Gender Bender 2025: the new edition of the festival is coming Oct. 30 – Nov. 8!
An invitation to imagine change as a fertile territory to traverse together, exploring new forms, new languages, new connections.
Next events
What’s new?
DNAppunti coreografici 2025: the call for entries for the new edition is out
Are you a young choreographer under 35? DNAppunti can support your artistic creation! Deadline for submissions on April 27, 2025.
Inheriting the future
Mauro Meneghelli’s words on the transformations of the Gender Bender project
Daniele Del Pozzo is the new Councillor for Culture of the city of Bologna
A farewell from the Gender Bender team and some words from the festival’s historic director
“From Ground Zero” wins audience award for best film at the Gender Bender Festival 2024
The 22 short films by Palestinian filmmakers were screened at the Modernissimo Cinema, Bologna, on Nov. 4, 2024
Gender Bender 2024 iconic moments
Curious about the mood of Gender Bender’s previous edition? Come with us on a throwback to the best moments of the 22nd edition of the festival!
Our projects
Discover Teatro Arcobaleno
Teatro Arcobaleno, the project for children and teenagers that the Gender Bender Festival organizes together with a large network of partners in Italy, is back. For the 2023/2024 school year, the program offers a wide range of free workshops and performance about movement, dance and body practices for students and teachers.
A SPECIAL YEAR
3 workshops and 3 dance shows connect artists and the community of Bologna in a collective project that ran throughout 2023 as part of Portici Festival Festival – Heritage meets creativity. Gender Bender brought the international company Igor x Moreno, the Italian choreographer Daniele Ninarello and the Dutch/German choreographer Patricia Carolin Mai to Bologna for the production of three shows, after a period of co-creation with non-professionals. This is the story of those magical months.
DISCOVER PERFORMING GENDER – DANCING IN YOUR SHOES
Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes is a dance project that aims to develop a link between culture professionals and some local communities through a discussion on gender in the European dance system. The project involves 8 European countries, led by the Gender Bender Festival and Il Cassero LGBTI+ Center.
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