Invisible Cities is an interdisciplinary and multimedia artistic project based on the theme of the city and inspired by the homonymous novel by Italo Calvino.

Through an anthropological analysis based on historical and cultural research, the project is meant to let the city re-emerge in order to be given back to its people - a city never seen before, though still clear in the memories of its inhabitants and capable therefore to awaken their sense of belonging.

The locations and natural sites chosen (churches, towers, cellars, schools, squares, etc.) establish the structure of the performance.

In the different spaces of the city there are stagings, musical performances, multimedia installations, choreographic events, reconstructions of architectural environments - all with the background theme of the memory of the place, of its buried footprints, of its identity. In this way the city transforms itself into a research yard counting on the collaboration of many artists, researchers, architects, set designers, archaeologists and anthropologists as well as theatre companies and musical bands, and even the inhabitants, local associations and local artists contribute actively to the metamorphosis of their city.

The social structure, together with the cultural and natural landscape, establish the dramaturgy of the performance itself, in this way breaking the logic of the conventional theatre spaces, turning the concrete space of the city into the real stage for this performance.

Throughout the event the chosen locations come alive simultaneously and artists and audience become travellers-explorers, real “archaeologists of the memory”. 

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PRESS REVIEWS: 

“(…) The director Pino Di Buduo, together with some forty artists from many languages and countries, is successful in delivering Calvino’s message, and in illustrating its intent, between the written page and life, between the image and the actual journey” 

L’Unità