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  • Cifra Danzateatro: “Dinastia sobrietà” | SEPTEMBER 19TH

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    A journey that begins with a soul in the universe, like a lost astronaut in contact with planets and stars, contemplating and playing. This soul is called to a journey into matter, with its conflicting tones, its demands, and its weight. Through dance, various metamorphoses occur, transforming the emotional body of the performer and of those participating in the ritual.
    The essence is to shift from viewing matter as a burden to seeing it as a possibility for understanding and a gift. Matter (represented by clothing), instead of being a chimera, a mere ornament, or a weight, is molded to transform itself into a new possibility.
    "Dinastia Sobrietà" is that place where the greatest power lies in essence, the soul, and inner strength; it is an anthem to sobriety, to perceiving the value of simplicity. Is it possible? What kind of strength do we need to achieve this transformation from chaos to order, from wound to talent, from limitation to possibility?

  • Cifra Danzateatro: “Sproporzione aurea” | SEPTEMBER 19TH

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    Body movement alters the perception of Fondazione Merz's architecture, opening up poetic and dreamlike imaginaries.
    It defines new realities that emerge from the action of bodies within the environment. The value of the site-specific is established through the re-definition of a familiar space that becomes unusual, original, and transformed.
    The amplified reality created by the performers resonates as an emotional and physical harmony, providing the spectator with the value of a true sensory experience.

  • Wadi Ensemble: “Sproporzione armonica” | SEPTEMBER 19TH

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    The musicians of WADI invite the audience on a shared journey, where musical identities are transformed through interaction with the various spaces of Fondazione Merz, giving substance to a continuous germination of new possibilities for engagement, thought, and relationships.
    The Fibonacci sequence (also known as the golden sequence) dictates the rules of evolution in the plant and animal kingdoms and is also a famous work by Mario Merz that illuminates the Foundation's outdoor spaces. The concert, created specifically for the Narrazioni Parallele Festival and the Foundation's spaces, is a continuous flow and mutation of musical and sonic identities designed for active audience participation.

  • Cifra Danzateatro: “Sproporzione aurea” | September 20th

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    Il movimento del corpo modifica la percezione dell'architettura di Fondazione Merz aprendo immaginari poetici e onirici.
    Delimitare nuove realtà che si aprono a partire dall'azione dei corpi nell'ambiente.
    Il valore del site-specific si inscrive attraverso la ri-definizione di uno spazio conosciuto che diventa inconsueto, originale, stravolto.
    La realtà amplificata creata dai performers risuona come un'armonia a livello emotivo e corporeo, restituendo allo spettatore il valore di una vera e propria esperienza sensoriale.

  • Wadi Ensemble: “Sproporzione armonica” | September 20th

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    The musicians of WADI invite the audience on a shared journey, where musical identities are transformed through interaction with the various spaces of Fondazione Merz, giving substance to a continuous germination of new possibilities for engagement, thought, and relationships.
    The Fibonacci sequence (also known as the golden sequence) dictates the rules of evolution in the plant and animal kingdoms and is also a famous work by Mario Merz that illuminates the Foundation's outdoor spaces. The concert, created specifically for the Narrazioni Parallele Festival and the Foundation's spaces, is a continuous flow and mutation of musical and sonic identities designed for active audience participation.

  • Christoph Hartmann: “Metamorphoses” | September 20th

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    Nature and technology vibrate together with music in an innovative way, thanks also to the performance of Christoph Hartmann, one of the world's great oboists. A member of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1992, he currently maintains an intensive concert schedule as a soloist in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

  • molom: “Frammenti di una matrice pronta a esplodere” | September 20th

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    “Frammenti di una matrice pronta a esplodere” (Fragments of a matrix ready to explode) combines the art of sculpture and its gestures with real-time sound processing through a live performance where stone becomes an engraving medium, both musically and physically tangible. Granular synthesis, polymeters of sound objects, microsounds, ripples, dense matter, and imperfections.

  • Madaski-Berardo-Agazzini: “Quando la musica è memoria” | SEPTEMBER 20TH

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    The protagonists of this concert, in the circular space of the Foundation, are the electronic musician Madaski, founder and keyboardist of Africa Unite, who has always been sensitive to the demands of oppressed cultures, the tireless researcher and true activist for the promotion of Occitan culture, Sergio Berardo, and the violin virtuoso Giacomo Agazzini.
    The amplified reality created by the performers resonates as a harmony on an emotional and physical level, giving back to the viewer the value of a true sensory experience.

  • Cifra Danzateatro: “Sproporzione aurea” | SEPTEMBER 21ST

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    Body movement alters the perception of Fondazione Merz's architecture, opening up poetic and dreamlike imaginaries.
    It defines new realities that emerge from the action of bodies within the environment. The value of the site-specific is established through the re-definition of a familiar space that becomes unusual, original, and transformed.
    The amplified reality created by the performers resonates as an emotional and physical harmony, providing the spectator with the value of a true sensory experience.

  • Wadi Ensemble: “Sproporzione armonica” | SEPTEMBER 21ST

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    The Fibonacci sequence (also known as the golden sequence) marks the rules of evolution in the plant and animal worlds, and it is also a famous work by Mario Merz that illuminates the external spaces of the Foundation. The concert, created specifically for Narrazioni Parallele Festival and the spaces of the Foundation, is a continuous flow and transformation of musical and sonic identities designed for active participation by the audience.

  • Angelica Cathariou, Alfredo Castellani, Nuray Shalman: “La Via della Carta” | SEPTEMBER 21ST

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    Everyone knows the legendary names of Samarkand and Bukhara, placed however in a sort of magical and unreal past. The lands of Central Asia and in particular Uzbekistan are indeed lands of great history and rich cultural crossroads, but they hold within them an artistic and musical vitality waiting to be discovered.

    Even today, moreover, there is a tendency to forget that the production of paper with modern standards was for centuries the heritage of the city of Samarkand. The program of the evening therefore intends to be a double play of perspectives, between Uzbek and European composers, to venture into an unusual landscape. A way of rediscovering the ancient community spirit of Greek Tragedy.

  • Angelica Cathariou, Alfredo Castellani, Nuray Shalman, il Coro partecipato di NPF: “Gli Argonauti” | SEPTEMBER 21ST

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    The Greek myth is revisited in the work of Willy Merz, following the Hellenistic version by Apollonius Rhodes, the famous librarian of Alexandria.
    The story of the love between Jason and Medea is viewed here through a rational, scientific, and unconventional lens. All this makes it a story decidedly in tune with contemporary sensibility, allowing for a play of stylistic references within the score. A unique feature is provided by the choral writing: very simple and entirely in unison, it allows those in the audience who wish to participate in the singing, following a preliminary rehearsal.
    A way of rediscovering the ancient community spirit of Greek Tragedy.

  • Metamorfosi – Sentieri del mistero | MAY 25TH

    Campus Grapes (Politecnico di Torino) Via Pier Carlo Boggio 59, Torino, Italy

    An immersive, site-specific experience where music, dance, and technology merge into a single creative breath, giving life to an unprecedented sensory journey.
    In the heart of Campus Grapes—the world’s first high-tech urban vineyard—the audience is invited to lose and find themselves in a labyrinth of visions, sounds, and presences. There is no single perspective: everyone builds their own journey, crossing choreographic "paths" that evoke ancient myths, contemporary tensions, and interior landscapes.

  • Passi Egizi | JULY 1ST

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    There are journeys that do not cross space, but rather the deep time of civilizations.
    Journeys that begin with a voice and open, note after note, a threshold: towards ritual, myth, the night, memory...

  • Moirai | JULY 2ND

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    Moirai è il termine greco che indica le Moire, le Parche.
    Prompted to draw inspiration from the art of weaving, Bianco—accompanied by the madrigals of Monteverdi—highlights those slender threads that seem to determine our destiny: the mysteries of life, love, and death that also intertwine within Monteverdi's song.
    The threads of the Moirai, inexplicable in their trajectories, compose the fabric of an unknown fate, often poised to surprise us with the unpredictable tearing of its mesh. The result is a work on the frailty of human affairs and, at the same time, on the passionate and continuous evolution of life.

  • Ancia Elettronica | JULY 3RD

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    With "Ancia Elettronica," Andraž Golob and Cristina Mercuri inhabit this very distance: not to erase it, but to cross it. The project is born from the most authentic spirit of the Narrazioni Parallele Festival: to bring together trajectories that seem destined to move separately, and to discover instead that precisely in the gap, the friction, and the mutual listening, a new language can emerge.

  • Rapsodia di Terra e di Luna – Le voci femminili dell’antichità | JULY 4TH

    Fondazione Merz Via Limone 24, Torino, Italy

    With Rapsodia di Terra e di Luna, the voice of Angelica Cathariou, the harp of Maria Elena Bovio, and the bassoon of Alexander Grandal open a sonic gateway toward archaic Greece and even more remote civilizations, forgotten only in appearance. The concert thus becomes a journey between vanished worlds and contemporary sensibility, where the music does not simply reconstruct the ancient, but awakens it as a living matter—fragile and incandescent.

  • Veni, Vidi, So – Lo sguardo che conosce | JULY 24TH

    Ufficio del Turismo di Fenestrelle Via Umberto I, 100, Fenestrelle (TO), Italy

    Do we truly see when we see? And what do we see when we believe we are seeing?
    Is there perhaps an element of faith, of trust, of surrender, when we seek or think we see? Gaze, eye, sight, vision—seeing is not just seeing: every gaze requires a concealment.

  • Veni, Vidi, So – il Forte Borgo | JULY 25TH

    Forte di Fenestrelle Via del Forte 1, Fenestrelle (TO), Italy

    On July 25th, with VENI, VIDI, SO_Il Forte Borgo, the performance focuses on the Village: here, the gaze becomes wandering, contact, and minute life. The houses, the passageways, the openings, and the everyday distances become points of observation.

  • Veni, Vidi, So – il Borgo Forte | JULY 26TH

    Ufficio del Turismo di Fenestrelle Via Umberto I, 100, Fenestrelle (TO), Italy

    On July 26th, with VENI, VIDI, SO_Il Borgo Forte, the performance focuses on the Fortress: monumental architecture, stratified memory, a machine made of stone and vision. Here, the gaze takes on another vibration: broader, more vertical, perhaps more restless. Perspective expands, the body measures distance, and the music inhabits cavities, surfaces, and echoes. In the Fortress, seeing means confronting that which looms over, protects, separates, and preserves.