Who we are

Danae Festival is a daring, cross-border, international and multi-disciplined project started in Milan in 1999 to support and feature “hybrid-language” plays from the contemporary scene. Passionately curated by Teatro delle Moire, and aiming at giving visibility to new artistic experiences, it nurtures a nomadic attitude which, since its first editions, has brought its plays out of theatre venues to occupy new spaces by promoting performances set in urban contexts, thus creating really extra-ordinary events.

Danae Festival also keeps an eye on the less visible, the most radical experiences, on emerging artists, carrying out an important scouting activity which also implies exchanges and learning opportunites with masters.

The work on the Festival is completed by projects supporting artistic productions and research through residencies and tutoring. In 2018, Danae Festival created Laterale, a new section where artists are invited to present projects not in the form of actual plays, but either sharing paths, study, thoughts, or talking about unique life experiences related to arts. These are projects especially devised for the Festival, whose creation it closely follows. The goal of this section is to offer meditations on the present time, to explore new ways of being on stage, in the attempt to trigger a dialogue and an exchange with the audience, and to reconnect the cultural and artistic dimensions to their inherent political content.
In 2009 Danae Festival was awarded the Premio Hystrio – Provincia di Milano.