ANFIBIA
immersive and multi-disciplinary program for performer
Artistic Director Carlo Massari
C&C Company
*ANFIBIA – A Fluid Ground for Contemporary Creation
ANFIBIA is a space of transformation, a living environment where artistic training becomes a radical practice, a daily act of research, and a political gesture. A transdisciplinary program that breaks down boundaries between dance, physical theatre, voice, music, circus arts, dramaturgy, and theoretical practices-giving life to autonomous, complex performers capable of generating hybrid works deeply rooted in their time.
Born from the desire to shape artists who can act with awareness on the contemporary stage, ANFIBIA is an active learning ecosystem: here, the body becomes a laboratory, the group a creative community, the stage a field for experimentation and vision. The program does not merely provide skills, but tools to inhabit uncertainty, expand languages, and traverse the present with a critical eye and a responsive body.
*An Immersive and Transformative Experience
ANFIBIA unfolds through an intensive and dynamic calendar: daily physical practice, immersive modules, theoretical laboratories, practical explorations, and performative sharings intertwine in a dramaturgical flow that evolves alongside the participants. The training moves fluidly between technical work and poetic research, between discipline and intuition, between structure and creative impulse.
Each day is conceived as a time of opening—towards listening, risk, and transformation. Disciplines are not taught in parallel but constantly contaminate each other, generating new, unclassifiable, and fluid forms. The performer is not trained to replicate, but to build: visions, devices, questions.
*Creation as a Necessary Act
The beating heart of the program is original creation. Each participant is guided, supported, and provoked to develop a personal or collective performative project from the initial spark to public sharing. This organic, unstable, generative process becomes a tool for defining one’s own scenic voice, language, and urgency.
ANFIBIA believes in a form of training that shapes not only the gesture but the vision: that rare capacity to sense what does not yet exist, to create works that question the present—works that are fragile, powerful, contradictory.
* A Place, a Community, a Horizon
Hosted in the city of Bologna a vibrant hub of cultures, movements, and creative networks ANFIBIA is also a relational space: a meeting ground for artists, mentors, teachers, and guests who share tools, doubts, methods, and perspectives. It’s not just about learning it’s about building conscious artistic communities, capable of acting together in the world and in time.
*ANFIBIA: An Essential Proposal for Artistic Training
In today’s landscape of contemporary performance education, there is a growing need for programs that transcend traditional and compartmentalized models responding instead to the complexity of our time. ANFIBIA emerges in this space of urgency and possibility: a transdisciplinary device that refuses training as mere transmission of technique, offering instead a path of profound, poetic, and political transformation.
ANFIBIA stands out for its ability to merge rigor with openness, vision with practice, technique with intuition. It does not train mere performers, but artists capable of producing meaning, crossing disciplines, and crafting works that speak directly to the present. At the center of the process is the body not only as a performative tool, but as a critical, sensitive landscape shaped by experiences, thoughts, and identities.
Unlike vertical or disciplinary educational models, ANFIBIA offers a porous and dynamic structure, where dance, theatre, voice, music, acrobatics, dramaturgy, and theory come together in a shared space open to contamination and hybridization. Days are not broken into subjects, but crafted as evolving landscapes where practices converse, challenge, and nourish one another. It is within this space of friction and encounter that a new performative grammar can emerge.
Another distinctive trait of ANFIBIA is its emphasis on the group not as a cohort of students, but as a temporary creative community, a living organism fueled by alliances, differences, and shared visions. Within this relational context, participants learn not only to shape a personal artistic language, but also to collaborate, listen, and expose themselves developing a situated and conscious practice.
Creation is at the core of the journey not as a final showcase, but as a continuous process intertwined with training from the beginning. Participants are guided in developing original works individual or collective born from daily practice and shared with audiences in real performance contexts. This movement from research to public sharing is framed as an exercise in artistic responsibility, a genuine act of exposure.
But what truly sets ANFIBIA apart is its ability to shape artists who know how to stand in the world not just on stage. Each practice, each exercise, each conversation is infused with fundamental questions: What does it mean to create today? What responsibilities come with representation? What new forms can we imagine?
The stage becomes a site of resistance and reinvention a space to act with courage, vulnerability, and vision.
In a European landscape where many institutions are beginning to embrace hybrid and multidisciplinary approaches, ANFIBIA positions itself as a radical and necessary proposition: a program that holds together artistic training, personal research, and cultural responsibility. A journey not designed to fit into a market, but to generate new ways of inhabiting creation.
** Who ANFIBIA Is For
• For those seeking a training path that is non-linear, porous, and rooted in experience.
• For those who want to go beyond disciplinary boundaries, dismantle categories, and create through a multiplicity of languages.
• For those who wish to develop an autonomous, embodied, and responsible artistic practice.
• For those looking to connect with a living network in which to shape their creative, human, and professional journey.
ANFIBIA is a necessary gesture.
It is the choice to learn how to change form, to dwell in the in-between, to create from what is not yet known. It is training, vision, and possibility.
The Program
→ The program is composed of a weekly platform with daily classes of contemporary dance, floorwork, acrobatic movement, acting, drama, singing and vocality for dancers and performers.
→ The program planned seminars such as Dance & Disability with L’Atelier Corpopoetico®, BMC®, Osteopathy for dancers/performers and body conditioning.
→ Furthermore, the program is enriched with additional classes and seminars, for training aspirations and career ambitions, such as as Light Design, scenography and costume and Individual management organization and artistic entrepreneurship.
→ Extra seminar: Italian classes
The project is a host to monthly Workshops featuring internationally renowned choreographers and artists:
MARIGIA MAGGIPINTO // Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
BRANDON LAGAERT // performer of PEEPING TOM COMPANY
EDUARDO TORROJA // ULTIMA VEZ COMPANY
LAURA FRIGATO // Parc Company
TOMER NAVOT // Sharon Fridman Practice INA
NEXT AUDITIONS
Bologna 22nd February 2026
Berlin 1st March 2026
Bruxelles 15th March 2026
Video audition deadline 31st January 2026
APPLICATIONS
Please send your CV, Application form and photos to
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Contact:
Anfibia
At BACH Art centre
In via Francesco Zanardi 203/2
Bologna 40128 Italy
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www.anfibiart.com
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