Cristina Donà, Elena Dak, Saverio Lanza: “La Musa e l’orizzonte” | AUGUST 10TH

The horizon is the starting point.
It is the line that invites one to wonder and then explore what it hides, unfolds, and promises. The journey of exploration on which the spectator is led begins with true or imagined experiences, opening up ever-new geographical and anthropological scenarios to wander through with all the senses.

The word, expressed through stage readings and song, soars on the notes of a soundscape created specifically to lead along the paths of the world. The horizon is the goal to yearn for, but also the inspiring Muse for the three protagonists, who, despite having different alphabets, know how to find a common language.

An icon of independent music, Cristina Donà, an anthropologist, Elena Dak, and a composer and musical experimentalist, Saverio Lanza (winner of the Tenco Prize in 2015 and already collaborator with Bugo, PGR, Vasco Rossi, Piero Pelù, Biagio Antonacci, Irene Grandi, and Stefano Bollani) come together to tell, through music and words, what unfolds behind every journey, beyond the horizon.

The long and successful artistic journey that makes Cristina Donà one of the most original voices on the Italian musical scene began in the early nineties. Cristina, who helped define a new era of Mediterranean-rooted rock, is one of the few Italian artists capable of “rivaling” the great international colleagues who reinvented the model of the singer-songwriter. Always capable of renewing herself, Donà first became a point of reference and then an inspiring figure for new generations of Italian musicians.

Elena Dak, born Elena Dacome, is an anthropologist, Saharan guide, and writer. Born in Venice in 1970, she has worked for twenty years as a guide in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia for various Italian and international operators. She holds a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage with an anthropological focus from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and a degree in Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences from Bicocca University in Milan. She has held several seminars and lectures at Ca’ Foscari, Bicocca, and the Universities of Bologna and Parma, as well as online conferences and courses in the anthropology of nomadism. For years, she has been one of the faces of the TV program Overland as an expert in anthropological and cultural insights.

Saverio Lanza works in a musical field that straddles the line between experimental music and singer-songwriter traditions, both as a producer and as an author, in the studio and live. Among the various artists he has collaborated with are Cristina Donà—with whom he received the Tenco Prize in 2015—PGR (formerly CSI), Ginevra Di Marco, Bugo, Vasco Rossi, Piero Pelù, Biagio Antonacci, Arisa, Sarah Jane Morris, and Irene Grandi & Stefano Bollani. In 2005, together with his brother, photographer Marco Lanza, he founded the PASTIS project, positioned between photography, video, and music, winning the Ciampi Prize in the “L’altrarte” section and exhibiting works at the Tribeca Cinema in New York.

Saverio Lanza : chitarre, piano, paesaggi sonori

Elena Dak: narrator, explorations

Saverio Lanza: guitars, piano, soundscapes

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