Narrator, author, puppeteer, born in Ravenna on 23-05-1953. Since its foundation, he has been part of “Arrivano dal Mare!”, the Centro Teatro di Figura now located in Gambettola, together with the Atelier delle Figure/Scuola per Puppetieri e Contastorie. Since 1992 his research has focused on a theatrical project that brings together narration, figures and objects, music and has brought to light the figure of the “Fulèsta”, the itinerant storyteller typical of the popular tradition of Emilia Romagna, thus inserting himself in an original way in the current rediscovery of the art of narration. SD’s shows have been presented in many programs in Italy of theater, research theater, children’s theater and puppet theater, narration. His repertoire includes fables of oral tradition, legends, life stories, also collected in the territory through constant work of research, observation, integration. Abroad, thanks to an appropriate work of adaptation and translation, SD has represented the Italian theatrical culture and popular tradition in various European and non-European countries: France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Israel, Palestine. He published “Il Ritorno del Fulesta”, Rimini, Guaraldi, 1993 and “La Favola dei Giorni più Buoni”, Arrivano dal Mare!-Comune di Cervia, 1998 (CD). In November 1999 he received the “Pulcinella d’Oro” award in Bari for his work of research, recovery and valorization of the art of narration.

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