Santarcangelo di Romagna

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Santarcangelo di Romagna is a town in the province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. As of 2007 its estimated population was 21,132. ^[1]

1 Santarcangelo Festival
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[edit] Santarcangelo Festival

Santarcangelo dei Teatri is an international festival dedicated to the contemporary scene.

It produces and promotes theatre and dance, with a special attention to interdisciplinary experiences and international cooperation dynamics.

It joins together a spread opening to the vitality of the new European scene to a strong rootedness on the area and a constant attention to the comparison between Italian and foreign creations, in a view of meeting and work more than of presentation of works only.

[edit] History

Born in 1971 with a strong political impulse, Santarcangelo Festival was called “International Square Theatre Festival”.

Under the art direction of the roman Piero Patino, it wanted to weave political requests linked to the movements of 1968 and the folklore inborn in the cultural tradition of the land where it was born: that part of Romagna which is nourishment to famous poetic visionaries.

The small town of Santarcangelo, retired on a low hill few kilometres from the Adriatic coast and then called “the theatre’s citadel ” by Roberto Bacci, has become the stage for a never-ending laboratory of languages and ideas; a mall town which, not being provided with a theatre, has become a theatre itself, with its squares, quarters and the old ball court as locations for performances which marked the history of contemporary theatre.