Compagnia Finzi Pasca

Corteo - Palma de Majorque
2022-08-05 - 2022-08-14 | Palma Arena, Carrer de l'Uruguai, Palma, 07010, Spain
Corteo, which means “cortege” in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth.
The clown pictures his own funeral taking place in a carnival atmosphere, watched over by quietly caring angels. Juxtaposing the large with the small, the ridiculous with the tragic and the magic of perfection with the charm of imperfection, the show highlights the strength and fragility of the clown, as well as his wisdom and kindness, to illustrate the portion of humanity that is within each of us. The music, by turns lyrical and playful, carries Corteo through a timeless celebration in which illusion teases reality.

Corteo - Aix-en-Provence
2022-07-27 - 2022-07-31 | Arena du Pays d’Aix, 1955 rue Nicolas Ledoux, AIX-EN-PROVENCE, 13290, France

Corteo - Nice
2022-07-21 - 2022-07-24 | Palais Nikaia, Bd du Mercantour, Nice, 06200, France

Luzia - Alicante
2022-07-14 - 2022-08-21 | Playa San Juan, Avinguda de la Costa Bianca 141, Alicante, 3540, Spain
Luzia takes you to an imaginary Mexico, like in a waking dream, where light (“luz” in Spanish) quenches the spirit and rain (“lluvia”) soothes the soul. Through a series of grand visual surprises and breathtaking acrobatic performances, Luzia invites audiences to escape on a surrealistic journey through a sumptuous and vibrant world suspended somewhere between dreams and reality. Smoothly passing from an old movie set to the ocean to a smoky dance hall or an arid desert, Luzia cleverly brings to the stage multiple places, faces and sounds of Mexico taken from both tradition and modernity. Rich in awe-inspiring moments, Luzia enchants by incorporating rain into acrobatic and artistic scenes – a first for a Cirque du Soleil touring production.

Corteo - London
2022-07-13 - 2022-07-17 | O2 Arena, Peninsula square, Greenwich Peninsula, London, SE10DX, United Kingdom

Corteo - Dublin
2022-07-06 - 2022-07-10 | 3Arena, N Wall Quay, North Dock, Dublin 1, Ireland

Corteo - Anvers
2022-06-23 - 2022-07-02 | Lotto Arena, Schijnpoortweg 119, Antwerp, 2170, Belgium

Luzia - Genève
2022-05-28 - 2022-06-12 | Plaine de Plainpalais, Genève, 1205, Switzerland

Corteo - Split (Croatia)
2022-05-20 - 2022-05-21 | Spaladium, UI. Zrinsko Frankopanska 211, Split, 21000, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
“I dedicated this dream to the angels, who come and visit me at night. To the world of clowns, to which I belong, to the Cathedral of Chartres, which after my mother’s womb, is the second place where I was nurtured. To the pictures that my parents stole to reality, and which I put into movement, to the circuses and to their artists.
What I meant to bring forth under the big top is theatre and its peculiar perspective made of overlapping images. I thus asked the acrobats to think as actors would, and to be beautiful and honest, just as beautiful love stories are. I was lucky enough to be surrounded by brilliant creators, with whom I immersed in a common world and a bonding adventure, receiving the full support of a production crew who allowed us to carry on with our dream. I also kept close to the friends from my troupe, Teatro Sunil, with whom I have been seeking beauty and honesty on stage for more than twenty years.
To make one’s own funeral does feel good. For a moment, one feels necessary and motivated to keep going on this journey, which is in fact but a slow return home.” Daniele Finzi Pasca

Icaro - Pordenone
2022-05-04 - 2022-05-05 | Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi, Viale Martelli 2, Pordenone, Italy
“I prepare my shows like stories that must be told while looking the audience in the eye. In Icaro, I wanted to talk about hope by bringing to life anti-heroes, which is how most of us see ourselves.
I engage in theatre for the pleasure of drowning myself, of losing myself just a little, which is one of the most worthwhile things in this life. We lose ourselves and escape. When we escape inside ourselves, who we really are is revealed to us. Escape is a strategy that allows us to delve deeper into reality to discover the secrets that are masked by appearances, and to invent new utopias.
I come from a mountainous land. Where I am from, we escape by taking risks. Mountains will await you throughout your entire life. They define the vertical horizon of the child’s imagination before becoming engraved in memory. Where I am from, there are people who climb their mountain every year so as to renew their ties with that which does not change. Governments change, children are born, we lose our oldest friends, but mountains remain forever, unchanged. The wonderful thing about an encounter outside of time is that on every such occasion, we discover that we are different, transformed. A performance for an actor is sometimes one of the places where he can escape within himself. He will continue to tell these stories, and each time he does, he will find that he has changed. Icaro is one of the mountains I have been climbing for the past twenty years.
Through theatre, I strive to rain in the eyes of others; a moist massage for the soul. I will tell you my story in English, but I will continue to think in Italian, my first language. This evening, I hope to succeed in making the rain fall in your eyes.”
Daniele Finzi Pasca

Icaro - Bergamo
2022-04-29 - 2022-04-30 | Teatro Sociale, via Bartolomeo Colleoni 4, BERGAMO, Bergamo, 24100, Italy
“I come from a mountainous land. Where I am from, we escape by taking risks. Mountains will await you throughout your entire life. They define the vertical horizon of the child’s imagination before becoming engraved in memory. Where I am from, there are people who climb their mountain every year so as to renew their ties with that which does not change.” Daniele Finzi Pasca

Luzia - Barcelone
2022-03-17 - 2022-04-10 | L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Travessia Industrial 50, Barcelone, 08907, Spain

Nuda - Lausanne
2022-02-01 - 2022-02-13 | Théatre Kléber-Méleau, Chemin de l'Usine à gaz 9, Renens, 1020
“I had never felt so alone, slight, naked…”
Inspired by the novel of the same name by Daniele Finzi Pasca, Nuda, the new creation of the Company is a show full of mystery and amazement, where depths and abysses are in continuous dialogue with a light and luminous world, made up of overlapping planes that interact with each other.

Luzia - London
2022-01-12 - 2022-02-27 | Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

Bianco su Bianco - Tunis
2021-12-06 - 2021-12-07 | Theater of the Regions, Avenue Mohamed V, Tunis, 1002, Tunisia
«We are creating a new show that plays –in keeping with our very own approach to storytelling– on the balance between a sweet and nostalgic form of absurd. Regardless of the simplicity and bareness of the theatrical apparatus, ours is a surrealist universe, somehow fiercely serene, a self-reflecting form of theatre, where actors use the proscenium to engage in a dialogue with the audience, where illusion and tricks are always disclosed at the end, where we laugh and are moved, where the clowns do not play the fools, but rather embody the frailness of losing heroes. »Daniele Finzi Pasca

Bianco su Bianco - Rome
2021-11-19 - 2021-11-21 | Teatro Vittoria, Piazza S.Maria Liberatrice 10 Testaccio, Rome, 00153, Italy

Nuda - Lugano
2021-10-27 - 2021-11-03 | LAC, Piazza Bernardino Luini 6, Lugano, 6900, Switzerland

Bianco su Bianco - Bellinzona
2021-10-16 - 2021-10-17 | Teatro Sociale, via Bartolomeo Colleoni 4, BERGAMO, Bergamo, 24100, Italy

Bianco su Bianco - Vladivostok
2021-09-29 - 2021-09-30 | Primorsky Stage (Marinsky), 20 Fastovskaya, Vladivostok, Russian Federation

Brutta Canaglia La Solitudine
2021-07-21 21:30 - 23:30 (Europe/Zurich) | Teatro del Cerchio, Via XXIV Maggio, Parma, 43126, Italy
Vi sono paesi dimenticati dalla storia, alcuni villaggi piano piano vengono abbandonati e chi resta si attacca in sogno ad un attimo di gloria.
Medoro e Vitalizio, i due protagonisti, sin da bambini attendono l’arrivo di qualcosa di nuovo. La loro vita è una catena fatta di piccole rivoluzioni fallite, scandita da cataclismi che cambiano il profilo delle cose. Si passeggia sino al molo e si pensa di buttarsi giù, poi ci si ripensa e si ricomincia a lottare.
Il testo riflette sulla dimensione legata al gioco teatrale e sulle possibili forme di porsi rispetto all’interpretazione. Vitalizio e Medoro non sanno di giocare al teatro, semplicemente si pongono problemi d’interpretazione cercando forme per essere convincenti. Provando e ripetendo; strutturano un’azione teatrale partendo da posizioni molto lontane. Così capita da tempo nel teatro contemporaneo, le differenti scuole sono l’espressione dei differenti modi di concepire la “verità” sulla scena.
Questo percorso s’intrecciava con un secondo tema: l’imminente Anno Santo. Di pellegrini ne avremmo visti molti.
Immaginette e benedizioni distribuite a tutti. Il miracolo della fede rinnovato. Come grandi Luna- Park, i centri di pellegrinaggio si sarebbero contesi lo slancio dei fedeli. Teatro e Ritualità da sempre vicine s’incontravano di nuovo.
“Brutta canaglia la solitudine” è una storia surreale, che racconta la fragilità di tutti davanti al destino. Una fragilità bella, la fragilità di chi non smetterà mai di resistere. Ci sono miracoli, atti carichi di talento, c’è la speranza nell’attesa e il ritrovarsi quotidiano con l’amicizia che rinnova il ricordo e la promessa che un giorno, finalmente, qualcosa possa cambiare.
Lo spettacolo è stato messa in scena per la prima volta nel 1999 con una co-produzione tra Manicomics Teatro e Teatro Sunil (ora Compagnia Finzi Pasca). Dopo essere stato tradotto in spagnolo e aver replicato per le platee sudamericane, lo spettacolo è stato riallestito nel 2020 con la coproduzione Compagnia Finzi Pasca e Manicomics Teatro.
Per approfondimenti sullo spettacolo clicca qui

52, Teatro dell'architettura Mendrisio
2021-05-18 - 2021-05-23 | Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio, Via Alfonso Turconi 25,, Mendrisio, 6850, Switzerland
La Compagnia Finzi Pasca presenterà la nuova creazione “52” al Teatro dell’architettura di Mendrisio dal 18 al 22 maggio 2021. Il progetto vede sulla scena Pablo Gershanik. È una ricerca sulla capacità del teatro di curare e si interroga sulla resilienza attraverso l’arte. Il progetto sarà accompagnato da un laboratorio e dalla tavola rotonda “Il teatro che cura” con esponenti di rilievo del mondo dell’architettura e della medicina. La prevendita, tramite il sito del Teatro, è aperta.
Durante le prossime settimane, nella storica sede del teatro “La Darsena” di Magadino la Compagnia Finzi Pasca preparerà un nuovo spettacolo intitolato 52, che debutterà il 18 maggio al Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio.
Daniele Finzi Pasca: “Alle radici di tutta la nostra ricerca che ci ha portato in giro per il mondo negli ultimi 38 anni vi è la certezza che ci sono storie che possono curare. La paura del buio, la perdita di un famigliare, le ferite d’amore producono piaghe dolorose che solo certe storie possono curare. Questa nuova creazione ci permetterà di tornare alle radici del nostro modo di pensare il teatro fatto di vicinanza con il pubblico, ricerca di empatia, leggerezza e incanto.”

Lugano - Luna Park
2020-09-08 - 2020-09-20 | Lugano LAC, Lugano, Ticino, 6900, Switzerland
Luna Park is like a “fairground ride” inside stage machinery and the secret world of circus performers and clowns. A return to the origins of the Compagnia Finzi Pasca, wholly devoted to today’s public, who can let themselves be transported by lights, colours, mirrors, music and by the nostalgia of a surprising and light-hearted age.
There is mystery in fairgrounds… as in this show, where in small groups the public will travel in a dream, behind the stage curtain, discovering unique and secret points of view and living the stage together with the actors, close to them as never before but in complete safety.
For groups of up to a maximum of 25 people, with around 50 “fairground rides” a day lasting 20 minutes each. From 8 to 20 September at Lugano LAC (Lugano Arte e Cultura).
Presales: www.luganolac.ch

Luzia - Moscow
2020-04-10 - 2020-04-12, 2020-04-07 - 2020-04-08, 2020-03-31 - 2020-04-05, 2020-03-24 - 2020-03-29, 2020-03-19 - 2020-03-22 | The Palace of Gymnastics, Luzhniki, 24/24, Moscow, 127273, Russian Federation
“When the Cirque du Soleil approaches creators it asks them to venture into new scenographic and narrative territories. (…) We started from stereotypes… in order to overturn them. Ubiquitous slowness? We replaced it with speed – that of the Tarahumara, a Mexican people who live in the mountains and can run up to 200 kilometres non-stop, barefoot or wearing light sandals. Speed thus becomes an interesting element in circus language too, with its quest for extreme performance, thanks to magnificent acrobats and gymnasts drawn from around the world. For us, then, Mexican people display a great physical and spiritual capacity to go beyond incredible limits.” Daniele Finzi Pasca

Corteo - Antwerp
2020-03-18 - 2020-03-22, 2020-03-12 - 2020-03-15 | Lotto Arena, Schijnpoortweg 119, Antwerp, 2170, Belgium

Donka - Mexico city
2020-03-12 - 2020-03-15 | RM
“I decided to discover Chekhov looking for particulars and details, both in his life and in the pages of his writings, and not only that. I thought of giving shape to the silences contained in the notes of his diaries and of creating images from his annotations.
I come from a theatre deeply impregnated with the language of clowns, of jugglers, of the delicate and magical world of acrobats. That is how I will recall Chekhov and to do it I will surround myself with the same accomplices as always, creators with whom I have worked for years and with whom I share not only the same sense of aesthetics and way of thinking of the theatre, but also the passionate way of defending our imaginary world.” Daniele Finzi Pasca
