The group’s work comprehends both theatre teaching and theatre production (street theatre performances and workshops, social committed theatre, theatre for children and creation of final essays), organization of events (theatre, music and dance), information, dissemination and net-working (conferences and meetings about artistic and social issues). It is operating internationally, touring all over the world with performances and pedagogical activities.
The groups’ activities has two basic strands: the STREET THEATER and its SOCIAL COMMITMENT ACTIVITY mostly related to pedagogical projects. In the street, the TDM has met cultural and social realities far from commercial theater, and has developed a theatrical technique based on the use of the body and on non-verbal communication that facilitates the encounter of a very heterogeneous public: adults, young people, elderly people, children, of different countries, race and social background.
Today the Teatro Due Mondi counts: 50 productions, 25 special projects, 5 European Projects, 3 of which as lead partner, several dozens of workshops and seminars, over 3,000 performances in international festivals, theaters and streets of 33 countries on 4 continents.
THEATRE PEDAGOGY is conceived as an opportunity of exchange and dialogue with the community: various pedagogical projects in Italy and abroad: courses and workshops for YOUNG generations, PARTICIPATED and MULTICULTURAL workshops. The staff of the Association has developed its own capacity to MEDIATE BETWEEN DIFFERENT CULTURES, to develop processes of integration between the participants and RECREATE A SOLIDARITY COMMUNITY.
Recent projects with "non-actors" want to "give voice" to the weakest or marginalized social groups (“OMSA project” with the dismissed unemployed workers and the “Refugee project” with the refugees hosted in the Faenza territory): for those social groups the theater becomes a means of social communication as well as an effective empowerment tool.
The European Projects conducted in recent years develop the theater activity on an international level as a vehicle for "social inclusion", sharing it with other cultural and social realities of the European Union and other countries.
For over 10 years the TDM has been in contact with foreign communities in the Faenza area. After the first workshops with the refugees arriving from Africa, a “permanent theatre workshop” is born to involve the immigrant communities of Faenza, Italians and refugees hosted in the area. It has carried out awareness and promotion projects with conferences, meetings, shows and concerts (Lo Straniero, 2011, realized with the network of associations for the promotion of integration in Faenza), bringing street shows and theatrical actions realized together with foreign citizens in public spaces.
From 2011 he began a theatrical research investigating more closely the issue of female discrimination: starting from the issue of work (workshops and theatre actions with the female workers fired from the OMSA factory), to the issue of equality by producing performances on the theme of gender violence (VEDRAI, VEDRAI) and on the social role of women (conference-show THOSE REBEL GIRLS).
In Faenza, the Association has carried out numerous cultural and theatrical projects through the “Casa del Teatro”, a theatrical culture center that offers a specialized library, a video library, an audiophile and a theater.