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Terract – Gli attori della Terra

When

01/02/2017

–

31/10/2024

Where

Turin, Cuneo, Tenda Pass, Roya Valley

terract.eu

Thematic scope

COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENT

Credits

Project Manager

Alberto Pagliarino

Creative and Artistic Direction

Alessandra Rossi Giglione

Task Managers and Training

Renato Giuliani (Théâtre National de Nice), Gimmi Basilotta (La Compagnia il Melarancio)

Task Manager Assistant and Training

Marina Berro (La Compagnia il Melarancio)

Logistics and Tutoring for the pioneer organization

Paola Dogliani (La Compagnia il Melarancio), Sonia Franzolin (Théâtre National de Nice)

Educational tutor

Elena Cangemi

Graphic designer

Maurizio Agostinetto

Communication

Giulia Menegatti

Terract is an Italo-French project that enhances the cultural and natural heritage of the Alps through social and community theater.

The project

Terract – Gli attori della Terra(Terract – Earth’s Actors) is one of the winning projects of the Interreg Alcotra 2014-2020 call for proposals, which came to life from the collaboration of SCT Centre | Corep of Turin (lead partner) with the Compagnia Il Melarancio of Cuneo and the Théâtre National de Nice.

Terract was designed to enhance the cultural, natural, and landscape heritage of the Alpine area between Italy and France, using the Social and Community Theatre Methodology to rediscover the resources of the local community through the languages of theatre, music and dance.

Over the three years of the project, Terract trained 30 young people in their twenties from Italy and France – known as “pioneers” – with an Executive Master’s degree, with the aim of developing professional skills and sensitivity to the themes of cultural and natural heritage, and it involved 100 young people between the ages of 14 and 19, enhancing their basic skills and their sensitivity.

Terract developed in the cross-border area located between Turin, Cuneo and Nice, between the geographical axis Turin – Cuneo – Tenda Pass – Roya Valley – Nice and the geographical axis Nice – Lombarda Pass – Cuneo – Turin.

Between 2017 and 2020, Terract brought the attention of local communities and tourism to the natural and cultural heritage of the Vermenagna (Italy), Roya (France), Stura (Italy) and Tinée (France) valleys, involving all the main municipalities, including Vernante, Robilante, Limone Piemonte, La Brigue, Tenda, Saint Dalmas de Tende, Breil sur Roya, Moiola, Gaiola, Aisone, Demonte, Vinadio, La Tour sur Tinée, Valdeblore, Saint Étienne de Tinée, Saint Dalmas le Selvage, Clans, Isola.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Terract used the Social and Community Theatre methodology to create skills in the creation and organization of community events, community dramaturgy and theatre for:

young people between the ages of 20 and 25 with an interest in working in the management and promotion of cultural and natural heritage, who are called “pioneers”;
new generations (teenagers between the ages of 14 and 19), who continued the process of enhancing the territory started by the pioneer group.

Action

The project implemented three “Alpine Trails” connecting the areas between Cuneo and Nice, along with two summer “Theater Workshops” (in 2019 and 2020), the latter taking place in summer 2020 amidst the Covid crisis. These Workshops and Terract‘s training events were delivered by the trainee pioneer group, supported by tutors and industry professionals, actively engaging 74 associations across Italy and France, as well as 55 municipalities in both countries. Over 22 natural areas and landmarks were showcased, with over 2,000 residents participating throughout the project’s duration.

The Covid crisis stimulated the participating training group to develop creative and innovative cultural formats, usable remotely and capable of activating, even in a situation of strong criticality, processes of involvement of the territories.

The activities involved over 80 professionals from the artistic field, including set design, planning, cultural operations, community animation, and videomaking, largely from the territories involved on both the Italian and French sides.

Several actions were implemented during the project:

Implementation of a 400-hour executive master’s degree program for 30 young people between the ages of 20 and 35 with an interest in protecting local heritage, cultural operators, or young people who belong to the local associative fabric (associations, pro loco, museums, parks). The course is part of the permanent education program and it is aimed at acquiring skills to conceive, organize and coordinate cultural events and community events. These are both theatrical and dramaturgical skills that enable participants to rediscover, reinterpret and enhance the resources of the territory through an engaging and attractive narrative, and transversal skills useful in any work or training context;
Organization of a series of masterclasses with expert figures in local cultural and landscape heritage;
Production of two major summer theatrical events (summer 2019 and 2020), called “theater workshops,” involving young people (between 14-19 years old) who live in the Alpine area between Italy and France. During the workshops, training alternates with the production of shows and traveling performances;
Community festivals;
Production of the Community Vegetable Soup, a performance of theater, music and dance combined with the sharing of a good vegetable soup made with vegetables and herbs donated by the local population during a lively and festive theatrical parade;
Analysis and mapping of existing studies concerning the cultural and environmental resources of the territory.

Partner

The Terract project was carried out with the following partners:

Resources

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Gallery

Two performers dressed in white on a hill. On the left, an actress holding a yellow banner with a ladybug image on it; on the right, an actor raising his hands towards the sky, to the right, with one leg lifted backwards.

Team SCT, musicians, and singers, dressed in white, are performing amidst rocky mountains. Three men are playing (guitar, sax, and percussion) and three women are singing.

Three people dressed in white standing in front of an arch; the two on the sides each hold one end of a large yellow banner (one with a grasshopper, one with a purple flower).

Various Terract actors scattered across a vast meadow. Each actor/actress has a banner with a different image on a pole planted in the ground, and a white sheet spread out in front with colorful words written on it.

Photo of the hill with a path. On the left, all the Terract actors, in a line, dressed in white, are looking at the path on the left as people walk across it.

Photo of the hill path with the entire panorama. On the path, a large group of project participants walking, adults, children, dogs.

A group of people, all dressed in white with yellow scarves, standing on a path in nature, divided into two rows (right and left). At the top of the rows, in the middle, are performers: two women on the sides, standing on stools covered with white cloths. In the middle, a man is holding a woman standing on his shoulders.

Photo taken during an evening performance. An actress, dressed as a bride, is sitting on a swing. Next to her are two other actresses, standing in front of a microphone, one on the right and one on the left.

Some people and male and female operators on the street during a parade. Everyone is dressed in white with small touches of color, carrying baskets and banners in their hands.

Photo taken from above of a group of people participating in the parade in a small courtyard.

Event in Saint Dalmas, in a forest. On the left, performers and musicians; on the right, an audience, some people seated and others standing. In the background, pentagonal-shaped wooden structures can be seen.

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