The collective is formed by Rama and Chimele (Mara Kitharatzis and Michele Magni), a clown duo, and director Alice Sinigaglia. Their work brings together clowning, live music and contemporary theatre practices, shaping a hybrid language grounded in the encounter between instinct and construction, body
and dramaturgy.
Rama and Chimele’s roots lie in street theatre and physical clowning, developed under the guidance of Jean Meningue, a French pedagogue trained in the tradition of Étienne Decroux. Their artistic language emerges from direct engagement with the audience, improvisation and risk, intertwining a Mediterranean matrix — popular, instinctive and vibrant — with a more poetic and suspended dimension. Public space represents their primary field of artistic research, where collective energy becomes scenic material. Within this context, live music plays a central dramaturgical role, with the violin acting as an active presence on stage, alongside an ongoing interest in popular and street theatre traditions encountered also in extra-European contexts.
The duo’s work enters into dialogue with the directorial vision of Alice Sinigaglia, an artist coming from contemporary theatre, whose research focuses on the relationship between animality, directness and formal construction. The encounter between these practices generates a fertile tension that challenges the
codes of clowning without weakening its original force, opening the work to a more layered dramaturgical and compositional structure. What emerges is a shared field of research, where excess and measure, impulse and form coexist as complementary forces.
The collective intends to develop projects that stem from personal experience and open up to dialogue with diverse communities and territories, conceiving creation as an open-ended and evolving process. Artistic residencies and international contexts represent privileged spaces of research, in which geographical and cultural crossing becomes an integral part of the artistic practice.
