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Triennale Milano
FOG Performing Arts Festival
February 11 – May 11 2023

© Alessandro Gottardo

Dozens of artists from around the world invade Milan for the 6th edition of our festival dedicated to the most interesting and engaging expressions of theater, dance, performance and music. Read the program

© SQÜRL
Concert

Jim Jarmusch live

SQÜRL
February 1 2023
SOLD OUT
A special preview for the 6th edition of FOG. Master of American independent cinema, Jim Jarmusch performs at Triennale in a unique “synaesthetic” event. A concert-projection in which four dreamlike short films by the legendary Man Ray are set to live music.

© Julian Mommert
Show

INK

Dimitris Papaioannou
February 11 – 12, 2023
SOLD OUT
In a duet that soon shades into a duel, the great Greek artist – accompanied by the fascinating dancer Šuka Horn – probes the limits of reality through the filters of science fiction and horror.

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© BSN Gwladys Gurtler
Show

Arca ostinata

Nino Laisné – Daniel Zapico
February 14 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Escaping traditional classifications, Arca ostinata is a tribute to the dreamy musicality of the theorbo (a great lute from the 16th century) and the evocative atmospheres of the Baroque era.

© Joana Linda
Show

Limbo

Victor de Oliveira 
February 15 – 16, 2023
Teatro Out Off
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Through an introspective work, the artist, for the first time in Italy, questions the origins and history of his family, composing a mosaic of personal memories, historical facts, colonialism, slavery and current events.

© Rebecca Praga
Installation

Los Protagonistas

El Conde de Torrefiel
February 16 – 18, 2023
BASE Milano
ITALIAN PREMIERE
The acclaimed project El Conde de Torrefiel presents a performative installation designed for children, in which surreal and colorful atmospheres invite the spectators to multiply their gaze.

© Chirstine Alicino
Concert

Meredith Monk live with Katie Geissinger and Allison Sniffin

Meredith Monk
February 18 2023
SOLD OUT
Master of multidisciplinary art and pioneer in “extended vocal technique,” Meredith Monk presents one of her rarest and most intimate concerts, which reflects a sixty-year career between experimentation and innovation.

© Marinka Masséus
Show

Leggere Lolita a Teheran

Cinzia Spanò – Roberta Di Mario 
February 19 2023
Teatro Out Off
A reading of some excerpts from the bestseller Lolita in Tehran, an example of literary resistance and a tribute to the strength of Iranian women.

Concert

FOG (live A/V)

Grand River – Marco Ciceri
February 23 2023
Electronic music meets minimalist images to guide an exploration of unknown landscapes free from the boundaries of rationality, to reveal what is hidden beyond the curtain of fog.

© Luca Ghedini
Performance

Musica per un giorno

Roberta Mosca – Canedicoda
February 25 – 26, 2023
Il Lazzaretto
PREMIERE
Musica per un giorno is a unique durational performance. The project becomes an opportunity for immersive exploration, in search of states, conditions, limits and perceptual opportunities.

© Andrea Macchia
Show

Of the Nightingale I Envy the Fate

Motus
February 28 – March 1 2023
SOLD OUT
Motus approaches the Iliad and the prophetic power of Cassandra, archetypal figure of Western culture, re-reading it through a contemporary lens.

© Leafhopper
Show

Prometeo / Olympus Kids

Agrupación Señor Serrano
March 4 – 6, 2023
AGE 6 – 11
On stage, reinterpretations of figures such as Prometheus, Hippolyta and the Amazons are entrusted to the voice of a narrator and a colorful troupe of scale models, turning timeless stories on their heads and rediscovering their contemporary legacy.

© Ozge Cone
Concert

Elision

Halina Rice 
March 8 2023
One of the most celebrated new artists of the avant-garde electronic music scene, Halina Rice performs in a live-set that showcases her latest album, Elision, in which music, art and technology intersect.

© Vladimir Bertozzi
Show

Manfred

madalena reversa 
March 10 2023
madalena reversa – the eclectic artistic project founded by Maria Alterno and Richard Pareschi – reinterprets the dramatic poem Manfred by Lord Byron on a humanity paralyzed by the conflict between matter and spirit.

© Traslochi Emotivi
Performance

Deposta

Traslochi Emotivi – Giulia Currà
March 11 2023
Casa degli Artisti
PREMIERE
In this piece by the company Traslochi Emotivi, the event of moving homes is explored in its significance as a process in which opposites coexist and surprising connections can emerge.

© Brano Gilan
Workshop

DANSER BRUT  

Julie Gouju – Brano Gilan
March 13 – 25, 2023
AGE 12 – 17
A project consisting of a film and a workshop in which the corporeality of performative gesture and the power of moving images coexist.

Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch © soukizy.com – Ballaké Sissoko © Benoit Peverelli
Concert

Radicants

Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch – Ballaké Sissoko
March 15 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
The encounter between western electronic soundscapes and an instrument as ancient as the kora (lute harp native to West Africa) gives rise to a musical experience of exploration and immersion.

© Daniele Mantovani
Show

Pas de deux

C.G.J. Collettivo Giulio e Jari
March 16 2023
SOLD OUT
Two dancers maneuver their bodies according to trajectories that are now free and gentle, now decisive and fragmented, reinterpreting the theme of the pas de deux, a scenic system that has always highlighted the profound value of bonding and relationship.

© Reto Schmid
Show

The Köln Concert

Trajal Harrell – Schauspielhaus Zürich Dance Ensemble
March 18 – 19, 2023
Seven dancers release their energy on stage carried by Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert, the most famous jazz piano recording of all time.

© Arne Hauge
Show

Bad Dante Bad English Bad Opera

Spreafico Eckly –Matteo Fargion
March 22 – 23, 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Humor, experimentation and string symphonies: four performers and three musicians reconstruct Dante's journey among wandering souls and their stories.

© Otolab
Show

Circo ipnotico

Otolab
March 24 – 26, 2023
Casa degli Artisti
Gesture and human intention meet digital technologies and artifacts to create kaleidoscopic combinations of shapes, colors, pulsating lights and ancestral sounds.

© Skymind Images
Performance

Senza titolo

Annamaria Ajmone
March 25 – 26, 2023
A performance by Annamaria Ajmone – Triennale Milano Teatro associate artist – that takes on different looks, durations and tones according to the spaces in which it is staged.

© Margherita Orsini
Show

Personne, chroniques d’une jeunesse

Ugo Fiore – Federica Furlani – Livia Rossi
March 25 – 26, 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Through the framework of a fairytale, the plot culminates in an encounter with a monster. Ugo Fiore and Livia Rossi, together with musician Federica Furlani, stage an autobiographical drama, a dark tale that tells the story of a child betrayed by the adult world.

© Liliana Merizalde
Show

AMAZONIA 2040

Martha Hincapié Charry  
March 28 – 29, 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
In what state will the Amazon forest be in twenty years? What can we learn from indigenous cultures that can change our relationship to the planet?

© Ant Hampton
Performance

Not to scale. Fuori scala

Ant Hampton – Tim Etchells 
March 30 – April 2 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
An autoteatro performance which draws two participants into shared experiments and intertwined processes of drawing, erasing and listening.

© Paul Blakemore
Performance

The Last Minutes Before Mars

Darren O’Donnell – Mammalian Diving Reflex 
March 31 – April 2 2023
ZONA K
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Combining live performance and VR experience, The Last Minutes Before Mars invites us into the world of a group of young people to meet their family, their friends and spend time in the precious spaces of their lives.

© Alessandro Sciarroni
Performance

DREAM

Alessandro Sciarroni
April 1 – 2, 2023
SOLD OUT
Between music and theater, six performers and a pianist give life to a durational performance, an action without beginning or end, representing a humanity humanity seen up close.

© Albert Pons
Show

Sonoma

La Veronal
April 1 – 2, 2023
In a world in which everything loses meaning, a group of women seek an escape in pure irrationality and instinct, abandoning their bodies in free fall amid surreal and dreamlike scenarios.

© Giovanni Daniotti
Concert

The Disorder of Appearances A/V

Ginevra Nervi
April 4 2023
PREMIERE
Long vocalizations and catchier phrasings give the tracks a melodic feel which softens the relentless synth repetitions and digital rhythms, while keeping words in a state of indecipherability and dreamlike suspension. 

© Caty Olive
Installation

100% polyester, objet dansant n. 48

Christian Rizzo – Caty Olive
April 4 – 8, 2023
The performative installation conceived by Christian Rizzo – a multidisciplinary artist who moves between fashion, art and performance – stages a dance without dancers.

© Philip Frowein
Show

How a Falling Star Lit Up The Purple Sky

Jeremy Nedd – Impilo Mapantsula
April 12 – 13, 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Jeremy Nedd, an internationally acclaimed choreographer and performer, and Impilo Mapantsula, a global network specializing in a dance charged with energy and spontaneity, stage, for the first time in Italy, a visual poem of rebellious bodies and moving hope.

© Dewey Dell
Show

Le sacre du printemps

Dewey Dell
April 15 – 16, 2023
PREMIERE
Merging dance and performing arts, Dewey Dell's choreographic research is inspired by images from art history and the behaviors of the animal kingdom.

© Matteo Bellomo
Performance

Superpaesaggio

Nicola Ratti – Attila Faravelli – Enrico Malatesta
April 15 – 16, 2023
Chiaravalle (Milano)
An experimental project that finds its common thread in sound. A collective sound performance realized while walking along a listening path around Chiaravalle.

© Lorenza Daverio
Performance

Improvvisazioni itineranti in Parco Sempione

Ariella Vidach
April 23 2023
Parco Sempione
Young dancers, supervised by the artist, perform improvised scores and site-specific interventions in the context of Parco Sempione.

© Claudia Pajewski
Show

CHAOSMOSIS. Studio per “La mano sinistra”

Industria Indipendente
April 27 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
A show that is open to future developments and that merges performance and an extended idea of writing as an exercise of knowledge.

© Chris Ameida
Concert

Alabaster De Plume Live

Alabaster De Plume
April 28 2023
British artist with a unique vision of jazz music, Alabaster De Plume proposes a bold and electrifying mix of jazz, folk and classical music, bursting with nostalgic melodies which bring back light-hearted memories. 

© Furmaan Ahmed
Concert

Spirit Exit Live

Caterina Barbieri
May 2 2023
SOLD OUT
On a timeline that blurs the boundary between yesterday and today, some of the greatest female figures of the past inspire post-human sounds and experimental melodies.

Ph.: Luca Del Pia © Triennale Milano
Installation

Senza Titolo

Romeo Castellucci
May 2 – 7, 2023
PREMIERE
The premiere of a new production by Triennale Milano's Grand Invité, commissioned for the institution's centenary. A performative installation that becomes sound, warning and ancestral prayer.

© Giuseppe Laera
Show

Un’andatura un po’ storta ed esuberante. Emersione n. 1

Antonio Tagliarini
May 3 – 4, 2023
Il Lazzaretto
SOLD OUT
A work that represents the emergence of Antonio Tagliarini’s new research process. His enquiry focuses on the human, its opacity, its mystery, the unsaid, folly, the illicit, the unexpected.

© Virginia Rota
Show

DIPTYCH. The Missing Door and The Lost Room

Peeping Tom
May 5 – 6, 2023
A romantic encounter in a hotel room, a drama unfolding within the walls of a middle-class living room: in a tangle of doors and scenarios, dance and theater shape fragmented narratives and psychological thriller atmospheres.

© Niwa Gekidan Penino
Show

Fortress of Smile

Kuro Tanino
May 10 – 11, 2023
ITALIAN PREMIERE
The director-dramaturg paints a voyeuristic slice of life about two small and neglected adjacent apartments in a coastal village. Hyperrealist rooms and sets become the stage for two parallel, intertwined stories.