TTV Performing Arts on Screen: Where Theater Meets the Screen
🎬 TTV Performing Arts on Screen: Where Theater Meets the Screen
When we think of theater, we imagine a stage, actors in the flesh, and a silent seated audience. But in Riccione, there is a festival that for over 25 editions has been rewriting this definition, merging the stage with the camera, performance with technology. It’s called TTV Performing Arts on Screen, and it is one of the boldest and most visionary events on the Italian cultural scene.
🎥 A Festival That Breaks Boundaries
TTV is not simply a festival of video art or filmed theater. It is a hybrid and experimental space, where the stage expands beyond physical theater, enters the lens of a video camera, reinvents itself in digital format, and becomes contemporary language.
Since 1985, Riccione Teatro has been organizing this unique event, gathering video works related to the performing arts, short films, docu-films, installations, and hybrid performances. The festival welcomes artists, directors, choreographers, performers, and scholars from across Europe, becoming a laboratory of experimentation between body, image, and storytelling.
A Network of Visionaries
Over the years, TTV has presented works by artists such as Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Maguy Marin, Jan Fabre, and many others. But it’s not just a festival “to watch”: it is an experience to live, made up of meetings, debates, workshops, and exchanges between generations and disciplines.
The 2025 edition focuses on three key themes:
- Body and Media: how technology redefines stage presence.
- Memory and Archive: the digital preservation of performances.
- Creative Accessibility: making art accessible in new and inclusive ways.
Riccione as an Urban Stage
What’s beautiful about TTV is that Riccione changes face to welcome it. Screenings in urban spaces, performances in courtyards, morning meetings on the seafront. The city itself becomes a living scenography. It’s not just a festival for experts, but an opportunity also open to the curious, tourists, and young creatives.
Why Is TTV Important?
We live in an era where the boundary between real and digital is becoming increasingly thin. TTV is an opportunity to reflect on this change, to understand how art can continue to move us even through a screen. And above all, it shows us that cultural innovation can start from places you wouldn’t expect, like a seaside town in Emilia-Romagna.
Want to Participate?
The official dates for the 2025 edition will be announced soon on the website riccioneteatro.it and on the official social channels. Follow them so you don’t miss the full program.
A Theater That Looks to the Future
To conclude, TTV Performing Arts on Screen is much more than a festival: it is a vision in motion, an invitation to look at theater with new eyes. If you are interested in art, experimentation, and the power of visual language, remember this name.
Riccione is not just sea, beach umbrellas, and aperitifs – it is also a place where ideas take the stage.