Festivals - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

ALESSANDRO BOLLO (1972)
One of the founders of Fondazione Fitzcarraldo - international independent centre for
research, training, planning, and documentation on cultural, arts and media management,
economics and policies based in Turin, Italy – he now coordinates the Research
Unit.
Since 2002 he is the coordinator for the Cultural Observatory of Piedmont. Professor
of marketing and communication of cultural heritage and activities at Polytechnic of
Turin – II Faculty of Architecture and lecturer at the various courses for cultural operators
organised by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo. Since 2000 he is promoter of the Marketing
department at AISM, Italian Association on Marketing Studies, Milan, Italy.
He is member of the team for the Evaluation of cultural policy in Montenegro.
ELENA DI STEFANO (1973)
Formerly a contemporary dancer, she is now a performing arts operator specialized in
cultural management. Contributes to festival organization and other cultural activities;
works in dance organization, management, project planning, promotion (ADAC,
professional dance companies supported by Tuscany Region). Member of the Committee
for Performing Arts Cultural Policy Plan 2004, Province of Pisa.
She is now working at “Long Term Creativity”, a study on the long term interconnections
among artists, artistic centres and developing milieus of performing arts, under
the supervision of Ugo Bacchella and Luca Dal Pozzolo (Fondazione Fitzcarraldo).
Published papers on dance audience and dance system. Lectures in workshops on arts
and culture management (University of Bologna, University of Pisa).
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