FONDO, a a network for emerging creativity , a project coordinated by Santarcangelo dei Teatri and developed with AMAT Associazione Marchigiana Attività Teatrali, Centrale Fies, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee, Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia, Fuorimargine / Centro di produzione della danza in Sardegna, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora di Mondaino | Centro di Residenza Emilia-Romagna, Lavanderia a Vapore / Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, OperaEstate Festival Veneto / CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Ravenna Teatro, SCARTI Centro di Produzione Teatrale d’Innovazione della Liguria, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Triennale Milano Teatro

The network dedicated to the creative development of emerging artists, supporting the research stages of performance projects that require long creation times. The programme includes production support of €20,000, four annual residency periods offered by the partners for each supported company, and participation in at least four workshops or masterclasses led by international authors, a valuable moment of dramaturgical advice and comparison with the European scene. The 14 partners that constitute FONDO pursue various goals within the world of theatre and performing arts, addressing different needs concerning artistic productions, from their development to their circulation.

The artists supported for the fourth edition of FONDO are

Violetta Cottini (1997), an artist from the Piedmontese Alps. Her research focuses on the creation of fantastical elsewhere: physical and perceptive spaces where imagination transforms reality and expands its sensitive thresholds. A magical and dreamlike vision becomes a tool to question the present and rewrite the relationships between the human, the non-human, and what remains invisible. She trained in contemporary dance at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan. Since October 2024, she has been part of the Creative Campus project by Sardegna Teatro. She works with Cristina Kristal Rizzo, collaborates with the DOM- collective, and is the winner of the ERetici grant, supported by the Centro di Residenza Emilia Romagna, with the project “Do fairies have a tail?”, an exploration of the fairy world, a work now produced by Fuorimargine.

Wissal Houbabi, a performance poet, artist, writer, creator, and artistic director of Spore, as well as a hip-hop head. She explores the relationship between languages and dialects, between sound, stigma, and meaning. Over time, she has stood out for her creativity, vocal and political radicality, and her ability to communicate with care and clarity to a wide audience. Her work has a clear political perspective, linking the pursuit of beauty to dignity, and framing poetic practice as a radical quest for the collective “we”. Her projects investigate the epistemology of diaspora, and she has worked specifically on oral heritage in relation to colonial history, the voice of the body, muscular memory, dreams in diaspora, and the right to love and be loved. She collaborates with cultural and artistic institutions, bringing practices that truly challenge structurally oppressive frameworks. She has worked with institutions including the University of Bologna, the Goethe-Institut, and the Museo delle Civiltà, and collaborates with various universities and organizations across Europe, including the Ville de Besançon.