26 July, 9.15 pm
Entroterre Festival
ITALIAN SOQQUADRO
who's afraid of Baroque?
Who's afraid of Baroque? certainly curious title, "borrowed" from the famous play by E. Albee "Who's afraid of Virgina Wolf".
It is not a concert or even a theatrical show, but an unusual and amusing insight into the Italian music and culture of the seventeenth century.
A continuous dialogue between ancient and modern, a refined game of fusion, aimed at ranging between jazz improvisation and the art of diminution, between jokes of the Commedia dell'Arte and swing atmospheres.
Claudio Borgianni draws heavily on the musical and literary repertoire of the seventeenth century, dismembering it, deforming it, and finally reassembling it in order to trace the points of continuity that bind us to that distant world.
Vincenzo Capezzuto , a peculiar voice with a rare and indefinite texture, former principal dancer and multifaceted artist is "the voice and the body" of this project, always poised between cultured expressiveness and popular immediacy.
Who's afraid of Baroque? involves the viewer in an atmosphere of magical emotion, guiding him towards the rediscovery of a century so distant and complex that it reveals itself to our senses in all its extraordinary and simple modernity.
Vincenzo Capezzuto voice
Ensemble Soqquadro Italiano
Francis Tomasi theorbo and baroque guitar
Marco Forti double bass
Leonardo Ramadori percussion
Claudio Borgianni concept and art direction