francesca montanari
biography
Francesca Montanari was born in december 1982 in fano, Italy, and grew up in a house covered by paintings. Once taken and left the path of journalism (degree in communication sciences and foundation of a local black and white magazine), she wanders between Italy and Spain taking pictures, filming short movies, composing collages, until a puppet attracts her attention.
She then throws herself into puppet theatre, studying with Spanish (Fanny Jímenez Guerrero, José Alberto M. Ortega), Czech (Petr Forman) and Iranian (Hossein Zeinali) masters and she continues her training as an actress in the Vladimir Tzekov theatre laboratory directed by Manuel Bonillo in Granada, Spain.
Since 2009 she has been producing and playing theatre and pupper theatre shows, presenting them in theaters, festivals, halls, living-rooms, clubs, streets and squares in Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Turkey and Greece.
Since 2010 she has been running workshops of construction and manipulation of puppets and marionettes for children and adults.
In 2012 she enters in the Mestieri Misti theatre company, based in Pesaro, Italy, with which she still collaborates in theatre shows production and staging.
In 2012 she starts to study in depth vocal practices and singing and she’s been, since then, collaborating as a singer in different musical formations in Italy and abroad (Maalish, I Fresquini, Les Rois du Bistro, The Opa Swingin’Trio).
In 2015 she debuts in the field of children’s literature with the publication of her first picture book (Ma dove vanno i palloncini?, printed by Marchetti Editore, Pisa, Italy).
In 2016 she founds with Yoan Degeorge the Pouët Company, continuing her research in puppet and marionette theatre.
curriculum vitae
Working experience: shows
Since 2016
Member of the Pouët Company
Production and staging of puppet and marionette theatre shows
2018
R.A.T.S.
A Pouët Company production
Presented in festivals, streets and squares in Italy and France
Belfiore Buskers Festival - 2018 (Belfiore, Italy)
Fiesta Global – Festival delle arti globali - 2018 (Montefabbri, Italy)
Umbria Jazz – Sezione OFF - 2018 (Perugia, Italy)
Il Paese dei Balocchi Festival - 2018 (Rosignano Marittimo, Italy)
Alchemika – Festival di teatro di strada e cirque noveau - 2018 (Perugia, Italy)
2017
The Pouët Circus
Mini circus of Marionettes, Puppets and other Fablers
A Pouët Company production
Presented in festivals, theaters, halls, fairs, streets and squares in Italy and France.
Premio speciale Buskers dell’anno al Belfiore Buskers Festival - 2017 (Belfiore, Italy)
Fiesta Global – Festival delle arti globali - 2017 (Montefabbri, Italy)
Sarnico Busker Festival - 2017 (Sarnico, Italy)
Arezzo Città del Natale - 2017 (Arezzo, Italy)
Festa Nazionale della Befana - 2018 (Urbania, Italy)
Spiccioli – Festival di teatro di strada - 2018 (Battaglia terme, Italy)
Figuratevi – Festival internazionale delle figure animate - 2018 (Perugia, Italy)
La luna nel pozzo - 2018 (Caorle, Italy)
Recanati Art Festival - 2018 (Recanati, Italy)
FanArt On Street - 2018 (Fano, Italy)
Fantàsia Festival - 2018 (Costacciaro, Italy)
San Pietrino Summer Street - 2017, 2018 (Pesaro, Italy)
Sant’Agostino Art & Market - 2018 (Senigallia, Italy)
Oggetti Smarriti
Contemporary circus variety show
In collaboration with Spazio Ortica (Fano, Italy)
Presented in theaters and halls in Italy.
Ex Chiesa di san Leonardo (Fano, Italy)
Teatro Apollo (Mondavio, Italy)
Teatro Cor’Te (Coriano, Italy)
2016
La Signora Luluda
A Pouët Company production
Presented in festivals, halls and squares in italy and Greece.
Since 2009
Production and staging of theatre and puppet theatre shows
2013
Mimì Maginò
Presented in theaters, festivals, halls, streets and squares in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Greece.
Viandando - 2013 (Pesaro, Italy)
La ½ notte bianca dei bambini - 2013 (Pesaro, Italy)
Casa Taller de marionetas de Pep Otal - 2014 (Barcelona, Spain)
La Brujula de Momo - 2014 (Granada, Spain)
La notte delle meraviglie - 2015 (Fermo, Italy)
Kato Pedina Kafe Neio - 2015 (Zagoroxoria, Greece)
Teatro laboratorio Tzepeto - 2015 (Rethymno, Greece)
Giornata mondiale della marionetta - 2017 (Perugia, Italy)
2012
Non è Cosa (a two acts play of puppets, marionettes and other fablers)
Presented in theaters, festivals, halls and streets in Italy and France
First jury prize, adult public section, in EuropuppetFestiValsesia - Festival
europeo di teatro di figura - 2012 (Balmuccia, Italy)
Affiche - Festival international de théâtre de rue - 2012 (Aurillac, France)
2011
Libertà, vo cercando (hybrid play of marionettes and actors)
Presented in festivals, theaters and streets of Italy
Fiesta Globál - 2011 (Montefabbri, Italy)
Paola in Strada - I Festival delle Arti di Strada della città di Paola - 2011 (Paola, Italy)
Sed de Amor (short stories and marionettes)
In collaboration with the Spanish writer Victor Perez Hidalgo.
Presented in Granada, Spain.
In Somnio
A Titiriqué? Company production
Presened in festivals and theaters in Spain and France.
El Apeadero (Granada, Spain)
Casa Taller de Marionetas de Pep Otal (Barcelona, Spain)
Pobre Nou Festival - 2011 (Barcelona, Spain)
Titiriguada – V Festival de Tìteres y Teatro Total - 2011 (Guadalajara, Spain)
XXX Festival Mondial de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières (OFF) - 2011 (Charleville-Mézières, France)
2010
Baracca. Puppets not always obey to their masters
Presented in theaters and streets in Spain, France and Italy.
Teatro Lunatico
Presented in theaters and schools in Spain (Granada, Málaga).
2009
Alhambre
A Matritíterearcado Company production
Presented in Spain (Granada).
Since 2012
Member of the Mestieri Misti theatre company
Production and staging of theatre shows, presented in theaters and festivals.
2016
Barocco Shocking Street
Rassegna Pigmenti - Teatro Valmisa - 2016 (Ostra, Italy)
Stagione teatrale ZTN - 2017 (Napoli, Italy)
Roma Fringe Festival - 2017 (Roma, Italy)
Rassegna Amat - Teatri d’Autore 2017/18 (San Costanzo, Italy)
2013
Le latture
2012
Inversione
Le avventure di Vardiello
Mercanti d’aria
2010 – 2011
Member of the Vladimir Tzekov theatre company (Granada, Spain)
Participation in the shows produced by the company, presented in theatres, festivals and halls of Spain
Sonata Este n.1
Rapsodia n.2 - La vida es sueño
Estudio n.7 XX
Réquiem n.8 - La Peste
Working experience: workshops
Since 2010
Running of puppet construction and manipulation workshops for children and adults
Títeres de guante.
Hand puppet construction and manipulation workshop.
For children (from 6 to 11 years old). (Primary school Colegio Alborán, Málaga, Spain)
In Bocca al Burattino.
Hand puppet construction, manipulation and staging workshop.
For children, kids and adults (Rocca Malatestiana, Fano, Italy)
Burattini in ludoteca.
Hand puppet construction workshop with recycled materials.For children (from 6 to 11 years old).
(Riù, Ludoteca del Riuso, Pesaro, Italy)
Calzini in scena.
Hand puppet construction workshop. For children and parents (Biblioteca Villa Urbani, Perugia, Italy).
Since 2015
Performed readings for children
Ma dove vanno i palloncini?
Performed reading and collage workshop (Memo, Mediateca Montanari, Fano, Italy).
Education and studies
2012
The vocal practices. Workshop run by Ewa Benesz (Casa Laboratorio Cà Colmello, Bologna, Italy).
2010 - 2011
Course of Integral Formation of the Scenic Creator directed by Manuel Bonillo López and
Santiago Del Hoyo García (Vladimir Tzekov theatre laboratory Granada, Spain).
2011
Shadow puppet workshop run by Fanny Jímenez Guerrero and Hossein Zeinali (Granada,
Spain).
2010
Marionette construction workshop run by Petr Forman (Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain).
Puppet construction workshop run by José Alberto Maldonado Ortega (Centro Cultural Caja Granada, Spain).
2009
Puppet construction and manipulation workshop run by Fanny Jímenez Guerrero
(Universidad de Granada, Spain).
2005
Degree in communication sciences. University of Padova, Italy.