Deda Cristina Colonna, narrator, direction
Massimiliano Toni, harpsichord, keyboards
Serkan Mesut Halili, law
other tracks (Massimo Arbarello, Mario Sebastiano DiBella), shadow plant

Novara, Faraggiana Theater – 10 January 2020

The famous phrase 'And yet it moves', attributed to Galileo Galilei by Giuseppe Baretti (1719-1789) evokes the ups and downs of homo novus, who with his discoveries eclipsed dogmatic thought and paved the way for modern science. Upon hearing of the new telescope made in Holland and perfected with the excellent lenses of the Venetian industry, Galileo Galilei transformed it into a new and amazing optical instrument and turned it to the sky. In a few days he discovered the roughness of the lunar surface, the myriads of stars forming the Milky Way, the nebulae.
Il 10 January 1610 Galileo succeeded in confirming the existence of Jupiter's satellites and thus proving that not everything revolved around the earth! It was a sensational discovery, which aroused very violent controversy because it indicated, contrary to Holy Scripture, that the Earth is not the center of the world. After an initial warning and the order to refrain from professing the scientific truths he discovered, was accused of heresy by the Tribunal of the Inquisition and forced to renounce his scientific beliefs at the age of seventy. He died blind, but without ever losing faith in the truth.

Il 10 January 2020 'And yet it moves' at the Faraggiana Theater recalls Galileo a 410 years after his first discoveries and proposes to retrace the history of a man who celebrated freedom of thought and the autonomy of science with his life and work.

Texts taken from Galileo's letters, the Vita of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, Aeropagitics by John Milton and from the minutes of the Tribunal of the Holy Office illustrate in glowing tones, light, ironic, heartfelt the personality of the Pisan scientist and the painful story of the excommunication.
Deda Cristina Colonna recites, accompanied by Massimiliano Toni and Serkan Halili, performing pieces by Monteverdi, Mayone, Storace, faconier, Frescobaldi in a dialogue between the harpsichord and the kanun (turkish traditional instrument) which explores different musical cultures.
The AlTREtracce company develops a suggestive fabric of images, effects and plays of shadow to complete the portrait of Galileo during the show; impalpable and changeable nature, elusive shadow is mysterious and evokes the scenic transformations typical of the Baroque theater, giving shape to a rich experimental work.