In today’s landscape of contemporary performance education, there is a growing need for programs that transcend traditional and compartmentalized models—responding instead to the complexity of our time. ANFIBIA emerges in this space of urgency and possibility: a transdisciplinary device that refuses training as mere transmission of technique, offering instead a path of profound, poetic, and political transformation.
ANFIBIA stands out for its ability to merge rigor with openness, vision with practice, technique with intuition. It does not train mere performers, but artists capable of producing meaning, crossing disciplines, and crafting works that speak directly to the present. At the center of the process is the body—not only as a performative tool, but as a critical, sensitive landscape shaped by experiences, thoughts, and identities.
Unlike vertical or disciplinary educational models, ANFIBIA offers a porous and dynamic structure, where dance, theatre, voice, music, acrobatics, dramaturgy, and theory come together in a shared space—open to contamination and hybridization. Days are not broken into subjects, but crafted as evolving landscapes where practices converse, challenge, and nourish one another. It is within this space of friction and encounter that a new performative grammar can emerge.
Another distinctive trait of ANFIBIA is its emphasis on the group—not as a cohort of students, but as a temporary creative community, a living organism fueled by alliances, differences, and shared visions. Within this relational context, participants learn not only to shape a personal artistic language, but also to collaborate, listen, and expose themselves—developing a situated and conscious practice.
Creation is at the core of the journey—not as a final showcase, but as a continuous process intertwined with training from the beginning. Participants are guided in developing original works—individual or collective—born from daily practice and shared with audiences in real performance contexts. This movement from research to public sharing is framed as an exercise in artistic responsibility, a genuine act of exposure.
But what truly sets ANFIBIA apart is its ability to shape artists who know how to stand in the world—not just on stage. Each practice, each exercise, each conversation is infused with fundamental questions: What does it mean to create today? What responsibilities come with representation? What new forms can we imagine?
The stage becomes a site of resistance and reinvention—a space to act with courage, vulnerability, and vision.
In a European landscape where many institutions are beginning to embrace hybrid and multidisciplinary approaches, ANFIBIA positions itself as a radical and necessary proposition: a program that holds together artistic training, personal research, and cultural responsibility. A journey not designed to fit into a market, but to generate new ways of inhabiting creation.

Carlo Massari