Romaeuropa Festival 2024

The thirty-ninth edition of the Romaeuropa Festival inaugurates its journey in partnership with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The protagonist of the Festival’s opening...

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s unforgettable musical compositions for the cinema are the protagonists of the first event that Romaeuropa this year dedicates to the Japanese Maestro....

The REF’s homage to Ryuichi Sakamoto continues with Opus, a film/concert directed by Neo Sora that focuses on the last performance of the great...

After his hypnotic Möbius, choreographer Rachid Ouramdane returns to the Romaeuropa Festival  with his new creation for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève....

Alessandro Baricco returns to the REF, this time immersing himself in the writings of Thucydides. He articulates the story of the clash which occurred...

German Choreographer Sasha Waltz’s research into music and movement continues, as her company returns to the REF with a double bill:  a confrontation with...

1986. About 90 towns and villages around Pripyat are evacuated as a result of a failed atomic test. Zvizdal presents an intimate portrait of...

Between videos, performances and visual arts, the Berlin Company retells the story of Friedrich Mohr: at the end of WWII, the conductor of the Berlin...

Actress, author and director Marleen Scholten continues her research on the private consequences originating from the superstructures of our society, taking to the stage...

Bello Mondo is a stage experience with the poet Mariangela Gualtieri, Uri Caine (piano) and Paolo Fresu (trumpet and effects), that reinvigorates the discourse...

Calligraphic and graphic elements have always been at the heart of CollettivO CineticO’s choreographic narratives. This performance is exactly that: a dialogue between the...

ANY OTHER With her second album “stillness, stop: you have a right to remember,” the singer-songwriter Adele Altro, aka Any Other, has come to...

After their dazzling Là and Mazut, the Franco-Catalan company Baro d’evel return to the REF. Dancers, acrobats, musicians, ceramicists and artists from various disciplines...

Girls and boys coming of age enter the stage without knowing what awaits them. Every evening they talk about themselves and their community. What...

LineUp! starts a path dedicated to independent realities active on the italian music scene with the intention of building a space dedicated to newly...

TRIPOLARE Singer-songwriter, musician and producer born in Naples, born in 2022, Tripolare has built in a very short time an alternative fanbase of constantly...

Einstürzende Neubauten return to Italy to present their new album “Rampen – apm: alien pop music.” The first date is set for Oct. 1...

Winner of the Tuttoteatro Prize for the scenic arts Dante Cappelletti 2023 and the Special Mention in the Odiolestate 2023 competition by Carrozzerie n.o.t,...

After presenting the first study during the last edition of Powered By REF, Pietro Giannini completes “La Traiettoria Calante”. The show retraces the collapse...

The Frosini / Timpano company, with the pen of Lorenzo Pavolini, stage a reinterpretation of the inimitable figure of Alberto Sordi and his impact...

Poised between performance, installation and dance, “Stiamo lavorando per voi (ci scusiamo per il disagio) / “We are working for you (sorry for the...

Powered by REF, the Romaeuropa Festival project promoted in collaboration with Carrozzerie | n.o.t and 369gradi, dedicated to artists under 30 working in the...

Powered by REF, the Romaeuropa Festival project promoted in collaboration with Carrozzerie | n.o.t and 369gradi, dedicated to artists under 30 working in the...

Powered by REF, the Romaeuropa Festival project promoted in collaboration with Carrozzerie | n.o.t and 369gradi, dedicated to artists under 30 working in the...

House tells the story of a West Jerusalem House during a quarter of a century through the stories of its successive inhabitants, Arabs and...

A house full of stuffed birds and ghostly presences. A sudden and accidental family reunion between two brothers, a sister who died prematurely and...

Choreographers and dancers Simone Repele and Sasha Riva build a story of love, hope and memory.The loss of a child suddenly changes the perception of...

“Ascension” is a VR performance by Paul Boereboom and Leon Rogissart that explores the boundaries of opera and the way we perceive reality. “Ascension” started from the...

Calcio balilla, biliardino, fubalino, calcetto, calcino, pincanello, subotto, footbalino, foosball: these are all names that identify one of the most involving, tactile and sonorous...

Disruptive physical energy and attention to detail coexist with screams, whispers and songs: for his return to the REF, Jan Martens constructs a choreographic...

Mixing her Chinese roots with a broad spectrum of international sounds, Milan-based DJ Luwei has established herself on the national scene with a personal...

One of today’s most radical musicians and visual artists, acclaimed by Aphex Twin for her astonishing sound experiments combining avant-pop and radical research, Shanghai-born...

A performance that takes place on Telegram to translate shitposting ( the derailing of a virtual discussion with inappropriate content) into dramaturgy. An improbable...

With the autoharp at the heart of her practice, Petra Hermanova’s music drifts between song and distorted drones. The Berlin-based singer and composer released...

Waluigi’s Purgatory is a new interactive audiovisual performance by artist duo dmstfctn, featuring an original soundtrack composed and performed live by Evita Manji. Set in...

Director and actress Licia Lanera (the first in Italy to obtain the rights to stage his short story collection) brings Altri Libertini by Pier...

On the notes of J.S. Bach’s compositions, performed live by the Ensemble il Convito directed by Maude Gratton, “Close Up” by Noé Soulier merges...

Two performers enter into discourse with a disparate series of images, and seek to impart their own transcripNon in space. The body and (micro-)movements...

Inspired by Nijinski’s famous interpretation of Debussy’s “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune,” choreographer and dancer Lara Barsacq rediscovers the image of the nymph and...

The Golden Stool tells the story of Nana Yaa Asantewaa and her struggle of resistance, while at the same time reflecting on the Director’s...

Chara Kotsali’s 2023 dance solo is a rehearsal of demonic rituals. It premiered in March 2023 during Onassis Dance Days. In “to be possessed”,...

“L’omberlico dei limbi” is a youthful text by Antonin Artaud in which can be found visions and thoughts that he would mature in later...

Martina Badiluzzi turns to the famous novel by Emily Brontë to continue her investigation into female identity. A dialogue is born between the interior...

“Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me” is the second in a series of portraits initiated by Benjamin Kahn in 2019. The...

Steve Reich’s masterpiece, performed by Sentieri Selvaggi, engages in a dialogue with the stage machines of Director Filippo Andreatta. Clouds, breath and wind follow...

Inspired by the Italian common expression “eating with the eyes,” “Eat Me” is a reflection on the making of the observed body. The soft...

Two authors united by the title of a show that seems to merge them by letting the very notion of author dissolve. These names...

Leïla Ka creates a colorful and timeless ode to the girl’s night out- from ancient Greek gynaeceums (womens’ quarters)  to Hollywood sleepovers. The stage of...

Thirteen experiments of sound and vision form the center of this performance without actors, inspired by the life and work of Bauhaus painter Josef...

The Aterballetto dance troupe, under the choreographic direction of Marcos Morau, dedicate a special homage to the creative power of Ennio Morricone and his...

Giorgina Pi stages Roberto Zucco by Bernard Marie Koltès. The story of a criminal who escapes from prison, challenges the police of three different...

For more than 20 years Leandre has been infecting the world with his poetic humor, inspired by silent cinema, mime, gestures and the theater...

Taoufiq Izeddiou, who is a point of reference for contemporary dance in Morocco- where he founded the On Marche festival- combines tradition and contemporary...

Han Kang’s famous story in three acts, via three different points of view, confronts the gradual metamorphosis of a body and the hybridization of...

Mexican company Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol continue to investigate and narrate the contemporary history of South America. The driving force behind their new production...

Director Oscar De Summa reflects on human relationships and the possibility of imperishable bonds beyond death, through quantum theory and the entanglement experiment. He...

Regardless of what we associate with it, darkness can be disorienting, and even threatening: the unknown, the obscure, the void. But there is not...

Created in 2017, shortly after the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup in Rio, aCORdo by Alice Ripoll is an investigation into the...

«With Sahara we seek the initial condition of the artist who only has him or herself as prime material», states the presentation text of...

Dutch Company Oorkaan returns to the REF with percussionist group Slagwerk Den Haag and guest beatboxer Bart Voogt- aka B-Art- to create a sonorous...

Babelut Parcours is a musical journey of discovery for children aged 0 to 5 years old. Artists and musicians take the children and their...

trentemøller has mesmerised his live audiences with his unique soundscapes and memorable melodies over the last two decades. With more than 500 shows worldwide,...

The Neue Vocalsolisten, which was founded in 1984 as an ensemble specializing in the interpretation of contemporary vocal music, performs the music of Oscar...

Alice Ripoll continues with her chronicle of Brazil and its favelas. She gives life to a party with a mix of Passinho, Contact Dance,...

Do our desires and our ability to love desert our last remaining years of life? What lingers of the vitality of the flesh? How...

Superslow is not just dance, theater and music, but everything in between. It could be described as an ode to discovering new things, or...

Composer Marcus Schmickler explores the theme of memory in a concert/show for  choir and instruments, which is based on the story of one Daniel...

All of the energy, humor and versatility of the Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger is embodied in FIQ! (Wake Up!). Fifteen artists gather on stage...

George, a forty-two-year-old crime writer who cannot overcome the pain of his wife’s demise and Jannie, a theater actress who has just divorced, make...

“The Little Things” started life as a show for children, but rapidly transformed into a sassy and fast- moving performance for their parents, that...

Robyn Orlin returns to the REF together with the dancers, performers and musicians of Okiep’s Garage Dance Ensemble, to give life to a new...

In his artistic career, Ryuichi Sakamoto has been able to range between different genres and languages, moving into experimentation within several disciplinary spheres and...