Soffia il vento, a danced tale after Katherine Mansfield, at Teatro Belli, December 12 and 13, 2026

In short. On Saturday, December 12 and Sunday, December 13, 2026, Teatro Belli, on Piazza di Sant'Apollonia, stages «Soffia il vento» (The Wind Blows), a tale by Katherine Mansfield performed and danced, with voice and direction by Giorgia Palombi.

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On Saturday, December 12 and Sunday, December 13, 2026, Teatro Belli, on Piazza di Sant'Apollonia, stages «Soffia il vento» (The Wind Blows), a tale by Katherine Mansfield performed and danced, with voice and direction by Giorgia Palombi. Booking is online.

Soffia il vento: watercolor illustration of a theater stage with a sofa, a lamp and light beams, audience seen from behind — AI-generated illustration: not a photograph of Teatro Belli or of the event.

Updated November 6, 2026.

The event

«Soffia il vento» is a tale performed and danced to the minor key of piano music, present in the places of memory, of a real past projected into a sudden present. The tale of the elsewhere is the essence of the show: Katherine Mansfield was born in an elsewhere that she carried inside her all her life, an elsewhere that marked her short, nomadic existence in search of a home.

The «little wild girl of New Zealand» wakes up in a different culture, the European one, and her mission becomes writing about the time and places of the era when she was a child. She falls ill early and physical pain marks her moves between places of care, even under the bombings of the First World War; but she reads and writes to distant friends in order to keep telling stories.

Voice and direction are by Giorgia Palombi, choreography by Ricky Bonavita, dance by Francesca Schipani and Bonavita himself. Music is by Ludwig van Beethoven and Laurie Anderson. The production is by PinDoc and Akerusia Danza.

Where it takes place: Teatro Belli

Teatro Belli is on Piazza di Sant'Apollonia, in Trastevere, near the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere. Other titles include Danscirque and Il calamaro.

Practical information

Dates: Saturday, December 12 and Sunday, December 13, 2026.
Venue: Teatro Belli, Piazza di Sant'Apollonia 11, 00153 Rome.
A tale by Katherine Mansfield; voice and direction by Giorgia Palombi; choreography by Ricky Bonavita.
Getting there: use the ATAC route planner.