tommaso, Furio Di Castri, Pietro Leveratto, Massimo Manzi and many others. On Saturday 24th July, Seminari Estivi (Summer Courses) of Siena Jazz will begin with the Orchestra InJam and the guest Gless Ferris.

The last two appointments are scheduled for 5th, 6th and 7th August at Enoteca Italiana (at 9.45 pm - free entrance) with many bands and jazz artists.

Finally, we remind you another appointment with music in Siena: the 35th edition of Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano (a small ancient village located near Siena). The event, which was created by the composer Hans Werner Henze, began on 15th July and will continue until 1st August 2010, offering its audience its main feature: the interaction between professional, famous artists and young talents.

Once again, among the green rolling Tuscan hills and the charming Renaissance’ buildings, operas and performances created by famous contemporary authors will be put on the stage for the first time.

This year, the event aims to experimentation and innovation through studies and workshops about techniques for composing and performances.

Tomorrow, on Thursday 22nd July, Recital per violino e pianoforte is scheduled for 6 pm with the violin Eva Thorarinsdottir, and Malcom Forbes and Peckham at the piano, whereas the Concert of Contemporary Music “Ensemble 2 Agosto” is scheduled for 9.30 pm, with an absolute premiere of contemporary music.

This and much more wait for you in the medieval city of Siena, for a summer in the pursuit of music, rich in concerts, live performances and musical courses.

For further information about events in Siena, please visit our online tourist guide to Siena: www.aboutsiena.com.

A not-to-be-missed appointment taking place in Parco San Sebastiano in Rome, which began on the last 11th June and will continue with several events until 15th August 2010.

Parco di San Sebastiano, placed in Via di Porta San Sebastiano, will host this great event for all the lovers of this world, with a revival of the best years of dance music, offering any kind of initiative…cinema, music, theater performances, exhibition stands.

Roma Vintage edition 2010 is a world apart that schedules several appointments: live performances for enjoying dance music hits of those years again, Jazz’n Blues, sport events, cinema reviews and exhibitions. There’s everything for the lovers of 60s, 70s and 80s!

The Cine Vintage and the area “Disco e Performances” are located in the Piazzetta Vintage, the center of the event, and here it is also possible to find wine and food stands.

The area reserved for the cinema wants to promote and give value to the cinematographic culture through many thematic reviews. The area dedicated to the dance music will make visitors feel and live the emotions of those years.

Remember, magical summer nights await you at Parco di San Sebastiano in Rome until 15th August 2010, with the presence of the greatest music of 60s, 70s and 80s, and many exhibitions every day! In addition, we remind you the FREE ENTRANCE.

For further information about events in Rome please visit the online tourist guide to Rome: www.aboutroma.com

Once again, the open-air Gran Teatro Giacomo Puccini will host great guests and breathtaking operas, for a summer rich in music.

As usual, the programme schedules the celebration of eternal melodies composed by the master Giacomo Puccini and wonderful evenings of lyric music will begin, dedicated to one of the most important composers of opera in the world, who was born in the city of Lucca in 1858.

The Festival Puccini 2010 will be inaugurated by La Fanciulla del West (on 16th and 23rd July and 7th August), Puccini’s masterpiece, 100 years after its first premier at Metropolitan Opera in New York, on 10th December 1910.

Later on, there will be other three titles on the playbill:

Madama Butterfly (17th and 25th July – 1st, 14th, 22nd August)

Tosca (24th, 30th July – 8th, 13th, 21st August)

Turandot (31st July – 6th, 12th, 20th August)

We remind you also that the Festival Puccini is not just Opera.

The Festival’s spectators in fact, will have the chance to marvel at one of the greatest female voices in the world, the American soprano Renée Fleming, who will inflame the stage during the Gala Concert on 28th July, with the extraordinary presence of the 15 years old Anthony Arcaini, director and composer, a little genius of music.

Finally, on 11th August, the timeless and overall opera Romeo and Juliet, with the notorious melodies by Sergej Sergeevič Prokof’ev and the dancers of the Imperial Russian Ballet of Gediminas Tarando, Maria Sokolnikova and Alexsander Smolyaninov of the Teatro Bolshoi.

All this and much more waits for you at Gran Teatro Giacomo Puccini in the town of Torre del Lago, in Versilia.

For further information about events in Versilia, please take a look at our tourist guide to Versilia, www.aboutversilia.com

The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Bologna’s cineteca (Bologna film collection unit), is moving from Paris - city that hosted it for a long period of time - to the Italian town, and entitled: Federico Fellini. Dall’Italia alla Luna. (Federico Fellini. From Italy to the Moon).

It is an interactive exhibition, a sort of voyage inside Fellini’s dream-like imagery, from the beginning to its full development, realized to make people understand the director and his works through obsessions that inspired him during the building of his very special characters.

Thanks to pictures on exhibit - more than 200 - original drawings - about 50 - 30 audio video stations with 12 video projections and hundreds of original documents taken from magazines, posters, slides and magazine covers of that time, the exhibition traces the scenes’ realization, the analysis of locations and the movies’ backstage through a path organized by tematic areas which are: Cultura popolare (Popular culture), Fellini al lavoro (Fellini at work), La città delle donne (The city of women) and Invenzione biografica (Biographical invention). The section entitled Fellini e la voce (Fellini and the voice) - a special area dedicated to moving images opposed to still images - enriches the exhibition with audio-video materials coming from a private collection and purchased today, by Bologna film collection unit, that offers, besides movies directed and scripted by the Italian master, different film makers who took inspiration from Fellini’s maasterpieces in the past.

The exhibition represents a unique occasion to learn to deeply know and undestand one of the icon of the Italian cinema, beloved and appreciated abroad as well, while totally entering inside obsessions and thoughts that inspired in the past, Fellini’s masterpieces.

The exhibition is open all days from Tuesday to Sunday, at the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna.

For further and more detailed information, please, visit the official Modern Art Museum or Cineteca di Bologna website.

Turin Traffic Free Festival 2010, also this year crowds the Gardens of Reggia in Venaria Reale, with many performances and concerts from July 14th to 17th 2010. A completely free festival, promoted by Regione Piemonte, Città di Torino, Provincia di Torino and Fondazione CRT, which this year is at its 7th edition.

TRAFFIC is a very special appointment that interweaves the notes of music with the colors and shades of cinema and visual arts. You can’t miss such an event!

The festival will start on Wednesday 14th July 2010 in Turin, in the charming background of Piazza Castello, which will host a performance by Charlotte Gainsbourg, a special artist on the borderline between music and cinema.

After the inauguration, Traffic will move to its main stage: the Reggia in Venaria, with 3 special evenings with bands coming from all over the world.

On Thursday 15th July, visitors will have the chance to see Paul Weller, leader of the Jam and known also as The Modfather, and the Specials, who represent the British ska music and for their first performance in Italy, and the Statuto.

On Friday 16th July, we find the rock music of the English group The Klaxons and the rhythm of dance music represented by the Placet Turbo and the Canadian dj and producer Tiga, Erol Alkan and Giorgio Gigli.

Finally, on Saturday 17th, the event will end paying homage to Africa, with the presence of the Nigerian Seun Kuti, Fela’s son, pioneer of Afrobeat, the afro dj Baia degli Angeli and Afrika Bambaataa, founding father of hip hop music in New York.

So guys, you can’t miss such a special event in Turin! Free Music and fun for everyone!

For further information about events in Turin, we remind you the online tourist guide to Turin: www.aboutturin.com

Which is the main theme for this year? The fifth edition of the exhibition has a very eloquent title: “Play Green Creativity”: fun, ecology and creativity interlinked through the artistic use of paper, a simple material being the only protagonist of such an event.

The exhibition will focus on issues like recycling and sustainable development by showing works by international artists coming from all over the world, selected by the competition’s jury. Among the countries represented by the several artists, besides Italy we find Russia, Mexico and England.

Besides the several en plein air installations, many other contemporary art events are scheduled: exhibitions, vernissages, literary meetings, theatre workshops and performances.

In the works, we find four personal exhibitions of artists who use paper as an essential element for expressing their own creativity: Caterina Crepax, Hemmes, Anna Onesti and Hiroaki Asahara. And just this evening, on Thursday July 1st at 6.30 pm, they will be inaugurated at La Cavallerizza: Rituali senza tempo by Anna Onesti, Strappi by Hemmes, Sogni vestiti di Carta by Caterina Crepax and the collective exhibition Amateras.

And of course, such an artistic background couldn’t be without a theatre workshop! Living the Theatre: Teatro Migliorativo/Teatro Verde in fact will focus on the important themes of ecological disasters and will suggest participants new visions of life. The workshop will be held in Lucca, with afternoon and will conclude with a performance. If you would like to take part in the workshop, you have to enroll by July 3rd.

Further information about the city of Lucca, please visit our travel guide to Versilia: www.aboutversilia.com

Emotions come back with several performances starring great artists and titles. In fact, since last April 29th, the 73rd edition of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the festival dedicated to the art of music, ballet and opera has come back in Florence. This year, the event brings with it the charming East, in the pursuit of exotic and multi-ethnic themes, from Mozart to contemporary music, with the title “Verso Oriente” (“Toward the East”).

The Maggio Fiorentino playbill schedules great opera titles, stunning concerts and breathtaking performances and shows, among several brand new personalities and artists.

Until June 22nd 2010, a series of performances will take place in Florence nights, keeping you company evening after evening in a mass of emotions in many theatres of Florence with operas, concerts and ballets, in which many great artists will perform, such as Muti, Metha, and others. The venues of such performances will be: Teatro Comunale, Piccolo Teatro, Teatro Pergola, Teatro Goldoni and the Aula Magna at the University.

Among the events in the works, many meetings with authors such as the one scheduled on May 25th with Marcello de Angelis. In addition, a brand new element of this edition is Jazz, which for the first time takes part in the event of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: in fact, great names of jazz will arrive at the festival, such as the trumpet-player Paolo Fresu.

Considering the great success of the past editions, the Maggio Off Music Contest comes back also this year, the competition where young musicians, groups and singers (between 18 and 30 years old) challenge each other, among very different kinds of music: from rock to blues, from electronic music to metal…so, all the musical dimensions belonging to youth, between innovation and diversity.

As far as ballets is concerned, a performance by Guillaume Côté with Zdenek Konvalina and entitled “Impermanence” is scheduled on Sunday 23rd May.

These and many other performances and shows in Florence, until 22nd June 2010. Don’t miss it!

For further information about events in Florence, please visit our always up-to-date website www.aboutflorence.com, your online tourist guide to Florence!

The trade and exhibition center Lingotto Fiere in Turin, as usual, in May will be proud to host such an important event, which has become the greatest Italian appointment dedicated to publishing industry, reading and culture, and one of the greatest events in Europe.

At its 23rd edition, the Fair will take place from May 13th to 17th 2010, with the following opening hours: on Thursday, Sunday and Monday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. As last year, about 300,000 visitors are expected to participate in the fair.

Conferences, meetings, debates, workshops, journalists, photographers and special guests will make this occasion unique thanks to culture, creativity and curiosity, which will mix together among the pages of a book with a colored cover or among the shy words of a young emerging daydream writer.

This year, Memory will be the key theme of the fair, an issue upon which to reflect. We should think about what it has become for us today, what it represents and how we use it. From technology arrival and a more and more impending presence of databanks managing the most of our plans, thousands questions and doubts arise about our relationship with the past, which now seems to be regardless and nearly annoying.

So, the great issue, the big dilemma, the 1 million dollar question comes back, the thorny relationship between tradition and innovation: what do we have to keep and what do we have to throw away? In order to express your opinion or just to listen to the others’, Turin waits for you in great numbers at Lingotto Fiere from May 13th.

At the exposition, there will be great names such as Umberto Eco, the Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and the French Claude Lanzmann, the author of the prodigious documentary film about the Shoah, but also of his overwhelming autobiography entitled “La lepre della Patagonia” about the literary and cinematic use of memory.

So, these are the themes that will travel (and make visitors travel) along the different and close paths of science, literature, history and art, and that will be put under the spotlight on the stage of Turin International Book Fair 2010.

In addition, we remind you also the Bookstock Village, the corner completely dedicated to children and teens: a whole pavilion dedicated to entertainment, fun, games and fantasy. Many workshops are scheduled together with interesting meetings, readings, animations and multimedia, in order to get the youngest ones closer to reading and culture, for those who one day will build the future.

Furthermore, the Fair represents a good opportunity for meeting and knowing professionals of the book sector, such as publishers, book agents, librarians, teachers, translators: all those figures that hide behind a good book’s pages (or behind a good book cover!).

The International Book Forum is the area dedicated to the exchange of publication, translation and transposition rights of literary works. So, here it is a Good occasion for Good Contacts!

Finally, the “Premio Salone Internazionale del Libro” comes back with three finalists, Paul Auster, Carlos Fuentes and Amos Oz. Three undisputed masters of the world culture will compete for the final prize as a legion of merit for the work that was able to make literature a necessary instrument for knowledge. You can’t miss it!

This and many other appointments await you all from May 13th to 17th 2010 at Lingotto Fiere in Turin.

For further information about events in Turin, we remind you the always up-to-date website www.aboutturin.com, the useful and practical online tourist guide to Turin.

Such a festival was born in 2006 from an idea of the current Artistic Director in order to create an innovative event which could give the city and its province a new image and could involve authors of amateur videos from the near cities and seaside resorts of the Western Liguria Riviera.

But such a renowned festival, since its first edition, had a national connotation, because many authors coming from all over Italy took part in the competition, and different competitive sections were created.

Nowadays, the Festival counts 685 works entered from 51 different countries. What else? Well, the Video Festival of Imperia has been recently included in the list of the 13 most important cinema festivals in the world, indicated and surveyed by UNESCO: un unbelievable result for a 4 years old competition!

This year, the event presents a new category called “Explorer”, which will be open to the national and international public showing Tourist and Naturalistic documentary films.

In addition, we will find again the second edition of the “Festival of the Festivals”, the competitive category dedicated to all the other International Festivals that will participate in the contest with the works awarded in their last edition.

Furthermore, we remind you also the original Graphic Competition, conceived for the creation of the image that would have represented the 5th edition of the festival. More than 100 works to select and 25 awards to give to winners.

For further information about the city of Imperia and the Region of Liguria, please take a look at our brand new online tourist guide about Liguria: www.aboutliguria.com.