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Daphne, Narcissus, and Orpheus Come to Life: Ovid’s *Metamorphoses* on Stage in the Garden of the Borghese Gallery

Daphne, Narcissus, and Orpheus Come to Life: Ovid’s *Metamorphoses* on Stage in the Garden of the Borghese Gallery

The Borghese Gallery’s garden transforms into an open-air stage to bring Ovid to life through theater, dance, music, and images. On Monday, September 28, Tuesday, September 29, and Wednesday, September 30, 2026, the exhibition *Metamorphoses. O...
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Performance criticism has a problem: it continues to view the body as separate from the mind

Performance criticism has a problem: it continues to view the body as separate from the mind

Criticism of performance art has a fundamental problem: it continues to conceive of the body as if it were Cartesianly separated from the mind. For decades, bodily actions have been interpreted alternately as conceptual exercises—in which the mind us...
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Dance, theater and performance at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: here's Advent #3

Dance, theater and performance at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: here's Advent #3

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is once again becoming a stage forcontemporary art with the third edition of Avvenimento, the format launched in 2023 that transforms the museum into a space for interdisciplinary experimentation. On Tuesday,...
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"The performer is an actress living a truth": interview with Giulia Perelli

"The performer is an actress living a truth": interview with Giulia Perelli

What does it mean to be a performer? We talk about it with Giulia Perelli (Lucca, 1985), actress, author, performer and visual artist. Trained between Rome and Belgium, she works in Europe, Asia and the Americas, alternating between personal projects...
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Kicking off sixth edition of Elements, traveling festival of contemporary music, performance and visual arts

Kicking off sixth edition of Elements, traveling festival of contemporary music, performance and visual arts

From May 2 to July 27, 2025, MAGMA presents the sixth edition of ELEMENTI, the itinerant review of music, performance and contemporary visual arts, conceived in 2020 with the intention of creating an immersive performative dimension within natural an...
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Tomaso Binga at Madre in Naples: a retrospective on the desecrating power of visual poetry

Tomaso Binga at Madre in Naples: a retrospective on the desecrating power of visual poetry

The Madre Museum in Naples celebrates the career of Tomaso Binga (Salerno, 1931) with EUFORIA, the largest museum retrospective dedicated to the artist, born Bianca Pucciarelli Menna. Curated by Eva Fabbris with Daria Kahn, the exhibition opens April...
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Rome, the Cloud becomes a home environment for Dimitris Papaioannou's video-performance installation

Rome, the Cloud becomes a home environment for Dimitris Papaioannou's video-performance installation

From April 14 to 16, 2024, at the Nuvola in Rome, on the occasion of the EUR Culture per Roma festival of performances EUR SpA and Teatro dell'Opera di Roma bring in co-production Inside, the video-performance installation conceived and directed by G...
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The performer is not an actor, he is the one who performs acts. Conversation with Angelo Pretolani

The performer is not an actor, he is the one who performs acts. Conversation with Angelo Pretolani

Angelo Pretolani (Genoa, 1953) is one of the pioneers of Italian performance. His first performance, Minotaur,dates back to 1973 , with which he denounced the bewilderment of people in the face of the often uncontrolled growth of cities. Since then P...
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