SOLO BUT NOT ALONE/ ALESSANDRO MAIDA (IT): STONOJ – presentation of work in progress

3.6.2022. Friday at 19:00

Under the bridge of Freedom

SOLO BUT NOT ALONE/ ALESSANDRO MAIDA (IT): STONOJ – presentation of work in progress

A survivor, alone in the world, in a rocky desert, survives thanks to his particular symbiosis
with stones sand and minerals.
Soul in distress or wild wolf, he digs, sniffs, prays and dances and from time to time he
comes across objects and garbage abandoned by previous vanished populations.
He searches for meaning, he searches for his past and recreates the history of his
predecessors by sorting through the relics he finds, fossils of a past he no longer knows and
that will perhaps never return.

Author and performer: Alessandro Maida – MagdaClan Circo
Light design and technique: Flavio Cortese
Music: Pino Basile
Scenography: Francesco Fassone and Jessica Koba
Costumes: Augusta Tibaldeschi
Production: Magdaclan Circo
Co production: Dinamico Festival
With the support of: Mibac, Piedmont Region, Municipality of Montiglio Monferrato


About the artist:

Alessandro Maida graduated in 2006 at the circus school FLIC of Turin and in 2009 at the ESAC of Bruxelles in »walking globe and juggling«, Alessandro is the son of the method on the circus actor of Roberto Magro.

In 2010, with Dieu me doit des explications, he wins the audience prize at the Pistes de Lancement festival in Brussels.
In 2011 he joins the project of Espace Catastrophe in Brussels, Complicité, where
professional artists meet young people with mental disabilities. His talent emerges together
with Maxime Pythoud with whom he founds the Cie Circoncentrique, debuting with Respire
(more than 450 performances worldwide) now in its eleventh year of tour. Co-founder of the
circus MagdaClan, with whom he creates: Magda Cabaret, ERA – Sonetto per un clown,
Extra_Vagante, È un Attimo, Sic Transit and, as director, Masnada.
He follows several projects as artistic consultant or director, including: 193 Problemi – Laden
Classe, Piani in Bilico – Quattrox4, Emisfero – MagdaClan Circo, Tre piccioni con una favola –
Cieocifa. He teaches courses and workshops on the creative and narrative research of the
circus actor; his workshop La Grammatica della Fantasia Circense, inspired by Gianni
Rodari, is regularly brought in the Circus schools FLIC and Vertigo and in many other
contexts. He is now artistic and organizational co-director of the contemporary circus festival
of Monferrato, Mon Circo.

Co production: Dinamico Festival
With the support of: Mibac, Piedmont Region, Municipality of Montiglio Monferrato

The guest performance of PIUME is co-financed by the Italian Institute in Croatia and the play is a guest within the project SOLO BUT NOT ALONE in which Cirkorama is a partner.

SOLO BUT NOT ALONE is one of 4 actions launched by Quattrox4 to support the professionalization of contemporary circus in Italy since 2021. The project is funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture (Boarding Pass Plus 2021/2022 – Circus)

Find out more about the project at https://www.quattrox4.com/pro/solo-but-not-alone

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