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Triennale Milano
FOG Performing Arts Festival
Until 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.

© 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.

© Triennale Milano. Foto di Lorenza Daverio
Experience

TOTENTANZ. Morgen ist die Frage (stage version) Tactile visit and audiodescription

February 16 2025
A tactile visit dedicated to the sets and a poetic audio description are scheduled for individuals with visual disabilities.

© 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.

Courtesy the artist
Concert

Concerto al buio

Teho Teardo
February 17 2025
PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
SOLD OUT
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. 

Courtesy the artist
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
In the hallucinatory simultaneity of the lights, shadows, sounds and moving bodies of a rave party, the artist outlines a series of fascinating and deeply human portraits, focusing on the emotional experience—rather than the actual experience—of time.

Gisèle Vienne, foto di Karen Paulina Biswell; Romeo Castellucci, foto di Anita Soukizy
Talk

Meet the artist Gisèle Vienne in conversation with Romeo Castellucci

March 9 2025
Among the most groundbreaking artists of our time, Gisèle Vienne is in conversation with known worldwide director and set, lighting and costume designer Romeo Castellucci.

© 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.

Courtesy the artist
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.

Courtesy the artist
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 Monteiro 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
A project that stems from the discovery of a word from ancient Greek and its etymology: Hasapikos, which literally means butchers’ dance.

© 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.

Courtesy the artist
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.

Photo by Lorenza Daverio
Experience

Improvvisazioni itineranti in Parco Sempione

Ariella Vidach
April 12 – 13, 2025
Parco Sempione
PREMIERE
FOG and Ariella Vidach, artistic director of the company AiEP, create a project specifically devised for public spaces, offering an opportunity to research the city’s landscape and its relationship with technology.

© 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.