Ursa Maior was founded to provide artists belonging to different artistic fields and backgrounds (figurative, musical, theatrical) with new opportunities, no matter how these are configured.

What keeps us together is the need to create a professional theatrical reality that is always willing to host international partners within a permanent quest for dialogue on both cultural and social themes. Dealing with different dramaturgies and genres, we have so far tried to identify a continuity that through an established method of work would have taken us from the basic stimulus to a final result.

From its very beginnings Ursa Maior has been interested in the educational possibilities stemming from theatre and in that sense has put in place a permanent workshop for children in primary schools.

Repertory

2002/3
Ursa Maior performs two plays for children: Hansimel and Brettell, co-operating with Teatro Ridotto of Lavino di Mezzo, and La Città di Sgrunf, co-operating with Alcuni Group of Treviso.

2004/5
Ursa Maior creates Il fuoco del radio, dialoghi con Madame Curie, supported by the Padova’s Committee for Equal Opportunities.

2005/6
Ursa Maior creates Mine Haha, with the support from the European Union’s Youth Program, and E venne il tempo in cui filosofia e scienza confusero le idee all’umanità in the form of played reading sessions.
Emancipazione, its first short movie, won the price of jury in the Artev’atria competition.

2006/7
Ursa Maior plays readings for children and puts on stage Mela , by Dacia Maraini. Besides, the Company organises “Somnio ergo Sum”, a Festival to exploit and animate green areas of Bologna with theatre and music.
The event was supported by Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna and was part of the activities of “Bologna Estate”.

2007/8
During the art exhibition “I Popoli dell’Orsa Maggiore, lungo la via degli Orsi e degli Sciamani” – which involved the University and several Museums of Bologna, Ursa Maior performed Zampa di Miele, a performance about northern mythologies about Bear, supported by Coop Adriatica and the Bologna district.

Ursa Maior participated to the semi-finals of “Scenario Infanzia Prize” with Ho perso il mio orsacchiotto bianco, a sensorial performance for children under 3.