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Enchanted Trails - Hiking with John Balzaretti Trekking The play is an original and fascinating to re-discover a territory, combining immersion in its nature and its real-world scenarios, the one inside the "emotional landscapes" suggested by the proposal stage, food and wine that complement it. The rustic dining and entertainment offered at the end of the walk are, in fact, the crown and the amplification of local knowledge through the enchanting charm of trails running through them. The Trek Theatrical Collinarea be held  Saturday July 27 2013.  Departure is from the entrance of the Castle of Lari with meeting at 17.00. From here we will move to reach, in about an hour and a half, the 'farm Stains, through a series of easy practicability and the typical Tuscan landscapes and rural rustic, made ​​of towering cypress trees, maritime pines and cool shadows holm. Once there participants will witness the spectacle of John Balzaretti "Pilgrim. Pilgrim, ...

Finally, after close to fifteen years of following reports, articles, books and personal imaginings I attended a presentation of the Workcenter of Thomas Richards and Jerzy Grotowski  on a wonderous July evening in Lari, Italy. Both teams of the Workcenter participate in the Collinarea Festival . We ascended ninty-five steps to the top of the Lari castle where Mario Biagini, director of the  Open Program  we are about to witness, greeted comers with an open-hearted smile, bending down to chat with children and embracing friends as they arrived. As we trickled in t he two male and five female actors sat, squatted or stood on the periphery of an open space. A box, staff, cane, bones and percussive instruments (bell, rattle, stone, tin pan) were discretely though obviously carefully placed in the 30X20 foot  cobble-stoned square. We sat on chairs or carpets surrounding the space. All were dressed in white and barefoot, exactly as I had seen in the many documente...

The five hour walk with the Cised group in the Versailles Gardens and Park proved delightful despite the grey skies. Minimal crowds, perhaps deterred by the cool, wet weather, made for a leisurely pace. Though defiantly the garden of  Andre Le Notre  a wonderful contemporary ambience infiltrates with the works of  Giuseppe Penone . He articulately states: “Being given the possibility of letting my work dialogue with that of Le Nôtre in Versailles is a great privilege. The garden is an emblematic place which sums up Western thought on the relationship between man and nature.  Laid out to exalt the power of one man, it underlines the force and power of nature which minimises man’s action, requiring unceasing maintenance work to preserve it.  The complexity of the garden’s design suggests the multiple ways of seeing it, and its extension and grandiose aspect contrast with the tiny dimensions of the person walking around it. The individual disa...

Visited a dear friend at Maison de Sante de Bellevue . He was frail looking.  Thoughts came to mind. We are made of a core that expresses the entire concept of self much like a radical the main component of an ideogram (an ideogram being a written sign that expresses an entire concept rather than a sound like a letter of the alphabet). When a clear gaze comes from outside the core can draw attention - various at[tensions] The core may be a gate or threshold and is certainly a border. We listen to each other on the threshold as we h[ear]. We are receptive to a gleam coming from an invisible gleam of self. Through the cracks in the core we see in-between spaces as the sunlight and/or moonlight shines. Our sounds stand beneath the core as a darkness ... the sound doesn't block the gateway but connects this side with the other so hearing is no longer impeded ... yet  the sentence is a wall. Think of self as gateways/openings not as repositories/containers ...