Author: francesca

On April 22nd at 12 pm, at Artificerie Almagià, was held the POLIS 2024 press conference.

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Author: francesca

On Monday, April 8th the tickets for POLIS Teatro Festival 2024 will be available!

For the performance Saint Joan of the Stockyards on April 24th
TEATRO ALIGHIERI
via Mariani 2, Ravenna
tel. +39 0544 249244 / tickets@teatroalighieri.org
open Monday through Saturday 10 am -1 pm, Thursday also 4-6 pm
online at www.teatroalighieri.org/events/santa-giovanna-dei-macelli
IAT Ravenna, Piazza San Francesco 7, tel. 0544 482838
IAT Teodorico, via delle Industrie 14, tel. 0544 451539
IAT Cervia, via Evangelisti 4, tel. 0544 974400

For all the performances in program between May 7th-12th
TEATRO RASI
via di Roma 39, Ravenna
open Thursday afternoon from 4 to 6 pm (April 11th, April 18th, May 2nd)
starting from one hour before each performance in the venue of the performance
online at https://www.vivaticket.com/it/tour/polis-teatro-festival-2024/2996 (commission 10%)

Due to the reduced capacity of the itinerant performance, of Artificerie Almagià and of the Ridotto of Teatro Rasi, pre-sale purchase is recommended

Author: francesca

POLIS Teatro Festival is back: in 2024 it reaches its seventh edition putting a German Focus at the center!

Where? In Ravenna.

When? Form May 7th to May 12th with an extraordinary prologue on April 24th.

With Rimini Protokoll, Mats Staub, She She Pop, ErosAntEros, Barletti/Waas, Le_cerbottane, Caterina Marino and more!

The program is already online.

Thanks to Alessandro Tedde and Antropotopia for the video!

Author: francesca

From February 1st, the 2024 Art Bonus Competition kicks off, in which POLIS Teatro Festival is also participating, specifically with the 2022 edition, which opened the doors to the festival’s new international format.

To vote, just go to the website: https://artbonus.gov.it/concorso/2024/

There is time until March 1st.

Author: francesca

Tickets for the April 24th 2024 date of Saint Joan of the Stockyards at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna are available for purchase from February 1st 2024.

The date, in collaboration with La Stagione dei Teatri, is the extraordinary prologue to the 7th edition of POLIS Teatro Festival and is the only must-see replica in Ravenna, following the April 18-21 debut at Teatro Arena del Sole in Bologna.

BOX OFFICE: Teatro Alighieri via Mariani 2, Ravenna +39 0544 249244 / tickets@teatroalighieri.org open Monday through Saturday 10 am -1 pm, Thursday also 4-6 pm online at www.teatroalighieri.org/events/santa-giovanna-dei-macelli

TICKETS:
Supporter 25€ | Full price 20€ | Under30 5€

Author: francesca

POLIS Teatro Festival returns on May 7-12, 2024 in Ravenna’s main cultural venues (Teatro Rasi, Artificerie Almagià, Teatro Socjale), with an extraordinary prologue on April 24, 2024 at Teatro Alighieri in collaboration with La Stagione dei Teatri.

At the center of the festival there is a German Focus with international guests, young artists, meetings and participatory projects.

The program will be announced in March 2024.

SAVE THE DATE!

Author: francesca

How it’s done in Ravenna
Magda Piekarska, “Teatralny”, January 17th 2024
https://teatralny.pl/rozmowy/jak-to-sie-robi-w-rawennie,3857.html

Magda Piekarska: POLIS, or city-state, or, more properly, a social community. Is this the idea of your festival, you want to build a community around theater?  

Agata Tomšič: Our festival exists since 2018, we named it POLIS because one of our goals was to activate the local community. We try to do this through audience development and participation, which involves the audience not so much in the creative process, but in conscious reception. We offer our audiences performances that reflect their present, but also offer the possibility of transformation, if only we use imagination as a tool. This is what we try to do as artists – we use theater as a mirror of reality, we use imagination to create visions of a different, better world. We do this through the language of contemporary theater. The productions we host at our festival have been combining these qualities with formal research from the very beginning. At the beginning there were Italian productions, but in 2022 we opened the program to the European contemporary theater scene, which made the festival change to an international format.

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Author: francesca

ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival joins again the national network of theaters, festivals and institutions of In-Box, which selects and promotes some of the most interesting productive experiences of the Italian emerging scene.

But this year there is a new development: the In-Box project changes its structure and spreads its action over 24 months. The In-Box call and the In-Box Verde call will come out in alternate years, channeling the focus on drama and its contaminations (In-Box) and on youth theater (In-Box Verde) in a more intense and specific way on each of the two calls.

The In-Box 2024 call for proposals is online and the deadline is on November 23, 2023. The call offers 91 performances for 8 finalist plays. And among them there is a date at POLIS Theatre Festival 2025!

More info: https://www.inboxproject.it/

Author: francesca

The Visionari* project is back!
After the success of the last edition, ErosAntEros opens a new public call to allow citizens of all ages passionate about theater to choose two productions to be included in the program of POLIS Teatro Festival 2024.

What is L’Italia dei Visionari?
Every year a national call for proposals is opened for individual artists and emerging and independent companies that work professionally in contemporary theater, dance and performing art. In each of the cities of the partners participating in the project a group of active spectators is formed, citizens who are passionate about theater and dance, the Visionari*, in charge of examining the videos of the performances received to choose those to be included in the programming of each of the organizations/ theaters/ festivals involved (each group in complete autonomy from the other groups).

Who are the Visionari*?
A group of spectators who are committed to see the work that the various companies have sent in response to the call of the national network L’Italia dei Visionari.

To join the group are not necessary particular skills, but curiosity and passion for theater and performing arts, as well as the willingness to meet between November 2023 and March 2024, for 5 meetings to choose the productions that will be included in the program of the festival.

How to participate?
To join the project, you have to fill out the registration form at this link by November 15th: https://forms.gle/vL7xHXk59YScGvd29

Free activity, upon registration with EROSANTEROS APS.

For more info: info@polisteatrofestival.org.

APERITIVO VISIONARIO
First meeting to present the project:
November 15th 2023, from 8 pm, at CittAttiva (via G. Carducci 14 – Ravenna).
The following meetings will take place monthly and will be announced on November 15th.

Author: francesca

ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival enters again the national network L’Italia dei Visionari, a project promoted jointly by CapoTrave / Kilowatt (Sansepolcro AR), Festival Le Città Visibili (Rimini), MTM-Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi curated by Fondazione Palazzo Litta per le Arti Onlus (Milano), Progetto Fertili Terreni Teatro (Torino, project made by A.M.A. Factory, Cubo Teatro and Tedacà – BellArte, Off Topic, San Pietro in Vincoli), ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival (Ravenna), Pilar Ternera/NTC (Livorno).

Every year a call is launched for individual artists and emerging and independent companies that operate professionally in contemporary theater, dance and performing arts.

CALL FOR ARTISTS 2024

There is time until November 15th 2023 (12 p.m.).

Author: francesca

POLIS Teatro Festival, May 2023
Sasho Ognenovski, “Plays International & Europe”, September 5th 2023
https://playsinternational.org.uk/polis-theatre-festival-2023/

Theatre has only one future and that is a process by which modes of expression become increasingly sophisticated. Stage art does not differentiate between people and places; it distinguishes between messages and attitudes, opens new ways of thinking and behaves pragmatically. My abiding impression of the Polis festival is its boldness and ability to inspire. And that is a theatrical language that is future-proof.

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In conclusion, Polis is a festival that presents the audience with both dilemmas and messages. That is surely a valuable twin offering. The festival’s ongoing research will I believe produce new and topical ideas about theatrical expression in the near future. Few will be able to remain indifferent in their attitude to this. And speaking of current affairs, I should like to stress that these theatre projects pulsate with complexity and engagement. We are lucky enough to experience the work of artists whose thought processes are transparent and powerful. It seems that the future of theatre lies in wisely created building blocks such as this festival. Discovering these materials —and they may be tucked away in events of this kind — we discover the essence of the future of theatrical art.

Author: francesca

POLIS Teatro Festival, directed by Agata Tomšič and Davide Sacco / ErosAntEros since 2018 in Ravenna, obtains again the highest artistic quality among all the Italian theater festivals and the highest total score among the First three-year instances of the same category within the Fondo Nazionale per lo Spettacolo dal Vivo of the Ministry of Culture.

A great success and a great achievement for a festival that has grown so much in just six years to consolidate itself as an international festival.

POLIS Teatro Festival is supported by Italian Ministry of Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, Municipality of Ravenna, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Otto per Mille della Chiesa Valdese, Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna.

Author: francesca

Watch the GAIA‘s trailer.

ErosAntEros
GAIA

concept Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros
dramaturgy Agata Tomšič
direction and music design Davide Sacco
with Agata Tomšič
with the climate activists Fulvio Arniani, Adriana Aviles, Patrizia Bassani, Roberto Bustacchini, Annalisa Conte, Miriam Fabietti, Cristina Ferro, Cecilia Lombardi, Giuseppina Maestri, Chiara Ossani, Vitaliana Pantini, Alessandra Pepoli, Romina Piazza, Amanda Quach, Erika Anastasia Santoro, Marco Sassatelli, Franca Tassinari
and the special participation of Gaia Montanari, Margherita Tedde, Sara Trabalza
video Francesco Tedde
costumes Arianna Fantin
tailoring Manja Beneke, Marta Benini
light Marco Rabiti
rehearsal’s assistants Andrea Cavina, Claudia Giliberto
organization Veronica Arietto
communication Francesca Mambelli

production Ravenna Festival, ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival
in residency at La Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon – Centre national des écritures du spectacle,
Masque Teatro, Ravenna Teatro
with the support of Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna and Comune di Ravenna

winning project of EFFEA – European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists 2023, co-funded by the European Union

Author: francesca

POLIS Teatro Festival 2023 has ended, successfully meeting the challenge of an even larger and more international edition.

Thanks to all the people who were in theater with us.

ErosAntEros is already working on the next edition… stay tuned!

Author: francesca

We pursue the utopia of making theater relevant to society
Sasho Ognenovski, “Nova Makedonija”, June 14th 2023
https://novamakedonija.com.mk/prilozi/lik/ja-sledime-utopijata-da-go-napravime-teatarot-relevanten-za-opshtestvoto/?fbclid=IwAR2wPJASx5YI82eJG4WwTmZ0LT28EnjFUsnjhRoV7ErFTs6Z-j2-rmbwCIs

How the idea for Theater festival POLIS has been born?

POLIS was born in 2018 as a small project for the territory in which we ErosAntEros, after almost 10 years of activity as a contemporary theatre company, wanted to share with the spectators of Ravenna the theatrical forms that we ourselves were researching as artists. That is, contemporary performance forms that investigate engaged topics, which we believe are important to share with people, to reflect on the society in which we live through the privileged prism of theatrical art and, we hope, leave the theatre with the desire to change it for the better.

A theatrical art that is close to the reality in which we live and therefore to people, also through a series of participatory and educational projects, audience engagement and development, which since the first edition have brought theatre closer to the young and all those people who for economic or social reasons have not yet set foot in it.

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Author: francesca

The performance with an ecological soul at the time of the great flood
Luca Manservisi, “Ravenna&Dintorni”, June 8 2023

Author: francesca

GAIA, choral and participatory production The uncertain fate of the planet in the vision of ErosAntEros Giorgio Lopez, “Ravenna Festival Magazine”, June 6 2023