About

Art Factory International

A Space for Training, Research & Creation.

For over 16 years, Art Factory International has been o ering participants the opportunity to build their own artistic identity with solid technical and creative foundations through our international professional training program for contemporary dancers.
The program consistently has had an open and up-to-date vision of the international dance and performing arts scenes, promoting dance excellence and aiming to disseminate the art and culture of dance in order to train individuals prepared for future entry into the artistic and professional world.

Art Factory International is an intensive professional training project created by Leggere Strutture Art Factory, a centre dedicated to the arts and culture
based in Bologna. The program takes place within the new and innovative cultural hub dedicated to multidisciplinary arts called BACH.

New place - BACH Art Centre

Founded in 2025 through an urban regeneration project, BACH offers spaces dedicated to dance and creative and cultural production. With over 1,000 square meters of professional parquet flooring for dancers, its large, bright spaces immersed in greenery make it an artistic platform that is also
an open but safe space where young artists and professionals can meet to engage in professional training, artistic residencies, live performances, and events.

Art Factory International

CONTEMPORARY DANCE PLATFORM

Partners

The program focuses on younger dancers, with age between 18-30, eager to broaden and deepen their own technical and artistic training in fields such as dance, choreography and composition.

The program involves daily training in classical and contemporary dance through a teaching plan led by artists and teachers, expert in the field and working towards technique strenghtening, along with pursuing a higher level of awareness in regard to one’s physical strength and the creative movement.

Moreover, the platform is a host to monthly workshops and residencies, featuring internationally renowned choreographers and artists with focus on widening the attendees’ knowledge and enriching the workshop participants’ experiences, visions and professional competences.

The Art Factory International platform’s trajectory also arranges
seminars and classes, by sharing several supporting projects organised by Leggere Strutture.

The classes will focus on exchange of virtuous practices by drawing from dfferent professionals with the intention of shaping the participant’s personality and competences, as well as broadening the artist’s new training horizons.

About

Spazio Crudo & Festival

Art Factory International has also started a performative platform within its spaces, under the name of Spazio CRUDO and Festival CRUDO, designed
to host projects, previews and work-in-progress by international artists in residency at Leggere Strutture, in addition to accommodating ‘open door’ performances enacted by AFI participants.

CRUDO has been envisioned as a neutral space where sharing and hosting young professional figures is made possible. A space envisaged at connecting artistic and critical domains, as well as presenting first runs and performance premieres.

During the training period, international in-residence artists will shape their creations with AFI participants, with the pieces premiering at CRUDO space.

The platform’s goal is to create professional figures with tecnicalcreative skills and speciality who are capable of setting their own career path, proficient in creating a personal artistic identity, able to acquire
additional skills, as well as able to grow and work in di erent performative settings.

People and artists

How we are

Our staff, teachers and guests are established international artists in full swing with the creations and productions, thus maintaining the program’s technical, creative, and artistic level updated and in line with the trends of dance, contemporaneity and future performing languages.