Tanque

Within the calendar of Aostae2025, the Tanque Festival on death for the living: a cultural and symbolic event that, since 1st to 4th May, invites us to reflect on the cycle life-death-rebirth, intertwining theatre, cinema, performance and critical thinking.

Near the Easter, The festival offers an opportunity to explore with fresh eyes what is often avoided: death, understood as part of life.

📅 Programme

Thursday, 1 May – Giacosa Theatre Cinema

• 8.30 p.m. - Dying from Work
  Screening of the documentary curated by FrontDoc

Friday, 2 May – Teatro Plus

• 7.30pm - You are the end of the world (literally)
  Theatre performance curated by Mountain Creatures

Saturday, 3 May – Giacosa Theatre Cinema

• 4 p.m. - The conquest of the Matterhorn
  Theatre performance by Aosta Theatre
• 8 p.m. – Photographic installation and performance
  Edited by Alexine Dayné e Cristina Gugnali
• 8.30 p.m. - Departures by Yojiro Takita
  Screening curated by Framedivision

Sunday, 4 May

• 10.30 a.m. - The Other Truth
  Procession at the pace of a funeral march, departing from Chanoux Square and I arrive at Historic Cemetery of Sant’Orso
  Edited by Replicant Theatre e Aosta marching band

📍 MegaMuseum – Afternoon of studies Reflections on death

• 2 p.m. - Cemetery policies between the Ancien Régime and urban renewal
  With Chiara Devoti
• 3.30 p.m. - (R)ESISTI – Fear of the Future
  Documentary by David Bongiovanni
• 5 p.m. - The rite of death between the Baroque period and the twentieth century
  With Federica Giommi, Archivist of the Municipality of Aosta
• 6:15 p.m. - Dante Live
  Show curated by Palinodies

A farewell, not an end

Tanque, in patois, is a greeting full of sweetness: a up to that point which also becomes thank you, such as German thank you.
The festival is an invitation to celebrate the end as a transition, a take root in memory to be reborn, like a tree that, even in a storm, continues to look towards the sky.

In every farewell, a promise to return. Cheers!