Artists

A Birchola is a duo formed by a Frenchwoman and an Italian, in love with Brazilian music. With voice and guitar, Agathe Francopoulo and Frank Cosentini pay homage to the masters of Brazilian song through a chosen repertoire, ranging from bossa nova to the most popular samba, imitating their language and style with authenticity and personal arrangements.

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Hypnotic two-chord jams, trance-inducing beats, biting blues-infused guitar and Anivolla’s warmly laid-back vocals sung in his local vernacular. Anewal will take the audience on a journey into the desert, into the land of Africa. Feel sun, sand and sound of the Sahara desert!

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Let yourself be transported to the Swing Era of the '30s and '40s: your heart will leap, your feet will beat the time and an unstoppable desire for Swing will conquer you!

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The Sound Lymphs (Linfa Suono), mythical apparitions, escaped from the collective imagination, cross the boundaries of ancient consciousness and are the manifestation of the forest, the wildness, the freedom, the wisdom of the peoples of the earth and the relationship between beings and the cosmos. They are the origin of the sound that like sap flows in everything.

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Aye Surely is the newest adventure of Felip Carbonell, Anna Houston and Ray Coen. Their repertoire is characterized by stringy, folkie Irish vibes with Latin and classical influences. What to expect from this group? Original compositions, tangos, a touch of flamenco, and modern approaches to the works of Mozart, O’Carolan or Bizet.

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Ayom are musical navigators crossing the Atlantic, from Brazil, to Angola and Cape Verde, to the Mediterranean. A musical genre that transcends borders, whose sound builds bridges between rhythms as diverse as carimbó, cumbia, baiao, semba, coladeira, funaná, ijexá, guaguanco and many others.

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Balletto Civile is a nomadic collective of performers founded in 2003 by Michela Lucenti. This year we will see three performances, including Hamlet Puppett, which combines music, acting and dance, fused together and aimed at the same purpose: to reflect on the essence of life and art. To be or not to be, is this still the problem?

RECOMMENDED AGE +16
 

Balletto Civile is a nomadic collective of performers founded in 2003 by Michela Lucenti. Among the shows you will see this year, Loose dogs is a hyper-sensory performance, accompanied by a musical selection composed of noises, acoustic sounds, vibrations. It is the second stage of a research started in 2016 with the show "Just Before the Forest".

RECOMMENDED AGE +16
 

Balletto Civile is a nomadic collective of performers founded in 2003 by Michela Lucenti. This year we will see three different performances, including Paesaggio d'Interni (Interior Landscape), a kaleidoscope of images that Balletto Civile takes inspiration from to investigate the emotional relationship between men and women: lovers, brothers, enemies, peers and companions.

NATIONAL PREMIERE
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Starting from the American deserts to the Mongolian steppes, stopping in Africa and the Mediterranean, the duo Bâton Bleu, composed of Maria Laurent and Gautier Degant, is dedicated to an acoustic and minimalist folk-blues, which claims a cosmopolitan aspect by borrowing traditional instruments and sound influences from multiple cultures around the world.

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Rex is a show inspired by the figure of the scientist Nikola Tesla. A water sampler activated by the public, people electrically transformed into musical instruments, juggling with high-pressure fluorescent water, manipulation of sticks and a lot of talcum powder for an intimate and dreamlike show, where there is no more border between performer and spectator.

RECOMMENDED AGE +6
 

Luigi Valentini aka Cininho, resident DJ of Artisti in Piazza and Palacirco since the first edition, will make the audience jump ranging within an eclectic music ranging from Techno Acid Braindance to Folk and Traditional Music. Digital music and vinyl in a rotating mix without compromise!

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An unlikely pirate in a demented show of comic fakirism. Bottles that won't break, flaming flashlights that won't go off, volunteers that are too heavy. Incredibly, the audience always comes out unscathed and amazed at how he couldn't be hurt, the fakiro!

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Nando and Maila are among the first to found a Contemporary Circus company that experiments the mixing of languages when in Italy there was neither a real Contemporary Circus movement, nor circus schools. Sonata per tubi is a contemporary circus show sung and played live, that searches for the musical possibilities of objects and circus tools, transforming them into musical instruments through ingenuity and the use of technology.

RECOMMENDED AGE +4
 

Two characters wrapped in a timeless scene who play in defiance of gravity and whose favorite pastime is flying. They spin through the air like unbridled spinning tops, let themselves be carried away by the inertia of movement and unexpected surprises, face the difficulties of a vertical path toward their big dreams, explore and savor the great mystery of taking their feet off the floor. A contemporary circus show that seeks subtle poetics through the wonder of aerial movement.

WINNER OF THE COMPETITION TRAMPOLINO VETRINA 2022 - promoted by A.C.C.I. - Associazione Circo Contemporaneo Italia
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Cumbia is the epicenter of the music of this group of multi-instrumentalists. You will attend a concert of music with explosive rhythms and where the influence of Caribbean, Andean, African-American or Oriental music, the love for dance, the taste for dub, rock, hip-hop and electronic in a trance of percussion will not be missing.

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D'Altro Canto is a choral group united by a passion for music, a desire to sing and be in good company. At the Festival, under the direction of Maestro Marco Del Pasqua, it brings a rich musical selection of 60s swing tunes.

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In anticipation of the album coming out in October, the Italian-Berliner buskers duo Daiana Lou presents a live concert contaminated by the rude sound of the streets of Berlin and the alternative electronic music of the German capital's clubs. An explosion of monolithic riffs, ethereal moments, time suspensions and clubby beats driven by Daiana's voice able to lead the listener in an introspective journey that leaves deep inspirations.

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Remo di Filippo and Rhoda Lopez, members of this puppet theatre company, make their creations in their small workshop in Italy. The protagonist of Variations is Proto, a marionette with marvelous possibilities, who knows that he is attached to wires and is perfectly aware of having two "figures" that help him to be alive. Proto will live a very personal journey that starts from his birth and crosses various milestones of his existence.

RECOMMENDED AGE +6
 

Diego Zerbini (DGZRBN), expatriate from Pennabilli, returns to his homeland with a DJ set that calls itself an exploration of Funk, Disco and Folk influences in House and Techno, flowing into a contamination of electronic sounds ranging from Nu Disco, to Indie Dance, to Tech House. 

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Roots and dub music from 80s to the present day, from Jamaica to great Italian and English productions. Dub Lab, a trio of selectors and MC who, with their good vibes, will accompany you to the discovery of the vinyl world.

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Two eccentric bakers with circus ambitions begin to make jokes and games of all kinds rise from the bread dough. Between dangerous acrobatics, juggling with the tools of the baker and clouds of magic flour, not only bread will laugh at the public, but of every gag of our bakers!

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Fabio Saccomani is a satirical speaker and touches on many current political, economic and religious issues, which are treated with incisiveness and provocation to highlight contradictions and taboos, and where volunteers (always adults) are even stripped and set on fire (often surviving).

RECOMMENDED AGE +6
 

Fondazione Cirko Vertigo is an international center of creation and production of shows and events, a center of professional and recreational training in the circus arts and residence for young artists, active for about 10 years and based in Grugliasco.
In Fabula is a contemporary circus performance. In a fairy-tale world, the story of Little Red Riding Hood is revisited in a circus way: between dance, poetry and juggling, a little girl investigates the mysteries of the night and her innermost fears. 

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Carmela Senfett is a promoter and booker of Italian origins, who has been based in Leipzig for years, a pilgrim of the world and of music by vocation, founder of Ludwig Sound, a booking agency that has been promoting independent artists for years. At Artisti in Piazza she will propose a dj set of eclectic music with the best proposals from the Ludwig Sound roster and not only, from electro-swing to rock'n'roll passing through funk, ska and afrobeat.

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Guappecarto present their fourth album, consisting of nine reinterpretations of the works of Vladimir Sambol, a Fiuman composer of the '30s. The original songs, entrusted to the group by his daughter Mirjam, have been deconstructed, rearranged, transfigured and sometimes increased by parts composed ad hoc, all to revive the father through the notes he left.

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Attention Humans! This is HENGE. They are not from this world. They bring us music from distant planets. They offer this gift for the edification of humankind… so that eventually our species may put an end to war and set up new homes in space.

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El Aletreo is a show inspired by the aesthetics of the painting Fenomeno ingravidez by the painter Remedios Varo. Through the language of circus and clown, Humberto Kalambres tries to recreate the inner world of this character, exploring with books the possibilities that arise in them, worlds full of wonders and games that open like doors, accompanying the viewer in a flight between text and music.

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A man Involves the audience from the first moments in a play with himself, his body, the objects that surround him, his inspirations. The protagonist is a mime, a rhythmic juggler, a skater, a tightrope walker, a refined performer of the new circus. He puts himself on the line in front of himself, for himself, with himself, he feeds himself and does not switch off. 

WINNER OF THE COMPETITION TRAMPOLINO VETRINA 2022 - promoted by A.C.C.I - Associazione Circo Contemporaneo Italia 
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Let yourself be carried away by an incomparable sound of psychedelic guitar riffs, vibrating on a warm and earthy fundament of wavy bass runs and Arab percussion sounds, as well as heavy hip hop und rock influenced drum beats. The dance floor Jamila & The Other Heroes create is a breeding ground for people to meet and practise togetherness - the musicians’ response to the currently operating exclusion mechanisms of our time.

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Jyoti Supernaturel, man of the world with his street unique show Miracle of balance - thets one-of-a-kind program featuring super-human interaction with crystal balls and wonders of balancing. Plus mentalistic game, close-up illusions with cards and coins, tricks, humor interactive with viewers! 

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Jyoti Supernaturel premiers in Pennabilli his music concert Inner Free Space: atmosphere, special vocal and music by 21 ancient music instruments from around the World - like Shehnai, Sitar, Didgeridoo etc - mix with analog electronic live gears.

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Five performers wearing a blue horse mask will move in costume on a mix of electronic music and opera to tell together the fragility and the impetuosity of mental illness. They bring on stage the madness and together the so-called normality in a grotesque form, accompanied by a large puppet of blue horse, Marco Cavallo, symbol of madness freed and a new vision of psychiatry.

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Ketch, is one of the current masters of silent comedy. He offers a multidisciplinary show guided by theatrical improvisation. This all ages non-verbal comedy show it’s an ingenious mix of mime and magic, clowning and juggling with hilarious audience involvement.

RECOMMENDED AGE +4
 

A return to the origins to reconstruct a common memory. Habits without apparent meaning, yet they give logic to our way of being. Six bodies at play, six worlds drifting toward a shared reality. They help each other, support each other, carry each other around, push and slide. Hand to hand and singing as an opportunity to warp everything and invite you to know their peculiarities up close.

WINNER OF THE TRAMPOLINO VETRINA 2022 CALL promoted by A.C.C.I. - Associazione Circo Contemporaneo Italia.
RECOMMENDED AGE +6
 

An unidentified object, probably of alien origin, has fallen overnight from the sky. An American scientist from NASO is sent to the impact site to examine it with sophisticated equipment. Is it a message sent by extraterrestrial populations? What do they want to tell humanity? A serious, sci-fi romp that takes viewers into a universe populated by green aliens and tinfoil spaceships, in a fun, handmade sci-fi movie.

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In a dreamlike night, malleable or unstable objects are awakened, animated by the flow of air blown into their bronchi. Taking life, they rock, crack, move, breathe, whistle... They speak, answer each other. It is tempting to play with them. Laurent Bigot builds a music in their company. However, they are clever and unpredictable partners. Glass bottles, plastic bottles, metal cans, baudruches, pipes, aquarium faucets. Two compressors, some microphones.

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RECOMMENDED AGE +8
 

An explosive blend of clowning and street theater ready to set the square on fire! A lonely and frustrated postal worker spends his Sundays fishing. And every Sunday, as he fishes on the river, he rediscovers himself, and listening to the radio he empathizes with a successful tennis player and many other nonsensical characters... Get ready for the Boss, the King of the Absurd!

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Newen Afrobeat is one of the most exceptional and attractive groups in Latin America and the only one to cultivate the Afrobeat genre in Chile. Their quality and staging have been recognized by countless outstanding artists. A show of music, dance and social consciousness.

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When you set foot in the small fair of fear, you start off on a journey into the world of the unknown, the dark, the fantastic, the horrid and the inexplicable, towards one of the most feared and fascinating emotions of the human soul, which no one, but no one, can do without. A fair for children, but also for adults, which has the flavor of the past, of childhood, of blankets, dust and hay, a place to grow up or return to childhood, approaching fear without fear.

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They Play their Guitars like “Paco De Lucia”.
They Sing like “Pavarotti” and Rumba like “Gypsy Kings”.
They Spin, Flip, and Fly their Flamenco Guitarras, while popping ping pong balls, and smashing eggs and cliches.

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Boucherie Bacul is an old fashioned butchery market booth within and around which nothing is what it seems. The strange managers of this wondrous market booth are Simone Bacul and here brother Marcel. The rude Bacul family sell their morbid but above all insane merchandise to the passers by. But to do so they use very strange techniques. These Belgian Butchers prepare their tasty cuts… but there’s not a joint of meat in sight. A deliciously dark sideshow comedy, not for the feint-hearted.

RECOMMENDED AGE +10
 

Puppæ Company is a puppetry company born in 2018 in Barcelona when Aleix Bové, Julieta Gascón and Bruno Valls and their three disciplines got-together: puppets, gesture and music. Otto is the first show of the company, a grandpa puppet that travels through their bodies to take different skills and finally discover himself.

RECOMMENDED AGE +6
 

Nuovo Cinema Circo is a true film show, a journey through time with extraordinary and compelling material often never before seen, organized in collaboration with Quinta Parete, the historical archive of Raffaele De Ritis and with Circopedia.com

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The company Rara Woulib creates rituals and site-specific performances in a continuous dialogue with the urban and social context. Deblozay ("disorder" in Haitian Creole) is a journey into the memory of the city and its inhabitants, in a singular form that combines theater, music and songs. A great feast in which the company leads the crowd of spectators into the madness of a collective trance, guided by the sound of the rara and sacred songs of Haitian voodoo.

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The musical repertoire of Ruben Rojo y Pennabilli Social Club has always been inspired by traditional South American music with citations and excursions into other genres. The group is characterized by the voice and the energy of Ruben, who always manages to involve and drag the audience, together with Gildo Montanari, accordionist of Pennabilli origins, and Pedro Cipriano Mena Peraza, Cuban percussionist.

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In the bellies of men, you know, thoughts, fears, moods and emotions boil. Fausto, rather than opening his mouth, prefers to open his belly; he unbuttoned his coat and shirt and opened his belly wide to show you that inside there is a theater with an audience, lights and stage! And the show? Not late. A "childbirth" of curiosity will dispense you from inside in the form of small attractions, comic or poetic daily actions: the Theater Inside.

RECOMMENDED AGE +6
 

A Mexican "Aztec" combines fire and percussion , with unique style that takes us back in time. Fire, which has always been an ancestral fear, is addressed and enhanced by the artist's skill and the rhythm of his live drums in Loop station, envelops us and transports us on an imaginary journey to his faraway land. This is not a performance about fire, it is a ritual with fire as the main actor.

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An itinerant theatrical action that explores some aspects of our relationship with the planet. In the stops are evoked reparative and magical actions, naive and prodigious: from invective to tragedy, from chronicle to apocalypse, through witchcraft and popular mystery ways.

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Soralino Company sees in the commitment in front of risk and balance the foundations of their circus. In Inbox, two guys, the little one who wears clothes that are too big and the big one who wears clothes that are too small, play with cardboard boxes, throwing them and stacking them on the brink of catastrophe.

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Original, transversal rhythms and lyrics, inspired by travels in and out, far and wide, to stir the soul and the pelvis in a danceable and ironic key, without giving up a good dose of dreamy saudade.

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Paidia is a show with the taste of non-sense and a noir aftertaste. A touch of madness, a propensity to find oneself poised between thrill and error, a complicity in preferring the last and an indispensable intellectual curiosity have given life to this quest for contemporary circus. The music is original and played live. Do not look for a logical thread in what you are seeing, this is just a game.

WINNER OF THE TRAMPOLINO VETRINA 2022 COMPETITION - promoted by A.C.C.I - Associazione Circo Contemporaneo Italia
RECOMMENDED AGE +6
 

The Association Teatro Necessario for 20 years carries out an intense activity of production, promotion and dissemination of contemporary circus and urban theater. Clown in Libertà (Clown in freedom) is a moment of euphoria for three 'talented' clowns caught by great enthusiasm at the idea of having a scene and an audience at their disposal. So here are sequences of hand to hand, duels in slow motion and intricate juggling steps accompanied by music, in a great and unique musical journey.

RECOMMENDED AGE +3
 

The Association Teatro Necessario for 20 years has been carrying on an intense activity of production, promotion and diffusion of contemporary circus and urban theater. 
In Dinamica del Controvento, a fascinating musical carousel will take you far without moving a step. Climb aboard this special scale, made of music and people: together, to find a new balance. 

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Normalmente o Viceversa is a show of delightful simplicity that transports the viewer into a timeless domestic and intimate space, where you can immerse yourself in the world of memory of objects. On stage, two young people give life to another micro universe that takes place on the table, where the protagonists are coffee cups, teaspoons or sugar.

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RECOMMENDED AGE +6

This Company reflects with its artistic projects on the role of street art in the context of urban and territorial development, responding to social, cultural and political questions. ll grande spettacolo della fine del mondo (The great show of the end of the world) faces the question of climate change, pollution and the immoderate exploitation of natural resources in a tragicomic, ironic and grotesque key.

RECOMMENDED AGE +6
 

The name Tony Clifton Circus comes from a character played by American comedian Andy Kaufman, to whom the two artists are inspired and ideally dedicate their work. Rubbish Rabbit is an anarchic show, a frenetic game in which words and actions chase each other in a headlong race, where Tony Clifton Circus manages to make a mockery of the prevailing political correctness, while the spectator finds himself in a relentless succession of laughter and tension. 

RECOMMENDED AGE +8
 

Funky, Soul, Disco, Rap, Bounce and R&B, Roots, Afrobeat, Ethiojazz and Rare Grooves, to be danced to, vinyl and rotary mixer in hand. Let the funk ride!

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Nastya was born from the idea of sublimating in music the concept of rituality and spirituality of the land of origin (Puglia and southern Italy). The unreleased songs draw from texts of prayers used as a cure for evils once unknown or propitiatory, for example against the bad weather that hinders work in the fields.

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The company Zero en Conducta explores the expressive potential of different performing arts related to movement. Nymio: Teatro Digital is the first show of the company. An intimate 40-minute solo in which the fingers are at the center of the scene without forgetting other languages such as mime and dance. Simple visual poetry, not simple, with the aim of awakening the love for the small, what is not seen, what is within reach of our hands.

RECOMMENDED AGE +7
 

Anima Animae Animam is a film produced by the company Zero en Conducta. It's a tribute to a profession that in ancient times was considered soulless, to a craft that was never buried in cemeteries. A tribute to an irreverent, nomadic and poetic craft that never spared anyone: puppeteer.

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