Nuovi crocevia per lo spettacolo: linee di ricerca e generazioni a confronto

is a research fellow at the University of Verona and lectures in Theatre Anthropology at Sapienza University of Rome, where she obtained her PhD in 2018 through a joint supervision agreement with Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. In 2023, she was an Associate Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York. Her research primarily focuses on theatre history, with particular attention to the transmission of performative knowledge in the twentieth century. She has edited several volumes on applied theatre, including La malattia che cura il teatro (Dino Audino, 2020) and Incroci. Esperienze di teatro per una comunità interculturale (CuePress, 2022), both co-edited with Andrea Porcheddu, as well as Matera Città Aperta (CuePress, 2021), in collaboration with IAC–Centro Arti Integrate. Among her major publications is L’arte e il mestiere. Michel Saint-Denis e la formazione tecnica dell’interprete (Bulzoni, 2023).

is Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Genoa. She has been research fellow at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 (Institut de recherche en études théâtrales). She is co-director with Donatella Orecchia of the Project Ormete and member of the scientific board of Centro interuniversitario di ricerca per la Memoria delle Arti Performative (MAP). She has coordinated the commemorative events on Adelaide Ristori (Museo Biblioteca dell’Attore - Programme Unesco Anniversaries 2022-23) and coordinates the subunit UniGe within the Research Group PRIN 2022 Performing arts, economics, and cultural policies. New interpretative paradigms between aesthetics and social sciences. Her publications include books and essays on: History of economics and organization in theatre and opera; Social history of theatre; Direction and staging; Oral history of the theatre.

is Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the Iuav University of Venice. She was a Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pavia, where she earned her PhD in 2019. She is a member of the research teams for the ERC project INCOMMON. In Praise of Community. Shared Creativity in Arts and Politics in Italy, led by Annalisa Sacchi, and the research center Self Media Lab. Scritture, Performance e Tecnologie del Sé, directed by Federica Villa. In 2022, she received the “Seal of Excellenc”" within the Horizon Europe MSCA program. In 2024, she co-founded and coordinates the research unit PerLa. Performance Epistemologies Research Lab at the Iuav University and she published Corpi a fuoco. Fotografia, performance, femminismo in Italia negli anni settanta with Marsilio.

is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Pavia, where he teaches History of Theatre and Performance and Forms and Languages of Performance. His research, from a historical-critical perspective, has focused on aspects of theatrical representation in the late medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, with particular attention to the Commedia dell’Arte and the figure of Giovan Battista Andreini, within the broader context of the relationships between performance, literary culture, and academic life. In the context of the twentieth century, he edited the critical edition of the previously unpublished sections of Mario Apollonio’s Storia del teatro italiano (Rizzoli, 2003), and has carried out extensive research on contemporary theatre, with a specific focus on performance practices, social and applied theatre, and Walter Benjamin’s reflections on theatre.

is an Associate Professor at the University of Siena. From 2016 to 2023, she held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Padua and Bari. Her research interests are situated at the intersection of theatre and dance, encompassing a range of topics as the origins of pantomime ballet and the Italian theatre scene of the early nineteenth century and opening up to 20th-century theatre. She is member of the Dance Philology Research Group where she is currently engaged in the critical edition of the choreographic score for the ballet Arlequinade. She is the author of Di passi, di storie e di passioni: Teorie e pratiche del ballo teatrale nel secondo Settecento italiano and Dal teatro alla danza (e viceversa): Percorsi nello spettacolo italiano del primo Ottocento.

is a research fellow at Roma Tre University and adjunct professor of Problems in Theatre Historiography at Sapienza University of Rome, where he was awarded a PhD in Music and Performing arts in 2016 and a postgraduate diploma in Archival and Library Heritage in 2023. He has held positions at universities and research institutions both in Italy and abroad. He serves on the editorial boards of Biblioteca Teatrale, SigMa, Teatro e Storia and Il Saggiatore Musicale. His research interests encompass theatre and performance mainly from the 16^th to the 18^th centuries, the amateur theatre during the Fascist era, issues in contemporary opera stage direction, the theatre within the Italian Deaf community, and the challenges of preserving and valorising performing arts archives.

is an associate professor at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania. She has concentrated her research on 20th century and contemporary Sicilian dramaturgy according to research perspectives that consider the acquisitions of visual culture and performing studies. Special attention has also been paid to the archiving practices of theatrical memory. In addition to essays for trade journals and in books, she has published several monographs, including Storie dipinte. I cartelli della Marionettistica fratelli Napoli (Algra, 2017), Non tutti vissero felici e contenti. Emma Dante tra fiaba e teatro (Titivillus, 2019), Titina De Filippo. L’artefice magica (Cue Press, 2020). For Bonanno Editore she directs the Oltre il giardino and Tascabili – Teatro series, for the latter she edited the volumes: Ballata per San Berillo e altri esercizi di prosa danzabile (2020) and Parole per corpi di donne (2023). She is a member of the editorial board of the Fascia A “Arabeschi”.