Anna Dora Dorno is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in the field of experimental and research theater, giving birth to hybrid creations that combine performance action, vocal research, music, dance and video art.
Her works are characterized by a shaped use of light and video, used both as a scenic and documentary element, and by the centrality of the performer who expresses himself in the totality of body and voice. Her works deal with social issues of global importance from an artivistic perspective, which aims to produce a strong emotional impact in the viewer.
She is founder in 2004 of the artistic duo Instabili Vaganti, where she is director, performer, light and set designer. She has won numerous awards in Italy and abroad for her creations, receiving a Total Theatre Awards Nomination at the Edinburgh Festival in 2014 for the show MADE IN ILVA.
In 2007, she was called into residence at the historic Bauhaus Foundation headquarters in Dessau, Germany, to develop the international research project in the performing arts Rags of Memory, a 2018 winner of the European Heritage Label.
As a pedagogue and trainer, she co-directed the 2018 Highly Specialized Atelier for Performers at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland.
Her method of work, appreciated worldwide, has led her to teach at prestigious international universities and academies, including: the Shanghai Theatre Academy in China, the National School of Drama in India, La Escuela National de Arte Teatral and UNAM in Mexico, UPLA in Chile, the International Workshop Festival in South Korea, and the University of Kent in Britain.
In 2018 she was the only female director to represent Italian theater at the Theatre Olypics, India, staging the award-winning play MADE IN ILVA.
In 2019 she was selected by EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture, to take part, as the only artist representing Italian theater, in the artistic residency with performers and directors from different European countries, at Georgetown University, on the occasion of CrossCurrents, Biennial Festival of Performing Arts, in Washington DC – USA.
In 2020 she conceived the Beyond Borders project, winner of the Incredibol! – The Creative Innovation of Bologna call and two editions of the Ministry of Culture’s Boarding Pass Plus call (2021/22 – 2022/24).
Her shows have been produced by major National Theaters, International Festivals and prestigious Universities including: Busan International Performing Arts Festival in Korea, Vertebra Theatre in China, FIDAE Festival in Uruguay, Bicocca University in Milan, and the National Theater of Genoa.
Her video works have been produced by Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes abroad and have received international awards including: Triloka International Filmafare Awards and Grass Root International Film Festival.
She has presented her works in major Theaters and International Festivals in Argentina, Chile, China, South Korea, Cossovo, Germany, India, Idonesia, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Tunisia, USA, Uruguay
She is the author of several essays, texts, lectures published in Italy and abroad in specialized theater magazines including Hystrio and Culture teatrali. In 2018 she published, with the publishing house Cue Press, the book Stracci della Memoria.
She is currently co-artistic director of the LIV Performing Arts Centre di Bologna, of the International Workshop Festival PerformAzioni and of TRENOff festival.