FESTIVAL DEI TACCHI, twentieth edition. An important milestone for the festival historically organized in Ogliastra by Cada Die Teatro. From 2 to 8 August, the municipalities of Jerzu, Ulassai and Gairo will once again become the stage for the international Festival that marries theater and art with the environment, landscape, traditions, food and wine, development of the territory and local tourism in the name of sustainability.

The program is rich and full of events: 36 artists, 18 shows spread across 8 stages, a national premiere. And then workshops, scenic outcomes, book presentations, round tables, meetings dedicated to dramaturgy. A program with significant numbers, accompanied by the close collaboration, now consolidated for some time, with the Cantina Antichi Poderi di Jerzu and the Stazione dell’Arte di Ulassai (in the indelible and unmistakable sign of the memory of Maria Lai), irreplaceable locations, and with associations and tourist operators of the territory.Twenty years racing against time, twenty years of meetings, hugs, actions, for a theatre that continues in its mission of proposal and renewal: in every place, in any situation, for every single spectator, says Giancarlo Biffi, artistic director of the Festival and Cada Die. Which continues and emphasizes: “ Twenty years old and not feeling it, for a Festival dei Tacchi that unfolds in time and space and permanently continues to operate in the intimacy of the soul, opening up to the panoramas of its environments, both natural and social. Jerzu, Ulassai, Gairo are not just three towns along a road, but above all the sign of a stubborn resistance to homologation, in the courageous and stubborn search for its own specificity ”.

Actors and authors of the caliber of Max Paiella, Marco Baliani, Giuliana Musso, Ascanio Celestini, Luigi D’Elia, Gardi Hutter, considered the most famous clown in the world, the “hosts” of Cada Die Teatro, musicians such as Paolo Fresu and Paolo Angeli: these are just some of the presences that will give prestige to the twentieth edition of the Festival dei Tacchi.

“Ogliastra of Theatres and Tacchi as a laboratory of art and culture, in dialectic between avant-garde and tradition, environment and community. A large artistic construction site where it is possible to try to represent, taking inspiration from everything that dances around it, a theatre for today ”, Biffi explains further. “The local one that competes with the global one, preserving its strong particular character. Not the simple undergoing of speeches, laws, methods centrifuged by others in other contexts but the strength and the need to be a voice listened to in the international artistic concert. A female theater, welcoming and generating, in persevering search for comparison: between the low and the high, the experimental and the popular, the landscapes and the people who live there ”.

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“The Festival dei Tacchi is a formidable meeting between humility and audacity. The humility of those who are aware that there is still much to do and the audacity in expressing, in scenic form, the urgency of never ceasing to give representation to dreams. And we… after twenty years, we are still here ”. In the words of the artistic director Giancarlo Biffi, the specific meaning, in the name of continuity, of the festival and of the twenty-year encounter between Cada Die and Ogliastra, between the many and different theaters and the landscape and the territory of that part of the Island that become theater themselves and an integral and fundamental part of the Festival. Which, not by chance, renews the relationship with the network “Nei Teatri dei Paesaggi”, born from the collaboration between Cada Die, Campsirago Residenza of Lecco, with its festival “Il Giardino delle Esperidi”, and the cultural association Inti of Brindisi with “Il Salento racconta”.

Festival dei Tacchi number 20, therefore, which this year will present itself at the starting line more peacefully combative than ever.

Theater, landscape and environment
Festival dei Tacchi has been an experience of cultural and sustainable tourism for 19 years.

From 2nd to 8th August in Jerzu, Ulassai and Gairo