Enchanted Cetara 2024

Summer in Cetara lights up with “Cetara Incantata,” another fixed moment in the billboard of Le Notti Azzurre, in which circus art and juggling will merge with the streets and lanes leading to the sea, glimpsing the most characteristic ravines. The alternation of atmospheres, artists, sounds and colors, will transform Cetara into an enchanted place, where the magic of the elements (water, fire, air, earth) and tradition will be the guiding thread in the realization of the 2024 summer schedule, enhancing the architectural elements and culture of the village.

The program of dedicated events, each evening from 9:30 p.m., starts immediately on Wednesday, Aug. 21, with the urban theater performance “One Eyed Jacks” by Circo Bipolar, a company that was formed in 2013 from the union of two artists, Costanza Bernotti and Shay Wapniaz. Costanza is first and foremost an aerial acrobat; she participated in the XXIX Golden Circus Festival of Liana Orfei (Rome) in 2012 with Duo Aves, winning the CircUp international award for young circus artists. The same year she appeared on TV in the program Italia’s Got Talent. A contemporary and dynamic circus show that combines the earthly world with the world of air, all mixed with a poetic and sometimes humorous vein.

It continues on Thursday, Aug. 22, with “Enchantment,” and immediately followed by “Fire” on Friday, Aug. 23, by the historic Compagnia Dei Folli, which has collected numerous replicas of its shows in the most beautiful squares of Italy, Europe and the world. The use of nouveau cirque techniques, suspended acrobats and dancing on vertical walls, an art form that draws its inspiration from the great Renaissance events making them unique and inimitable. A tribute to women through a fairy tale, the former, a performance that will involve all the senses, the latter, where the element is the protagonist.

The programming will close on Saturday, August 24, at 10 p.m., with a floating concert on the notes of the Colorplay Italian Coldplay Tribute, who will perform interspersed with fireworks displays overlooking the harbor.