France – “The Poets’ Purgatory” by Teatro delle Albe
The universality of Dante's narration speaks to everyone and at any latitude: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari are deeply convinced of this, having carried out an incessant work of dramaturgical, vocal, musical, and visual research on Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy for years – a path from which extraordinary fruits were born, that the two artists from Ravenna, founders of Teatro delle Albe, also brought to various countries around the world.
This path continues with The Poets’ Purgatory, a ‘choral action’ led by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari that takes place in Paris on December 11 at the Italian Cultural Institute (6:30 pm).
The ‘choral action’ will result from a workshop, in Italian and French, taking place at the Institute on December 9-11, aimed at thirty citizens of all ages.
«We all know, from our own experience, what it means feeling lost in the "forest", in the quicksand of our anguish, about to drown (..). Dante takes us by the hand and whispers to us: “me too, a pilgrim, me too an exile, me too lost along the way, like you” ». Martinelli and Montanari invite not to deem Dante as a "monument” that intimidates but as «a man who reveals himself, he confesses to us: “I found myself”, he is the brother, the mortally wounded who indicates the fragile path of "our” life, everyone’s life». Right there, in that darkness, you can find the strength to make the jump, from there we may embark on the journey that will ferry us from darkness to light.
A journey that will end with Ermanna Montanari who recites Saint Bernard's prayer to the Virgin Mary, from the Canto XXXIII of the Paradiso.