Hollywood

Since 2015 I Topi Dalmata, together with the LUT, participates in the project
HOLLYWOOD, promoted by the MPS Foundation: it is a laboratory
integrated theater, in collaboration with the two city theater companies
and some associations belonging to the Siena Handicap Council (Le
Bubbles; Sixth Sense; ASeDo; Little Prince), pursuing the purpose of
unite people with and without disabilities in a fun experience of
integration and mutual enrichment.
The initiative, in addition to about fifteen girls and boys with disabilities, has
involved parents and volunteers of the associations, some employees of the
Foundation, young tutors of theatrical associations and students in
Alternation between school and work.
The theatrical medium, with its universality of languages, has proved to be one
strongly inclusive tool, suitable for relating forms of
different abilities, stimulating uncommon integration dynamics e
allowing participants to experience an experience outside of contexts
traditionally protected.
Participation in a common project of operators, users and volunteers
from different organizations has also helped to stimulate e
consolidate networking and collaboration phenomena.
As a result of the workshop experience, various were staged
shows: the first, inspired by the Paintings of an exhibition by Mussorgsky, is
been replicated on several occasions (at the Corte dei Miracoli, in Borgo
San Felice, guests of the Umanamente Foundation, and during the exhibition of
social theater Metamorphosis); and then our reinterpretation of Alice nel
Wonderland, by Lewis Carrol, with a multitude of Anchovies and
Bianconigli, staged at the Il Dono facility of the association
Sixth Sense, and in the Sienambiente auditorium.
After four years of laboratory activities carried out inside the Palazzo
Sansedoni, headquarters of the MPS Foundation, this year is Hollywood
moved to the home of the Dalmatian Mice, in the new theatrical space outside Porta
Romana, which proved to be an ideal environment for the game and the
theatrical experimentation. Furthermore, given the high demand for
participation, we went from a weekly group to two, a
testimony of the great appreciation received by users,
associations and families.