“A performance for an actor is sometimes one of the places where he can escape within himself,"  explains the poetic artist.

Finzi Pasca has toured the world extensively with his famous one-man show “Icaro”. The idea of the performance was born several decades ago when Finzi Pasca was given a short prison sentence for refusing to perform military service.

Daniele Finzi Pasca in "Icaro"

The artist used the time he spent behind bars to put the finishing touches to his trilogy dedicated to escape. One part of, a monologue aimed at just one person, was entitled “Icaro”.

"I come from a mountainous land. Where I am from, we escape by taking risks. Mountains will await you throughout your entire life. They define the vertical horizon of a child’s imagination before becoming engraved in memory. Where I am from, there are people who climb their mountain every year, so as to renew their ties with that which does not change. Governments change, children are born, we lose our oldest friends, but mountains remain forever, unchanged. Icaro is one of the mountains I have been climbing for the past fourteen years."

Interpreted by Finzi Pasca, it has been performed around the world in six different languages.

But even with 25 years of experience, the 45-year-old artist says he still has butterflies in his stomach before going on stage.

Born into a family of photographers, Daniele took his first steps on stage under the guidance of a clown named Fery.