October 28th - 29th
CollettivO CineticO
MANIFESTO CANNIBALETeatro Vascello
Light is the first source of energy for the bodies “planted” on the Manifesto Cannibale’s scene, the new production of the CollettivO CineticO led...
November 7th - 8th
Muta Imago
Sonora DesertTeatro India - Sala B
“Sonora Desert is a perceptual experiment. It is an experiment in the sense that its size and content are not definitive. It is an...
September 14th - 16th
Compagnie XY
with Rachid Ouramdane
Möbiuswith Rachid Ouramdane
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Cavea
To give life to Möbius, the great company of acrobats XY, among the most acclaimed in France and word-wide, was inspired by the movements...
September 15th - 19th
Villa Medici Film’s FestivalAccademia di Francia a Roma - Villa Medici
Created by the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, the Villa Medici Film Festival is dedicated to artists and filmmakers who explore contemporary practices of...
September 17th - 19th
Kornél Mundruczó / Kata Wéber & TR Warszawa
Pieces of a WomanTeatro Argentina
Written by Kata Wéber and directed by Kornél Mundruczó, Pieces of a Woman was recently acclaimed internationally in its film version. The cinematic language,...
September 18th - 19th
Israel Galván / Niño de Elche
Mellizo DobleAuditorium Parco della Musica / Cavea
Dancer and choreographer Israel Galván returns to set Romaeuropa Festival on fire with his contemporary reinterpretation of flamenco. Created together with musician Niño de...
September 20th
Max Richter & Ensemble - Finnish Baroque Orchestra
The Blue Notebooks – Recomposed: Vivaldi’s – The Four SeasonsAuditorium Parco della Musica / Cavea
There are few musicians who have been able to combine post-minimalist taste and strong emotionality, winning the attention of large international audiences. Max Richter...
September 21st
Ginevra + Francesco Pacifico
Le parole delle canzoniAccademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici
With the social media project Le parole delle canzoni (Words from the songs), the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia founded by Giovanni Treccani proposes to...
September 22nd
Mahmood + Teresa Ciabatti
Le parole delle canzoniAccademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici
With the social media project Le parole delle canzoni (Words from the songs), the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia founded by Giovanni Treccani proposes to...
September 23rd - 25th
Emanuel Gat Dance
LoveTrain2020Teatro Argentina
Always interested in the relationship between musical and choreographic structures, Emanuel Gat returns to the REf with his new creation LOVETRAIN2020: a contemporary “musical”...
September 23rd - 26th
Elio Germano
Così è (o mi pare)
Mattatoio
Elio Germano conveys the text of Pirandello within the social media society network. Through virtual reality the spectator becomes the protagonist of an experience...
September 23rd
Fulminacci + Alice Urciuolo
Le parole delle canzoniAccademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici
With the social media project Le parole delle canzoni (Words from the songs), the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia founded by Giovanni Treccani proposes to...
from September 23rd to October 25th
Coralie Vogelaar
Facial Action Coding System / Infinite Posture DatasetMattatoio - Galleria delle Vasche
In her research, Coralie Vogelaar is capable of making complex issues visible and tangible through rigorously conducted research and focuses on the problematic relationship...
September 24th
Margherita Vicario + Djarah Kan
Le parole delle canzoniAccademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici
With the social media project Le parole delle canzoni (Words from the songs), the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia founded by Giovanni Treccani proposes to...
September 25th - 26th
Akram Khan Dance Company
Sue Buckmaster
Chotto XenosSue Buckmaster
Auditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Petrassi
The Akram Khan Dance Company returns to open the new edition of Ref Kids & Family with Chotto Xenos, a re-creation dedicated to children...
September 25th
Mattatoio / Teatro 2
On stage, the modular synthesizers of the Dutch techno musician and composer, founder of the Kyteman Orchestra.
September 25th
fuse*
SálOnline
fuse* returns to REf with the first prototype of Sál | Rite, one of the many layers of Sál (“Soul” in Icelandic). Sál is...
September 25th
Mara Oscar Cassiani
La Fauna 2k20Online
Wi-Fi based artist, Mara Oscar Cassiani has built her aesthetic code using the cultural expressions of the web with its languages ??and its contradictions...
September 25th
Umanesimo Artificiale
Via Flaminia: The Nature of the ArtificialOnline
Via Flaminia: The Nature of the Artificial is an artistic exploration of the ancient consular road that from 219 BC has connected the city...
September 25th
Amir Issaa + Igiaba Scego
Le parole delle canzoniAccademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici
With the social media project Le parole delle canzoni (Words from the songs), the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia founded by Giovanni Treccani proposes to...
September 26th
Francesco Luzzana
Object Oriented Choreography (WISIWYG)Mattatoio / Teatro 1
Winner of the second edition of RE: Humanism Art Prize, Luzzana presents a lecture/performance suspended between the real and the virtual.
September 26th
Mattatoio / Teatro 2
The Italian electronic musician and composer presents her latest composition live.
September 28th - 29th
Secteur in.Verso
Ça ne résonne pas / Ça résonne tropMattatoio / Teatro 2
Developed from the study presented during the first edition of Powered By REf, the show is a dialogue between dual identities confronted by nature...
September 28th - 29th
Camilla Brison / Tatjana Motta
Notte BiancaMattatoio / Teatro 1
Director Camilla Brison brings to the stage the text of Notte Bianca, premiered at the 2019 Riccione Award for Theater and presented during the...
September 29th
Richard Galliano
Strings and Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Tribute to Piazzolla Strings and Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Oratory “I sentieri cupi”
Auditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Santa Cecilia
from September 30th to October 1st
Focus Premio Hystrio
Situazione DrammaticaMattatoio / Teatro 2
The second Roman edition of the focus dedicated to new dramaturgy conceived by Tindaro Granata. The protagonist of the first two days is the...
September 30th
Rachele Bastreghi + Emmanuelle
Psychodonna + liveAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Sinopoli
RACHELE BASTREGHI Psychodonna Singer, composer, musician and female soul of the Baustelle, Rachele Bastreghi is one of the most recognized and bewitching icons of...
October 1st
PMCE – Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble
Tonino Battista
Tribute to Sylvano BussottiTonino Battista
Auditorium Parco della Musica / Teatro Studio Borgna
The PMCE – Ensemble Parco della musica contemporanea, directed by Tonino Battista, dedicates an homage to Florentine composer Sylvano Bussotti, as a tribute in his...
October 2nd - 3rd
Trajal Harrell
The Köln ConcertTeatro Argentina
With his research on history, the construction and interpretation of different forms of contemporary dance presented in the performative art spaces and in museums...
October 2nd
Boyrebecca + Ditonellapiaga
LiveAuditorium Parco della Musica / Teatro Studio Borgna
BOYREBECCA Boyrebecca is an unclassifiable creature- sexy, irreverent and crazy. Between the real and the virtual, with an imagination that is grotesque and at...
October 2nd
Margherita Vicario
Cosa vuoi che ne capiscano, son bambini…Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Sinopoli
After the release of her second album “Bingo” and her summer tour, Margherita Vicario, one of the most eclectic artists of the new Italian...
October 2nd - 3rd
Giulia Odetto
Il mio corpo è come un monteMattatoio / Teatro 1
Il tuo è un desiderio impossibile. Non è impossibile, è irrazionale. Non capisco. Non capisci come. Non capisco come. Non pensarci. Il mio corpo...
October 2nd - 3rd
Valeria Wandja e Yonas Aregay
Anatomia di un fioreMattatoio / Teatro 1
Cosa succede quando cogli un fiore? Cogliere un fiore è un gesto pratico, ma anche violento. Chi coglie un fiore è responsabile del suo...
October 3rd
La Niña + Bluem
Corde e sonagli set + NotteAuditorium Parco della Musica / Teatro Studio Borgna
LA NIÑA Born in 1991, La Niña built her own musical identity through a real and individual journey in search of herself through singing,...
October 3rd
Francesco Leineri
12 motiviMattatoio / Teatro 2
12motivi is a musical performance by and with Francesco Leineri, composer and performer. A multimedia project combining music, live performance and digital video in...
October 3rd
Not Waving
How to leave your bodyAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Petrassi
Recently released for Ecstatic Recordings, How To Leave Your Body by Not Waving – aka Alessio Natalizia – is a journey between themes of...
October 5th - 17th
Carlotta Corradi - Andrea Collavino
Nel BoscoTeatro India / Sala A
Nel Bosco by Carlotta Corradi draws inspiration from a news story that in 2013 strongly impacted public opinion: the story of the teenage sex...
October 6th - 7th
Sofia Nappi, Sosta Palmizi, Komoco
Wabi-Sabi / RevaTeatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
Trained at the Ailey School and then with Hofesh Shechter and the Batsheva Dance Company, Sofia Nappi has performed all over the world before...
October 8th - 9th
GN | MC Guy Nader | Maria Campos
Set of SetsAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Petrassi
Co-creating under the name of their artistic project GN | MC, Guy Nader from Lebanon and Maria Campos from Spain conduct an artistic research...
October 8th - 10th
Mohamed El Khatib - Valérie Mréjen
Gardien PartyMAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo
Among the most acclaimed French directors today, Mohamed El Khatib invites us, together with writer Valérie Mréjen, to visit contemporary art museums with a...
October 9th
Donato Dozzy - Eva Geist
Il Quadro di TroisiAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Sinopoli
Conceived in 2018 but brought to fruition only thanks to an intense correspondence during the period of lockdown in 2020, Il Quadro di Troisi...
October 9th - 10th
Fanny & Alexander, Muziektheater Transparant, Claron McFadden, Emanuele Wiltsch Barberio
The GardenMattatoio / Teatro 1
The Garden by Fanny & Alexander is an installation for 7 voice displays and electronica, which oscillate between the still life of Baroque and...
October 9th - 10th
Teatro Praga
Filipe Pereira
Floral ArrangementFilipe Pereira
Mattatoio / Teatro 2
Designed for a series of lectures-performances curated by Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias for Teatro Praga, Doing It and Floral Arrangement explore some...
October 9th - 10th
Teatro Praga
Pedro Penim
Doing ItPedro Penim
Mattatoio / Teatro 2
Designed for a series of lectures-performances curated by Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias for Teatro Praga, Doing It and Floral Arrangement explore some...
October 12th - 24th
Deflorian / Tagliarini
Avremo ancora l’occasione di ballare insiemeTeatro Argentina
After Deserto Rosso by Michelangelo Antonioni, Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini continue to delve into cinematic imagery, this time drawing from Maestro Federico Fellini....
October 13th - 14th
Connor Schumacher
Funny Soft Happy & The OppositeTeatro Vascello
With his intense artistic research of the identification of movement practices with the ability to reconnect communities, Connor Schumacher soon emerged as one of...
October 15th - 16th
Simona Bertozzi
Quel che restaMattatoio / Teatro 2
Simona Bertozzi presents her new site-specific creation as a national premiere for Dancing Days. “Since the beginning of my journey with Marta, I have...
October 15th
Viktor Cernický
PLIMattatoio / Teatro 1
With characteristic irony, choreographer and dancer Viktor Cernický builds a reflection on the relationship between body and objects, as well as human ingenuity starting...
October 16th - 17th
Ersan Mondtag
NTGent
De LivingNTGent
Teatro Vascello
The intimacy of an ending manifests itself in front of the viewer’s eyes: a woman returns to her house and begins her slow journey...
October 16th - 17th
Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi
Ara! Ara!Mattatoio / Teatro 1
The duo of Gineva Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi continue their investigation into power starting from the symbol of the national flag.
October 19th - 22nd
Alice Ripoll
LavagemTeatro India / Sala B
Brazilian choreographer and performer Alice Ripoll has involved in her choreography performers from all over the country, many of them from the Favelas of...
October 20th - 21st
Azkona & Toloza
Extraños Mares ArdenMattatoio / Teatro 1
Already with Tierras del Sud (presented during Romaeuropa Festival 2020) the Iberian-South American duo Azkona & Toloza showed how theaterical performance can be transformed...
October 21st - 24th
Dante Antonelli
Atto di PassioneMattatoio / Teatro 2
The second chapter dedicated to the literary production by Yukio Mishima makes its world premiere at the REf21, directed by Dante Antonelli. At the...
October 23rd - 24th
Azkona & Toloza
Teatro AmazonasMattatoio / Teatro 1
Last chapter of the Pacìfico trilogy, Teatros Amazonas (2020) takes us to two of the main architectural sites of Brazil: the Theater of the...
October 27th - 31st
Baro d’evel
Mazùt (2020)Teatro Vascello
In 2020 with the visionary Là the company Baro d’evel has demonstrated how acrobatics or the “new circus” can take the form of a...
October 28th - 30th
Alexander Zeldin
LoveTeatro Argentina
In the run up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation. A middle-aged man and his elderly mum, a young family...
October 29th - 30th
Dorothée Munyaneza
MaillesAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Petrassi
In 2017 Dorothée Munyaneza presented her creation Unwanted at the REf: a symphony of words, movements and songs through which we heard the stories...
October 30th
Iris Karayan
UNAUTHORISEDMattatoio / Teatro 2
Greek choreographer Iris Karayan has built her work UNAUTHORIZED inspired by pop music videos and the youtube clips of Muhammad Ali and John McEnroe....
October 30th
Stefania Tansini
My BodyMattatoio / Teatro 1
Stefania Tansini, presents the completion of her study that led to her winning DNAppunti Choreographici 2020.
October 31st
Gianni Maroccolo / Antonio Aiazzi
Mephisto Ballad (Live)Auditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Petrassi
It is undeniable that Gianni Maroccolo (or Marok) and Antonio Aiazzi form a fundamental piece of the history of the music of our country....
November 1st - 2nd
Ascanio Celestini
Museo PasoliniAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Sinopoli
Legacy, testimony, achievement. How do we remember the most important personality of contemporary cultural history? A few months from the beginning of the celebrations...
November 2nd - 4th
Jesús Rubio Gamo
El hermoso misterio que nos uneTeatro Vascello
In 2019 Spanish choreographer and dancer Jesús Rubio Gamo conquered the audience of the Romaeuropa Festival with his overwhelming Gran Bolero, a real hymn...
November 2nd - 4th
Rimini Protokoll
Conferenza Degli AssentiMattatoio / Teatro 1
German company Rimini Protokoll returns to Romaeuropa Festival to transform the theater into a “medium” which is useful for global cooperation. Their new production...
November 4th - 5th
Davide Valrosso / NINA
Cinque danze per il futuroTeatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
With Cinque danze per il futuro, Davide Valrosso builds a stage organism in which dance and concert come together in a hybrid form: Five...
November 5th - 7th
Teatro del Carretto
BiancaneveMattatoio / Teatro 1
The historic puppetry show that has left its mark on entire generations with its craftsmanship and its fairytale atmosphere capable of enchanting any age...
November 6th - 7th
Compagnia Quattrox4
GretelMattatoio / Teatro 2
New Circus by Milanese company Quattrox4, famous for its fantastic, acrobatic spectacles.
November 9th
Focus Riccione Award for Theatre 2021 / Premio Tondelli
Situazione DrammaticaMattatoio / Teatro 2
Second part of the appointment with SITUAZIONE DRAMMATICA, the format created by Tindaro Granata, hosted by ANNI LUCE and dedicated to new Italian dramaturgy....
November 10th
Fabrizio Ottaviucci - Cornelius Cardew - Nicola Sani - Osvaldo Coluccino
Treatise (n.4) / Concetto Spaziale, Attese / Stanze n.1-6Mattatoio / Teatro 1
Fabrizio Ottaviucci continues his journey into the Treatise by Cornelius Cardew: a graphic score of 193 pages, composed between 1963 and 1968 that stimulates...
November 11th - 13th
Dada Masilo
The SacrificeAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Petrassi
After her Swan Lake (REf13), Carmen (REF15) and Giselle (Ref17), Dada Masilo returns to interpret the great classics of ballet, this time approaching Stravinsky’s...
November 12th - 14th
Oorkaan | Percossa
The Box Brothers (I Fratelli Cassa)Teatro Vittoria
Dutch company Oorkaan creates a concert for percussion, full of acrobatics and humor dedicated to an audience aged 4 and above. Rendering it unmissable...
November 12th - 13th
ALDES – Roberto Castello
InfernoTeatro India / Sala A
Hell in Western culture is the place of the imagination that more than any other has offeredideas for preachers, illustrators, painters, sculptors, storytellers, directors,...
November 13th - 14th
Daniele Fior
Marco Dell'Acqua
Manuele Fior
Chiara Carminati
Locomoctavia Audiolibri
Le avventure di Augusta SnorifassMarco Dell'Acqua
Manuele Fior
Chiara Carminati
Locomoctavia Audiolibri
Mattatoio - Teatro 1
The famous publishing house dedicated to audio books for childhood, here stage a theatrical performance for the most tender age groups.
November 13th - 14th
Compagnia TeatroViola
Alice in WonderlandMattatoio / Teatro 2
Courageous, obstinate, nice and cheeky, Alice delle meraviglie by Chiara De Bonis is brought to the stage by the Compagnia TeatroViola.
November 13th
Clark & Ensemble
Playground In A LakeAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Sinopoli
Beginning in 2001, the year of his debut, Clark has played an important part in the music scene of electronica and techno, attracting international...
November 13th - 14th
Societas - Claudia Castellucci
La nuova AbitudineAuditorium Parco della Musica / Teatro Studio Borgna
«We enter as spectators into the very soil of northern European regions; a soil facing east; a Russian soil. What we approach is the...
November 14th
PMCE – Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble
Tonino Battista
Tribute to Ezio BossoTonino Battista
Auditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Sinopoli
«We are the music, the music is a fortune that we share, it is true magic, it is no coincidence that the directors wave...
November 15th - 20th
Fabiana Iacozzilli
Una cosa enormeTeatro Vascello
«Why am I so afraid to give birth to a child? Why am I so afraid to say that I do not want to...
November 16th - 18th
Christos Papadopoulos
Larsen CAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Petrassi
With Elvedon (REf2016) and Opus (REf2018) Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos invited us into his minimalist, apparently geometric and deceptively simple universe. Appearance and deception...
November 17th - 18th
Collettivo MINE
Esercizi per un manifesto poeticoMattatoio / Teatro 1
The Debut of Collettivo MINE, Esercizi per un manifesto poetico, coincides with the founding act of the company. T he coauthorized manifesto is a...
November 17th - 21st
Elvira Frosini / Daniele Timpano
OttantanoveTeatro India / Sala A
1789. The French Revolution impacts and changes the whole of Europe, laying the foundations for the world in which we live. But what remains...
November 19th - 21st
Compagnia Finzi Pasca
Bianco su BiancoTeatro Vittoria
One of the most acclaimed and eclectic international companies is coming to REf Kids & Family. With thirty-six years of experience, Finzi Pasca has...
November 20th - 21st
Olivier Dubois
ITMAHRAGAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Petrassi
After living for many years between Paris and Cairo, choreographer Olivier Dubois brings to the stage his singular vision of today’s Egypt through a...
November 20th - 21st
Factory Compagnia Transadriatica
Peter PanMattatoio / Teatro 1
First time at the Festival for the Company from Lecce, which has been developing cooperation projects and festivals dedicated to children since 2009.
November 20th
Vittorio Montalti, Blow Up Percussion, Tempo Reale
The smell of blue electricityAuditorium Parco della Musica / Teatro Studio Borgna
Born in Rome in 1984, Vittorio Montalti is one of the most acclaimed musicians of his generation. Interested in interweaving the electronic medium within...
November 21st
S. Reich / G. Richter / Ensemble Intercontemporain
Piano PhaseEight Lines
Reich/Richter
Auditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Santa Cecilia
The famous Ensemble Intercontemporain, founded by Pierre Boulez in 1976, returns to the REf to present Reich / Richter, a concert in which Steve...
November 21st
Alva Noto & Anne-James Chaton
AlphabetAuditorium Parco della Musica / Sala Sinopoli
ALPHABET is the new collaboration project between Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) and Parisian poet / performer Anne-James Chaton. Techno and spoken words interweave, drawing...
November 21st
Edison Studio
Inferno 2021Auditorium Parco della Musica / Teatro Studio Borgna
On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, Edison Studio have composed a new version of the soundtrack of the most visionary...