Fabbrica Lab +
Una bussola per lo sguardo
With FABBRICA LAB and UNA BUSSOLA PER LO SGUARDO (A compass for the gaze), Fabbrica Europa presents two workshop projects:
the first is dedicated to the exploration and practice of diverse performative languages; the second focuses on the various forms of theatre and dance criticism.
FABBRICA LAB
A series of workshop activities focused on themes of community, inclusion, the body, creativity, vulnerability, and disability, led by some of the Italian and international artists performing at Fabbrica Europa 2025.
All workshops are free and take place at PARC (Piazzale delle Cascine, Florence).
For information and registration, please write to fabbricaeuropa.workshop@gmail.com
WED 24 SEPTEMBER 2025 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
THU 25 & FRI 26 SEPTEMBER 2025 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
SAT 27 SEPTEMBER 2025 | 11:00 AM Public sharing with participants
FABIO NOVEMBRINI / LAURA SCUDELLA
VARIETÀ workshop
Who it’s for: anyone interested in movement, both professionals and beginners – accessible to people with physical and cognitive disabilities
Registration deadline: Mon 22 September 2025
Language: Italian
Varietà is a contemporary dance workshop – led by dancer and choreographer Fabio Novembrini and choreographer and educator Laura Scudella – that celebrates multiplicity as richness, diversity as creative potential, and makes accessibility its core principle.
A space where every presence is acknowledged, where the lightness and irony of varietà (Italian variety theatre) become a lens through which to explore difference, relationships, and dance itself.
Varietà by Novembrini and Scudella, featuring the workshop participants, will be performed at PARC on Sat, September 27 · fabbricaeuropa.net/varieta
WED 1 OCTOBER 2025 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
STEPHANIE THIERSCH / MOUVOIR
Choreographic practices for a shared dance
Who it’s for: anyone interested in movement, both professionals and beginners
Registration deadline: Mon 29 September 2025
Language: English / German
In collaboration with Teatro Puccini
Stephanie Thiersch, choreographer and multimedia artist, artistic director of the Cologne-based company MOUVOIR, leads a workshop based on her choreographic method: a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach that explores dance as a shared space, where the body becomes a site of encounter, exchange, and transformation.
By means of improvisation and composition exercises, participants will be guided through an experiential journey that centers relationship, gesture, and presence as collective practice.
Until the Beginnings by MOUVOIR/Stephanie Thiersch & École des Sables/Alesandra Seutin will be performed at Teatro Puccini on Fri, October 3 · fabbricaeuropa.net/until-the-beginnings
FRI 3 OCTOBER 2025 | 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
MUM & GYPSY / TAKAHIRO FUJITA
Communicating beyond words
Who it’s for: anyone interested in acting, both professionals and beginners
Registration deadline: Wed 1 October 2025
Language: English / Italian
Led by Japanese director Takahiro Fujita, founder and artistic director of the company mum & gypsy, and featuring the four Italian performers from Chair/IL POSTO (Alessandra Cozzi, Lara Di Bello, Giorgia F. Fiorentini, Luca Maino), this workshop offers an opportunity to exchange practices and explore new ways of communicating on stage, going beyond language barriers and cultural differences.
Chair/IL POSTO by Takahiro Fujita will be performed at Teatro Cantiere Florida on Sun, October 5 · fabbricaeuropa.net/chair-il-posto
THU 9 OCTOBER 2025 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
POLIANA LIMA
Un todo articulado: este estado a que llamamos danza
(A fully articulated whole: this state we call dance)
Who it’s for: anyone interested in movement, both professionals and beginners
Registration deadline: Tue 7 October 2025
Language: English / Spanish
A movement research workshop led by Spanish choreographer and dancer Poliana Lima, focusing on the exploration of the body, weight, space, and time through proprioception. An approach to dance as a physical and sensorial experience, free from predefined models that invites participants to discover movement in an authentic way, not by seeking perfection, but by cultivating attention and presence in the here and now.
Estudio para una extracción by Poliana Lima will be performed at Museo Sant’Orsola on Wed, October 8 · fabbricaeuropa.net/estudio-para-una-extraccion
FRI 10 OCTOBER 2025 | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
ELISA SBARAGLI
From body to word, from word to body
Who it’s for: anyone interested in movement, both professionals and beginners
Registration deadline: Wed 8 October 2025
Language: Italian
Choreographer Elisa Sbaragli, together with dancers Alice Raffaelli and Lorenzo De Simone, shares the experience and research methodology behind the creation of her choreographic work Se domani. Starting from the meaning of the word “crisis” as an event that disrupts the state of bodies, the workshop proposes exercises and practices investigating the expressive and narrative relationship between word and body, aiming to initiate a personal process of interpreting this imagery.
Se domani di Elisa Sbaragli will be performed at PARC on Sat, October 11 · fabbricaeuropa.net/se-domani
UNA BUSSOLA PER LO SGUARDO (A COMPASS FOR THE GAZE)
WED 8 + THU 9 + FRI 10 October 2025 | 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (+ shows attendance)
CRITICAL THINKING WORKSHOP
curated by Alessandro Iachino and Stefano Tomassini
Who it’s for: students, spectators, aspiring cultural journalists, performers
Participation: limited to 10 participants; the workshop is completely free and includes admission to the performances on October 8, 9, and 10
Registration deadline: Sun 21 September 2025
How to apply: send your CV and a short motivation letter (max 2000 characters) to fabbricaeuropa.workshop@gmail.com
Language: Italian / English
Criticism as storytelling and testimony. Criticism as synthesis and analysis, as translation. Criticism as judgment, as questioning — of the performance event, the world around it, the self — and as reflection. Criticism, above all, as an act of responsibility.
This workshop aims to explore the various facets of contemporary theatre and dance criticism through open, horizontal discussions, sharing theoretical materials and journalistic practices to help participants navigate the contemporary performing arts landscape. The seminar-style meetings seek to provide each participant with a compass, so that their journey around the stage can be more aware and freer.
UNA BUSSOLA PER LO SGUARDO is Fabbrica Europa’s pilot project dedicated to those wishing to explore critical thinking in our time through artistic languages.
For three days, participants will engage in training, shared reflection, and attend performances, talks, and workshops of the Fabbrica Europa Festival. An opportunity to intertwine perspectives and deepen contemporary practices together.
The workshop is led and curated by Alessandro Iachino, theatre and dance critic, educator, and editorial member of the magazine «Stratagemmi – Prospettive Teatrali», and Stefano Tomassini, associate professor at IUAV University of Venice, specialized in choreographic studies and dance critic for «Teatro e critica».
Together, they will stimulate participants’ thinking by presenting various approaches and visions through which critical thought daily engages with the artistic reality.
The program will also offer the opportunity to meet Fabbrica Europa Festival protagonists, fostering a dialogue that encourages the exchange of ideas and perspectives, enriching reflection on cultural and artistic dynamics.
