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MAURO PAGANINI builds his own instruments, puppets and sets to create highly personal performances where aesthetics and music serve a dramaturgy that is both social and topical as well as surreal and funny. FAMIGLIA GARDELON (Gardelon Family) invites us to experience the complicated reality of a family of immigrant artists traveling through Europe, offering their art and searching for their identity through humor, music and theater.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (RECOMMENDED AGE +7)

Raphaël Parmentier, Simon Medard and Vincent Evrard are the evocators of LA MONTAGNE LIQUIDE. They travel through sound and image in landscapes of altered states of consciousness, installing screens and instruments on a 2x1 m platform for a grand ritual that takes place for at least 3 hours in the audience.

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DOLCE SALATO (Salty Sweet) is a circus-theater show with Chinese pole, acrobatic bike, unicycle and clown suitable for everyone. He is naive, absent-minded and dreamy, she is pure energy, speed and movement. They are funny, tender and surreal, kneading with four hands and while waiting for the bread to rise and bake they give a journey through time and feelings.

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After the issuance of a telegraphic circular on September 11, 1940, the Magnet Man (UOMO CALAMITA) and other freaks find themselves without a tent, without their work and wanted by the police. The play is produced with the collaboration of Wu Ming 2.

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CIRCO MADERA is the first circus created by a sculptor and is also distinguished by the synergy between multifaceted artists. In PSICOMIC! acrobatics, music and comedy here take on a dreamlike and symbolic language, becoming not only spectacular virtuosity but also a representation of a state of mind.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE | NATIONAL PREMIERE

ANTIPODI (Antipodes), the title of COMPAGNIA DROMOSOFISTA's show, is the union of different styles and techniques of figure theater, from Chinese shadows to object manipulation to physical theater. Three characters invite the audience to follow them on a journey to the antipodes of the world. It is a surreal journey on a miniature horse, amid wacky characters and tiny shadow men on the run.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

Inspired by Tonino Guerra's "The Hundred Birds" and composed to be listened to while walking through a village, the headphone opera I CENTO SUONI (The Hundred Sounds) by EMILIANO BATTISTINI combines landscape and literature. To tell of an inner earthquake and an outer earthquake, of the loss of an identity and its rediscovery, in an experience that is both personal and group.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (MINIMUM AGE 14 YEARS)

ERMELINDA COCCIA's research links pictorial and multimedia techniques and finds meaning in Sand Art. LIFE is a thin thread that binds us to life, a thread that gently draws our destiny, sometimes leaving us with the ability to move it as we wish.

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IL SOGNO CLOWN & BUBBLES - A bizarre clown with an old-fashioned cart leads the spectator on a journey with an ancient flavor, where the real stars are the giant soap bubbles that fill the space, enveloping the spectator in a dreamlike, evanescent and poetic reality.

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The TEATRI MOBILI troupe returns to Pennabilli with an en plein air version: four open-air theater spaces are formed around the Truck Theater. The first is dedicated to Emotional Theaters (Electro-mechanical Theaters for one person at a time). The second space intended to host "Manoviva" by the Girovago & Rondella Company and the third stage intended for the Dromosophista Company with the show "Antipodes." The fourth will present a new attraction, co-produced by Ultimo Punto: "The Wandering Puppet Museum".

GLI OMINI create their shows with the stories and words of real people, returning an image of our times. COPPA DEL SANTO (Saint's Cup) is a very serious play. Two psychedelic priests lead the competition, in which a selection of 32 saints, chosen with great care, participate. Eight teams. A scoreboard. A challenge to the death. The saints will compete with each other by unleashing supernatural powers until only one remains.

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LA BURLA (The Prank) by MADAME REBINÉ deals with the theme of change by recounting the denouement of a business. The three characters confront their emotions in search of stability.

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The RASOTERRA CIRCO company was born in Brussels in 2010 from the desire to give form to the intense physical and creative work of Damiano Fumagalli and Alice Roma. With HAPPINESS they give us a reflection on happiness: how to find the balance between being content with what one has and pursuing one's dreams? Staging small, ordinary conflicts, the two protagonists develop possible relationships by taking them to extremes to show the viewer how much "point of view" can affect one's experience.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

The SAMOVAR COMPANY is an artistic weave of musical clown, comic-poetic theater and gimmicks that has its artistic roots in Eastern Europe. OFFICINA OCEANOGRAFICA SENTIMENTALE (Sentimental Oceanographical Office), 15 minutes of apnea to understand how deep the sea is because thought like the ocean you cannot block it. All of us, from Odysseus to Noah to Aylan, have gone through water to search for life. Performance of spatulas, casters and waves for 7 travelers in the Roulotteatro.

SUITABLE FOR ALL (RECOMMENDED AGE +4 YEARS)

The show of the Italian-Berliners DAIANA LOU is undoubtedly an alternative rock explosion that leaves deep inspirations to those who attend. Monolithic riffs, dance and rolling rhythms, electronic bass lines are the perfect humus for Daiana's powerful and introspective voice that goes straight to the head, belly and heart of the listener. The concert of the colorful band is a true celebration in which every type of spectator is invited to take part.

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The SAM PAGLIA TRIO is a historical formation characterized by the sound of the Hammond organ. Led by Sam Paglia, the trio's music ranges from soul to jazz to funk. The band has played thousands of concerts and 15 albums in 27 years of activity.

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The TENORES DI BITTI "REMUNNU 'E LOCU are a historical group of tenor singing, real ambassadors of traditional Sardinian singing, which contribute to spreading in every corner of the world uninterruptedly for forty years. 

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Two voices, an accordion and a mini drum set ready to amaze the unwary passer-by and the intrepid listener with cheeky and ironic mashups that definitively break down gender differences. Pioneer of the drum'n'fisa sound, WUNDER TANDEM mix hits and catchphrases from Billboard in a caustic and unpredictable way.

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The FERMENTO ETNICO group will lead the audience to recreate the same atmospheres of folk festivals that marked in the distant past the most important appointments of the ancient communities that used them. Fermento Etnico, with dancers, entertainers and musicians will offer a dance journey around the world, crossing many cultures and countries.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (RECOMMENDED AGE +3 YEARS)

BandaStorta is a rambunctious ensemble of musicians in which the artistic creativity of individual elements comes to life. It is born from eclectic minds and di-strong souls that find their balance in the arrangements of songs with "circus" knowledge and flavor. A traveling show, a dynamic concert between swing, dixieland, balkan music, klezmer. All this, as a band traditionally does, by marching.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

MANICOMICS TEATRO is a MIBACT-recognized production, training and research company on Clown and Contemporary Circus based in Piacenza founded in 1985.

VIAGGIO ORGANIZZATO PLUS (Organized Travel Plus) deals with an ever-present theme: the desire to travel that conquers us all. Leaving from an airport to arrive on a desert island, encountering strange animals and all the commonplaces of travel, mixing everyday life with extraordinary events such as talking statues and imaginary buses.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

MATTEO GALBUSERA is an actor, performer and contemporary circus artist of international caliber, who has been touring the world for years with his shows straddling cabaret, absurdism and music, enjoying ever-increasing success. 

MAICOL GATTO | Musica per gli occhi (Maicol Gatto | Music for the eyes) is an undecipherable and unpredictable awakened humanoid who moves in the geometry of his fantasy world, prey to short circuits and electrical discharges. A show-concert that aims to celebrate the relationship between man and machine that knows no limits of space-time and is an incredible journey into the unknown.

SUITABLE FOR ALL.

The RiCiclo GIOSTRA A PEDALI (Pedal Carousel) project proposes to interact and entertain children from 2 to 10 years old in a simple and genuine way, with an eco-carousel composed of eight black horses, made from recycled materials and pushed by a carny in the center. A journey back to the simplicity of gestures, it gives amazement to adults who are enchanted and stay to watch.

SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN 2-10 YEARS OLD

VEEBLE's shows are a unique and spontaneous experience, just like the band itself. Their music eludes normal genre classifications, offering an explosive combination of styles that effortlessly range from gypsy and tropicalism to dub psychedelia and hip hop.

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GIRO DELLA PIAZZA (Square Tour) by MADAME REBINÉ was born out of a desire to celebrate cycling in its most relevant aspects, that of physical endurance and audience involvement. It is a fast-paced show in which the actors face a test of endurance on the edge of performance, experiencing moments of interaction with the audience.

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HESPERUS by CIRCO MADERA was born from the need to ask a question: is the live performance alive? Is it dead? Through virtuosity and laughter, the vision will be unveiled: a hopeful future in which live performance once again becomes a central part of our life experience.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE 

OTTO PANZER presents numbers of genuine bizarreness involving the audience in his crazy stage adventures. Irreverent, blustering but also sweet and arrogant, Otto is a clown with a very strong sense of stage and comedy, giving gags from which shines a superb ability to adapt to the square and improvise, turning each of his shows into a unique event.

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Dub Lab interceptor and Spiritual Youth, two young local crews of Roots Reggae and Dub music producers, musicians and selectors, will mount their self-built sound systems in the DUB GARDEN area to set the nights of Artists in the Square ablaze with their musical selections and guests from all over Italy.

This year they will be accompanied by the likes of Shak Manaly, Peacefull warriors, Sanzio outa Afreak, Vibra Unica Family and many others.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

GUSTAVO LA VITA is ANDREA FARNETANI's most recent character, a tired and aging clown in whom the child's sweetness and curiosity remain in him like a small flickering candle that shines brightly at times. He is accompanied by Pedro, his trusty friend whose serenity and sweetness help Gustavo deal with anxieties and relationships.

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FROM A SUITCASE is the one mime show of ENRICO MAZZA, a mime as elegant as he is wacky, who will take the audience into an upside-down world where even the most common objects, such as a roll of scotch tape or a letter envelope, change nature and become play. 

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CIRCO MARAVIGLIA presents I FRATELLI MARAVIGLIA (The Maraviglia Brothers), the peninsula's favorite fakirs of grandmothers. Using only two flashlights, a board of nails and broken glass (as well as overflowing charm), the two brothers will enchant the crowds by demonstrating the ancient and secret techniques of fakirism, learned during a long journey to the mysterious lands of San Giovanni in Persiceto. 45 minutes of pure madness, including fire spitting, improbable choreography and big laughs!

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NANCY & GINO are two giant puppets. They come out of a trunk and there is magic! A grandiose unexpected Tango. Born from the imagination of Elisa Conti, they have been brought to the Stage by Wanda since 2022.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (RECOMMENDED AGE: + 6 YEARS OLD)
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The CREME&BRULÉ company creates original street theater shows in which fire is an element of storytelling and where contemporary dance is translated into a popular language. CIRCUS CERINI: the only circus in the world with fire animals! is a fun, humorous fire show with a strong visual component, where different creatures, puppets and flaming puppets each with its own peculiarity are presented. 

SUITABLE FOR: FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN (RECOMMENDED AGE: + 3 YEARS OLD) 
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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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Body percussion + juggling with balls = BALL PERCUSSION. The project, born in Florence in 2013, is the result of an artistic research aimed at combining body percussion and manipulation of unconventional objects, bringing to the stage choreographies expressed through the movements of the body and objects, simultaneously playing rhythmic sequences with body percussion. An excerpt from the latest production, performed as a duo, will be staged for the festival.

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TANGERINE STONED travel through elegant and sassy 60s psychedelia, write beat poetry and make love to life, amid shamanic dances and incense. "It's like leaning out of the window of a time machine, with the sounds pounding in your face”.

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"We are what we mix" encapsulates the spirit of CININHO's choice of music, linked to the performance venue: the Circus area. With the help of vinyl, rotary analog mixer and Akai MPC, he could tune in with those who will be present without necessarily resorting to a specific musical genre.

SUITABLE FOR ALL

If you feel a gypsy vibe, a whiff of dense manouche jazz and a groove that beats out the rhythm of international cultures, then the BOHÉMIEN ORCHESTRA is playing, a collective of buskers musicians who – although they come from different corners of the world – share the same passion for street art and music experienced as an absolute form of friendship.

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A guy from Pennabilli in exploration, he sneaks between events in Italy and Europe with the aim of purloining tracks to mix during his performances. His DJ set declares the pleasure of feeling free to contaminate the Italian undergound with electronic sounds, with a selection that goes from Nu Disco, to Acid House, to Techno. 

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Even before being a producer, DJ and musician, MONDOCANE is an explorer of sound, driven by an insatiable curiosity about the unusual. He mixes tribal electronica, afrobeat, psychedelia and global bass in his sets. Thanks to his selections he travels, ticketless, around the world.

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Outcome of the visual-sound experimentation workshop held by the Belgian artist collective La Montagne Liquide and aimed at girls and boys ages 15 and up. Voices, texts, sounds and images of the territory will return a vision of the landscape and a reflection on the poetic and affective sense of living.

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MICHELE FRATERNALI discovers music already in his intrauterine life, grows up in a musical environment and begins as a teenager to form his first bands following in his father's footsteps as a keyboardist. He grew up in Novafeltria (RN) in Romagna and began playing bass guitar as a self-taught player exploring different genres including: Rock, Funk, Pop, Metal, Blues, Italian Songwriting, Cuban Music, Reggae and Fusion, each performed with different bands and formations.

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PANJEA are a group of friends who love reggae music. They want to spread their passion from Romagna to the world, despite all calamities. “Continental Drift” è il primo EP della band, che racconta la deriva di ragazzi diversi capaci di unirsi nel segno unico e indelebile della reggae music.

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A real battle to the last sound: anyone can participate in this DJ SET BATTLE and get the Festival audience dancing for one last and unforgettable night of partying.

A new attraction lands in the square: the Wandering Puppet Museum (Il Museo delle Marionette Erranti), a collection of automated puppets from 5 continents, 7 small theaters, 7 distant and related places on the journey inside the cloister museum. Between the exhibition and the performance, the cloister invites the audience to an initiation into the ancient and surprising world of animated figures.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE (MINIMUM RECOMMENDED AGE +3 YEARS)

The musical repertoire of RUBEN ROJO Y PENNABILLI SOCIAL CLUB has always been inspired by traditional South American music with quotes and excursions into other genres. The group is characterized by the voice and charge of Ruben, who always manages to involve and drag the audience, flanked by GIldo Montanari, accordionist from Pennabilli, and Pedro Cipriano Mena Peraza, Cuban percussionist.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

Combining analog synths, didgeridoos, percussion, hang drums, children's toys, beat-boxing and a loop station, Riccardo's "one-man-band" project, TRIBALNEED, is at the forefront of electronic-tribal sounds.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

CHO KAIRIN is a master of balance, precision and strength, the last of a long family dynasty of acclaimed Chinese acrobats. Chinese Super Acrobat Cho Kairin is a traditional show (with a few thousand years of history) featuring acrobatics, acting, juggling, transformation and more. 

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE | NATIONAL PREMIERE 

In the darkness of the beginning of time, three characters emerge from the jungle, creating a single ritual with instruments used in Aztec culture. In the silence of the Earth's heartbeat, the rhythm of life is set. In the beginning everything was dark until man discovered fire.

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Once you have entered the show tent LUNAPARK, you will walk out after a few minutes with a broad smile on your face. These peddlers harass your imagination with a lot of humour and totally illogical behaviour. It’s a spectacular act for everyone. Queue up!

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Singing or...not singing? Just making sounds? Just a big group of people using their mouths? STEPHEN TABERNER has 30 years of experience in getting ordinary people to make extraordinary sounds. In THE BIG SINGLET all voices will be joined together in a wise and foolish exploration of mash ups, percussive bon bons and fragments of vocal anthems to make something that is beautiful, loud, and above all, human.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE 

In SWEET HOME ON WHEELS the tête-à-tête relationship between husband and wife is severely tested when a third wheel appears between the two, the Caravan that the couple lovingly calls Old Betsy. The tight living conditions of the caravan will upset the harmony in the old world of old things in which the couple lives.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE 

CIRCUS IN MOTION is a contemporary circus arts company that offers social circus workshop and visually captivating circus performances.
LE PETIT BAR (The little bar) is a circus and juggling show centered on the objects typically found in a bar to leave you breathless! The artist performs truly bizarre tricks with his dishes: stacks glasses on the blade of a knife and bottles that can multiply, mixes fried chicken with wine but soon the chicken comes to life!

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

An-ki, the new show by ORTIGA, is the fantasy created by a girl, Adja, to sustain the reality of her world, where waves of ghosts appear among the woods, bringing down her dreams.
Adja and her family will search for the roots of their past and hope for the future to cope with the bleak existence that surrounds them. 

NATIONAL PREMIERE | NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 8 YEARS OLD

CLIC is a retro-futuristic dystopia in which the evil Mephisto attempts to steal Fausto's soul. The story takes place in the not-too-distant future, where humans live in a society overseen and controlled by a single corporation and where the human body is "improved" by mechanical organ transplants. Faced with this reality, some questions forcefully emerge: will we one day be able to save our souls in a hard disk? Are we not straying too far from nature?

SUITABLE FOR ADULT AUDIENCES | NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 12 

WORLD PREMIERE

Oizulí - A Sweet & Sweat Music Show is a dramatized concert, an exciting mix of rhythms, languages and melodies, original and traditional, in search of spices and spaces between music and theater. Interpreter of a repertoire without labels, SAFFRAN! connects on an imaginary line the Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Latin America, to reflect in music what its polyglot soul has always spoken.

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Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson form BASKERY, a trio of sisters from Stockholm, Sweden. The group's motto, go where the music takes them, has created organic growth and their energetic and diverse live shows have made them an attractive and sought-after live band. They were chosen as support groups for Gary Clark Jr, Robbie Williams, Seth Lakeman, Lukas Nelson and Brandi Carlile.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

THIS MAAG has been performing for more than 30 years throughout Europe and overseas with its hilarious and engaging street theater shows. In Pennabilli, the artist presents the show DAS IST DER GIPFEL! (This is the summit!), an extraordinary Alpine folly with EU-certified Swiss humor! A quirky comedy that questions conventions, from gender boundaries to self-image, with a comedy reminiscent of Leo Bassi's performances.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

L'ENVERS by ICI'BAS COMPANY is a circle of artificial turf where an acrobat and a dancer take the space by inviting the passerby to stop and take a deep breath of fresh air. A small cozy area that recalls nature's serenity, in which we can freely loose track of the rest of the flock. 

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APOCALYPSO is a co-production between the company BUFFPAPIER (CH) and the company TÊTES DE MULES (FR). In a revolving, tilting trailer that serves as a walking shooting gallery, six characters flail madly in a frantic race toward success: "Get close, pull, win, pick a prize! ". But what is success when playing with the Apocalypse? With drums, guitars and trumpet, the colorful troop of this merry-go-round sails straight toward its certain destruction. Clichés are twisted, plastic is eaten, guts spilled, mass consumption sung, and all that, in order to finally appreciate.... the silence.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE | NATIONAL PREMIERE

FANFARA STATION is a trio that combines the power of a brass band and electronics with North African voices and percussion. They celebrate the epic exploits of Mediterranean migrants, the musical cultures of the African diaspora, and the streams that have long connected the Middle East, the Maghreb, Southern Europe, and the Americas.

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ECHO TOWN are brothers Ric and Rob Harrison. They bring to the stage a tribal percussive fire with a powerful drums, a didgeridoo with deep reverberation, uplifting voices and a happiness that can only be experienced live.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

JON KENZIE is a soulful performer and singer-songwriter from England with musical roots in blues and folk. He has a powerful and deep voice that can enrapture and amaze listeners. At Artisti in Piazza he will perform songs from his new solo album Silent Applause.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

PERHAPS CONTRAPTION is an award-winning brass band from London. Part choir, part chamber orchestra, part avant rock, they create a truly unique musical experience fusing elements of jazz, punk, art pop and post-minimalism.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE

From the murky streets of London comes something big... and noisy! RUM BUFFALO have rocked the UK underground music scene with a unique brand of jazzy Psych-Rock and are ready to take the stage with their debut album Blood Moon.

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE