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Triennale Milano
FOG Performing Arts Festival
February 1 – April 15 2025

Illustration by Cécile Gariépy

Dozens of artists from around the world invade Milan for the 8th edition of our festival dedicated to the most interesting and engaging expressions of theater, dance, performance and music.

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Screening

A skewed conversation

Eman Hussein
February 1 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Dancer and filmmaker Eman Hussein invites us to rethink the relationship with our bodies in relation to the spaces around us in a surprising attempt to communicate and find a connection with the city from a new point of view.

© Raoul De Schuyter
Performance

Nafaq 4: Extending Further with Lander Gyselinck

Nafaq, Lander Gyselinck
February 1 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
A groundbreaking and fascinating performance that combines different styles of hip-hop and contemporary dance, including choreography and improvisation.

© Festival Parallèle. Photo by Margaux Vendassi
Performance

On vous voit

Samir Laghouati-Rashwan 
February 1 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Inscribed in the world of gaming, the performance On vous voit question the projection of stereotypes and their consequences for people whose identities are essentialized.

© Samuel Cimma
Performance

Fuga BWV 565

Gaetano Palermo, Michele Petrosino
February 1 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Fuga is a performance based on running, which becomes a metaphor for a paradoxical existential condition: that of those who move while remaining stationary, fleeing from themselves and their contingencies, in search of an ever elusive wellbeing.

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Concert

MESTIZX

Frank Rosaly e Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti
February 1 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Combining pre-and post-colonial Latin rhythms with avant-garde jazz, art punk, post-rock, cumbia, and electronics, creating an original and universal sound, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly present MESTIZX (International Anthem), their debut album, released in May 2024.

© Mathilda Olmi
Show

Quiet Light

Cindy Van Acker
February 4 – 5, 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Swiss choreographer Cindy Van Acker’s fascinating new project is inspired by the works of Flemish painter Leon Spilliaert: a duet that reveals theater in its essence: the search for a sense of the ephemeral, which is the true strength of a live performance.

© Pietro Bertora
Performance

nothing deeper

Elena Rivoltini
February 4 – 5, 2025
A mysterious and surprising organ concert, an anatomical lesson subverted, an act of rebellion against the medicalization of female and marginalized bodies.

© Beatrice Borgers
Show

We Came to Dance

Ali Asghar Dashti, Nasim Ahmadpour 
February 7 – 8, 2025
Teatro Filodrammatici di Milano
What does it mean to be a dancer when dancing is forbidden? Starting with these questions, Iranian playwright Nasim Ahmadpour and director Ali Asghar Dashti present a love letter to theater at the Triennale

© Mark Henley
Show

Cathedral – Tenir le Temps – Touch Base

Ballet Junior de Genève
February 8 – 9, 2025
A triptych of works choreographed by Marcos Morau, Rachid Ouramdane and Imre and Marne Van Opstal: a journey that will transport us into a universe of passion and beauty shaped by the inventive language of movement.

©️ Triennale Milano. Photo by Lorenza Daverio
Show

TOTENTANZ Morgen ist die Frage (stage version)

Marcos Morau, La Veronal
February 15 – 16, 2025
PREMIERE
The dance of death – the forefather of all raves – returns to make us question who we are and where we are going, in a euphoric and cathartic spiritualist seance that celebrates the fragility of life.

© Nicola Ratti
Concert

Concerto per tre stanze di museo

Nicola Ratti
February 15 2025
GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano
PREMIERE
The music permeates three adjacent rooms of the GAM, which vary in size, color, and acoustic characteristics, following the spatial suggestions of each interior in a generative transformation.

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Concert

Concerto al buio

Teho Teardo
February 17 2025
PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
The spaces of the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea in Milan host a pure listening project by composer, sound designer, and musician Teho Teardo.

© Foto di Mostafa Heravi / Editing: Maartje de Groot
Show

Songs for no one

Nastaran Razawi Khorasani
February 18 – 19, 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Songs for no one is a portrait of a hidden society and allows otherwise invisible stories to emerge: dialogues, poems, and songs are interwoven on stage in an evocative solo based on a series of telephone conversations with the children.

© Anne Van Aerschot
Show

Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga / Rosas, A7LA5 
February 22 – 23, 2025
The performance goes back to the primary structure of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, inviting us to reflect on the need and urgency for radical social, spiritual, and political acts to heal the crisis between humans and nature. 

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Concert

FEMINA AV

Riccardo Giovinetto
February 26 2025
Riccardo Giovinetto presents an audiovisual performance at FOG that overlays the sounds of polyphonic choirs with electronic music compositions, breaking down samples of Renaissance paintings into a stream of images that are transformed by sound.

© Michiel Devijver
Show

Medea's Children

Milo Rau
March 1 – 2, 2025
A group of children reflect on family history, first love, and first encounters with death, desires for the future and fears related to the end of the world that we all share. A short history of theater and a school of life as cruel as it is poetic.

© Andrea Macchia
Concert

Inner Spaces

Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Amir ElSaffar
March 5 2025
Teatro Filodrammatici di Milano
A journey that crosses boundaries, musical styles, aesthetics, and cultures, Inner Spaces embraces the sound spectrums of multiple sound languages. Abandonment and immersion are at the heart of this concert and the unique audience experience.

© Marc Domage
Show

Etude 6 On Crowd

Gisèle Vienne
March 7 – 8, 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE

© Akihito Abe
Show

Waltz

Saburo Teshigawara, Rihoko Sato
March 8 – 9, 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Waltz is the encounter between the joy of the classical waltz and the ritual gesture that sculpts space, combining gracefulness and discipline: a whirlwind of euphoria and freedom that pulses in a rigorous flow.

© Reto Schmid
Performance

Sister or he buried the body

Trajal Harrell
March 11 – 12, 2025
Weaving links between two seemingly distant cultures, Trajal Harrell breathes life into a journey through the history of contemporary dance that makes the body the center of collective memory.

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Show

Our son

Patrik Lazić
March 11 – 12, 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
One of the most interesting directors of the new generation, Lazić works on taboos, family relationships and understanding one’s sexual identity with delicacy and brilliant humor.

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Performance

Perle sparse – Perles fanné par tous

Vashish Soobah
March 15 – 16, 2025
What do you take with you when you migrate? A multimedia geographic map that traces a narrative and sensory journey through memories with a poetic vein of delicate beauty.

© PACT Zollverein, photo by Dirk Rose
Performance

Hands Made

Begüm Erciyas
March 15 – 16, 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
Turkish artist Begüm Erciyas investigates the transformations of our relationship with touch throughout history—from manual labor to digital, from the past to the future—in order to rethink and rediscover the sense of touch and contact.

© Anja Schutz
Concert

Ringdown

Caroline Shaw, Danni Lee Parpan
March 16 2025
Teatro Filodrammatici di Milano
ITALIAN PREMIERE
The Portland-based electro-pop duo presents an intense and surprising concert in which the music explores the spaces between different genres, challenging their boundaries and languages.

© Laurent Philippe
Show

RI TE

Marlene Montero Freitas, Israel Galvan
March 19 – 20, 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
RI TE stems from the encounter between two seemingly distant worlds, united by rhythm and the ability to combine tension with fiery expressiveness: a moment of pure joy and humor, using only body language, in the surprise of improvisation and mutual discovery.

© Enrico Malatesta
Performance

Fare polvere primo incontro

Enrico Malatesta, Yasmine Hugonnet
March 22 – 23, 2025
Padiglione Chiaravalle / Terzo Paesaggio
PREMIERE
In this work, the two artists question the distinction between dance and music, sound and body, exploring the creative possibilities that can arise from these two elements listening to each other.

© Pier Paolo Zimmermann
Show

Sahara

Claudia Castellucci / Compagnia Mòra
March 22 – 23, 2025
Claudia Castellucci’s choreographic and philosophical research grapples with the dimension of the desert, where the extreme lack of materials and relationships pushes dance to consider only what one has: oneself, as the only—first and last—instrument.

© Giorgiomaria Cornelio
Performance

Butchers Capsule

Gloria Dorliguzzo
March 26 2025

© Hanna Kushnirenko
Performance

Eat me

Giorgia Lolli
March 26 2025
Inspired by the common expression “to eat with the eyes,” Eat me began as a reflection on the representation of female bodies in the visual arts and on the consumption of images.

© Stefano Ricci
Show

Tu non mi perderai mai Liberamente "inspirato" dal Cantico dei Cantici

Raffaella Giordano, Stefania Tansini
March 29 – 30, 2025
Teatro Out Off
PREMIERE
After twenty years Raffaella Giordano turned to young choreographer and author Stefania Tansini to re-interpret one of her most mysterious and elusive solos, Tu non mi perderai mai, inspired by the Hebrew text of the Song of Songs.

© Mark Wessels
Show

HATCHED ENSEMBLE

Mamela Nyamza
March 29 – 30, 2025
ITALIAN PREMIERE
By hybridizing Western classical music and dance with traditional South African songs, the performance tells deeply personal stories that challenge racial prejudices and gender norms with joy, urgency, and great sensitivity.

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Show

Dance is not for us

Omar Rajeh, Maqamat
April 1 – 2, 2025
Omar Rajeh, a leading figure on the contemporary dance scene in Lebanon and the Arab world, leads us into his autobiographical universe, making dance an act of aggregation and shared experience.

© Lorenza Daverio
Experience

Improvvisazioni itineranti in Parco Sempione

Ariella Vidach
April 12 – 13, 2025
Parco Sempione
PREMIERE

© Shreya Dev Dube
Concert

Night Reign

Arooj Aftab
April 15 2025
The eighth edition of FOG concludes with a concert by Pakistani singer, composer, and producer Arooj Aftab, winner in the Best Global Music Performance category with Mohabbat at the 2022 Grammy Awards.