From April 30 to May 4, Supernova returns to Rimini for its third edition, a showcase of performative arts organized in collaboration with the Santarcangelo dei Teatri Association and the Municipality of Rimini, and with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region.
The performative arts project, curated by Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande (Motus) with Paola Granato, returns to explore expansive and deeply significant locations within the imagination of the citizens of Rimini. This year, Supernova’s focus begins with an exploration of current events, our socio-political present, the fragility that overwhelms us, and the strange and unsettling landscapes we observe from this standpoint.
The 2025 edition of Supernova takes on the voice of this “weird and eerie” perspective, dear to philosopher Mark Fisher, in order to weave the dramaturgical threads that unite all the works, fluidly and continuously seeking a blend of languages. The program is characterized by many debuts and site-specific projects, created specifically for the third edition of the festival, which casts salt on the wounds of this dark historical moment.
We have imagined, starting from the classic tales of Lovecraft, where “the Other” comes from the South, from the darkness, where marginalized bodies are aligned with the strange, the bizarre, the exotic. To dismantle these Eurocentric stereotypes and celebrate the inherent strangeness and beauty in every social (and artistic) construct, it is necessary to “give new names to what we are experiencing, to recognize the transformations as they occur” (Elvia Wilk) and not to be afraid of them. If the undefinable, the weird, is the experience of change, we must document the change as it unfolds and make it shine in the darkness, making it so dazzling and uncomfortable that it forces the war-mongering oligarchs in power back into their anechoic hideouts, where we watch them dematerialize, disappear. To overturn the vision and adopt the bat’s point of view.
PROGRAM
April 30th
From 4:00 PM, last entry at 8:00 PM
À la Recherche du temps perdu
Est Roman Coulon
Teatro Galli – Area Archeologica
6:00 PM and 8:00 PM
IT WAS YESTERDAY! Is this what you call winning the war?
Francesco Montanari & Francesca Morello (R.Y.F) and students from liceo classico G. Cesare - M. Valgimigli
Arena Francesca da Rimini
7:30 PM
MORDS TOUJOURS!
Paola Stella Minni / cie Futur Immoral
Teatro Galli –Sala Ressi
9:00 PM
Vampyr
Manuela Infante
Teatro Galli – Main Stage
10:30 PM
Post-show talk With Manuela Infante
Manuela Infante and company, moderated by Antonia Anna Ferrante
Teatro Galli – Palco Grande
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May 1st
From 4:00 PM, last entry at 8:00 PM
À la Recherche du temps perdu
Est Roman Coulon
Museo della città | Ala Nuova
5:00 PM
Future in the past_happening
Silvia Calderoni (and special guests) / Motus
Museo della Città | Ala nuova
6:00 PM
Tarots of the Algorithms
Mara Oscar Cassiani
Museo della città | Ala Nuova
8:00 PM
Down to Under
Despina Sanida Crezia
Museo della città | Ala Nuova
9:00 PM
REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE
VVXXII / MEUKO!MEUKO! / CITYOFBROKENDOLLS
Museo della città | Ala Nuova
10:00 PM
Multitudo
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Museo della città | Ala Nuova
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May 2nd
From 4:00 PM, last entry at 8:00 PM
À la Recherche du temps perdu
Est Roman Coulon
Teatro Galli – Area Archeologica
6:00 PM
Tirannosauro
Filippo Quezel
Teatro degli Atti
8:00 PM
Quello che non c’è
Giulia Scotti
Teatro Galli – Main Stage
10:00 PM
Personne ne ramasse ma langue (Nessun* raccoglie la mia lingua)
Schoß Company
Teatro Galli – Sala Ressi
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May 3rd
3:00 PM
Talk – Scream, Dream, Perform: Horror Perspectives, Specters, and Transformations for a View on Contemporary Theater and Cinema
Ex Cinema Astoria
5:30 PM
Darkness Picnic
DOM-
Ex Cinema Astoria - Sala Jolly
6:30 PM
GRINDHOUSE, a Horror Studies lecture performance (studio)
Teodora Grano
Ex Cinema Astoria
9:30 PM
Peaches Goes Bananas. An intimate and revolutionary portrait
Marie Losier
Ex Cinema Astoria
11:00 PM
CREEPY PASTA . Creepy pasta e internet legends della buonanotte
Mara Oscar Cassiani
Ex Cinema Astoria
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May 4th
6:00 PM
DAEMON
Motus
Teatro Galli – Sala Ressi
TBA
TBA – Event
TBA
TBA
9:00 PM till late
Supernova Closing Night Party
Casa Madiba
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Workshop
from 10:30 AM to 12:30 AM
NOVA Laboratoria
traveling workshop
CREEPY PASTA – WORKSHOP
Mara Oscar Cassiani
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Info & Ticket
Ticket Office
April 29 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM – Teatro Galli
April 30, May 2, and May 4 from 4:00 PM until the start of the last show – Teatro Galli
May 1 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Ala Nuova Museo della Città
May 3 from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM – Ex Cinema Astoria
Ticket online from next week 🙂
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The third edition of Supernova is curated by Daniela Nicolò and Enrico Casagrande (Motus) in collaboration with Paola Granato.
Production: Sonia Bettucci, in collaboration with Beatrice Ottaviani
Technical Coordination: Martina Ciavatta
Communication: Dea Vodopi in collaboration with Eduard Popescu, and Matteo Rinaldini with Elisa Mariotti
Graphic Design: Federico Magli
Video: Vladimir Bertozzi
Photography: Margherita Caprilli
Press: uc studio
Operators: Ilaria Depari
Ticket Office: Chiara Semprini
Administration: Tonino Rossi
With the support of
Francesca Raimondi and Shaila Chenet from the Motus Office
and the production team of Santarcangelo Festival.
