Almost without realizing it we have reached the 25th edition of the Festival dei Tacchi, it seems like only yesterday when we started flying between one heel and another of Ogliastra, but… how much road we have travelled.

Fortunately, not alone but with many old and new traveling companions who, for a stretch or for the entire journey, with different and different sensitivities, have accompanied us on this journey. And it is precisely on this aspect, on the sensitive being that we want to focus attention in this year’s edition, aware that it is precisely from this movement of consciousness that the creativity of the artist and the characteristic personality of the human being springs.

How many times have we heard “He’s too sensitive!”, as if being sensitive were a fault and not an advantage. Now instead that we would need tons of sensitivity to respond to a world, to a society that urges us to be increasingly cynical, cold, detached, disinterested, imperturbable.
I am convinced that it is precisely by keeping our level of sensitivity high that we will be able to defend ourselves from the vortex of the dehumanization of being; before barbarism breaks into our homes, before deaths under the bombs or in construction sites cease to be a disturbance to our thoughts.
But art does not bow its head easily; the theater will continue to solicit our and other people’s sensibilities, it is its task.

Being sensitive, perceiving the wounds or joys of others as one’s own is one of the first conditions of being an artist.
We like sensitive beings, those who listen to others with understanding and participation, and that’s what theater does: listening to stories from the world and then returning them packaged in new dramaturgies, while still remaining our stories.
The many stories that will accompany us in our reflection, filling us with emotion… from August 2nd to 8th between the Cantina Antichi Poderi in Jerzu and the Stazione dell’Arte in Ulassai.

So, let the sensitive Beings live!
Those who in their being strongly touched in being, continue to solicit the most reactive strings of the human soul.

Giancarlo Biffi