Armunia
Armunia was founded in June 1996 as an association between the municipalities of the Bassa Val di Cecina, to promote, organise and manage theatre, dance and cultural events in the area; it later became an entity solely of the municipality of Rosignano Marittimo. The Pasquini castle in Castiglioncello (LI), where it was initially based, became a creative home for artists towards research, production and the sharing of languages. In 1998 Armunia launched the Inequilibrio Festival recognised by the MIBACT, and since 2013 the Region of Tuscany has supported its activities for its specific function as a centre for artistic and cultural residencies. Today Armunia is based in the castle of Rosignano Marittimo (LI) and it has received numerous awards over the years, including the Ubu Prize (directed by Franco Quadri) and the Hystrio Prize by the National Association of Italian Critics. The artistic direction of Armunia is entrusted to Angela Fumarola.
Capotrave/Kilowatt
CapoTrave is a theatre production company. Kilowatt is an international multidisciplinary festival that has been held in Sansepolcro every summer since 2003. The festival is recognised internationally for the quality of its artistic choices and for the innovative format of the Visionari: a group of 40 citizens not employed in the theatre field who, after a long process of watching and comparing, select 9 of the 50 shows in the Kilowatt programme. CapoTrave / Kilowatt is based in Sansepolcro (Ar) and manages the Teatro alla Misericordia (Sansepolcro – Ar) and the Teatro Mario Spina (Castiglion Fiorentino – Ar), artist residencies centres where theatre, dance and performing arts productions are supported. CapoTrave / Kilowatt was leader of the European project ‘Be SpectACTive!’ and leads the network ‘L’Italia dei Visionari’. It is part of the Anticorpi, Danza Urbana, Digital on Stage, In-Box, NDN, Crisol, RAT and CReSCo networks. Kilowatt is directed by Lucia Franchi and Luca Ricci.
Associazione Marchigiana attività teatrali – AMAT
Acknowledged by MiC as a ‘multidisciplinary circuit’, AMAT programmes, organises, manages and spreads the theatre programmes of the Marche region with the task of distributing and promoting projects in the fields of theatre, dance, music and contemporary circus. In addition to traditional shows, festivals and reviews, it also proposes special and international projects, and initiatives to support youth creativity as well as local community practices, with the aim of triggering new ways of relating that are fundamental to sustain the socio-economic well-being of the entire community. AMAT was established as an associative body in 1976 and operates in agreement and in collaboration with different municipalities, provinces and other public and private entities. It was recognised and supported by the Marche Region, where it operates exclusively, in 1981. Thanks to its associative nature, AMAT is an institution of primary interest for the realisation of cultural policies in Marche and, due to its connecting action between the subjects operating with their own specificities in the territory, plays a central role in the local cultural system.
The director of AMAT is Gilberto Santini.
Associazione ZONA K di Milano
ZONA K association in Milan participates in the Digital Residencies network as a partner of IntercettAzioni, the Lombardy Region’s Centre for Artistic Residencies, together with the lead partner Circuito CLAPS and the partners Milano Musica, Teatro delle Moire and Industria Scenica.
It was founded in Milan in 2011 as a space dedicated to the exchange between different artistic and cultural disciplines. It has established itself in the city’s theatre scene for its rigorous programming open to the European avant-garde and to a theatre that looks to the present, that involves the public in different ways, that uses technological devices and inhabits unconventional places. Over the years it has won several awards, including the Rete Critica and Hystrio prizes. It is part of the Interspazio network and INSITU’s European Platform.
NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
NABA is an international Academy focused on arts and design: it is the largest Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, and the first one to have been recognised by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), back in 1981. As a recognised Academy, NABA offers in its two campus in Milan and Rome academic diplomas equivalent to first and second level university degrees in the fields of design, fashion design, graphics and communication, multimedia arts, new technologies, set design, visual arts, as well as PhD and Special Programmes. The Academy was founded by Ausonio Zappa in Milan in 1980 with the involvement of Guido Ballo and Tito Varisco during a first phase, later attracting to its faculty artists such as Gianni Colombo and many others, the idea being to abandon rigorous academic traditions and instead introduce new visions and languages based on contemporary artistic and professional practice. NABA was selected by the QS World University Rankings® by Subject Art & Design as the Best Academy of Fine Arts in Italy and among the top 100 universities in the world, by Frame to be included in the Masterclass Frame Guide to the 30 World’s Leading Graduate Design, Architecture and Fashion Schools, and by Domus Magazine as one of Europe’s Top 100 schools of Architecture and Design.
Quarantasettezeroquattro
Quarantasettezeroquattro is an association specialised in the organisation of contemporary-arts festivals and exhibitions: open-air shows in urban spaces, gardens, and historic locations; site-specific performances; multimedia art installations in urban spaces; participatory experiences between performers and the audience / local community. It organises, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, the urban festivals In\Visible Cities and Contaminazioni Digitali. Alessandro Cattunar, Miriam Paschini and Gioele Peressini are the artistic directors.
Teatri di Vetro / Triangolo Scaleno
Triangolo scaleno started as a theatre company in 1991. Since 2003, it has been producing cultural events – with the support of E.T.I. Ente teatrale italiano for the event Resistenze – combining its artistic work with a solid cultural project management aimed at contemporary performing arts creation and at the development of new languages and experimental works.
From 2007 to 2024, under the artistic direction of Roberta Nicolai, it realised eighteen editions of TEATRI DI VETRO, an experimental curatorial project focused on the innovation of performing arts languages and on the relationship between performance and spectators.
Since 2008, besides the central role of the festival, specific artistic issues have determined the ideation and realisation of various artistic, cultural, and interdisciplinary projects. CIRC@, .MOV, INDIZI SUL CORPO, DIARIO – just to mention the latest – are operational frameworks that address the plurality of practical and theoretical issues and allow for experimental programming, production, and transmission activities in the fields of theatre, dance, circus, and AV.
Ass. Culturale IdeAgorà / Mirabilia Festival
The IdeAgorà Association was established in April 2008: since its inception, it has ensured the conception and management of the Mirabilia International Circus & Performing Arts Festival and its organisational continuity, promoting collaboration and cultural exchange with other similar realities, also at international level.
Mirabilia International Circus & Performing Arts Festival was born in 2007 as an International Urban Theatre Festival. In just a few years it has become a reference point at European level for the creation and dissemination of live performance, a true international platform, becoming part of the circuit of the great international festivals and obtaining the support of numerous public and private organisations.
Mirabilia is today a programming festival and is above all a showcase of dissemination where artists and programmers meet, but it is also a Festival of creation that welcomes companies and artists who intend to develop new performing arts projects during the course of the year, through the PerformingLands project. A circle, therefore, that starts from support to production, continues in programming and arrives at dissemination.
