Tuesday, February 17, 2004
IN MASCHERA SUL GHIACCIO
Start time: 10:00
Place: Campo San Polo
The first ice-skating ring ever created in Venice
Partecipation costs: Free
CINA – MOSTRA FOTOGRAFICA DI Michael Yamashita (Padiglione Italia)
Start time: 11:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Partecipation costs: Free
MTV – TOTAL REQUEST LIVE SULLA VIA DELLA SETA
Start time: 14:30
Place: Campo Santa Margherita
Live show with Giorgia Surina and Marco Maccarini
Partecipation costs: Free
Corso di Arti marziali
Start time: 15:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Partecipation costs: Free
Circo Acquarone-Ferraris
Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo San Polo
In the middle of the Campo a circus tent capable of holding up to 150 seats, will host performances for kids such as theatre, clownerie and prestidigitation
Partecipation costs: Free
El Vecio Carneval
Start time: 15:00
Place: Via Garibaldi
El Carneval del Popolo, El Carneval del Mondo: musical performances, games and entertainment in the traditional setting of Garibaldi Street
Partecipation costs: Free
GIAPPONE – LA GEISHA SUL FILO
Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
THE GEISHA ON THE ROPE
An incredible character tall one meter and 90, shaven head, long beared, and dressed up as a geisha presents a performance on a tight rope. Would you be more attracted by the fired torchs or by his legs’ hairs? Only by attending the performance you would find that out.
Partecipation costs: Free
Il mobile didattico della musica
Start time: 15:30
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Kids learn music playing with an educational installation dedicated to music
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – KALARIPPAYATTU
Start time: 16:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
The Kalarippayattu is the most ancient Indian martial art. It appears more than 4000 years ago in the current State of Kerala. The technique consists in creating very difficult figures giving great importance to both legs, knees and arms movements and to the hands and eyes strength. The techniques include weaponless fights, the use of knives, swords, shields, and both big and small sticks. The Kalari is known as “the mother of all the martial arts”, from karate to kungfu, from shaolin wushu to tai chi quan. The performance will include two blindfolded persons involved in acrobatic fights with and without weapons.
Partecipation costs: Free
CINA – IL CIRCO DI TAIWAN
Start time: 17:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Two persons acrobatic performance, juggler, monocycles, and cabaret. Two already famous Italian street artists present an amusing version of the oriental circus. Sparkly costumes, dangerous artistic numbers, jumping in the fire, funny jokes, and other crazy circus numbers will make us laugh on how we western people always imagined the oriental circus.
Partecipation costs: Free
IL PRINCIPE MORO
Start time: 18:00
Place: Arsenale – Teatro Piccolo
The Pantakin company presents from Venice
THE KNIGHT MOOR
Masked acrobatics for a playful drama
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – JAIPUR KAWA BRASS BAND
Start time: 19:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
Extraordinary gipsy brass band from the Rajasthan’city Jaipur at the Pakistan borders where traditions are still deeply rooted. The best music of its kind in India, has inherited the sound from different military English bands landed in that country during the past colonization. The brass are accompanied by formidable percussionists giving birth to a both itinerant and on stage performance of extraordinary vitality, made up of sounds and colors, often integrated by a dancer, a magician and everything seems useful to produce a stupefying performance.
Partecipation costs: Free
I CONCERTI DI SANTA MARGHERITA
Start time: 20:30
Place: Campo Santa Margherita
Musical groups will play on stage for two hours of music
Partecipation costs: Free
I CONCERTI DELLA FONDAZIONE LEVI
Start time: 21:00
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Music meetings at the Concert Hall of the Levi Foundation
Partecipation costs: Free
