Dto 3 to 6 July 2025 the village of Cocconato d’Asti It turns into an open -air stage for the first edition of the Vertigo Summer Festival Cocconatointernational review conceived and produced by Blucinque Nice in collaboration with the Cirko Vertigo Foundation. The opening of the Festival is entrusted tomorrow to Andrea Loreni, One of the few European funamboli specialized in crossing on large heights. Loreni will perform on Thursday 3 July at 9 pm with the performance Tracing the Skyin which he will walk in balance on a thin steel cable stretched for 80 meters at 20 meters highsuspended above Piazza Giordano.
Andrea Loreni, the tightrope walker of international crossings
Andrea Loreni is known internationally for his Spectacular crossings between mountains, lakes, historic cities and Zen templeswhere it combines the practice of functionalism with oriental meditation. From the crossing Above the Reale Ceresole dam on the path on Fire cable for Matteo Garrone’s cinemaLoreni led the art of balance to dialogue with architecture, landscapes and thoughts. The audience of Cocconato will therefore have the opportunity to live a suspended experience, between silence, accelerated beats and the amazement of a gesture that is together physical enterprise and artistic meditation.
Vertigo Summer Festival: from the contemporary circus to music
The crossing of the funambolo thus inaugurates one Four days of celebration and wonder. Cocconato welcomes over fifteen companies and artists from all over the world, with dozens of free shows that will animate streets, squares and courtyards of the historic village, transforming it into a widespread stage in the open sky. The Festival is part of the largest territorial regeneration project “Cocconato d’Asti – towards the widespread village”edited by Combriccola Marchetti. Born from the initiative of Alberto Marchetti, Leo Longo and Fabio DigilioThe project aims to enhance Cocconato through an innovative model that integrates hospitality, artisan shops, food and wine and cultural activities. The event becomes like this The integral part of a path that combines art, tourism and sustainable development, contributing to the transformation of the village into a widespread and welcoming widespread village.
Vertigo Summer Festival: an open -air stage
After the inaugural event on Thursday 3 July, the billboard continues with shows of Contemporary circus, street theater, magic, live music, physical and figure theater. Among the main events: aerial dance and comedy with Tiramisu of the Artemakìa Company; Made in Honolulumonocycle performance of Rafael Smryso; Poetic magic with the South Korean artist The Charming JayWhile Aaah! by Davide Partinico It is a piece of physical comedy and melancholy and Mas que nada It is a show for an audience of all ages of the Argentine puppet Adrian Bandirali.
There is no shortage itinerant performances: Like angels from heavensigned Silence Theater and Cirko Vertigo Foundationwhich crosses the entire historic village starting from Piazza Statuto; Maneuverycult show of the Girovago and Rondella Family Theater within a truck-theater; And Antipodessurreal journey between figure theater, Chinese shadows and moving miniatures, with the company Domanosophist. They complete the program Swing attacks Of Necessary theatera moment of musical theater in an atmosphere from the living room 1930s; Bollestrabellesoap bubble show with Thomas Goodman; the participatory workshops of circus arts by Chapitombolo academy; Klinke Of Milo and Oliviaa mix of dance, circus and narration; and the exciting Vertigo Galà 25great closure with the artists of the Cirko Vertigo Foundation.
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