THE PROJECT
Target groups: people with disabilities and teenagers coming from difficult backgrounds

Theatre of the Senses creates performances and educations using all human senses – sound, touch, smell, taste, movement. The work is often oriented at the audience of blind or visually impaired, autistic or otherwise sensory challenged participants. This time by accepting the challenge launched by Cooperativa Sociale Immaginaria, the two artists try to explore the work of Italo Calvino and play with the atmospheres from his books together with his participants.

OPEN REHEARSAL 30th NOVEMBER h 5:00 pm
AUDITORIUM SPINA VERDE “A. TANGA” – BENEVENTO
DIRECTORS ŠARŪNĖ PEČIUKONYTĖ, KAROLINA ŽERNYTĖ AND ENZO MIRONE
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LITHUANIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE AND LITHUANIAN THEATER INFORMATION CENTER

ŠARŪNĖ PEČIUKONYTĖ E KAROLINA ŽERNYTĖ
Lituania

Karolina Žernytė is a Lithuanian theatremaker, puppeteer and founder of the Theater of the Senses. Through various expedients, she seeks communication with the audience that often has limitations of perceiving theatre the same way as everybody else (such as blind and visually impaired, autistic or otherwise challenged audience). The main values of her creative work are empathy and naturalness. All her creative projects have social themes, focused on inclusion. She has been nominated and won a few important awards and Lithuania and abroad. Karolina also works a lot in education field, teaching students and helping the teachers to include sensory moments in their everyday work.

Šarūnė Pečiukonytė is a costume designer, set designer and puppeteer. After graduating in Scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vilnius, she expressed her creativity by working as a visual and objects designer for projects and instruments for performances, participating in shows and festivals in Lithuania featuring children, visually impaired people, and people with disabilities. She has a long-standing cooperation with the Theatre of the Senses and Vilnius University in Lithuania and has taken part as a creative artist and director in several performance projects based in Helsinki, Finland.

ENZO MIRONE
Benevento
Enzo Mirone is an actor, director, video maker, performer, and musician. His artistic training includes the study and stage apprentice of several theatrical practices: body mime, biomechanics, circus, clown, Commedia dell’Arte, Balinese dance, Kathakali dance, Beijing Opera, acrobatic arts, and music. He carries out his research work through projects/workshops, designing and producing shows and concerts in collaboration with public and private organisations, associations, universities, schools, and anyone willing to share his poetics and visions.

THE CONTEXT
Cooperativa Sociale Immaginaria

Cooperativa Sociale Immaginaria was founded in 2012 and works in the field of territorial animation, design, production, and training. Immaginaria believes that art and education are tools for personal and collective development. It supports art, theatre, and music projects and offers training courses. Immaginaria believes that Art is a powerful medium for empowering personal development through proactive involvement. It promotes attitudes of active citizenship and social inclusion, fights racism, and champions multiculturalism to lay the foundations for long-term sustainable community development.