In 2025, the Chilean leg of the international project Beyond Borders took place in October, consolidating a collaborative process initiated in previous years with Chilean partners: the Festival Internacional de Teatro Itinerante (FITICH) in Ciloè and the Festival Internacional de Teatro y Danza FINTDAZ in Iquique. The Chilean leg of the project combined processes of… Read more…

This selection, artistic residency, and co-creation phase of the Beyond Borders project took place in Egypt from September 23 to 29, 2025, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo, as part of the Eazees International Women’s Theatre Festival. The program involved the Instabili Vaganti company and choreographer Elena Copelli in an intense week… Read more…

This step involved the italian partner Instabili Vaganti and cilean Capanegra/ Festival FITICH in a residency from the 14th to the 23rs of october 2024 that saw co-creation and co-production together with the market of the arts MACHI. From the 14th to the 17th of October the artistic directors of Instabili Vaganti, Anna Dora Dorna… Read more…

In this step of selection, residency , co-creation and co-productions has involved the italian partners Instabili Vaganti and ATER Foundation and the international partner The National Theater of Tunisia, and took place from the 5th to the 13th of September 2024 in collaboration and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis. The… Read more…

This step of the project involved the Italian partners Instabili Vaganti and ATER Fondazione, as well as the international partners TAFMA and Ahum Trust – India, La MaMa in New York, and the National Theatre of Tunisi. It took place from May 17th to 31th during the PerformAzioni Festival, across three different locations: the Savigno… Read more…

This stage of work took place in Chile and was divided into two phases: one dedicated to artistic work, the other to the meeting between programmers and practitioners. The first phase of research, exchange, and co-creation took place June 16-19, 2022 in Valparaiso, at the Universidad de Playa Ancha, and focused on investigating the relationship… Read more…

This stage of work in the U.S. included several actions: a presentation of the project at Georgetown University in Washington DC, in collaboration with partner Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, as part of “The Gathering” international meeting of artists and practitioners within CROSS CURRENTS FESTIVAL from May 4-7, 2022; and a creative residency at… Read more…

This ON LINE FORUM has included a series of webinars with international guests – project partners, performers, thinkers, critics, university professors, artists – to share and dissect some of the issues affecting our new post-pandemic era. A moment of reflection and intercultural confrontation, a virtual place capable of generating a “shared global memory” able to… Read more…

This stage of research, artistic residency, and co-creation took place from February 13 to 18, 2022, in collaboration with project partner KËR Théâtre and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Dakar, in a stimulating and evocative context: the banlieues of Dakar, where the Italian artists had the opportunity for a full immersion… Read more…

This stage in El Kef, considered the city of theater in Tunisia, included a period of research, artistic residency and co-creation, March 22-25, 2022, as part of the Festival 24 heures, at the Centre des Arts Dramatiques et Scèniques du Kef, and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis, aimed at the… Read more…

With this stage, held in Kohima, Dec. 4-5, 2021, the project went to remote regions, exploring Nagaland, a state in northeast India, where even today local tribes and clans play a very important role, keeping performance traditions alive. Nagaland is best known for Hornbill, an international folklore festival that brings together all 14 tribes in… Read more…

This meeting and exchange stage with the Indian partner Ahum Trust took place in Bangalore from November 23-24, 2021 and laid the foundation for the co-creation process of the show Dante Beyond Borders, with the co-productive involvement of the Italian Cultural Institutes of Mumbai and New Delhi. Director Anna Dora Dorno and performer Nicola Pianzola… Read more…

Project presentation meeting During the meeting, curated and moderated by journalist and theater critic Simona Frigerio, the stages of work planned for the two-year period 2021/22 in Italy, India, Chile, Senegal, and the United States were illustrated. Speakers included Anna Dora Dorno and Nicola Pianzola of Instabili Vaganti, Paolo Brancalion of Arboreto Teatro Dimora, Roberto De… Read more…