teatri riflessi international short performance competition

Teatri Riflessi Festival has opened its 2027 call for short performances: live works no longer than 15 minutes of contemporary dance, theatre, circus or multidisciplinary performance. 

Teatri Riflessi wants to enhance the short performance format per se: not as a reduction of a longer work nor as a starting point for a full-evening adaptation. The strength of the format lies in the artistic immediacy and urgency it conveys.

The framework of the competition connects, in a way, the ancient Greek theatre, devised as an outdoor competition for a vast audience, to the most provocative tendencies in happenings and performance art, which leverage the innate desire of the beholder to participate.