{"id":50108,"date":"2019-05-16T15:51:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2019\/05\/mirrors-danza-e-musica-in-tour-in-africa-2\/"},"modified":"2019-05-16T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:51:51","slug":"mirrors-danza-e-musica-in-tour-in-africa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2019\/05\/mirrors-danza-e-musica-in-tour-in-africa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221;Mirrors&#8221; dance and music production on tour in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dance, music and video art combine to create &#8220;Mirrors&#8221;, a show produced by GRIOTmag and LIT, a cultural association, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.\u00a0<br \/>The show, to be presented in a preview at 7 p.m. on 21 May at the Teatro Centrale Preneste in Rome, will soon go on tour with stops in Addis Ababa, on 28 May, in Johannesburg, on 2 June, and in Dakar, on 8 June.<\/p>\n<p>A multidisciplinary production comprising dance, video, music and singing, &#8220;Mirrors&#8221; represents a dialogue linking Italy to Africa and Africa to Italy. The show&#8217;s original music blends together echoes and sounds of Italian and African musical traditions: from the Sicilian &#8216;scacciapensieri&#8217; (jaw harp) to the ancestral singing from Apulian traditions, from the percussions of the talking drums, djembe and Salento drums to underground music like the South African gqom.<\/p>\n<p>The tour is part of &#8220;Italy, Cultures, Africa&#8221; integrated promotional programme developed by the Ministry of <br \/>Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. &#8220;Mirrors&#8221;, along with other 200 initiatives organized by the network of embassies, consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes in Sub-Saharan Africa, aims to help Italian and African talents come together, thus stimulating mutual knowledge and understanding between cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dance, music and video art combine to create &#8220;Mirrors&#8221;, a show produced by GRIOTmag and LIT, a cultural association, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.\u00a0The show, to be presented in a preview at 7 p.m. on 21 May at the Teatro Centrale Preneste in Rome, will soon go on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-50108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-africa","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}