MAROSI FESTIVAL
VARIATIONS ON THE SINGULARITIES OF THE SEA
The 7th edition of the Marosi Festival, Variations on the Singularities of the Sea, will take place on the island of Stromboli from June 14 to 19, 2025. The festival offers a journey through themes of environment and ecology, placing the sea at the center—as a living body with its own movements and forces. A body of waiting, suspension, regeneration, memory, survival, and transmission—not merely a backdrop to human activity. The program includes dance and sound art performances, installations, talks with artists, curators, and experts, open workshops for all, storytelling, and traveling concerts—striking a balance between celebration and critical reflection. In an ecosystem as delicate and powerful as Stromboli’s, the festival seeks to help create collective spaces of beauty, dialogue, awareness, and care for all bodies. A key focus of this edition is the relationship between changing landscapes and collective memory, starting from the historical connection between the two villages of Stromboli and Ginostra, and from an open question posed to the sea:
How do you move, sea, how do you take form? Do you dwell—or are you dwelled within?
The sea surrounding the island and the island’s duality—with its geographical and cultural differences—are the starting point for gathering stories, both real and imagined, that shape the relationship between the two sides of the island. This becomes a way to explore broader reflections on the singularities that define matter, bodies, and spaces.
These singularities are not understood as “uniqueness” or “peculiarity,” but rather as a zero point—an edge where even the smallest variations (in the scale of a phenomenon) can trigger extraordinary changes and ongoing reconfigurations.
The project aims to investigate the tensions and symmetries that characterize both natural and human spaces, offering a path that challenges conventional perception and creates new languages for sensing the present.
“The presentation of the performance The Last Lamentation by Valentina Medda is happening with the support of Perform Europe as part of the Mediterranean Crossings: a lamentation for the sea project”.
Perform Europe, supported by the European Union, is a funding scheme for the European performing arts sector. It facilitates international networking and supports inclusive, diverse, and eco-friendly touring projects across the 40 Creative Europe countries. Perform Europe emphasises practices rooted in sustainability and inclusivity, aiming to transform the performing arts sector and ensure a balanced distribution across the continent.
Perform Europe is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and implemented by a consortium of six organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts, European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada, European Dance Development Network, Pearle * – Live Performance Europe and IDEA Consult.