C&C COMPANY C&C Company is a research and production company working in the field of dance theatre, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Founded in 2011 through the artistic encounter between Carlo Massari and Chiara Taviani, the company has, from its beginnings, developed a poetics based on the hybridisation of dance, physical theatre, spoken word, music and performance arts, through an essential, direct physical and dramaturgical language deeply connected to the urgencies of the present. The company’s research focuses on human relationships and on the possibility of creating a stage capable of conveying truth, emotional tension and imagination, while maintaining an ongoing dialogue with the communities and contexts encountered throughout the creative processes. Since 2017, the artistic direction has been entrusted to Carlo Massari. Over the years, C&C Company has produced award-winning works presented in Italy and internationally, including CORPO E CULTURA, the BEAST WITHOUT BEAUTY, LES MISERABLES, E·STIN·ZIÓ·NE, RIGHT, the trilogy METAMORPHOSIS – Atti di metamorfosi contemporanea and, more recently, STRANO, FUORI FUOCO, WOTZƏCK. The company’s works have been hosted by festivals, theatres and national and international circuits, receiving recognition in a variety of contexts and consolidating a practice that combines authorial quality, performative versatility and openness to dialogue. Alongside its artistic production, C&C develops educational, training and socially engaged projects, including Femminile Plurale, an ongoing physical theatre workshop for unemployed and economically inactive women, masterclasses and advanced training programmes, as well as collaborations with festivals, cultural institutions and educational contexts. C&C Company’s identity is thus defined by a transdisciplinary, rigorous and permeable artistic practice, in which research, creation and education are constantly brought into dialogue with the present and with the territories in which the company operates. CARLO MASSARI Carlo Massari is a performer, choreographer and transdisciplinary creator. His artistic journey moves across theatre, musical theatre, dance and physical theatre, making the hybridisation of languages the distinctive feature of his research. In 2011, he founded C&C Company, a research and production company supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, of which he became Artistic Director in 2017. With C&C, he has created award-winning works presented in Italy and internationally, developing an intense, physical and visionary stage language in which the body becomes a space of relationship, transformation and passage between different forms of expression. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with prominent artists and organisations on the Italian and international scene, including the Venice Biennale, Marco Baliani, Teatro dell’Argine, Teatrodue, Balletto Civile and Abbondanza/Bertoni. In parallel, he has developed his choreographic work for institutions including Salzburger Landestheater, Klaipėda State Music Theatre, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Accademia Filarmonica Romana. In 2020, he received the CollaborAction XL#5 Award from the Anticorpi XL Network and became an associated artist of the Oriente Occidente Festival. His research also extends into interdisciplinary and performative contexts, always placing the body at the centre as a space of relationship, transformation and movement between different artistic languages. SPACCA In 2025, from the encounter between C&C Company and Sanpapié, SPACCA was born: a new production organisation for contemporary dance, co-directed by Lara Guidetti and Carlo Massari. SPACCA emerged from the artistic and creative affinity between the two companies, with the aim of overcoming the fragmentation and isolation that often characterise the performing arts sector and of opening new spaces for dialogue, research and shared creation. The encounter between C&C Company and Sanpapié is not conceived as a simple merger, but as an intentional gesture and an artistic and political choice in the broadest sense: to build together, without giving up individual identities, a production centre and research platform capable of renewing contemporary practices. SPACCA aims to value the coexistence of differences, care for creative processes, the sharing of expertise and the central role of time as a tool for research and production. It is conceived as both a physical and conceptual space where artists, companies, institutions and communities can meet, develop new forms of collaboration and contribute to building a more open, sustainable and contemporary dance ecosystem.
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