Romaeuropa Festival 2023

The thirty-eighth edition of the Romaeuropa Festival opens with an invitation to explore the beauty created by human beings and their ability to respond...

After the success of Drumming, international dance icon Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns to the REF with her company Rosas, to continue her research...

The pathways dedicated to electronic music at REF2023 are inaugurated by an international legend: Jeff Mills, renowned global representative of the Detroit techno scene,...

Created in 2021 by the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, the Villa Medici Film Festival is dedicated to artists and filmmakers who explore contemporary...

Romaeuropa Festival 2023 at the Teatro Argentina is inaugurated with Ukrainian culture and music: DakhaBrakha is a Kiev-born quartet committed, since its origins, to...

The starting point is an ancestral question that leads back to the very origins of thought: what is “I”? What does it represent? And...

La Niña debuted in 2019 with her first solo project, ferrying Neapolitan tradition into a hyper contemporary dimension. With her first three tracks, Croce,...

A showcase for the label founded by IOSONOUNCANE, which with its exploration of musical and geographical influences has become fertile ground for the new...

The second evening of LineUp! continues in the sign of dialogue with Alcazar Live, among the new landmarks of the Roman music scene. Included...

Recognized as one of the pioneers of hip-hop dance in France, Bintou Dembélé returns to the Villa Medici – where she recently developed her research...

Electronica, song writing, Trap and Hyper-pop drifts: the third evening of LineUp! opens with the dark electro atmospheres of Miglio, a young singer-songwriter from...

The LineUp! section concludes with a celebration. Having experienced the reinvention of sounds from Napoli and Sardinia and varied geographical, sonoric and identity crossovers,...

Famous director Ivo van Hove sets his re-production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie in a space that is underground and earthy, a kind...

Almost a year after his death, Romaeuropa Festival pays homage to maestro Peter Brook, one of the most emblematic and revolutionary figures in the...

«We are now living in unprecedented and uncertain times, not only for our species but for all species on this planet. And the root...

Eclectic and unpredictable artist Choy Ka Fai returns to inaugurate the Digitalive section of the Romaeuropa Festival. After mixing Asian shamanism and vogueing in...

For Greek artist Elli Papakonstantinou, musical theatre is a territory without borders, a ground for experimentation with word, text, video, live music and dance...

Sometime I see the Future is a deep dive into the world of the metaverse. Exploring the notions of telepresence in our age of the...

Between 2021 and 2022, thanks to thorough research work involving Carlo Boccadoro, the pianist Antonio Ballista, the Ricordi publishing house and the SIAE archive,...

When asked about his artistic career, Milo Rau has repeatedly spoken of the way in which his opus can be divided into two different...

Princess Isatu Hassan Bangura’s international debut is linked to her encounter with Milo Rau. From that moment on, Princess felt ready to share her...

More than 30 years have passed since Ed Handley and Andy Turner, together with their partner Ken Downie, founded the Black Dog (a seminal...

Riccardo La Foresta is a percussionist, sound artist and curator from Modena whose research in recent years aims to question the role of the...

The Roman collective returns to the festival with a multimedia show inspired by Aldous Huxley. Does Darwinian theory really lead to positive evolution? What...

Protector of women and wild animals, guardian of springs and streams, goddess of hunting, eternal virgin- shy, irascible and vengeful- the mythological figure of...

Roman artist and producer Arssalendo (Alessandro Catalano) has won the attention of critics and public with his album Tutti amassati senzaaffetto, establishing himself as...

SPIME.IM are an audiovisual collective, who, through transmedia musical projects, investigate the aesthetics of digital reality languages. SPIME.IM use technology, 3D art and electronica...

The Roman DJ (resident of EX Dogana for years) has been described as a techno outsider and comes to DL to present his latest...

An icon of contemporary musical experimentation, the eclectic Ben Frost returns to Romaeuropa Festival with his latest live. Frost, an Iceland-based (since 2005) Australian...

«I love the idea that choreographic ideas come when you’re lying down, when you’re falling asleep, when you’re somnolent. I would love to do...

Born in Ukraine in 1984 and currently residing in Rennes, France, Olga Dukhovnaya – Aerowaves 2023 selection – constructs her Swan Lake Solo as...

The REF, together with the Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble directed by Tonino Battista, celebrates the 70th birthday of composer Giorgio Battistelli with an...

With C la vie Serge Aimé Coulibaly takes his place in a rich tradition and creates a new contemporary initiatory story to explore life...

In just a few years, Caterina Barbieri has gone from being one of the most significant artists of the Italian underground electronica scene to...

Livietta e Tracollo was conceived as a comic intermezzo, to be performed over the two intervals of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Adriano in Siria. Over...

Era il 2012 quando con il suo Birds with skymirror, il samoano-neozelandese Lemi Ponifasio, incantava il pubblico del Romaeuropa Festival. Con un linguaggio inedito e...

Anna-Marija Adomaityte, a Lithuanian choreographer based in Geneva, has built her own artistic career by investigating and challenging different forms of «social violence». Her...

Never 21 is a tribute to young victims of gun violence in poor and discriminated neighbourhoods in cities like New York, Rio de Janeiro...

71 bodies, 71 stories and as many minutes of dance: this is the premise on which Daniel Mariblanca builds his 71Bodies 1Dance, a project...

Italian choreographers Panzetti and Ticconi return to Romaeuropa Festival’s Dancing Days, to present Insel, a piece for four performers centred on the concept of...

Born in 1995, Giovanni Onorato built his artistic career on a scenic and dramaturgical language capable of combining poetry and irony and that incorporates...

Greta Tommesani’s initial introduction at the Romaeuropa Festival took place in 2022 within her selection for Powered by REF. This year, she returns with...

«We narrate upside down worlds in order to be able to understand ours, we stimulate the surreal so as not to justify the present»....

Preeminent Polish jazz musician and internationally renowned pianist Leszek Mozdzer, joined by pioneering jazz ensemble Atom String Quartet, presents a tribute to Krysztof Penderecky-...

Treatise, created by Cornelius Cardew between 1963 and 1968, today represents one of the most successful examples of graphic scores, in all its complexity...

Founded and led by Tim Etchells, the historic Forced Entertainment company has gained attention for its extraordinary work on contemporary British drama. Among its...

Nina is a tribute to the life of singer, pianist, writer and civil rights activist Eunice Kathleen Waymon- known to most as Nina Simone....

Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) -an icon of electronic music- returns to the Romaeuropa Festival in an unprecedented guise alongside the Ensemble Modern, to present...

The evening is dedicated to three acclaimed contemporary composers who in the course of their careers have all been fellows at the prestigious German...

Fabiana Iacozzilli, who has been at the helm of the Lafabbrica Company since 2008, has gained national attention through a type of theatre built...

Yarin brings to the stage a cultural encounter between two different traditions, languages and areas of Spain: the Basque tradition, as embodied by the...

A light shines on the desire for motherhood and its opposite- it is an exploration of the ability to take care of someone other...

At 5pm, as he does every day, a night watchman begins his working day. He sits in front of monitors and surveillance devices with...

Roberto Abbiati has transformed his passion for Moby Dick into a show dedicated to children and families. Inspired by the illustrations in Matteo Codignola’s...

Once again, this year, the REF is hosting a space dedicated to kids’ activities completely free of charge. From Nov. 10 to 12 and...

With Mont Ventoux, the Kor’sia Collective- founded by Antonio de Rosa and Mattia Russo- revisit Ascesa al monte ventoso, the work that Petrarch wrote...

«The choice to clearly move towards performative electronica led me to take part in a series of projects, to collaborate with other artists, undertaking...

Minimalist and rigorous, hypnotic and subversive, visionary yet deeply anchored to the details of nature and reality: these are just some possible definitions for...

Fabiana Iacozzilli returns to the REF to conclude her Trilogia del Vento, inaugurated with La Classe and continued with Una Cosa Enorme. Four paintings...

Francesco is called Giovanni. He was born to a French mother when his father was in France selling fine fabrics. So they call him...

With IK… eh ik, musical theatre company Het Houten Huis build a space outside the logic of physics: a room where gravity does not...

A new family show, loosely based on the popular Lucky Luke comic series: a low-country Western, an ode to the imagination of children in...

A celebration: this could be a way to describe Re: incarnation by rising star of African dance Qudus Onikeku. Having gained international attention for...

Bombino is the brightest star of desert blues. He has long won the hearts of Italian audiences with his songs in Tamashek, the Tuareg...

One of the most vital representatives of contemporary African music, Fatoumata expresses all her mastery in the clear and suggestive melodies that run through...

Acclaimed composer and sound artist Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch encounters the virtuosity of Ballaké Sissoko, one of the most important artists of the multicultural jazz...