Lisa Gilardino is a curator based in Bologna (IT). She has been working for twenty years curating festivals, leading cultural institutions, producing and developing artists’ creations internationally . Among other things she co-directed Santarcangelo Festival, the major and oldest Italian festival for contemporary theater, co-founded Samara Editions-Performances by Post, a publishing house for performative arts commissioning new works to be sent to spectators by post and cocurated Høstscena festival in Ålesund, Norway. In 2024 she curates The Sea of rocks by Helle Siljeholm, a choreography for and with a mountain, five climbers and a live musician, set across four vertical cliff faces in an absolutely breathtaking scenery in the Dolomites. She loves hiking and being surprised.