Growth of a new Actor/Actress for Children’s Theatre
Practices and ideas for innovating stage art in relation to Boys and Girls

Advanced Training Course directed by Chiara Guidi

13 October-20 December 2025
Teatro Comandini Cesena

Operation approved by the Emilia-Romagna Region by way of Regional Council Resolution DGR 2287/2024 of 09/12/2024, Ref. PA 2024-23093/RER, and co-financed with resources of the European Social Fund ESF+ PR 2021-2027 and the Emilia-Romagna Region.

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Application deadline: 25 August

Teachers: Chiara Guidi, director, actress, dramaturge and educator; Angélique Del Rey, philosopher and essayist; Roberta Ioli, teacher, poet and philologist; Carmelina Labruzzo, educator; Yasmine Hugonnet, choreographer, dancer and researcher; Federica Iacobelli, writer and screenwriter; Demetrio Castellucci, musician; Teodora and Agata Castellucci/Dewey Dell, choreographer and dancer; Stefania Mannacio Colla, traditional puppeteer and artistic director of the Gianni and Cosetta Colla Theatre; Vito Matera, musicologist; Andrea Scardovi, sound engineer; Scott Wright, artistic director and co-founder of Erth Visual & Physical Inc.; Franco Lorenzoni, elementary school teacher and founder of the Cenci Casa-workshop; Flavia Armenzoni, actress of the historical Compagnia Teatro delle Briciole; Cesare Moreno, elementary school teacher and president of the association Maestri di Strada; Margault Chavaroche, director of public relations at MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis.

Partners: Erth Visual & Physical Inc; MC93-Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis in Bobigny; Cenci Casa Laboratorio; Topipittori children’s publishing house; Maestri di Strada Association of Naples; Casa di gesso of Cesena; Amigdala Collective; Arboreto-Teatro Dimora of Mondaino; dance companies Dewey Dell and Arts Mouvementés; puppet company Il Teatro di Gianni and Cosetta Colla; “Tiresia. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis” research centre; Casa del Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani in Turin, Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Teatro della Tosse in Genoa, Associazione Micro Macro in Parma, ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione/Teatro Nazionale; the Municipality of Cesena.

Mediapartner: Neu Radio, UniRadio

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For more information: Simona Barducci, [email protected]
tel. 331 1206028 (Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.).

Image: Hans Holbein