La Fiera All’Inverso

May 1 to 3, 2026, Priero and Ceva, Italy

Introducing…. The pilot edition.
A weekend of performances, music, food and dancing in Priero and at La Cascina All’Inverso in Ceva. We look forward to meet you there!

La Fiera All'Inverso is a new initiative of La Cascina All’Inverso (IT) and The Offbeat Space (BE), offering open events and artist gatherings throughout the year, bringing life and art together in and around special locations in the South of Piedmonte.

During 2026 we will organise many opportunities for meeting, exchange, work and celebration, bringing together the people who make live performance happen - artists, producers, programmers, audiences and the communities that host us. Together, we build the environment where we all can genuinely thrive.

La Fiera All'Inverso began in 2025 as a convivial gathering, part family celebration and part professional meeting point. It grew out of the belief that the time between performances matters as much as the performances themselves: that sharing a meal, an informal conversation or a work in progress is important.

We find our roots and inspiration in traditions of circus, theatre laboratory, clown and commedia, jazz and folk music. People and traditions that have found ways to exist and create in their own unique and colourful ways

The partners

La Fiera All’Inverso is a collaboration between La Cascina all'Inverso (Ceva, Piedmont) and The Offbeat Space (Belgium). Together we are building a working network of artists, Italian and international, rooted in a specific place and community but oriented outward. The project also works in close collaboration with the Municipality of Priero and the Zoé in Città festival, and with a broader network of fellow artists and friends.

La Cascina All’Inverso - a space for creating work

La Cascina all'Inverso is a place of creation and promotion of circus arts, clowning, theatre, music and street arts, directed by Lucia Fusina. La Cascina All’Inverso creates spaces where artistic research can remain open, where risk is welcomed, and where collective creation can take place in full freedom. We all share the desire to nurture these conditions.

La Cascina All’Inverso encourages unstructured experimentation, spontaneous collaborations, and wild artistic research. Because we know that this is absolutely needed in our times. Surrounding La Cascina is a strong network that has grown over time through work, creation and friendship. We aim to strengthen what artists are already doing and create new conditions around it. It is a space where resources are shared, where communities are connected and where artists can work on their own terms.

The Offbeat - a methodology for collective creation

The Offbeat is an independent production house based in Brussels and founded by a collective of artists and creative producers dedicated to developing performance work that moves beyond the (pressured) beat of mainstream production. It’s founding members, Gonzalo Alarcón, Adriana La Selva and Marije Nie bring experience across contemporary circus, physical theatre, music, dance and performance.

Functioning as both a production base and a platform for research, training and artistic exchange, Offbeat supports artists in exploring new performative languages, developing original works, and engaging audiences in participatory and transformative ways. The collective takes an active role in connecting artists across borders, building a concrete network of people, organisations and places that give body to the development of a more flexible, nomadic and responsive way of working in the field of culture.