About
Santarcangelo Festival is a lively, vibrant and surprising art and performance Festival that brings the most groundbreaking and exciting contemporary creation to a small, beautiful town on top of a hill, in Northern Italy. It offers a diverse programme of art and music and it transforms the town for 10 days, creating a unique and immersive atmosphere and building a temporary community of artists, citizens and spectators who gather around contemporary performing arts. The Festival has been successfully running since 1971, becoming an important cultural hub and a leader in the international arts scene. Together with a radical programme, we offer a pleasurable context for networking and conversation.
The Festival is always questioning how freedom can be expanded, shared, enjoyed. This is assured by the autonomy of curatorial team of the Festival and the risk-taking, adventurous attitude of the whole team. With theatre, dance and music at its core, the Festival presents a range of artists who do not fit into any of these categories, cross-pollinating with other sectors, from political activism to scientific research. Santarcangelo Festival is an immersive experience for the audience, offering a full programme of activities all around the clock. This allows to deepen the art experience, to create a fluid space where the boundaries between artistic and social disappear. With a big part of the programme for free in public spaces, innovative communications campaign, a diversity of events on offer, we strive to reach the widest possible audience. This is supported by the low ticket price policies and comprehensive audience development programmes. We create connections and explore urgencies together with our community, that unites local inhabitants, wider Italian audience and global art community. This means seeing local community as active co-creators of the Festival, not mere audience. We actively support the professional development of artists and professionals, offering opportunities for networking, professional development and capacity building. We deeply focus on a sustainability programme, in terms of ecological footprint and investing in building the long-term relationships with the members of staff, institutional partners and artists.
Where and when possible we try to contextualize projects, offering artists the chance to stay in residency during the year in Santarcangelo. Over the past few years, the Festival has developed a strong international brand for experimental, risk taking curatorial vision, it has managed a wide international and national network and has experienced growth in the numbers of local audience. It is followed closely by the artistic community in Italy and international professionals, enjoys a constantly growing audience and a high level of visibility. Presenting at Santarcangelo Festival can have a great impact on artistic careers, easily being a career twist, bringing an extensive touring, new coproducers, international press coverage.
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Related Residencies on the move events
2024
2024-09-16 > 2024-09-29
Le Théâtre Indépendant - Extérieur/nuit, Santarcangelo Festival, Italy
2024-11-25 > 2024-12-06
Éli Lécuru - HIPPO.CAMP, Santarcangelo Festival, Italy
2024-07-06 > 2024-07-11
Bruno Freire - Life is not useful (or It is what it is) and Matamatá, Santarcangelo Festival, Italy
2024-09-30 > 2024-10-13
Myriam Pruvot - Twisthead, Santarcangelo Festival, Italy
2025
2025-09-22 > 2025-10-05
Camila Forteza - ABRI TEMPO, Santarcangelo Festival, Italy