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Fabrizio Massini, MA
Fabrizio Massini
T: +43-1-4277-43857

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Fabrizio is a university assistant/PhD candidate at the University of Vienna and a performing arts practitioner. Based in China between 2009-2019, Fabrizio’s performance practice includes his activity as producer, curator and dramaturg. Between 2016-2019 Fabrizio served as Artistic Director at Ibsen International. He given guest lectures at institutions including the Danish National School of Performing Arts, University of Sydney, University of Oslo and University of Florence. He collaborated with several European and Chinese organizations including Beijing Fringe Festival, Beijing Theatre Olympics (2014), Guangzhou Dance Festival, Shanghai Dance Biennale (2019).

Research interests include: performance practices in the Chinese-speaking region; experimental and postdramatic performance; dance theatre (tanzteater) and dance dramaturgy; feminist and queer performance; documentary film and theatre; performance artivism (art+activism).



Massini, F. (2023). "When" does "Chinese feminism" become "performance"?. Manuscript in preparation In The Routledge Companion to Feminist Performance Routledge, Taylor & Francis.






Massini, F., & Riccucci, E. (2007). Un’esperienza interculturale nella provincia di Firenze: la settimana dell’amicizia Italia-Cina. In Verso uno spazio multiculturale? : Riflessioni geografiche sull'esperienza migratoria (pp. 375-388). Pàtron Editore.

Artist Talk mit Tao Ye

Massini, F. (Speaker)

24 Jul 2026

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Inside/Outside the System: Independent Performance-Making in Postmillennial China

Massini, F. (Selected presenter)

22 Jul 2026

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Outside looking in, Inside looking Out: Systems and/of Independence in Postmillennial China

Massini, F. (Invited speaker)

10 Apr 2026

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Watching Theatre Festivals All Over the World

Massini, F. (Speaker)

21 Nov 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Beijing International Fringe Festival, a longitudinal study

Massini, F. (Selected presenter)

9 Jun 202513 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Chinese-Language and Sinophone Cinema: A New European Wave?

Massini, F. (Selected presenter)

13 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Matters of "sensitivity": feminism and performance practices in postmillennial China

Massini, F. (Invited speaker)

4 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Ibsen as a "medium": contemporary Norwegian playwrighting on the Chinese stage

Massini, F. (Selected presenter)

25 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Feminism and artivism in post-millennial China: performance and "sensitivity"

Massini, F. (Invited speaker)

3 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tides and Undercurrents: transnational encounters between Europe and East Asia

Massini, F. (Selected presenter)

31 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of East Asian Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2F-O1-03.A

T: +43-1-4277-43857

fabrizio.massini@univie.ac.at