Culture- Marco Marucci- Il Circo di Nando
In the morning, the workers are busy spreading the tickets on the benches, cleaning or involved in maintenance work while the performers start to sweat from seven in the evening when preparations begin for the show. Everything commences from the makeup and keeps going right up until the end of the show. After, they prepare and rehearse the performances for the next show, after midnight, to take advantage of the cooler temperatures, under the huge empty chapiteau. old Italian movie from the‘ 70s. While Lenny begins his warm-up juggling in the back stage, the women are working hard to reproduce the same strong makeup that needs to be easily visible under the soft light of the stage yet also easily perceived from afar. Standing with the performers in their caravans as they undergo their long preparations before heading to the stage, I also try to get some answers to the many questions that I have about the nomadic life they lead. In particular, I am interested in their childhood. How did they arrange things with school? What about the friendships? The answers that I receive are not something that is easy to understand for those who do not live a life on the move, a life made up of places that are constantly changing under the wheels of the trailer, of characters who bring stories from near and far, of new and young artists who learn the art of circus and propose
When the sun sets, the lights and the projectors are switched on so that the big tent is illuminated in the darkness and soon, the music will begin to play. It reminds me of something out of an
The Travellist | Issue 3 | July 2015 p37