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Breath: Your Life Depends on It

Everyone knows that we need breath in order to live. But did you know that there is a right and wrong way to breathe? Today, thanks to the clinical research of Carl Stough…



Miracle in Acquaiola: My Work With Autistic Young People in Italy, 2007

In the summer of 2007, I was invited to create a first piece of theater with a group of 7 autistic young people in Comunità Terepeutica Riabilitativa, a home for Therapeautic Rehabilitation in Acquaiola, near the town of Città della Pieve…



In Search of the Breath

Breath. Everyone agrees: you need it to sing. From this one point of agreement, however, a series of opinions emerge more divergent…



Mozart. Arlecchino and Colombina

Mozart writes from Naples in 1770 - I wake up at nine, sometimes even at ten and then we go out and then we lunch at an eating house and after lunch we write and then we go out and then we have supper and what do we eat…?



The Power of Quiet

Last August, the costumes and sets for a new opera, Romeo et Giulietta, arrived at an eighteenth century theater in Città della Pieve, a walled medieval town on a hillside in Umbria, Italy. The response would be much like the last time the work of a quiet South Korean artist came into town…