FOG Performing Arts Festival 2026
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A festival that explores modern times through the performing arts, bringing together the perspectives of artists and companies from around the world. This is FOG, which since 2018 has brought to Milan—at Triennale and other venues throughout the city—the most noteworthy offerings in terms of theater, dance, performance, and music.
In 2026, for the first time, FOG expands into two periods of the year: after the conclusion in April of the first part of the program, the ninth edition of FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts Festival returns from September 19 to November 15.
Weaving together the pop, R&B, and New Wave sounds of his youth, American choreographer Kyle Abraham creates a work that pays tribute to the images and music of the 1980s. Photo by Christopher Duggan
In Shimmering, Yanghee Lee weaves together the forms of the traditional Korean dance Shinmuyong, rooted in rigorous discipline and repetition, with the pulsating visual and sonic textures of 1990s rave culture. Photo by Kyuho Shim
Alongside leading figures of the contemporary performing arts scene, the festival offers audiences the opportunity to discover the work of emerging artists who have already captivated audiences at major international theaters and festivals, and who often appear in Italy for the first time thanks to FOG. Artists and companies whose productions address urgent and necessary themes in radical, poetic, and surprising ways.
Lina Lapelytė, Boris Charmatz, Kyle Abraham, Amir Reza Koohestani, Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet, Lee Yanghee, Jaha Koo, Dewey Dell, Agnese Banti, Gaetano Palermo and Michele Petrosino, Radio Raheem/R.ocks, Chiara Bersani, Romeo Castellucci are the protagonists of this unprecedented autumn section of the festival, capable of bringing together the languages of theatre, dance, performance, and music in a single movement.
Muette, by Boris Charmatz, is an intimate and radical solo, that transforms what remains unsaid and silenced into gesture. Photo by César Vayssié
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Cassette Vol.1, Foto di Christopher Duggan
From Baroque music to contemporary composition, from pop to 1980s dance, from choral forms to sound experimentation, music runs through the shows and performances in the programme, interacting as a protagonist with bodies and images. A tapestry of gestures, voices and sounds, alternating with silences that evoke a tender and radical complicity between stage space and audience.
In the face of an increasingly assertive society, FOG creates refuges and connections, exploring possibilities of coexistence and questioning the audience about its social role. The artists develop practices and devices of dialogue and relationship that invite spectators to inhabit a shared time and space as forms of belonging to a temporary community.
In a series of intimate, absurdist anecdotes, sud-korean artist Jaha Koo takes us on a culinary journey for those dislocated from their culture. Haribo Kimchi, Jaha Koo, Foto di Bea Borgers
The name "FOG" is both an ironic and romantic tribute to Milanese imagery and, above all, a symbol of discovery, risk, and surprise. With its ninth edition, FOG once again sketches a landscape where the senses are heightened, vision becomes poetic and uncertain, and each performance opens a space to get lost—and found—again.
Cover: Lina Lapelytė, The Speech, Festival d’Automne, 2024, photo by Martynas Norvaišas / With the gracious permission of Pinault Collection / Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection / © Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, NeM / Niney et Marca Architectes, Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier / © Lina Lapelytė, 2024
