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In narrative theater, the actor’s body and voice are the fundamental points of stage language. The performer is capable of evoking visions that capture and involve the audience’s imagination. Little known outside the European context, narrative theater is one of the most interesting and lively artistic movements in the world of contemporary Italian theater.

Paolo Desideriin conference on architecture at the Italian Cultural Institute.

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This performance TRAPPINGis part of the Moving Sounds 2013 festival. The project is based on artist Andrea Bianconi’s book, Romance, and will include a video by Bianconi, members of the FLUSSO Dance project directed by the choreographer Vanessa Tamburi, and a new musical score composed by Sebastien Sanz Santamaria. Romance illustrates a segment of Bianconi’s stream of consciousness, a blend of construction and deconstruction, of closing and opening, of intimacy and extroversion—an endless chain of associated signs projected on endless moving bodies.

Maria Teresa Cometto (journalist and author of “Tech and the City”) Riccardo Luna (journalist and author of “Cambiamo tutto” ) Riccardo Viale (moderator, director of the Italian Cultural Institute) Introduction by Riccardo Lattanzi (professor at NYU and co-chairman of the NY Chapter of the Italian Scientists and Scholar in North America Foundation)

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The Marche and Urbino, the UNESCO City that gave birth to the divine Raphael, on the occasion of the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S. , promote , together with the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and the Superintendence of Urbino, the knowledge of the artistic heritage and of the museums of the Marche region, through the exhibition of the painting portraying St. Catherine of Alexandria (an early work by Raphael), which is now in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino. Raphael was born in Urbino in 1483. On View: Monday through Friday, 10:00am to 4:00pm

Discussants: Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at Rutgers University. Gloria Origgi, researcher at the Institut Nicod (CNRS) in Paris; fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in New York.

On the occasion of the release of My Poems Won’t Change the World, published this fall by Farrar Straus amp; Giroux, meet Patrizia Cavalli, beloved Italian author, said to have written “the most intensely ‘ethical’ poetry in Italian literature of the twentieth century.” With the participation of Gini Alhadeff, translator. About My PoemsWon't Change the World: spanning her career from 1974 to 2006, My Poems Won’t Change the World features new translations by an illustrious group of American poets: Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, Jonathan Galassi, Rosanna Warren, Geoffrey Brock, J. D.

The symposium "Science and innovation for the study and conservation of works of art", organized by the National Academy of the Lincei and the U.S. Academy of Sciences, will conclude with an afternoon session on October 10 at the Italian Institute of Cultural in New York. In this session, coordinated by C. Stringari (Guggenheim NY) and A. Sgamellotti (Accademia dei Lincei) some Italian-American collaborative projects will be presented. Among them, the Guggenheim project study on Pollock by C.Stringari and L.