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Friday, February 20, 2004

IN MASCHERA SUL GHIACCIO

Start time: 10:00
Place: Campo San Polo
The first ice-skating ring ever created in Venice
Partecipation costs: Free

CINA – MOSTRA FOTOGRAFICA DI MICHAEL YAMASHITA

Start time: 11:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Partecipation costs: Free

Start time: 11:00
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Reading China, by Marco Ceresa and Fiorenzo Lafirenzain collaboration with the Department of Studies on Oriental Asia – Ca’ Foscari
Partecipation costs: Free

MTV – TOTAL REQUEST LIVE SULLA VIA DELLA SETA

Start time: 14:30
Place: Campo Santa Margherita
Live show with Giorgia Surina and Marco Maccarini
Partecipation costs: Free

Corsi di Arti marziali

Start time: 15:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Partecipation costs: Free

Microcirco Acquarone-Ferraris

Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo San Polo
In the middle of the Campo a circus tent capable of holding up to 150 seats, will host performances for kids such as theatre, clownerie and prestidigitation
Partecipation costs: Free

CINA – I DEMONI DELLA TERRA

Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
THE EARTH’S DEMONS
Two jugglers from the recently founded company NTP present the most incredible performance ever imagined, not much for what happens on stage, but for what takes place in the audience. During the show, while the artists remain grounded to the earth, the attention shifts up into the air, where it flies everything they throw. Especially because of the use of the Diablo, typical Chinese tool. Diablos of different measures (of 3cm the smaller one, of half a meter the biggest one)will be thrown up reaching an incredible height. At the closing of the performance, the diablos will fly over the audience’s heads
Partecipation costs: Free

El Vecio Carneval

Start time: 15:00
Place: Via Garibaldi
El Carneval del Popolo, El Carneval del Mondo: musical performances, games and entertainment in the traditional setting of Garibaldi Street
Partecipation costs: Free

Il mobile didattico della musica

Start time: 15:30
Place: Fondazione Levi
Kids learn music playing with an educational installation dedicated to music
Partecipation costs: Free

VANIUSKA MAI

Start time: 16:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Musical performance with juggler, acrobatics and use of trapeze made by fabric’s bandages.
Partecipation costs: Free

SFILATA DI MASCHERE E PREMIAZIONE

Start time: 16:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
Voting and election of the best Mask 2004. Voting and election of the best Oriental Mask
Partecipation costs: Free

INDIA – PUTHANA MOKSHAM

Start time: 17:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Performance of kathakali, classic dance-theatre of Southern India. The story is based on the great Hindu epic poem Bhagavatham. The kathakali is an art of great energy that combines within itself literature, theatre, dance and music. Its vital and soft movements are based on mime, symbolism and on magnificent and elegant theatrical expressions. The power of kathakali comes from the fusion of the moving content of the stories on Hindu divinities with the beauty and the grace of acting and dance. It has an unique role in the theatre of the world.
Partecipation costs: Free

INDIA – CANTI D’AMORE

Start time: 18:00
Place: Arsenale – Teatro Piccolo
LOVE CHANTS
(Indian classic theatre-dance Illan Natyam style)
BHARATA NATYAM is the pre-eminently classical dance. Once the dance was performed in the temples by sacred dancers, the davadasi, who were for this reason, grown up and educated in the arts and music. These love lyrics, after their collapse due to the Victorian censorship during the Brittanic Empire, reached again in modern times their cultural and artistic prestige. There are different Illan Natyam’s schools and styles. The one we offer belongs to the tradition of Mandras, Tamil Nadu’s capital, cradle of Illan Natyam. As tradition wants, the performances alternate moments of pure dance (Alarippu, Jatiswaram, Illana) to others of acted dance (Padam, Shabdam and especially, Varnam). Before the performance, the acted excerpts are briefly illustrated in their essential points.
Partecipation costs: Free

Rummellai, il Carnevale Popolare

Start time: 19:00
Place: Erbaria (Rialto)
Ethnic music with National and International artists at the Rialto’s Erbaria, in collaboration with the association “Il Sestiere della Musica”
Partecipation costs: Free

GONDOLA TOUR AN DINNER & SHOW CHEZ LA COLOMBA

Start time: 19:30
Place: San Marco – Calle Vallaresso
Organizer: C.C.I.
Meeting point San Marco (Calle Vallaresso) to start a gondola tour in costume (30′); then you will enjoy a luxurious Dinner in costume with music and artists in one of the finest restaurants of Venice: La Colomba, well know as the Restaurant of the artists. On the walls is still possible to admire important works of De Chirico, Chagall, Morandi, De Pisis and many others. In our days clients of the restaurant are film stars as Robert De Niro, George Clooney and Gerard Depardieu.
Dress Code: costume

Partecipation costs: Euro 240

GALA INTERNAZIONALE

Start time: 20:00
Place: SCUOLA GRANDE SAN GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA
Organizer: Associazione Internazionale per il Carnevale di Venezia
Hosted in one of the most ancient and famous “Schools of Venice”, in the magnificent lounge of the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evengelista, frescoed by the celebrated painters Tintoretto, Longhi and Tiepolo. This spectacular dancing ball is certainly one of the most interesting events of the Carnival. The dinner will be entertained all through the evening by an orchestra, singers and traditional songs which will render the atmosphere even more magical. * Dinner in costume * Dancing with Orchestra “Caffè Concerto Strauss” * Seated gala dinner with catering “La Dogaressa”
Partecipation costs: Euro N.D.

POSTCARD FROM HEAVEN

Start time: 20:30
Place: Palafenice
Five harps from heaven with Cecilia Chailly and Lesharpes(Paola Cavani, Augusta Giradli, Shiny Pasero, Federica Sainaghi). Eastern atmospheres with electric harp and voice by Cecilia Chailly accompanied by the Lesharpes quartet. A musical travel from the classic world of music to the new age-pop through the magic sound of the harp, both female symbol and East and West’s fusion.
Partecipation costs: Free

I CONCERTI DI SANTA MARGHERITA

Start time: 20:30
Place: Campo Santa Margherita
Musical groups will play on stage for two hours of music
Partecipation costs: Free

VENEZIA E L’ORIENTE

Start time: 20:30
Place: Venice Casino – Ca’ Noghera
Organizer: Compagnia de Calza “I Antichi”
Chinese Party
Partecipation costs: Free

DINNER & DANCE

Start time: 21:00
Place: Hotel Bauer
Organizer: C.C.I.
A Carnival Dinner in costume in the elegant restaurant of the Hotel Bauer, next to San Marco Square. The best atmosphere to celebrate even Monday. A Master of Dance and a baroque ensemble will involve the guests in dancing minuets, quadrilles and other group dances. Dress Code: costume.

Partecipation costs: Euro 180

INDIA – DHOL FOUNDATION + Indya ettnic@ group + Yorgui Teather

Start time: 21:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
The bhangra music comes from Punjab, a northern Indian region, where it still reigns the tradition to celebrate the harvest’s end dancing on the rhythm of the Dhol, a big wooden drum. Often it is the hemp, also called Bhang, to be harvested and from which it comes the name of this musical genre. It is a simple music with texts telling about the dances, the celebrations and the Dhol itself. The Dhol is a Northen Indian traditional instrument formed by two basis of percussion reproducing both high and low sounds. Bhangra music is exported to England by the first immigrant movement from Punjab. Later on, bhangra music it has been changed by the new generation of Anglo-Indians, who blended it with modern sounds and western instruments, motivated by the eagerness to know each other and to find their identity through their native culture. From the basic and simple drum rhythm, bhangra it has been transformed in a music in which the Asian melodies are fused with all the modern music forms such as raggae, trance, and techno. The Dhol Foundation is the best Anglo-Indian group that by using these hypnotic percussion together with voices, acrobatic dances and samplings, create an extremely fascinating performance.
Partecipation costs: Free