The Segal Center Invites You to A Day with Romeo Castellucci

Italian theatre director Romeo Castellucci is one of the world's leading contemporary theatre artists.

Born in Cesena in 1960, Castellucci graduated in scenic design and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Together with Claudia Castellucci, Chiara Guidi, and Paolo Guidi, he founded the theatre company Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio in 1981. He is internationally recognized-his works having been staged in over fifty countries-for his theatre based on a synthesis of the arts. In 2013 Castellucci received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement from La Biennale Teatro di Venezia. In 2014 he was assigned an Honorary Degree for the disciplines of Music and Theatre from the University of Bologna, and the European magazine Opernwelt named him Best Opera Director of the year.

Castellucci often re-envisions mythical tales by distilling them to their pure essence and then crafting new meaning with images, sound, physicality, and stunning stage design. His artistic works provoke and mesmerize in their intensity, and provide sensory experiences for the audience. Presented in collaboration with the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF)/ Crossing the Line Festival (Co-curated by Lilli Chopra, Simon Dove, and Gideon Lester), which will present Romeo Castellucci for the first time in New York City with Julius Caesar. Spared Parts, a shortened version of his 1997 production.

A Day with Romeo Castellucci

Tuesday, September 27

5:00pm Artist Talk in conversation with Frank Hentschker

10:00am-4:30pm Screenings

The Segal Theatre at

The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

FREE Film Screenings starting at 10:00am

The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes

A selection of excerpts from recordings of Romeo Castellucci's works

Curated by Piersandra Di Matteo Italy

10:00AM Program #1 The Epic of Dust (1992-1999)
Amleto, la veemente esteriorità della morte di un mollusco (1992)
Orestea (una commedia organica?) (1995 > 2015)
Giulio Cesare (1997)
Genesi. From the museum of sleep (1999)
The research directions explored in the Nineties and brought together as the Epopea della Polvere / Epic of Dust were for Romeo Castellucci an occasion to radically rethink the tradition of western drama. Denying any legitimacy to a theatre conceived as the illustration of a text, he engaged in a complete and rigorous immersion into the great classics of western theatre from Aeschylus to Shakespeare, discovering a theatre of the body.

11:40AM Program #2 Tragedia Endogonidia (2002-2004)
A.#02 AVIGNON (2002)
BN.#05 BERGEN (2003)
P.#06 PARIS (2003)
C.#11 CESENA (2004)
The Tragedia Endogonidia is the colossal dramatic cycle conceived by the Socìetas Raffello Sanzio over a period of three years (2002-2004), producing 11 Episodes in 10 European cities (Cesena, Avignon, Berlin, Brussels, Bergen, Paris, Rome, Strasburg, London and Marseille).

1:30PM Program #3 Inferno / Purgatorio / Paradiso (2008)
Inferno (Cour d'Honneur, Papal Palace, Avignon, 2008)
Purgatorio (Parc des Expositions, Avignon, 2008)
Paradiso (Église des Célestins, Avignon, 2008) / (Chiesa di Santo Spirito, Cesena, 2008)
Nominated as associated artist of the Avignon Festival 2008, one of the most long-standing and significant European theatre festivals, Castellucci staged Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, a trilogy freely inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

3:50PM Program #4 The act of seeing. A selection of extracts (2006-2014)
Hey girl! (Festival d'Automne, Paris, 2006)
Sul Concetto di volto nel Figlio di Dio (Theater der Welt, Essen, 2010)
Io penso (Taipei Arts Festival, Taipei, 2010)
The Phenomenon called I (Tokyo Festival, Yumenoshima, 2011)
Le Sacre du Printemps (Ruhrtriennale, Duisburg, 2014)
This program is made up of extracts from a few recent creations by Romeo Castellucci.