Tuesday, February 24, 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
ARCHEOLOGIA E ANTROPOLOGIA DI UN VILLAGGIO DELLA VALLE DEL GANGE
Start time: 11:00
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Archaeology and anthropology of a town on the Ganges’ valley
by Gian Giuseppe Filippi and Stefano Beggiorain collaboration with the Department of Studies on Eastern Asia – University Ca’ Foscari
Partecipation costs: Free
GIAPPONE – PULCINELLA NELLA TERRA DEI SAMURAI
Start time: 11:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
PULCINELLA IN THE SAMURAIS’ COUNTRY
Performance of Neapolitan “quaratelle” and live music, set in the Country of the Rising Sun, where Pulcinella finds himself trying to survive struggling against ninjas, samurai, intrigues, fights, the ever hated discipline and, as always, death. However, this time the Japanese Maestros will maybe learn the zen discipline from the great Neapolitan Maestro.
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
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
GIAPPONE – PULCINELLA NELLA TERRA DEI SAMURAI
Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Performance of Neapolitan “quaratelle” and live music, set in the Country of the Rising Sun, where Pulcinella finds himself trying to survive struggling against ninjas, samurai, intrigues, fights, the ever hated discipline and, as always, death. However, this time the Japanese Maestros will maybe learn the zen discipline from the great Neapolitan Maestro.
Partecipation costs: Free
Il mobile didattico della musica
Start time: 15:30
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Kids learn music playing with an educational installation dedicated to music
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – PUTHANA MOKSHAM
Start time: 16:00
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
ULTIMA SFILATA DELLE MASCHERE
Start time: 16:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
Last parade of the most beautiful masks
Partecipation costs: Free
HOT CHOCOLATE
Start time: 16:30
Place: Caffè Lavena
Organizer: C.C.I.
The “Hot Chocolate” with cakes in the elegant Caffé Lavena, the Venetian Carnival time tradition since the 18th Century. Dress Code: costume
Partecipation costs: Euro 45
CINA – I DEMONI DELLA TERRA
Start time: 17:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
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
IL RITORNO DI MARCO POLO DAL CATAI (PARTE V)
Start time: 17:00
Place: Campo San Maurizio
Organizer: Compagnia de Calza “I Antichi”
PART V – DEPARTURE. Venice celebrates the return of its great traveller with an ancient popular feast in costume. Among jugglers, musicians and acrobats, Marco Polo tells his adventures. The travel, the love affairs, the mysteries, the war and the coming back.Access reserved to the masks
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA – PANJABI MC
Start time: 20:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
Panjabi Mc, the true multi-ethnical phenomenon of Anglo-Indian music. Mc’s Bhangra Music, melting electronic “dance” rhythms with Indian music’s typical sounds, has reached a great success. A real International phenomenon recently awarded with the MTV Europe Music Award 2003. Traditionally the Punjab’s populations celebrate the end of the hem’s harvest – called in India Bhang (from this word comes the name bhangra) – with dances performed on the rhythm of both a big wooden drum called Dhol and a string instrument, the Tumbi, also irreplaceable for its particular high key and frenetic movement. These dances are accompanied by difficult acrobatics driven by the pressing rhythm. The songs’ texts are simple, often telling either about the dances or about the traditions linked to these dances. The migratory flux of Indian populations to European countries, especially to England, has been also followed by the bhangra music that has been greatly transformed and contaminated over the years. Currently, the new Anglo-Indian generations, even though still maintaining the original melodies and sounds, gave birth to a more modern bhangra blended with pop, rap, raggae, dance and the London clubs “cool” music. Thanks to the single hit Mundian To Back Ke, the Anglo-Indian deejay Panjabi Mc, had great success also in Italy.
Partecipation costs: Free
GRAN GALA INTERNAZIONALE DI FINE CARNEVALE
Start time: 20:00
Place: Palazzo Pisani Moretta
Organizer: Associazione Internazionale per il Carnevale di Venezia
International Gala Dinner at the Palazzo Pisani Moretta- Final Ball of the Carnival
In the most will known and celebrated private palace of Venice with its painted ceiling and precious objects d’art, the final ball of the Carnival will take you out of reality through the magical and dreamy atmosphere created by hundreds of fabulous costumes.
The seated dinner will be enriched by several performances of artists and dancers and an orchestra will play till the dawn. This unforgettable event will end the Venice Carnival. *Dinner in costume
*Musical entertainment and performances of artists. *Seated gala dinner with catering “La Dogaressa” *Bal with orchestra
Partecipation costs: Euro N.D.
I SEGRETI DI VENEZIA ( THE SECRETS OF VENICE)
Start time: 20:30
Place: Palazzo Ca’ Zenobio
Organizer: C.C.I.
Imagine one of the most fascinating ballrooms in Venice with its golden ceiling, illuminated by candlelight.
The shimmer and glamour of hundreds of masks, artists presenting the secrets of Venice , a dinner as in the golden period of this city, “The Serenissima”, and the most beautiful costumes which, with their embroidery and pearls, reflect this atmosphere.
This last masquerade ball of the Carnival will take you into a world of surprises and amusements where almost everything is allowed. It will make you preserve a souvenir of this unique event till the next year.
Dress Code: costume.
Partecipation costs: Euro 370
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
Quando la Corte di Versailles incontra la Corte dei Dogi Organizzato da Nicolas Arnita
Start time: 21:00
Place: Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi
Organizer: Incentive Harmony di Nicolas & Jeanne-Bénédicte Arnita
Last of the Carnival Balls dedicated to the music of the great Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer and ballet master who came from Florence to Versailles at the age of 14 and became one of the most famous musicians and dancers of the court of Louis XIVth, and took part in some creations by Molière.
The Party begins at 9.00 p.m. with an elegant welcome cocktail, goes on with a seated buffet gala dinner with the entertainment of baroque quartet which will perform pieces by Lully and some of his contemporary authors, accompanied by dancers who will make you discover the dances of that time, like ciaccones, gaillardes and passacailles.
The party will go on with a ball on light music.
Dress code: Costume & Maschera
Partecipation costs: Euro 235
SOGNO DI UNA NOTTE DI MEZZA ESTATE
Start time: 21:00
Place: Teatro Fondamenta Nuove
by William Shakespeare
adapted and directed by Giuseppe Emiliani
Partecipation costs: Free
CARNIVAL NIGHTS
Start time: 21:00
Place: Campo San Luca
Live concerts in Campo S. Luca
Partecipation costs: Free
I Concerti alla Fondazione Levi
Start time: 21:00
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Music meetings at the Concert Hall of the Levi Foundation
Partecipation costs: Free
INDIA-THAILANDIA-CINA-GIAPPONE: LA NOTTE ETTNIC@: FESTA DI CHIUSURA DEL CARNEVALE
Start time: 23:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Performances of the artists and Dj who animated the last night of the Carnival 2004
Partecipation costs: Free