Emma Dante

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Emma Dante (born April 6, 1967 in Palermo ) is an Italian author and theater director.

Life

Emma Dante grew up in Catania , where she attended the Lyceum. In Palermo she met Michele Perriera , a representative of Gruppo 63 . From 1987 to 1990 she studied dramaturgy and directing at the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica in Rome . She turned to avant-garde theater and worked with Roberto Guicciardini . From the mid-1990s she worked for Gabriele Vacis in Turin . In 1999 she founded the group “Compagnia Sud Costa Occidentale” in Palermo.

She works as an actress, playwright and director. She staged her own stage plays in Rome, Paris and New York, among others. She has been invited to Aix-en-Provence, Venice, Vicenza and the Festival d'Avignon to direct her own plays . With Die Schwestern Macaluso , her group also performed at the Theater an der Ruhr in 2015 . Her staging of the opera Carmen opened the 2009 opera season at La Scala in Milan . In 2012 she made her debut at the Paris Opera with La muette de Portici . The production received the Premio Abbiati of the Italian music critic. In 2014 she staged Feuersnot at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

Her novel Via Castellana Bandiera received the Premio Vittorini in 2009. Dante filmed it himself, and it was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 2013 , where Elena Cotta was awarded the Coppa Volpi .

Emma Dante: Le sorelle macaluso , in Avignon (2014)

Works (selection)

  • La favola del pesce cambiato . Mondaino, 2007
  • Carnezzeria. Trilogia della famiglia siciliana . Foreword by Andrea Camilleri . Fazi, 2007
  • Via Castellana Bandiera . Rizzoli, 2008
    • Midnight in Palermo  : novel. Translation Christiane v. Bechtolsheim. Munich: Luchterhand, 2010
  • La trilogia degli occhiali . Drama. Rizzoli, 2011
  • Anastasia, Genoveffa e Cenerentola . La tartaruga Edizioni, 2011
Movie
  • Via Castellana Bandiera . 2013
  • Le sorelle Macaluso . 2014

literature

  • Anna Barsotti : La lingua teatrale di Emma Dante. : mPalermu, Carnezziera, Vita mia . Pisa: Ed. ETS, impr. 2009

Web links

Commons : Emma Dante  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le sorelle Macaluso / The Macaluso sisters ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Theater an der Ruhr @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theater-an-der-ruhr.de
  2. ^ Greetings from Sicily. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved June 16, 2016 .
  3. ^ Anna Barsotti: La lingua teatrale , publisher's announcement at ETS
personal data
SURNAME Dante, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theater director
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo