With the support of the Italian Institute of Culture, Pan Pan Theatre has selected artists Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo as mentors for the thirteenth edition of the Pan Pan International Mentorship.
The results of this fruitful collaboration will be discussed and shared with the public during a symposium that will form part of the Dublin Theatre Festival programme.
Calderoni-Caleo met in 2012 at the Teatro Valle Occupato during Motus’s Animale Politico Project. They created a nomadic atelier of workshops and artistic residences. Since 2017, they have been teaching in the Visual Arts Laboratory at IUAV University of Venice. Following their participation in the 2018 Biennale College Teatro with a Masterclass, they created KISS, a performance project with 23 performers produced by the Santarcangelo Festival, CSS Udine and Motus Vague. For the Queering Platform of the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, they co-curate the SO IT IStransnational project (https://www.soitis.art/it). In 2021 they took part in Flu水o, the crossdisciplinary project directed by Alessandro Sciarroni and winner of Italian Council (9th Edition, 2020). In 2022, they created the installation Pick Pocket Paradise for the exhibition “Espressioni con frazioni” at Castello di Rivoli – Museum of Contemporary Art (Torino). They are associate artists of the Italian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.
In 2023, their performance The Present Is Not Enough premiered in Hamburg, co-produced by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo – Mattatoio | Progetto Prender-si Cura, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Kunstencentrum Vooruit vzw (Ghent), and Motus Vague. For the 2025–2028 triennium, they will serve as co-curators of the Short Theatre Festival (Rome), together with Silvia Bottiroli and Michele Di Stefano. Since 2025, they have been associate artists at BASE (Milan). In 2025, their latest work temporale {a lesbian tragedy} premiered, co-produced by VIELNURVIEL (Ghent), Motus Vague, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale.