NIGHT DIARIES
SUMMER 2025
US Premiere of GIORNALE NOTTURNO (1978-2012)
with Carolina Migli
in association with Teatro Vista Productions.
Giornale Notturno is a visionary and disarming hymn by the artist Jan Fabre, offering an intimate and provocative journey through his life, from youth to the present day. His personal diaries merge into an autobiography that contrasts his daily experiences—rich with impressions, sensations, art, performances, exhibitions, and projects—with the intensity of his nocturnal world, which is even more intimate, overwhelming, and charged with creative fury. These pages explore the role of the body, both spiritual and material, cultural and visceral. The body is depicted in dance, as a medium for art, a vessel of thoughts, blood, and the eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth—infused with reflections on life and love.
GIORNALE NOTTURNO (1978-2012)
premiered in 2024 in its original Italian in Grazzano Visconti Italy
By Jan Fabre
Project Coordinator Miet Martens
Translation Franco Paris
Dramaturg Edoardo Callegari
Performer Carolina Migli Bateson
Mise en espace Edoardo Callegari and Carolina Migli Bateson
Movement M. Arcelli and E. Rossi
Music & Sound Design Christian Scalas
Lighting Design & Technical Execution Alessandro Pigazzini
Production Teatro di Grazzano Visconti
Company ChezActors
In Collaboration with PKD Aps
Artistic Consultant Matteo Vignati
Photographs Mirella Verile
Patrocinio
Comune di Vigolzone
Destinazione Emilia
Con il sostegno di
ChezArt
Accademia di danza Domenichino da Piacenza
TeatroTrieste34 Rotary Sant’Antonino
“The life of a man
The man puts it into a diary
The man is an artist
The artist believes art is a woman
Therefore since art is a woman he is, deep-down, a woman. The woman on stage decides to take this challenge on and embraces the shape of a man that slowly layers by layers strips his body to find a woman that strips her body to become an insect that strips its body to ultimately become a work of art represented by a magical Golden sacred deer. ”
US PREMIERE DATES COMING SOON!
8:46 Breathing Room
October 18-Nov 1, 2021
An 8 minute and 46 second new play festival in association with The Breath Project
Rivendell re-emerges with 8:46 (BREATHING ROOM) a new festival featuring four exciting new commissions, each 8 minutes and 46 seconds long. Through world premiere performances and community events — Rivendell’s Associate Artistic Director, Denise Yvette Serna, transforms Rivendell’s annual new play festival to reflect the moment we collectively find ourselves in now. The festival invites community members to invest in artists of the global majority, offering them space to consider, share, and take a breath. On November 1st, the festival concludes with streaming event in remembrance of the lives lost to brutality, negligence, and ecological apartheid of the last two years.
My heartfelt gratitude goes out to the artists for sharing their work. It is my sincere hope that we are able to collaborate again in the future, and that we continue to hold our space together, listening to one another, and committing to growth.
CONNECT. EXPERIENCE. ENJOY. GIVE BACK.
Join us on social media for #MuralMondays as we tour Rogers Park murals!
Ensemble theater company The Syndicate presents First Read, a new play readings series centering trans and non-binary playwrights, at The Martin. The week-long festival programming is co-produced by Hal Cosentino and Denise Yvette Serna of Pop Magic Productions, and will also feature events that center the greater Chicago queer community.
Monday 6/10 7pm-9pm
Visioning Our Futures:
A Space for TGNC Theater
Makers
Trans/NB artists only!Sun 6/16 1pm-3pm
Trans Inclusion-Resources for Theater MakersAll performances are pay-what-you-wish- dates, times, and reservations for each reading are available at https://tinyurl.com/firstread19
For more information about The Syndicate, please visit www.wearethesyndicate.com.
To learn about The Martin, please visit https://www.themartinchicago.com/.
HOMESET, a quarterly salon series bringing artists together to share ideas. 3 artists showcase their works in progress, lesser practiced skills, and interests in a casual atmosphere.
Artists flourish in conversation with one another, experiencing and examining one another's work -- especially in times of social and political unrest. It propels our aesthetic and understanding farther forward, and stokes the fire of active engagement. In an effort to cultivate these nurturing spaces for artists, and in response to the need for more cross-exposure in the Chicago arts scene, HOME SET was put into action.
Video: Homeset x Scapi Studio 05.12.18 Rahim Salaam
