performing arts group DOO – acronym for Divano Occidentale Orientale (name borrowed from the famous collection of poems West-East Divan by W. Goethe), was born in January 2010 by Giuseppe L. Bonifati. Linda Sugataghy joined in 2013. DOO´s artistic project started from the South (Italy) and the North of Europe (Denmark), and especially from a will to create and produce contemporary art through a deep research, offering it to youth and adults. DOO means VISION, AESTHETICS, ACTION. It is a wide-ranging project, a continuous journey across geographical borders. Since the beginning our main concern is one: how to deal with the unconscious and the unknown through art?
In 10 years of existence, the group has produced a line of diverse works. They have been hosted in theatres, museums, galleries and art festivals of international significance in Italy, Denmark, Costa Rica, Poland, Bosnia Herzegovina, Hungary, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Iran, France, Macedonia, Brazil, Spain, India, Israel, Russia etc…
AWARDS
National Award “I Teatri del Sacro” by ETI (Italian Theatre Institute)
Finalist “Kantor National Award” for new theatre groups by Teatro CRT
National Dramaturgy Award “Alessandro Fersen”
***** Students Jury Award in Warsaw
*****Special Mention International Theatre Award “TeresaPomodoro
(Jury: Eugenio Barba, Lev Dodin, Frédéric Flamand, Jonathan Mills, Lluís Pasqual and Luca Ronconi)
“Spazi in Festa” by Culture Department – Municipality of Rome
MOVIN UP – Support to International Mobility for Italian Artists by MIBACT / GAI
Between 2010-2020, the group had its residence at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (Holstebro, Denmark) and participated also in other programs of residency in Europe & Central America, among them: Art Quarter Budapest (Budapest, Hungary), Godsbanen (Aarhus, Denmark), Venice Biennale – Theatre (Venice, Italy), Guestroom Maribor (Maribor, Slovenia), Cité Internationale des Arts, Les Pepinières Européennes (Paris, France).
AWARDS
National Award “I Teatri del Sacro” by ETI (Italian Theatre Institute)
Finalist “Kantor National Award” for new theatre groups
National Dramaturgy Award “Alessandro Fersen”
***** Students Jury Award in Warsaw
*****Special Mention International Theatre Award “TeresaPomodoro
(Jury: Eugenio Barba, Lev Dodin, Frédéric Flamand, Jonathan Mills, L. Pasqual and Luca Ronconi)
“Spazi in Festa” by Culture Department – Municipality of Rome
MOVIN UP – Support to International Mobility for Italian Artists by MIBACT / GAI
Since 2011 the group has its Residence at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (Holstebro, DK) and participated also in other program of residency in Europe & Central America, among them: Art Quarter Budapest (Hungary), Godsbanen (Denmark), Venice Biennale – Theatre (Venice, Italy), Guestroom Maribor (Slovenia), Citè International des Arts/Les Pepinieres (Paris, France).
DOO founded in 2016 the artistic movement KUNSTPARTIET / ART PARTY in Holstebro (DK). Here they direct Bomhuset – Museum for Miniature Art, one of littlest museums of Denmark and probably of the world. Their performance MAYOR IN RESIDENCE is the longest performance ever made by a couple of artists (535 days).
Artistic Director
Giuseppe L. Bonifati
Artistic Coordinators
Linda Sugataghy, Alberto M. Guinaldo
Producers
Marcella Santomassimo, Linda Sugataghy
Contributing Artists
Luigi Tabita, Fabio Pappacena, Roberta De Stefano, Adele Tirante, Antonio Merola, Maurizio Semeraro, Cecilia Di Giuli, Nelson Bispo Dos Santos, Paula Sancho, Francesca Palombo, Cheikh Tidiane Ndyae,
Annagaia Marchioro, Caterina Moroni,
Markus Karekallas, Daniel Bekè, Beatrice Vollaro,Cristina Secareanu, Visnja Obradovic,
Linda Sugataghy, Tìmea, Ashai Lombardo…
Stefano Di Buduo
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