Since its rituals origins, the theatre has found in the mask the more effective and symbiotic synthesis. 
Even in its different forms and uses the mask, at all latitudes and longitudes, has always represented the symbol of the theatre in its essence: the mystery and the manifest, the fixity and the movement. That is main reason because the mask is immediate and understandable to all ages and all cultures and I have chosen to deal this subject and dedicate a festival. 

Then, when we speak of mask we don't mean only that artificial object which covers the face of the actor and immobilizes its facial expressions, but we mean a theatrical language and a way to communicate in which the body wins on the word, in which the instinct wins on the reason.

So also the clown is a mask.. More specifically the clown "clandestine" is a clown in unknown, without red nose, that acts without never disclosing his own nature of clown. To don't fall in the artfulness of the character, the clown must work with and on the neutral Mask.

ALESSIO NARDIN