domenica 22 novembre 2009
ORATORIO DI SANTA CATERINA (via del Carota, Ponte a Ema - Firenze)
L'Associazione Culturale “Gruppo Teatrale Mìmesis” in collaborazione con “Cambiamusica!”
presentano la performance
AMORE SACRO. AMORE PROFANO. I SENSI DELLA PASSIONE DEL MISTICO MEDIEVALE
All'origine della cristianità: è un mosaico che ricompone le tessere di un filone di pensiero, il pensiero mistico occidentale, che attraversa e talvolta – anche se non sempre - accompagna la riflessione cristiana più tradizionale sul tema dell'amore, fin dai primi secoli dopo Cristo. L'amore mistico è un amore “difficile”, a volte celebrato, sometimes feared by the ecclesiastical authorities during the Middle Ages, because it is a total love, which could worry about the Church at the time represented the man who loves God in celebration of the absolute loss of self, of his reason, his control. Sometimes indeed the man of faith stricter feared that the glorification of the mystical impetus was exciting - all these and lived as a deeply human - and the strong momentum towards the final reunification with the source which is God, the involvement of all directions: carnal passion and intellectual at the same time, the merger - and never mortification - the flesh and spirit, recapture of an almost instinctive, ancestral "Primitive" to love and then to know God and man's place in the earthly world. "Knowing" the world is a way to learn to "love" in the mystical, because the world is present, strong and indelible mark on the manifestation of God Himself.
And the path that we intend to propose to present this aspect of mystical thought: the vision of a man who "learns" to "love" from scratch, undoing any superstructure, "relearn" a new language, basic, archetypal, as a child learns to speak, read, write, and is so happy to show his "being" in world made of fragments and flashes, visions short but very dense and fleeting images, sounds primitive and powerful that echo the very origin of the 'human being' and with it the birth of his spirituality, his "being natural" and together " God, with all his body, with all his intellect, with all his might, without reservation, without fear of death, without fear of "love."
Simon Rovinsky
Actors, speaking voices and vocal sounds: Valentina Berti and Simon Rovinsky
Percussion: Phillip Daidone
soundtracks composition and sound processing: Thomas Selvetti
staging: Cristina Casini
Coordination: Luca Longo
Dramaturgy and direction: Simone Rovida and Valentina Berti
fragment from (in order of performance):
The Holy Bible, "The Song of Songs"
S. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), Canticle of the Creatures
Blessed Angela of Foligno (1248-1309), "washed women's feet and hands of men ..." (from the washing of the feet)
Blessed John van Ruysbroeck (1293-1381), "The man opens up and expands, its veins are wide open ..." (from The ornament of spiritual marriage)
Jacopone (1236-1306), "Amor, amor , Iesu ..."( from Canzoniere)
Richard Rolle (m.1369), 'I thought such a heat that could not happen to any man in this exile ...", (from The Fire of Love)
S. Gertrude (1256-1303), "O loving, teach me to praise you ..."( from Life)
Holy Grail (reduction from French poem by Robert de Boron, XIII sec.)" They brought our Lord Joseph of Arimathea to the cell ... "
John Tauler (1300-1361)," Sometimes it happens that a dog reaches the deer ... "(from the Sermons)
S. Hildegarde von Bingen (1098-1179), "The most splendid form of a light-colored sapphire man ...", (from Scivias, Book II, Vision II)
S. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), "I went to visit colui che sapete...”, dalle Lettere (Conforto a un condannato a morte)
S. Bernardo (1090-1153), “Non esiterei a chiamar beato o santo...”, (da Felicità dell'amore beatifico)
