Hands, history & heritage: Vullo and the secret language of Italian gestures

We sit down with Luca Vullo, actor, director, author and cultural ambassador, to explore the gestural language that runs beneath Italian speech like a second grammar. And makes Italy unlike anywhere else on earth.Luca has spent years cataloguing and teaching the more than 250 recognised Italian gestures, touring his one-man show La Voce del Corpo from San Francisco to Sydney, often with his mother Angela on stage beside him. He tells us why a Roman hand in motion can say more than a paragraph, how regional gesture dialects survive alongside a shared national code, and why he is fighting to have Italian gestural language recognised as UNESCO intangible heritage.By the end, you may find yourself gesturing along, and wondering how you ever communicated without it.Photo credits:Cinzia Capparelli. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.