Index by genre

About is a carefree blend of grit, mockery, passion, and madness. A punk circus cuddle-fest inspired by friendship and constant play, where body language prevails over words and unpredictable rhythm leaves room for improvisation! Two quirky friends, an acrobatic bike named Betsy, explosive juggling, wild and improbable percussion, epic showdowns, beatings, chases, and tumbles—without getting hurt too badly.

Winner of the Trampolino Vetrina 2024 call by A.C.C.I. for the Pills section of the Circ_Up 2.0 project.

my mochi time is a curious explorer of the world’s tropics, a mixer of Caribbean potions and a collector of tribal rhythms. Imagine the sweet vanilla of maracatu blending with the sticky rice of the Caribbean and get ready to taste the irresistible Mochi recipe.

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The historic Rimini-based crew Fairy Circles, active since 2010, has left a significant imprint on the area's independent electronic scene, becoming a symbol of cultural resistance and sonic innovation. Bizio and Slime will bring to the stage an overwhelming DJ set that spans breakbeats, acid breaks, electro-funk, miami bass, big beats and nu skool breaks. With fast-paced rhythms and powerful basslines, their set promises a sonic experience charged with energy and intense vibes.

Les Forces de l’Orge could be translated in italian by "Carabirranieri". At the police station, after a hard and exhausting day of fights with strikers and students, our brave policemen take off their uniforms to chill a bit a have a beer and go wild. A hilarious and thundering musical show coming from France with punk french song, hip-hop and even disco! 

National premiere. 

The Spooky Men are a male choir formed in 2001 in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, by Stephen Taberner. It draw from a rich and elusive blend of musical and theatrical influences, from Georgian male polyphony to absurd reflections on man as a vast and clueless object, with echoes of clowning, bouffon, Monty Python, and delightfully grunty tribalism.

National premiere.

Between dance and figure, the choreography breaks down into a series of disconnected moments, dreamlike sequences that together build a surrealist universe. Each scene, like a fragment of a dream, unfolds according to its own inner logic, where the body and the environment are distorted. Each gesture is a small fiction that builds and dissolves, like a game of deception and revelation: between being and seeming, the body shatters, recomposes, and transforms.

Limited capacity show, on-site reservations. Recommended age: +6. OFF show.

A story of humor and love where the laws of gravity come into play. A place where everyday objects are transformed into a poetic and endearing world, a space where two hung beings connect. Between the clothes, they come closer and begin a strange dance. With new costumes, they discover the star that they each carry within them. From feats to madness, from songs to dances, they transform the wardrobe on wheels into a “Grand Cabaret". In a street market, anything can happen.

OFF show.

Compagnie Tita8lou promotes circus, performing, visual, and street arts in Switzerland and around the world and aims to foster cross-cultural encounters. 
Siku is a circus, music and theater show about the Arctic and the Inuit people, inspired by artist Jessica Arpin's travels to Iglulik. On stage, the story of an adventurer and his wacky crew comes to life amid poetry, rhythm and storytelling.

Suitable for the whole family.
Limited capacity show, on-site reservations. Recommended age: +4.
With the support of Pro Helvetia. 

Doble Mandoble is a contemporary circus and nouvelle magie company. Specialized in magic and acrobatics, they create visually striking and theatrical shows with engaging humour.
In Hero For One Day, a few essential questions draw us into an unsettling game where everything can change in an instant: who are today’s heroes? Who is really pulling the strings?

National premiere. Recommended age: +7.

Théâtre Circulaire aims to bring people together around a performance, with the belief that culture should not be reserved for an elite but accessible to everyone.
Porte-à-Faux is performed inside a chapiteau, where the audience is welcomed into the show’s surreal and clownish world. Blending physical theatre, clowning, live music, poetry, and acrobatics, the performance plays with doors and the metaphors they evoke. An unpredictably clownish journey, where the audience becomes part of the scene alongside the characters.

Suitable for the whole family.
Limited capacity show, on-site reservations. Recommended age: 4+.
With the support of Pro Helvetia.

What happens on the day when the unexploded bombs inside us finally go off? And what about the days and hours leading up to that moment—how do they tell the prelude and reveal the omens of a possible reckoning?
Sweet Molotov is a small poem written with the body, telling with generous cynicism how a personal disaster can sometimes border on the absurd—or rather, the tragicomic.

National premiere. Recommended age: 9+.

Bien Joué by Fermín Mora is a comic mirror reflecting the beauty of our fragility.
With every calculated fall and knowing glance, Fermín disarms the audience, revealing that vulnerable part we all try to hide. The audience doesn’t just laugh—they see themselves.
Laughter gives way to a warm silence when, between one gag and the next, a flash of human truth appears.

Suitable for the whole family. Recommended age: +6. OFF show.

StreetFools is a street theatre company founded in 2019, born from the long-standing theatrical experience of Claudio Levati and Jordi Solé.
In Banaba Flup, two characters arrive, ready for the day of the great flood. Climate change will bring torrential rains, melting glaciers, and an inevitable rise in sea levels. The countdown has begun! Waiting won't be easy. The Great Flood has arrived… or has it?!

National premiere.
Recommended age: 5+. Work in progress show.
With the support from Institut Ramon Llull. 

Astolfo is a psychological clown show in which everything is driven by the real emotions the performer evokes in the audience: wonder, discomfort, fear... A surreal, neurotic, grumpy character. A trolley. A glass of water. A rubber band.
How would you feel if you suddenly had power in your hands?

Recommended age: 8+. OFF show.
 

Killabeatmaker is a music producer and performer from Medellín, Colombia, blending global rhythms with deep bass and urban beats. His sound draws from the musics of the Colombian territory, mixing traditional sounds with electronic and urban influences. Known for his dynamic live performances, he combines beatboxing, rap, and electrifying beats with his band, creating an interactive and high-energy show that captivates audiences.

Alta Gama is more than a company, it is a life project. A pair of clowns, on their acrobatic bicycle. A couple who believe in the transformative nature of art.
Mentir lo mínimo is a conceptual project that based on minimalism. The artists have transferred the creative processes from a minimalist plastic or sculptural work to a live show, to a performance. Like in minimalist sculptures, this creation is not complete without the gaze of the public, without its presence. Like in minimalist movement, the meaning of the artwork changes depending on who is looking at it. The work does not depend on the artist, but on the eyes that see it.

Recommended age: +6.

Cie BRUBOC was born as an artistic project based on a research path rooted in the study of gestures, body movement to give life to a comedy that makes truth its strong point. 
WOOW! is a surreal, nonverbal, clownish comedy show. A pair of clowns aboard their bizarre copper and metal vehicle, with wheels, motor and sound system, will traverse the streets of the Festival. They come from far and wide, traveling for no one knows how long...!

Suitable for the whole family. Recommended age: +3.

Un Amour en Couleur is a playful exploration of the colors of the human soul in a cold, commercial age—this vertical journey represents a return to the purity of childhood. A flexible, comic language sparks wonder and brings circus to life through aerial acrobatics, clowning, and juggling, accompanied by live music, in search of what humankind has long lost: the sudden joy of the present moment.

National premiere.

FATIGA, la mémoire des objets is a circus and object theater show, where the audience is invited to immerse itself in a world populated by more than six thousand tea bags, a trolley full of surprises and laughter as an accomplice in the relationship built with the audience. The character, in his solitude, presents us with his life in this traveling house, where nothing is as it seems.

Recommended age: +4.

Balletto Civile is characterized by the search for a "total" scenic language by privileging the interaction between theater, dance and original live singing.
In Elizabeth I we witness a three-round boxing match to tell the story of Queen Elizabeth I from a fresh and unusual perspective. The performance does not aim to reconstruct Elizabeth’s biography, but rather to capture the deeper meaning of her revolutionary actions—a study of her inner life, willpower, sense of responsibility, and relationship with power.

A quartet in golden costumes that metaphorically explores the idea of risking everything, moment by moment, in the name of living without regret. Two men and two women compose a choreography of danced actions in a space that evokes the memory of an abandoned arcade.

Rage is a danced exploration of anger and fury. The performance removes the scenic barrier between performer and audience. Everyone shares the same space, immersed in the action—equal—hoping to lead the audience toward a release from rage through rage. This research explores the physical expression of anger, investigating its many nuances, and develops an in-depth musical dramaturgy to guide the different shades of rage.

Killabeatmaker is a Colombian music producer who combines pan-African rhythms such as Afrobeat, Amapiano and Cumbia with traditional indigenous South American music, all framed in global electronic and club music. 

It happens to FÜLÜ to take animal appearances to tell, through music, voice and bodies, the stories of the wild spirit. Mixing a brass section with electronic sounds, the band offers a lush sound universe by weaving a link between current jazz, the percussive trance of carnivals and the mesmerizing rhythms of techno clubs.

A journey through the dances of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Colombia, expressing the cultural richness born from the meeting of native, African, and Spanish colonial populations. From these influences, dances of European, indigenous, and African origin emerged, which over time took on religious, festive, or ceremonial forms. Each dance is distinguished by rhythms, choreography, costumes, and stage props that tell the living story of a tradition in constant movement.

“Uniting Worlds” project – Cultural interchange Colombia Europe 2025.

Love and salt is an acrobatic comedy, a love story starring a couple of sailors, which after some funny disagreements, culminates in a happy ending. The show has an emotional ending, with a message of peace and inclusion.

OFF show.

Espera is a participatory circus show where the audience is invited to experience the acrobatic moments on stage firsthand. When the boundary between stage and audience disappears, the show becomes a chance to share a collective experience—meeting the gaze of strangers and listening with the body.

With the support from Institut Ramon Llull. 

Eastern Spaghetti brings back to life the divas and crooners of 1960s and ’70s Italy. A warped guitar, a distorted bass, a saturated accordion and a dark and velvety voice take us on a journey through the psychedelic landscapes of a rétro Italy.

OFF show.

A grandmother traveling with grandson & an old friend from the ancient forest. Slowly but tirelessly, the three of them are now exploring the world together, which is increasingly dominated by humans. Sometimes they have to stop and take a deep breath!

National premiere. Itinerant show. 
Suitable for the whole family.

Per un pelo by Chalibares combines juggling and hand-to-hand acrobatics with live music and clowning. The show appeals to audiences of all ages, and its title has become a catchphrase, making the performance both memorable and beloved.

Winner of Perform-It! Italian Performers Showcase 2024–2025, promoted by ANAPagis, the National Association of Performing Arts.

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.

OFF show.

With Brigadas mágicas, Titeres Passiflora offers the experience of Lambe Lambe theatre: miniature puppet shows performed inside a small box, where the viewer watches a short story through a hole, a lens, or a peephole. A performance for one person at a time, aiming to create—through the senses—an instant of aesthetic enjoyment between the puppet and the spectator.

For one person at a time, no reservation required. It lasts around 3 minutes.
“Uniting Worlds” project – Cultural interchange Colombia Europe 2025.

TribalNeed is a one-of-a-kind solo act that has taken the world by storm with his captivating soundscapes infused with Melodic Tribal Techno grooves. Created entirely live using ancient instruments and analog synthesizers—no computers or sequencers involved—he harnesses the power of live looping to deliver a raw and authentic sonic experience. Apart from his unique and engaging live shows, he also went viral on YouTube, amassing 14 million views and a hug. 

Buzz’ Ayaz primarily draws clear inspiration from 70s psychedelia, generously spiced with dynamic offbeat drum grooves, dirty bass clarinet riffs, organ, synths, and Anatolian melodic phrases. The result is a simultaneously menacing and sparkling trance-like dream state of a sound that you can’t help but surrender to and trip out on. 

National premiere. Recommended age: +14.

The Soulfire Project is a multicultural nomadic group that has been traveling the Americas for 15 years, from Oregon to Ecuador, aboard a converted school bus running on recycled vegetable oil from restaurants. A true nomadic band, full of styles and colors, with a revolutionary and diverse repertoire, delivering a powerful and engaging concert that merges different rhythms and tempos thanks to the blend of six members from different countries and cultures.

Francisco Barco is an electronic music producer, DJ, and photographer based in Palmira, Colombia. In Pennabilli, he will present a DJ set of minimalist and experimental electronic music. As a music selector, he explores underground electronic genres such as minimal house, minimal, ambient, and house.

“Uniting Worlds” project – Cultural interchange Colombia Europe 2025.

The power of an orchestra, the sweetness of a melody. Musica Muta: two guitars, the beating heart of a performance that blends original compositions with fresh takes on classic rock, pop, and Italian and international songs.
Michele Rosati and Rachele Fogu merge in an intense musical symbiosis—through notes, harmonies, and percussive rhythms, chord by chord, beat by beat. Sometimes words aren't needed—just the courage to listen to the voice of music.

OFF show.

Venolta is a fall festival born three years ago from the collaboration of Ultimo Punto and Chiocciola la casa del nomade with the aim of reclaiming the ancient rural dance style. To succeed in our intent, we will integrate into the programming of Artisti in Piazza a small foray of Venolta's content and make it available to the festival audience, with educational workshops and the involvement of local musicians, elderly players, the festival audience, accompanied by  "Viva el Ball!".

Nomads and Fools is a performance of clowning, physical theatre, contemporary circus, live music, comedy, and immersive audience interaction. With a surreal and ragged quality that elevates its humor, and a hypnotic physical narrative, the two characters roam—like nomads—through physical and creative landscapes, embracing the ever-changing nature of their craft: clowning.

Some mysterious DJs will take turns at the Palacirco console, ready to get you moving with their irresistible beats.

Class: Enchanter
Element: Fire/Air
Effect: When played at a party, it can generate a powerful trip-adrenaline aura capable of pulling participants into a parallel dimension where space and time blur.
Equipment: Subterranean basslines, mystical–ufological frequencies.

OFF show.

Going into the woods at night is a bit like getting lost. The senses are heightened, the ways of orientation change. As in a labyrinth, one seeks the exit, but to do so, one must first find oneself. Between a show and a concert, here is an opportunity for a break in the dark. Between sounds of frogs and wind, stories and whispers.

Show with limited capacity, reservation required at the Info Point. 
Not suitable for people with mobility difficulties.
Recommended age: +14.

After many years of solo work, musicians Santiago Moreno, Martin Kaspar, and Karl Stets decided to combine their sonic pleasures by founding the first one-man band ensemble: Oktopus Orkestars.
From jazz to cumbia, with a stop in klezmer music, the trio delivers a dizzying variety of musical delights in the most unusual forms imaginable.

A one-man band who spreads the essence of his music in all directions, Martin Kaspar — both minimalist and virtuoso — has remained true to the musical instruments of his family tradition: clarinet, bass clarinet, drums, and voice.

A musician steps onto the stage, gets dressed, and straps on his instruments. A multi-instrumentalist and juggler of rhythms and melodies, he performs jazz classics, folk tunes, and original compositions, revisited and blended by a character obsessed with playing everything at once, desperately trying to make it all work. It’s inevitable that, at times, the instruments take over!

With the support from Institut Ramon Llull.

Opening: 29° edition of the International Performing Arts Festival - ARTISTI IN PIAZZA

Idiòfona is to make light of tougness, to find harmony amidst noise, and to build a common vibration. It is an ode to the pleasure of shared experience. Idiòfona is a dialogue between man and matter during which a large sound installation is built in public space with the participation of the public. 

Reservation required at the Info Point. Recommended age: +10.
With the support from Institut Ramon Llull.

Poetry, movement and balance. Pelat is a proposal that erases the boundaries between dance, circus, theatre and performance; between audience and show. A natural review of artisanal techniques and own memories. A changing and unique exhibition as a result of the interaction with the spectator.

Recommended age: +6.
With the support from Institut Ramon Llull.

A tangle of ropes that comes from afar. A tangle of thoughts and emotions that lead to laughter and play—two of the purest and most powerful tools for untangling the knots. A show, but above all, a clown, who avoids words and instead relies on gestures and a gaze that convey a sense of peace and a liberating desire to play.

Suitable for the whole family. Recommended age: 4+.
With the support from Institut Ramon Llull. 

Bench Invasion - The Art fo Listening is a performance in which the artist engages ten people moving through the public space, each with a bench under his or her arm, and invites all spectators to sit nearby. The people involved take the benches back under their arms and continue into the space in search of a new person to talk to. At the end, everyone gathers together and the benches turn into a long table. With words, live music and a glass, we toast to the beauty of small encounters and life.

Recommended age: +16.

Ponzio Pilates is a musical project born in 2015 with a strong focus on live music, both performed and/or improvised, blending a variety of influences—from world music to fast afro-beat, from Japanese city pop to acoustic techno. After ten formative years of live performances, including appearances at festivals such as Glastonbury and Sziget, during which the band developed its own distinctive sound, the project has now taken on a new form as a trio.

Recommended age: +16.

Artes Gato Negro is a Colombian artistic groups dedicated to the art of puppetry and cultural management both within and outside the country. 
Reminiscencias. Monologo para la muerte is a puppet show that tells the story of the final days of Flor, an elderly pig who loves her daughter and, before leaving, wishes to teach Margarita the importance of loving and living life in every moment.

Suitable for the whole family.
"Uniting Worlds” project – Cultural interchange Colombia Europe 2025.

The Italian-Australian puppet theater company Di Filippo Marionette was created by Remo Di Filippo in 2010 and has continued to grow since Rhoda Lopez joined in 2014. Piuma is the newest member of the family and he is also the smallest! It is a "pocket puppet", 28 cm tall and weighs 352 gr. And he doesn't want to work. What can happen between the little puppet and her very tall puppeteer Remo? 

Suitable for the whole family. Recommended age: +3.

In the past, Laos was called the land of millions of elephants. Always a symbol of the country and the Lao community, the elephant is the largest and most powerful animal and has lived with the Lao community, but now its numbers are much reduced. In Elephant Song, the Khao Niew Lao Theater Company tells the story of Lao identity and spirit through the contemporary portrayal of traditional stories, transformed into a fascinating work of puppetry through the ingenious use of local Laotian tools and objects.

Suitable for the whole family. Limited capacity show, on-site reservations. 

La Mue/tte company is a collaboration between actress and puppeteer Delphine Bardot and Santiago Moreno. They have created seven shows, inventing a form of visual and musical theatre that allows bodies and objects to speak, questioning the relationships between men and women, power and violence. In Le Faux-Orchestre two musicians sit back to back: one is real, the other fake. The two alter egos attempt an impossible encounter. They chase, dodge, and tease each other before losing and merging into a circular dance. 

Gianni Risola, known as Otto Panzer, defines himself as a clown and street artist, occasionally lending his talents to cabaret. On a small stage, animated by unexpected characters, a unique show comes to life: banknotes, coins, and credit cards become the protagonists of everyday stories. With irony, poetry, and a surreal touch, Valore explores themes ranging from love to politics, from friendship to social inclusion, while also addressing the big issues of our time.

Dub Lab Interceptor Hi-Fi is a sound system crew from Pennabilli and has been curating the Dub Garden since 2014. They will light up the space with four explosive nights dedicated to Reggae and Dub music and culture, joined by loyal local selectors Spiritual Youth and Red Roots.

The Genoese singer-songwriter Federico Sirianni presents his new album La promessa della felicità, whose title track was among the five finalists for the 2024 Targa Tenco award in the “Best Song of the Year” category. The show blends songs and readings exploring the possibility of being happy—or at least living a life that truly resembles who we are. He is joined on stage by the duo Merakee: Veronica Perego on double bass and Valeria Quarta on vocals and percussion.

The French company Les Goulus defends a theatre that interacts with the audience and questions the traditional role of the actor. In The Horsemen, three very pompous and famous horsemen, selected to represent France at the next Olympic Games, arrive riding their spirited steeds for a demonstration of equestrian dressage. Although at times a bit ridiculous, they always maintain their “French attitude”, despite a few missteps…

Bringing people together, often with a dash of humor, has always been central to the evolution of Compagnie Krak. 
Kintsugi is a clowning show that addresses, in an accessible and sensitive way, the theme of loss and grief and their impact on psychological well-being.
On stage, an expectant clown. Hopeful, he tries to fill the void, but discovers that loss will always be a part of him. In an attempt to cope with grief, he comes to terms with his fate.

Work in progress show. Recommended age: +9.

Ballabili Campagnoli is a DJ set that merges techno and folk tradition, born between a wagon, the Palacirco, and the dancing memories of Romagna. Here, polka and mazurka weave into electronic beats, creating a continuous flow that begins in rural farmyards and ends on the dance floor.
Cininho and Pesce lead this sonic journey with a free spirit and deep roots, letting the bass echo the voice of stones, orchestras, and village nights.

Sonic Pic Nic Basket is the first collaboration between Julia Drouhin and Emiliano Battistini. Two sonic artists invite you to their picnic ... what will they pull out of the basket? Folk songs, handmade synthesizers with recycled items, toy microphones, guitars, two dice, electric hurdy-gurdies, small crystal organs, ambient recordings and... their voices! The result: a friendly and convivial sound banquet to be conducted together, under the banner of encounter and noise improvisation. Enjoy your ears! 

National premiere.

Expanding on the same brand of anarchic comedy and wild fusion of musical influences, Mr Vast is a one-man show that resists easy definitions: a slapstick cabaret, a surrealist happening, an avant-garde concert, a tragicomic carnival, an ecstatic ritual.

National premiere. Recommended age: +5. 

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.

Between trips in and out, since 2019 Tai Paz (Paz Pugliese) has been searching for a way to translate the stimuli of distant musics into a more personal and experimental form, between afro and afro-latin rhythms, jazz harmonies, syncopations, some straight bass drumming and singer-songwriter cues. The sound is supported by the "Poteri Forti" oligarchs of quality sound, more or less variable members of the band.

OFF show.

From early on, DogHead began working with found and discarded objects, from bicycles, lawnmowers, washing machines, televisions and toasters, everything went under the knife.With the philosophy of creating useful objects and sculptures from household and automotive objects discarded by others, he began his creative journey, making sculptures, creatures from his fantasies, skeletal limbs, hands and skulls, and mechanical beasts from the metal waste he finds.

Itinerant show.

Filò is a video documentary telling the story of the twentieth century through the perspective of the residents of several nursing homes in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Not a history lesson, but an intimate and playful narrative exploring important themes such as memory, communication, and old age. The project is inspired by the ancient filò – evening gatherings in stables, where people came together to keep warm, work, play, and chat.

Limited capacity show, on-site reservations. Recommended age: +14.

With a Latin soul and British roots, the Sun Kings were formed in Cardiff during the lockdown with the aim of bringing joy and color to the UK at that historical moment. Inspired by cumbia, they perform the ironic songs of Dan Nichols, who blends Latin rhythms and British lyrics into an original, vibrant, and surprising mix.

National premiere.