Gabriele Vacis runs an Acting School at the Teatro Stabile in Turin. When students from one of the classes were looking for a name for a group, they found inspiration in the neurological sciences. They chose the name POEM – Potenziali Evocati Multimediali (Potential Multimedia Evocations) and since December 2021 their open, accessible and inclusive theatre has been promoting participation and sustaining the community and society to which it belongs.
As well as exceptional acting skills, the young members of POEM boast outstanding musical talents: following successful productions of Prometheus and Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus that were directed by Vacis, they’re coming to the Dolomites with a show that’s more like a concert than a play.
It features songs in a range of languages and from various countries and folk traditions, from Liguria and Puglia to Greece and Iceland. In Tresca – which lies at 2,200 m above sea level in the Cornacci Group in Val di Fiemme and faces the Latemar Group and Monte Agnello, a geologic relict of an ancient volcano – their sounds will take the audience on a journey through space and time. In a Babel of languages and dialects, sound will take precedence over meaning in the tale told.