Tempora Contempora#3/ Corpo Battente (Beating Body)

It is called Corpo battente (Beating Body), the concert by Antonio Castrignanò featuring the author, composer and musician for the first October appointment of "Tempora Contempora", the international focus on body language in the performing arts conceived and organised by the Accademia Mediterranea dell'Attore, Polo Bibliomuseale di Lecce, and Museo Sigismondo Castromediano, in partnership with the Apulia Region, the Ministry of Culture, Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati, Institut Française in Rome, Eu Japan Fest and Lecceinscena, under the artistic direction of Franco Ungaro.

Castrignanò is a true 'institution' in the world of Salento folk music, which he approached as a teenager, developing it into a very personal style that is unmistakable today. He has been a member of the Canzoniere di Terra d'Otranto and the Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, a drum soloist at the Notte della Taranta, he collaborated with director Emanuele Crialese on the soundtrack of the film Nuovomondo, for which he was nominated for the Nastri d'Argento for best soundtrack, and has worked with the likes of Ludovico Einaudi, Stewart Copeland, Ballak Sissoko, Caparezza and Giuliano Sangiorgi.

Admission: full price 10 euro, reduced 5 euro under 25 and over 60.

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