For more than two decades we have been celebrating the differences of bodies, genders and identities. We do it all year round: in a festival and in its special projects.
Next events
What’s new?
PLAYGROUND, a free dance workshop led by Opera Bianco
The call for the free dance workshop conducted by the Opera Bianco company is now online. Open to children ages 8 to 12 and people over 60, with and without experience.
DNAppunti coreografici 2025: the finalist projects
The 4 projects that will be presented on 19 October 2025 at Roma Europa Festival
The new edition of Gender Bender is coming!
From 30 October to 8 November he festival comes back to liven up the city of Bologna
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.
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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