Presentation

Fondazione Romaeuropa is a prominent Italian and European institution for the promotion and diffusion of contemporary art, theatre, dance and music.
Originally set up as an Association of the Friends of Villa Medici, as well as the outcome of an Italo-French initiative, the Foundation has grown to become an internationally renowned node for cultural exchange. Following since 22 years a rigorous cultural policy and by selecting only the very best the international scene has to offer, Romaeuropa has achieved the aim of bringing a vast and multifaceted audience closer to the world of art.
The Foundation’s carries out its mission not only by organising the Festival – which has emerged as a key reference point for the international art scene – but also by managing Teatro Palladium Università Roma Tre, Romaeuropa Promozione Danza ("Romaeuropa for Dance") and Romaeuropa Cultura ("Romaeuropa for Culture").

Romaeuropa Festival

Now in its 22nd year, Romaeuropa Festival has emerged as Italy’s pinnacle contemporary art festival, considered by The Wall Street Journal as one of Europe’s four top-festival in 2006.
These past 22 years have been star-studded. Some of the key artists of the present as well as the past century have performed, attracting one million spectators. An endless sequence of performances, with over 1,150 shows by 6,000 artists from over 40 countries around the world. The initial impulse to the adventure was given by senator Giovanni Pieraccini, who has since been the co-chairman of Romaeuropa with Jean-Marie Drot, director of the French Academy, and Monique Veaute, the institution’s first artistic director and currently its general manager.
Last year’s festival was seen by an audience of 60,000, confirming a constant upward trend in the number of spectators. In 2006 39 shows were staged among which 30 national premières, for a total of 60 performances in different locations, for which the 250 journalist accredited produced 850 articles and reviews. The Festival website was accessed by over 1 million from June to December. A multifaceted audience for a festival whose multifaceted offer has torn down the barriers between "high" and "mass culture". From hip-hop to electronic music, from the reinterpretation of European classical ballet to that of ancient Indian choreographies, from a rereading by Alessandro Baricco of a classic of American literature to the latest experimentations of Chinese theatre.