Triennale Milano
Fuori Asse Focus 2026 | AI CONFINI DEL CIRCO
January 16 – 18, 2026


Fuori Asse Focus 2026 | AI CONFINI DEL CIRCO is a three-day focus on contemporary circus curated by Quattrox4 within Triennale Milano. The program features three contemporary circus performances, a meet-the-artists encounter and a talk about new dramaturgies.

© Josip Bolonić
Show

FRAGMENTS

La Víspera 
January 16 – 18, 2026
ITALIAN PREMIERE

Screening

SOSPESI

Cordata F.O.R.
January 17 2026
SOSPESI is the first film to offer a passionate, ensemble view of the world of contemporary Italian circus: its poetics, its practices and its protagonists.

© Pierre Morel
Show

MONOGRAPHIE 

Defracto
January 17 – 18, 2026
FROM 5 YEARS
An explosive juggling solo, MONOGRAPHIE unfolds like a living cartoon, at once graphic, absurd, and delightfully burlesque.

© Camille La Verde
Performance

LAVATRIX

Marianna De Sanctis
January 17 – 18, 2026
With the site specific performance LAVATRIX Marianna De Sanctis revisits the verticality of the Scalone d’Onore through the centrifugal motion of the hoop: a movement that does not eliminate weight, but transforms it.

© Alessandro Villa
Talk

Exploring intimacy An Investigation into New Dramaturgies: The Autobiographical Circus

January 18 2026
On this meeting artist and PhD resident Tania Simili will meet the audience and engage in dialogue with Marianna De Sanctis in relation to her site-specific performance LAVATRIX, and with independent researcher Gaia Vimercati.

© Pierre Morel; Alessio Ferreri
Talk

(PER)FORMARE PAROLE Vinka Delgado e Guillaume Martinet

January 18 2026
A meeting between the audience and the artists — a double interview between those who create the scene and those who observe it.