Brutale. Meeting with the writer Salvatore Falzone

June 18, 7:30 p.m. – IGOR Bookstore

Inheriting the future

Mauro Meneghelli’s words
on the transformations of Gender Bender

Performing Gender – Dancing In Your Shoes

A dance project involving 8 European Countries,
led by Gender Bender and Il Cassero LGBTI+ Center

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.

Le date di Gender Bender 2025. 30 ottobre - 8 novembre 2025, Bologna

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Libreria Igor
18/06 H.19:30

Brutale. Meeting with the writer Salvatore Falzone

Presentation of the new book by Salvatore Falzone

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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

ph Kamerich Budwilowitz
GENDER BENDER IS TEATRO ARCOBALENO

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.  

ph Margherita Caprilli
GENDER BENDER IS COMMUNITY

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.

ph. Anna Kushnirenko
GENDER BENDER IS PERFORMING GENDER

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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