Editorial Team

A senior Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna, he develops his research in the field of Economics and organisation of theatre, Opera staging and Theatrical relationships between Italy and South America. He was a Cultural attaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For the Italian National Commission of UNESCO he oversaw the Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. His recent publications include: «A huge revolution of theatrical commerce». Walter Mocchi and the Italian Musical Theatre Business in South America (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Matteo Casari is Associate professor at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna where he teaches Theatres in Asia and Performing Arts Management and Economy. His research is mainly devoted to Asian theatrical traditons, partcularly from Japan. He is the author of various publicatons including monographs, edited volumes and essays. He is the Scientific Director of the book series “Arti della performance: orizzonti e culture” (with Gerardo Guccni) and “Trame. Antropologia, teatro e tradizioni popolari» (with Giovanni Azzaroni). He is the Coordinator of the interdisciplinary research group “Performing robots” and Deputy Director of ”Mokichi Okada Chair on Beauty”.

Giovanni Azzaroni was a professor of Anthropology of Performance and Oriental Theatre in Bologna University. He worked on feld in Asia, Africa and in South Italy. His latest books are Teatro in Asia , 4 voll. (CLUEB 1998-2006); Le realtà del mito due (CLUEB 2008); La Settimana Santa a Mottola (CLUEB 2010); Il mare della fertilità. Un’analisi antropologica della tetralogia di Mishima Yukio (Aracne 2017); Sguardi sul corpo tra Oriente e Occidente. Studi di antropologia filosofica (CLUEB 2019); con Matteo Casari, Asia il teatro che danza (Le Lettere 2011) e Raccontare la Grecìa. Una ricerca antropologica nelle memorie del Salento griko (Kurumuny 2015).

Stefano Allovio is professor of Cultural Anthropology and Social Anthropology at the University of Milano. Since 1995 he has conducted fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo (North-eastern and Kinshasa). He is currently carrying on a research on Congolese refugee in Cape Town (South Africa). He is the author of several essays and monographs including Pigmei, europei e altri selvaggi (2010), Riti di iniziazione. Antropologi, storici e altri immortali (2015).

Alberto Bentoglio is full professor of Performing Arts at the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Milan. He has studied the development of theatrical and musical organisation in Italy from the sixteenth century to the present day. He has recently edited the publication of Carlo Fontana’s writings for l’“Avanti” (1969-1976) (Milan, 2013) and the volume Milano, 1948: un convegno per il teatro (Florence, 2013).

Livia Cavaglieri is Associate Professor in Performing Arts at the University of Genoa. Her scientific activity is mainly focused on the history of the organization and the economy of the performing arts; on directing and staging practices from the second postwar; on oral sources for the study of the history of the performing arts; on the social history of the actor; on dramaturgy and theatre critics. On these topics she published numerous monographic publications and essays in books and magazines.

Doi Hideyuki is full professor at Global Studies Program, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University (Japan). His research focuses on the various expressions of the Italian and Japanese avant-garde in the early twentieth century. Among his works: Guida alla storia italiana moderna e contemporanea [in Japanese] (edited with M. YAMATE, Minerva, 2017); L’esperienza friulana di Pasolini. Cinque studi (Cesati, 2011).

Luca Jourdan is Full Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Bologna. Member of the Italian Ethnological Mission in Equatorial Africa, since 2001 he has carried out a field research on youth and war, childhood crisis, informal economies and the frontier in North Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo). He is currently carrying on research on urban refugees in Kampala and on the conflict between central government and traditional kingdoms.

Dariusz Kosiński is Professor of the Institute of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Former research director of the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław (2010–13); member of the editorial board of Jerzy Grotowski’s collected texts. Former research director of the Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw (2014–18). Author of the history of Polish theatre and performances Performing Poland (2010, English translation 2019) and the books about Jerzy Grotowski (incl. Grotowski. Przewodnik, ‘Grotowski. A Guide’, Wrocław 2009). From 2016 member of the international research project “Reclaimed Avant-Garde. Theatre Avant-Garde of the Central-Eastern Europe”. He is also active as a theatre critic of important Polish political and cultural weekly “Tygodnik Powszechny”.

Giuseppe Lipani is a researcher at the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Ferrara, where he teaches History of Theatre and Performing Arts. In his research he has dealt with sacred spectacle in the fifteenth century, on these topics he has published the text Devota magnificenza. Lo spettacolo sacro a Ferrara nel XV secolo (1428-1505), Bulzoni (2018).

Claudio Longhi is currently Director of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and full professor at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. In his research work he has been mainly focused on an historical and theoretical study of the theater of the twentieth century, investigating in particular: the transition from the civilization of the “great actor” to that kind of theatre based on the role of the director; the birth, the zenith and the crisis of the totalizing instances of “magistralis directing”, the dynamics of evolution of contemporary dramatic language, the various flourishing of theatrical theories that marked the scene of the last century. As part of its historical surveys of the twentieth-century theater, he has studied especially the fortune and the different facets of political theater. Among his major publications: L’Orlando furioso di Luca Ronconi, (BUR, 2012) and the monograph dedicated to Marisa Fabbri, Marisa Fabbri: lungo viaggio attraverso il teatro di regia (Le Lettere, 2010).

Gaetano Mangiameli teaches Cultural Anthropology at La Statale - University of Milan. He has conducted fieldwork in Ghana, Sicily, Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna. He is the author of two monographs, Le abitudini dell’acqua (2010) and L’origine plurale (2017), has co-edited La questone indigena in Africa (2017) and Dialoghi con i nonumani (2019), and has published several essays in English and Italian. His main research interests are in environmental studies and nature-culture relations.

Samantha Marenzi is senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts of the University of Roma Tre where she teaches Iconography of Theatre and Dance and Dance Theories and Practices. She has numerous publications to her credit including monographs, curatorship and essays published in national and international scientific journals. Among her fields of study there are prominent figures of the twentieth century theater as Antonin Artaud and Gordon Craig and their writings connected to the practices of the scene; the Butō and its declinations in the experience of some contemporary Western performers; the relationship between visual and performing arts with particular attention to photography and dance.

Cristiana Natali (PhD) teaches Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of South Asia and Methodologies of Ethnographic Research at the University of Bologna. She has carried out fieldwork in the Tamil guerrilla territories in Sri Lanka and in the Tamil Diaspora. In partcular, she works on the anthropology of dance and on the anthropology of ritual. Among her publicatons Percorsi di antropologia della danza, Libreria Cortina, Milan, 2009.

Philipsen Barth is Full Professor and, among other disciplines, he teaches Theatre and Performance: Current Theories and Practices and Theatre, Theory and Culture. His research activity is mainly focused on theater and performance and their contemporary theories and practices; on German literature since the 18th century; on Friedrich Hölderlin; on aesthetics and politics. He published numerous monographs, volumes and articles in scientific journals.

Enrico Pitozzi teaches at the University of Bologna. He has taught at the universities of Venice (IUAV), Padua, Montréal, Paris, Valencia and Frankfurt. He was senior researcher of the ERC Starting Grant project “INCOMMON. In praise of community. Shared creativity in arts and politics in Italy (1959-1979)” directed by Annalisa Sacchi. He is a member of several international research projects, such as the “MeLa research lab” at the IUAV University of Venice, the “Sensory Studies” project at Concordia University (Canada) and the “Poéticas Tecnològicas” project directed by Ivani Santana at the Universidade Federal de Bahia (Brazil). Recent publications include with I. Choinière and A. Davidson, Through the Prism of the Senses. Mediation and New Realities of the Body in Contemporary Performance. Technology, Cognition and Emergent Research-Creation Methodologies, Bristol, Intellect Books, 2019 and with Ermanna Montanari, Cellula. Anatomy of Scenic Space, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2021.

Ivo Quaranta is Associate Professor of Cultural and Medical Anthropology at the University of Bologna. His main interests concern the analysis of the social production and the cultural elaboration of suffering. Among his main publicatons are: Antropologia medica. I testi fondamentali (ed., 2006); (with Mario Ricca) Malati fuori luogo. Medicina interculturale (2012); (with Massimiliano Minelli and Sylvie Fortin, eds., 2018) Assemblages, Transformatons, and the Politcs of Care.

Robert Reid is Associate Professor of acting and directing in the Theatre Department at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). He works as a director in Montreal, staging contemporary works from Quebec and Europe. His artistic interests are on the relationship between theatrical traditions and contemporary stage practices. He is a known specialist of Meyerhold’s theatrical biomechanics, Jingju (Beijing Opera) and contemporary dramatic writings.

Elena Sinibaldi is official at the Service II - UNESCO Office of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture and is National Focal/Contact Point for several UNESCO Conventions. She carries out seminars and teaching activities for various institutions: Academia Română Filiala Iaşi (Institutul de Filologie Română, A. Philippide); Saint-Petersburg State University (School of Law of Higher Education), Sharjah Institute For Cultural Heritage (UAE); Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione “IULM” in Milan; University of Tor Vergata in Rome; University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome; University Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples.

Senior lecturer HDR in performing arts, he obtained a PhD in co-tutorship between Sapienza University of Rome and Université Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis. His research focuses mainly on: history of actor and actress techniques; art and cognitive sciences; interdisciplinary approaches for the study of the spectator; aesthetics and politics of contemporary live performance. He has numerous publications including monographs, curatorship and essays published in national and international scientific journals.

Domenico Staiti is full professor of Ethnomusicology (Department of Arts, University of Bologna). President of the Italian Committee of ICTM, he co-directs the journal Etnografie sonore/Sound Etnographies. He has carried out research in southern Italy, among the Roma in Kosovo and in Morocco, with special attention to the relationships between gender crossing, music and ritual. His book Kajda. Music and female rites among the Roma of Kosovo (2012, Eng. ed. 2016) is a reference work on the subject.

Vélez Sainz, José Julio obtained is PhD at the University of Chicago (2002) and the University of Salamanca (2008). He is Associate Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid since 2010 and Director of the Institute of Theatre in Madrid. He has been Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2002-2008) and visiting professor at various universities. He publishes in Spanish and English and he is author of many monographs and scientific contributions in volumes and journals. He is the UCM representative in the UNA Europa consortium. He has a cultural blog on the Huffington Post.

Fernando Villaamil Pérez teachs at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Department of Social Anthropology, Complutense University of Madrid. He is a member of the “Antropología de las políticas sociales y culturales” research group and he is author of several publications such as Estudio sociologico y juridico sobre homosexualidad y mundo islamico (con Lola Martin Romero e Manuel Rodeans Perez, 2006) e La transformación de la identidad gay en España (2006).

Simon Peter Victor Otieno is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, Kenya

José Ignacio Weber is a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities - Institute of Performing Arts of the University of Buenos Aires. Author of articles, book chapters and reviews on specialized magazines, he has participated in numerous national and international conferences. He is an active member of the Argentine Association of Musicology and lecturer at the Argentine Catholic University.

Davide N. Carnevale is research fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Ferrara, where he teaches Visual Anthropology and collaborates with the research and dissemination activities of the Laboratory for Urban Studies. PhD in “Human rights, society and multi-level governance” at the University of Padua and Panteion University of Athens, he has carried out study and research activities within collaborations with the University of Bologna, EHESS in Paris, the State University of Moldova, the Observatory on Religious Pluralism and the Foundation for Religious Sciences in Bologna, Ilia University in Tbilisi, and the Confronti Studies Center in Rome. He has worked on religious minorities and migrations, ethnographies in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet contexts, political-territorial approaches and visual research on ritual, human rights, and the relationship between landscape and labor.

Emanuele Regi is a PhD student at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. He focuses on the relations between performing arts and natural spaces with a PON research at the UNESCO MaB Reserve of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. He is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal “Anthropology and Theatre” of the University of Bologna. At the same university, he is a specialist for the chairs of History of the Theatre and Performing Arts and Organisation and Economics of the Performing Arts. His recent publications include Viaggi ai confini del teatro in montaggio libero (Biennale Editore) and A Matter of Relationships: Dramatising, Staging and Planning Ecological Performances (”Itinera”, University of Milan).

Luca Roncone is a PhD candidate in Visual, Performing and Media Arts, in the Performing Arts sector, at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. After graduating with honours with a thesis on the organisation of the performing arts, in the academic field he is mainly concerned with the economics of the performing arts. On the artistic front, his research focuses on the experimental field of performing arts.

Giulia Sala is a PhD student in Arts, History and Society at the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna (A.Y. 2023/2024). Her research project concerns Balinese theatre, focusing on the relationship between innovation and tradition in the case of Barong. Her research fields include performing arts in Asia, anthropology of entertainment and tourism. Since 2024 she has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Antropologia e Teatro”.

Matteo Valoncini is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna. His research field of interest is medical anthropology, specifically the processes of digitization of primary care and how they affect the healthcare systems’ management and governance. He is a member of the scientific journal Anthropology and Theater at the University of Bologna, a researcher at the Center for International and Intercultural Health (CSI) in Bologna, and coordinator of the Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS).