Triennale Milano
FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts
February 22 – May 14 2022

© Alessandro Gottardo

FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts is the Triennale Milano's festival dedicated to the most interesting and engaging expressions of theatre, dance, performance and music. A project confirming its international and multidisciplinary vocation by producing and hosting artists from the United States, Argentina, France, Switzerland, Germany, Mali, Japan, Iran, Cyprus, Spain, Austria, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Taiwan and Italy, underlining once again the need for an open vision of the world.

© Marco Ghidelli
Show

Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi

David Foster Wallace Daniel Veronese
February 22 – 24, 2022
With fierce and merciless humor, the contemporary man is portrayed as a weak individual, incapable of building harmonious relationships with women.

© To the Moon
Installation

To the Moon

Laurie Anderson Hsin-Chien Huang
March 1 – 13, 2022
Italian Premiere
In Laure Anderson’s breath-taking VR installation the viewer experience being shot out from earth, walking on the surface of the moon and being lifted up the side of a lunar mountain and then tossed off.

© Paula Court
Show

Queens Row

Richard Maxwell New York City Players
March 3 – 6, 2022
Italian Premiere
Resisting sentimental clichés of sympathy and consolation, in Queens Row American director Richard Maxwell masterfully envisions a future which confirms many of the darkest fears of today while allowing a ray of hope to slice through the darkness.

© Marc Domage
Show

SOMNOLE

Boris Charmatz
March 11 – 12, 2022
Italian Premiere
In the solo performance SOMNOLE, Boris Charmatz – one of France’s most celebrated contemporary choreographers – explores the transitional state of hibernation, paying attention to what lies underneath the surface, from daydreaming to the scream of awakening.

Magali Caillet Gajan
Workshop

Workshop with Magali Caillet Gajan – Exploring principles of Boris Charmatz ‘s choreographic research

March 12 2022

© Alessandro Sciarroni
Show

Dialogo Terzo: IN A LANDSCAPE

Alessandro Sciarroni CollettivO CineticO
March 12 – 13, 2022
Yet, beside the patience and effort required by performing reiterative patterns, a new quality emerges, which eludes definition. Determination seems to lead to disappearance, to a voluntary extinction of the subject. The dance embodies an extreme act of love and, as in John Cage’s music, becomes a bridge to the sublime.

© Piero Tauro
Workshop

Ghosts, pupils and other dizziness

CollettivO CineticO
March 13 2022

© DeeMo
Concert

Road to Polaris

Casino Royale Venaus Quintet
March 13 2022
Premiere
The metropolitan threads of their urban DNA merge with the analogue tones of the Venaus Quintet’s strings and with Miccolis’ tribal and world-wide-inspired percussions – all arranged and directed by maestro Giorgio Mirto.

© Julie Masson
Show

Aucune idée

Christoph Marthaler
March 15 – 16, 2022
Trusting the artists’ understanding of musicality and rhythm, the dramaturgy makes room for improvisation and the unknown, producing absurd and grotesque moments.

© Markus Selg and Rodrik Biersteker. Courtesy of the artists
Installation

I AM (VR)

Susanne Kennedy – Markus Selg – – Rodrik Biersteker
March 16 – 20, 2022
Italian Premiere
Susanne Kennedy, winner of the 14th Europe Prize New Theatrical Realities and one of the most original artists on the world scene, is for the first time presenting one of her works in Italy.

Romeo Castellucci © Eva Castellucci e Susanne Kennedy © I AM
Talk

Susanne Kennedy in dialogue with Romeo Castellucci

March 20 2022

© Kevin Westenberg
Concert

Charmed Life: The best of The Divine Comedy

Neil Hannon The Divine Comedy
March 17 2022
Italian Premiere
In Italian premiere FOG presents the concert of the Northern Irish singer-songwriter Neil Hannon, with a live performance of tracks from his latest album, Charmed Life: The best of The Divine Comedy.

© Radio Raheem
Concert

Extended

Radio Raheem
March 18 2022
For the fifth edition of the festival, Radio Raheem extends and enlivens its programming at the Palazzo dell’Arte with “real life” live sets, live performances and radio programmes in the Triennale’s corridors and halls, featuring artists Jay Glass Dubs, L I M, Volume & Friends, Ormeye, and Elasi.

© Anja Köhler
Performance

E Dio si riposò il settimo giorno

Silvia Costa
March 19 – 20, 2022
Italian Premiere
A creative and interactive project about family bonds, exploring and celebrating their ability to produce a joint venture, a collective design.

© Henri Coutant
Screening

Yasuke Kurosan, Never Twenty One, So Ava

Smaïl Kanouté
March 21 2022
Institut français Milano
Italian Premiere
This series of short films by dance artist Smaïl Kanouté deals with the impact of colonialism and the persistence of ancestral rites as an affirmation of identity.

© Mark Maborough
Show

Never Twenty One

Smaïl Kanouté
March 22 – 23, 2022
Italian Premiere
Echoing the hashtag #Never21 designed by the Black Lives Matter movement, this dance performance pays tribute to the victims of gun violence in New York, Rio or Johannesburg – who will never turn 21.

© Magali Dougados
Show

In Transit

Amir Reza Koohestani Comédie de Genève
March 26 – 27, 2022
Italian Premiere
In this suspended time, invisible structures firmly divide those who seek refuge from those who control their fate. The work reflects on the paradox of telling a story from its politically charged middle.

© Andrea Macchia
Show

maqam

mk
March 30 – 31, 2022
A cross-cultural performance, maqam by Italian company mk is titled after an Arabic word which signifies, among other things, the system of melodic modes used in traditional Arab music, a musical improvisation technique used across the Middle East.

© Kunstenfestivaldesarts
Show

Dying on Stage

Christodoulos Panayiotou
April 2 2022
Italian Premiere
The representation of death – a vertiginous proposition. Taking as starting point Rudolf Nureyev’s 1991 staging of the classical ballet La Bayadère, choreographed while his health was critically deteriorating, Christodoulos Panayiotou’s lecture-performance Dying on Stage is a meditation on the impossible theatrical representation of death.

© Yvan Clédat
Performance

Les baigneurs

Clédat & Petitpierre
April 2 – 3, 2022
Italian Premiere
The inventive duo of visual artists and choreographers Clédat & Petitpierre presents in Italian premiere Les baigneurs (“The bathers”), inspired by a subject often found in modern paintings.

© Alex Majoli
Screening

Milano

Romeo Castellucci – Yuri Ancarani – Scott Gibbons
April 3 2022
SOLD OUT
One hundred skeletons march through the streets of Milan one November night. The silent eloquence of their advance expresses what they can no longer say. They have walked for an hour across squares, monumental sites and churchyards.

© Andrea Pizzalis
Show

La notte è il mio giorno preferito

Annamaria Ajmone
April 6 – 7, 2022
The choreographer Annamaria Ajmone presents La notte è il mio giorno preferito (“The night is my favorite day”), a reflection on our relationship with otherness which explores animal ecosystems.

© Flora Yin Wong
Concert

Flora Live

Flora Yin Wong
April 7 2022
Italian Premiere
Born in London but of Chinese and Malaysian origins, Flora Yin Wong is a sound artist, DJ and experimental writer whose work combines field-recording and ancient traditional instruments (such as Tibetan bells, yangqin and kemence) with electronic processing.

© Lorenza Daverio
Concert

Open Machine

Vittorio Cosma The Goodness Factory
April 8 2022
SOLD OUT
Vittorio Cosma directs an improvised happening (with Pacifico, Whitemary and Jeremiah Fraites of the Lumineers.) which places music at its centres, enabling the audience to gain direct experience of the creative mechanisms of musical composition.

© Sara Leghissa
Performance

Rettilario

Sara Leghissa
April 13 – 14, 2022
Spazio SERRA
Italian Premiere
With the performative installation Rettilario, Sara Leghissa invites the audience to connect with an environment which is both natural and artificial, creating a unique perceptive experience that provokes a defamiliarizing effect.

© Alex Font
Show

Pasionaria

La Veronal
April 13 – 14, 2022
Pasionaria depicts an imaginary world, forged by everyone’s collective effort: the place we call progress. Yet here life has become an artificial experience and the inhabitants of this ideal planet have lost the ability to feel any emotion or passion.

© Andrea Pizzalis
Show

Avremo ancora l’occasione di ballare insieme

Deflorian/Tagliarini
April 20 – 23, 2022
The duo of authors, directors and performers Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini engage with Federico Fellini’s cinematic vision and with his deep exploration of human life. The result is a piece on coming together, dancing together, being a couple – on intimacy and dialogue.

© Luca Del Pia
Show

My body solo

Stefania Tansini
April 27 – 28, 2022
Teatro Out Off
An intimate and evocative solo, My body solo explores the relational possibilities between individual existence and collective experience.

© Estelle Hanania
Show

L’Etang

Gisèle Vienne
April 28 – 30, 2022
Italian Premiere
An early work by the Swiss writer Robert Walser, L’Etang is a family drama: a boy feels unloved by his mother and stages his suicide in the desperate attempt to experience her love.

© Giulia Lenzi
Performance

Eutopia

Trickster-p
April 29 – May 5 2022
SOLD OUT
Marrying performance, installation and game design, the Swiss research duo Trickster-p questions old biological, ecological and anthropological models to transform the theatre into a big game board.

© Rebecca Lena
Show

Swans never die

Camilla Monga – Chiara Bersani – Philippe Kratz – Virna Toppi
April 30 2022
Teatro Out Off
What is left today of a choreographic work which is considered a milestone in 20th century Western dance history? In what forms and through what bodies has it survived over time? Who is in charge of its legacy and why? What traces has it left in the choreographers of today and what values can it carry into the future?

© Lorenza Daverio
Concert

Open Machine

Vittorio Cosma The Goodness Factory
May 6 2022
Il Lazzaretto
Vittorio Cosma directs an improvised happening (with Bolla, Enrico Gabrielli and Frenetik) which places music at its centres, enabling the audience to gain direct experience of the creative mechanisms of musical composition.

© Jubal Battisti
Show

Deep Song + Everything/Nothing Works in Silence | MARMO

Dance On Ensemble
May 12 – 13, 2022
Italian Premiere
The Berlin-based Dance On Ensemble celebrates the artistic excellence of dancers aged 40+. They present a program which restages iconic works and invites contemporary artists to rewrite them in their own creative languages.

© Jubal Battisti
Talk

Ty Boomershine by Dance On Ensemble in dialogue with Valeria Crippa and Felice Scalvini

May 12 2022
On the occasion of the show of the Berlin collective Dance On Ensemble, the artistic director of the company, Ty Boomershine, dialogues with Valeria Crippa (Corriere della Sera) and Felice Scalvini (Fondazione Ravasi Garzanti).

© Dance On Ensemble
Workshop

Workshop with Miki Orihara of Dance On Ensemble

May 13 2022
On the occasion of the performance by the company Dance On Ensemble, Miki Orihara – one of the dancers of the collective – offers a workshop dedicated to professional dancers. The workshop focuses on Martha Graham's technique.

© Aguyoshi
Performance

Performative actions

Aguyoshi
May 13 – 14, 2022
Anfiteatro Martesana – Parco Martiri della Libertà Iracheni Vittime del Terrorismo
Italian Premiere
For the first time performing outside Japan, dance duo Aguyoshi makes intriguing, poetic and funny works which are very popular on Twitter and Instagram.

© Claudio Prati
Performance

Improvvisazioni itineranti in Parco Sempione

Ariella Vidach
May 14 2022
Parco Sempione
Premiere
Searching for a new relationship between body and nature, movement and urban space, they interact with the city’s everyday life, prompting an unusual encounter with members of the general public who also become spectators. 

© Wayne Snow
Concert

Cosmic Perspective from Milan

Radio Raheem
May 14 2022
In closing of the festival, Radio Raheem – Triennale Milano's resident radio station – presents a musical event between avant-garde soul, avant pop and afro-futuristic electronic. The main artist of the evening is Wayne Snow. The program is completed by two dj sets by Turbojazz and Donna Leake.

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