The ninth edition of the FOG Performing Arts festival opens with a site-specific creation by Romeo Castellucci, conceived for the spaces of Triennale.

Creator of a unique stage language, Mario Banushi, the breakout director on the international theater scene, presents an intimate and universal visual poem about the mother–child bond. The stage transforms into a landscape of memory: a collective immersion into the memories and emotional legacy we carry with us.

FOG 2026 opens with a special live set curated by Radio Raheem, featuring DJ Esselunga and Luwei for the occasion.

Analphabet is a romantic spirit who heals toxic relationships with his songs and love poems. With hypnotic prose, the Andalusian director and performing artist Alberto Cortés presents a magnetic show that explores the theme of intra-gender violence in a touching and surprising performance.

The work, combining live performance and video installation, explores the layered history of the Burrnesha – women who assume a male identity in certain Balkan communities – to reflect on the stereotypes conveyed by Western media and to open a discussion on the relationship between power, gender, and identity.

A solo created by the Golden Lion–winning choreographer of the Venice Biennale and associate artist of Triennale Milano Teatro 2022–2024 for the dancer Marta Ciappina, inspired by the symphonic poem The Swan of Tuonela by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

The audiovisual performance blends electronic music and visual art to explore the relationship between identity and migration, thanks to the collaboration of artists from different origins and cultures: the Iranian-Canadian musical duo Saint Abdullah, the Irish producer and DJ Eomac, the Italian-Australian filmmaker Rebecca Salvadori and – for the first time – the London born visual artist Charlie Hope.

The Lebanese choreographer and dancer weaves together dance, poetry, and collective memory to tell the story of three migrant women, suspended between a land in flames and the Mediterranean Sea, navigating love, death, fear, and resilience to transform pain into a song of freedom.

L'avvenire (Becoming) addresses the very essence of stage play, or its nature as an event. What occurs onstage? Four bodies perform a precise exercise in space and time, a reflection on whether presence can constitute a manifestation or generate a gap between what appears and a beyond in which appearance is surpassed and doubted.

The dancer and choreographer Benjamin Kahn, a leading figure on the French scene who approaches dance and choreography as powerful political tools, creates in The Blue Hour a choreographic portrait of the young dancer Théo Aucremanne: the blue hour, or twilight, is that moment of suspension between night and day, between sleep and wakefulness, which becomes a metaphor for the contemporary.

Ontroerend Goed, a Belgian company among the most original on the international scene, presents a unique participatory experience that gives the audience – “blindfolded” – full control over the performance.

The award-winning Norwegian company tackles the contradictions of “new wealth” with irony, focusing on three couples and their "au pair" through a combination of video, virtual reality, and jazz music.

When did love first emerge? Through live-feed video, new technologies, and physical theater, the new performance by the award-winning Catalan company explores the origins and forms of love, alternating between a historical perspective and that of individual personal experience.

Matteo Sedda presents FUCK ME BLIND, a choreographic duo inspired by Blue, the final autobiographical film by Derek Jarman, shot shortly before the director’s death from AIDS. A hypnotic experience, immersed in a visually striking landscape charged with emotion and symbolism, navigating between tension and surrender, Eros and Thanatos.

Marcos Morau, associate artist of Triennale Milano Teatro, and his dance company, among the most acclaimed on the international scene, present a cruel and visionary fairy tale, dark and enigmatic, set in a fantastical land in which La Veronal immerses itself to create a radically contemporary work.

The Italo-German choreographer Marco Berrettini explores the profound meaning of collectivity and community through the story of a Bavarian folk dance company that, lacking the success it hoped for, decides to open its repertoire to cultural and stylistic contamination.

Among the most acclaimed young Italian choreographers nationally, Daniele Ninarello presents an open and participatory choreographic device that envisions new possibilities for coexistence, transforming the stage into a living territory of encounter, listening, and transformation.

The ensemble presents one of the most emblematic works by Julius Eastman, an American composer, pianist, and performer, and one of the most radical figures of the experimental scene in the 1970s. The score of Femenine encourages performers to use their creativity to bring the work to life in a constantly evolving way, existing fully only in performance.

The Serbian director, one of the emerging voices of the new European theater, tackles Paula Vogel’s text – winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama – in an essential staging, where memory and silence become tools for listening and awareness, exploring the complexity of desire, abuse, and the hidden power within acts of love.

After Frankenstein (A Love Story), the company Motus, a long-standing protagonist of Italian research in the past thirty years, presents the second chapter of the project dedicated to the famous creature born from Mary Shelley’s pen. At the center is the breaking point between love and hate that marks the birth of the “monster,” trapped in the painful attempt to find a place in the world.

The multi-award-winning French performer and choreographer presents a widespread performance, part of the European project PIT, which will take over the spaces of Triennale to create an essential and spontaneous score, entrusted solely to movement, in a surprising choreographic explosion.

Palestinian choreographer Marah Haj Hussein weaves dance and theater to investigate language as a space of identity, conflict, and resistance, in a journey through voices, geographies, and memories that explores the power dynamics between Arabic and Hebrew, between colonizer and colonized.

An immersive, multi-channel sound installation that, through the voices of the performers and natural sounds (waves, tides, currents), gives voice to a shared mourning for the lives lost due to migration policies in the Mediterranean Sea.

An intimate and political story, where memory becomes action and theater a shared space of freedom and redemption. Mi Madre y el Dinero draws on the author’s biography to depict life in Mexico’s poorest regions, highlighting art as an enduring path to empowerment.

An experience that invites the audience to explore a constantly changing landscape inspired by the networked and interconnected patterns found in nature. By moving away from the centrality of the human being, the performance creates a poetic and perceptual device that encourages a rethinking of the concepts of time, space, belonging, and community.

A captivating immersive performance for children aged seven and up, created by the Franco-Belgian collective Ersatz, known for their incredible miniature stage machines. A playful introduction to performance and contemporary stage language, aiming to foster awareness of the beauty of nature and its fragility.

A durational performance in constant evolution that explores themes of attraction, repetition, and emotion. The body sheds its tensions, roles, and defenses: a sensuality without hierarchies, capable of suspending conventional ways of seeing through its relationship with the audience. One of the most engaging performances of recent years.

Inspired by the contemplative stillness of the Rothko Chapel in Houston, painted by Mark Rothko, the collective performance uses theatre as a tool for resistance and reflection to explore solitude as both a refuge and a shared condition, especially in times of war. The musical creation is entrusted to Ben Frost, one of the most important artists on the global scene.

OBLICUOHIFI presents two of its many musical identities: Uruguayan DJ Fatal and Japanese DJ Hanakito, both resident selectors, offering a listening experience that blends instability and movement in a transversal and eclectic trajectory. A sonic journey that invites the audience to shift perspective, opening up to new visions and connections.

FOG and Ariella Vidach, artistic director of the company AiEP, together with young choreographers, present a project of improvisations and site-specific interventions in Chiaravalle, in collaboration with Terzo Paesaggio.