Compagnia Teatro dell’Argine

Teatro dell’Argine was officially founded on May 17th 1994 in San Lazzaro di Savena (Bologna, Italy) thanks to the intention of 20 young professionals who had shared years of study and apprenticeship and wanted to gather and take advantage of their common ideas and projects.

First constituted as cultural association, then as cooperative, lastly as social cooperative, in 1994 the Company committed the artistic direction to Salvatore Cardone. Since the very beginning the art project included not only production of shows, but also audience education, workshops and seminars, study and research for young professionals.

In 1998 the Municipality of San Lazzaro di Savena assigned TdA the municipal theatre, ITC Teatro di San Lazzaro,: a 220-seats theatre reopened after a long restructuring. A stable site gave the Company the possibility to make an old dream come true: the creation of a “home for theatre”, more similar to the European model of the centre dramatique rather than to the Italian model of the touring company.

Since 2000, the art direction of the Company and the Theatre has been assigned to Nicola Bonazzi and Andrea Paolucci, directors and Company founders. The art direction of children’s theatre and workshops is assigned to Vittoria De Carlo, actress and Company founder as well. Thanks to their impulse and the growing artistic maturity of the Company’s actors, TdA became known on national level and toured different prestigious theatres in Europe.