workshop with Giulio Santolini e Lorenza Guerrini for children, teachers, educators and students
Peter Pan is the third chapter in a series of research on the theme of Dionysus, which began with the show Baccanti: fare schifo con gloria (The Bacchae: Disgusting with Glory) and continued with the workshop for the over-65s Le Baccanti: c’era fuoco sui loro capelli ma non li bruciava (The Bacchae: There was Fire on Their Hair, but it did not Burn Them).
This is a workshop designed for children that seeks to combine the theme of Dionysus with the figure of Peter Pan. Although he is a fairy-tale character, he embodies many aspects related to myth, starting with his name, his connection with nature, play, and his rejection of growing up and the rules that govern the world of “adults.”
In a world that often denies children their most radical impulses, that inserts binary thinking patterns into games and transfers anxieties, discomforts, and new forms of repression, we would like to shed light on a rejection: the beauty that lies in not choosing and in the liberation of the pure, mystical, and wild energy of that age.
The journey will unfold in a series of meetings in which, through narrative stimuli and playful practices, we will try to investigate and bring to light a new universe inhabited by a small community of Lost Children, a utopian state guided by new rules. Each game will be a question about the world, a bridge to give voice and, above all, substance to the questions and wildest and perhaps purest instincts of this new city. How should we organize ourselves? Who should govern? What should we leave behind and what should we keep from the world of adults?