Victoria giorgini
Victoria Giorgini is an author, Stage Director, screenwriter and educator who got her start in the UK. Her most notable British productions include Woody Allen’s “Old Saybrook”, which played to sold-out houses in London during the 2008-2009 season, and “The Story of the London Whale” at the Leicester Square Theatre.
Returning to Switzerland in 2011, Victoria Giorgini has since written and directed a number of shows including the highly acclaimed “Pour l’Amour d’un Stradivarius” at the Théâtre du Jorat in 2014, “The Tales of the Mother Goose” at Geneva’s Victoria Hall with the Swiss Symphonic Orchestra, the staging of the United Nations Nansen Award in 2015, “The Carnival of the Animals” with the Swiss Italian Orchestra and many others.
In 2016 she also directed a new Rosey Concert Hall « The Secrets of the Little Prince ». This show has been performed over 100 times to date, including an exceptional date at the Auditorium Stravinski in aid of the Swiss Solidarity’s “Chaîne du Bonheur”.
In 2018, she created the script for the show “Tales of the Night” in collaboration with the National Orchestra of Lorraine at the Arsenal ofMetz, on tour in France at the Opera of Reims, the Philharmonie of Paris and other prestigious venues during the 2018-2019 season.
In 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, she created an original adaptation of “COVID compatible” and staged an immersive intergenerational production of “Alice au Jardin des Merveilles” at the Jardins du Château de Vullierens, sfollowed the next year by “Alice de l’Autre Côté du Miroir”, which was also a great public success.
This rich international theatrical career, mainly aimed at young audiences, led her to write her first children’s book, “Schtinki, a boar with a bad temper”, published in May 2022. A hilarious story with atypical, touching characters and hard-hitting dialogues, this is the first in a series of adventures designed to raise awareness among young audiences of the need for more harmonious cohabitation between man and nature.
Cedric cassimo
Cedric Cassimo is a Swiss visual artist currently based in Morges, Switzerland. He is one of only a handful of artists in the world who have mastered the infinitely delicate and poetic art of sand animation, in order to produce live performances on stage. He had the privilege of being introduced to sand animation for film by the art form’s creator, American filmmaker Caroline Leaf, a teacher at the UK’s National Film and Television School. Fascinated by the process, he set to work on live sand animation. He won the challenge with flying colors, and the theatrical world of London’s West End opened up to him, enthralled by his enchanting visual and musical spectacles, blending sand animation with other art forms for the first time.
In 2006, he co-founded the artistic company Lunidea, which produces various multidisciplinary creations, including “The Story of the London Whale” with London’s Leicester Square Theatre. His other show “Insaisis’sable” toured Switzerland during the 2012-2013 season, and audiences and press alike said they were “spellbound”. The following show “Pour l’Amour d’un Stradivarius”, produced by the Théâtre du Jorat in 2014, was also a great success, followed by “Secrets du Petit Prince” which had an international tour as well as an exceptional date at the Auditorium Stravinski in Montreux in aid of Swiss Solidarity in 2019. Also in 2019, “Les Contes de la Nuit”, commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou, was presented at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Opéra de Reims.
The exceptional quality of his sand animations, which marry this unclassifiable and poetic art with other forms of visual art, has led him to collaborate with artists such as Bastian Baker, Henri Dès, Barbara Hendricks, Isabelle Boulay, renowned companies such as Omega, Jaeger-Lecoultre, Chopard, Fondation IRP, HSBC, organizations such as the United Nations, Menuhin Festival to name but a few.
Also recognised as a talented tattoo artist, Cedric Cassimo set up his Mosaics Tattoo studio in 2013, which has become a Swiss and international benchmark.
In 2022 he added to his rich career by becoming illustrator and head of the graphics studio for the children’s book ‘Schtinki a boar with a bad temper”
