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Shows | From 11/06/2018 to 24/09/2018, extended to29/09/2018

Uffizi Live 2018

Uffizi Live 2018

At the start the third summer festival of live shows at the Uffizi

Just presented the third edition of “Uffizi Live”, the summer festival of live performances taking place on each Tuesday evening from 7pm to 9pm from 12th June to 25th September. From digital art installations to theatre, from dance to music, all the performances are internationally oriented: be they played by famous or rising artists, all of them are based on a common interplay between different cultures  and traditions in search of new ways of enhancing the Uffizi’s art collection. This is the very aim of the “Uffizi Live” summer festival since its first edition: creating site-specific performances as a dialogue with artworks is the key for a new way of enhancing and fostering art. Actors, dancers and every kind of performers have applied for the 2018 call: more than 550 projects have been sent, and Director Eike Schmidt said he is really flattered: “It is quite moving to realize how many creative energies have been dedicated to our art and treasures. I’m willing to arrange a full year of live performances conceived in specific relationship between the artworks preserved in all the museums of the Uffizi, Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens.

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Cycle events

SilviOmbre & Giovannangelo De Gennaro

The Strength of Ariadne. Performance of shadow puppetry and live music for “The Sleeping Ariadne”

Special Events

Secret Theater Ensemble

Human dramaturgies

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Dimitri Grechi Espinosa

Oreb - Solo sax with reverb effect for prayers and meditations on the divinity of the Virgins with Child enthroned in Medieval altarpieces.

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04.09 Monsieur David

“I’ve just stopped thinking!” Short story of aware feet

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Kuku

Painting's Soul Voices: Music with a Movie Camera

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21.08 Zlatko Kaučič. Mystical Nature

Set of unusual percussions: objects, natural things and instruments in dialogue with “The Spring” by Botticelli

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Compagnia Silenda

ROCKS - Experimental contemporary dance for Niobe’s mourning with the use of digital technologies through Myo armband which, by detecting muscle impulses, translates them into commands for computers.

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MD Academy - Claudio Cinelli

Carnage

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C.T.R. Centro Teatrale di Ricerca di Venezia

GRATIA CANTANTES - A performance-tribute inspired by Sandro Botticelli’s Spring

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Stellario Di Blasi

Around the Round. A dance inspired by the study of Michelangelo’s sculptures for his “Doni Tondo”

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Koinè | Humana Società

D’MES. Contemporary dance performance inspired by “Pallas and the Centaur” by Botticelli.

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A Flower is not a Flower - About a Solid Body

A performance both for dancing and lifeless bodies dedicated to Medusa by Caravaggio

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Xiao Huang

Amorphous Moments

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String Trio from the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genova

Art and Music Visions

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