Kilowatt Festival

Kilowatt is an international multidisciplinary festival dedicated to the contemporary scene (theatre, dance, circus, music, visual arts, multimedia) and takes place annually in July between Sansepolcro and Cortona (Tuscany). The festival was conceived in 2003 and has been promoted and realised by the CapoTrave theatre production company ever since. Every year the festival involves 5,000 paying spectators and records 10,000 admissions to free events. Kilowatt has established itself as one of the most significant national and international sector events, known at a European level for the quality of its artistic choices and for the innovative Visionaries format thanks to which a group of 50 non-professional citizens, after a 7-month-long comparison process, each year select 9 of the 60 shows presented at the festival. Kilowatt Festival won the 2021 Critics' Award from the National Association of Theatre Critics ANCT, the 2010 Ubu Award as best Special Project and, in 2021, its directors Lucia Franchi and Luca Ricci won the Ubu Award for best curatorial/organisational project. The Associazione CapoTrave / Kilowatt manages the Teatro alla Misericordia in Sansepolcro and the Teatro Mario Spina in Castiglion Fiorentino (Ar), places for creative artist residencies at which innovative forms of contemporary creation are supported, i.e. theatre, dance and performing arts productions.