After more than a year of preparation, the show ‘The joy of life’, a co-creation in five scenes for quartet, performer and video orchestra, makes its debut on 24th March 2025 at the CPM Toscanini. This brings us to the heart of Let’s PASS (Promoting Accessible Shows), the European Cooperation project conceived by the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini within the framework of the development and social inclusion programme ‘Community Music’ and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme, realised in collaboration with three other European partners: Accac Finland [Finland, Tampere], En Dynamei [Greece, Thessaloniki], Studio Citadela [Czech Republic, Prague]. Each of the four institutions mentioned above worked synergistically as a piece of a large jigsaw puzzle in which their own artistic and intercultural dimension was fused, in a creative and innovative way, with the educational and social dimension by means of digital tools and assistive technologies. The goal of ‘The joy of life’ is, therefore, the realisation of an experimental, accessible and multi-sensory contemporary art show that looks at all disabilities. What we are witnessing with ‘The joy of life’, is the celebration of life in its most authentic dimension, that which is realised in peace and harmony with us, the other from us and nature.A celebration not only of life, but also of nature as life, in which everything is born from it and everything returns to it. A concept that we find right from the first notes of the Overture specially composed by Valentina Scheldhofen Ciardelli and that spreads like wildfire throughout the five pictures that structure the performance. Precisely, the first painting uses music to introduce the theme of nature into the dramaturgy and lead us into an imaginary forest where the encounter between a solitary Stone and a playful Fairy becomes an opportunity to reflect on the themes of acceptance, trust and sharing. The music itself becomes a visible guide thanks to the use of Cy-Magic technology and thus leads us towards the third painting, in the heart of the celebration of the joy of living, in a scene pervaded by a profound desire for collective harmony that draws us towards the dance of the six creatures in the fourth scene. Everything leads to the final and choral picture in which different bodies, cultures and languages, coexisting in the same stage space, concretise the values of integration and inclusion.
