From this year until 2027, Daniele Ninarello will be Gender Bender’s first associate artist.
Our paths and visions will intertwine, enrich each other, and meet. We can’t wait!

“Daniele Ninarello is an artist capable of looking at the essential and the universal from a specific place, time, and body. In his artistic research, he integrates the individual and the collective, creating a dialogue between freedom, attention, sensitivity, and responsibility.
For Daniele, as for Gender Bender, queer is openness and a space for encounter. We share a desire to speak and act in the world, to protest with joy, to nourish ourselves and others with the beauty of discovery.
This commonality of vision and intent has led us not only to meet many times, but to desire and decide to walk these three years side by side, through dialogue, projects, and performances.”

Mauro Meneghelli

“For me, Gender Bender represents a space capable of welcoming and illuminating a vast plurality of urgent and necessary visions. It is a familiar place of great inspiration, intersectional and genuine, a political space capable of providing the listening, attention, sensitivity, and tools necessary to generate lively and supportive relationships. I have always felt a deep resonance with the questions that vibrate at the heart of Gender Bender’s proposals. As an artist, I find a safe and generous environment that has confidently given me the opportunity to renew my choreographic research.
The ideal place for anyone who wants to experience untrodden paths, intimate and collective visions.
For this reason, today I thank Mauro, Giulia, and GB for inviting me to continue together, eager to imagine new inclusive and expanded projects, to activate potential spaces for invisible and marginalized bodies, to go out and encourage the flourishing of diverse, fluid, and non-conforming identities.”

Daniele Ninarello