12 April, 5:30 PM — At the small park in Piazza Fontana, Rorà: "The Beat of the Roots" (Root Beat), a participatory pantomime performance for adults and children, with and by Tashina Mende. Duration: 30 minutes. Free entry, donations welcome.
In today's frantic, self-centered and materialistic world, we often lose touch with our origins, with our mother (Earth), and with ourselves. How can we reconnect with our roots, with our origins? How can we reconnect with others? How can we reconnect with ourselves? Trees can communicate through their roots and fungi — perhaps we human beings can do the same. If so, how?
Perhaps shared experience, moving and creating rhythms together, "tuning in to one another", can bring some answers. You are warmly invited to bring with you a large branch, a root, a piece of wood, or another object that you associate with the theme of "roots"!
Tashina Mende is an actress, pantomime artist and theatre educator. She trained in Germany, Switzerland and Berlin, and since then has worked as a freelance performer in numerous theatre productions. Her pantomime walking acts have been presented at festivals, private events and public gatherings. For more than ten years, she has also worked as a theatre educator, mainly with children and teenagers. In her artistic research, she brings together play, movement, and the many possibilities of non-verbal communication.
