Collettivo Treppenwitz is an artistic collective founded in 2018 by six independent artists – Camilla Parini, Simon Waldvogel, Anahì Traversi, Carla Valente, Igor Horvat, and Federica Carra – coming from diverse backgrounds such as theatre, dance, performance, music, photography, and stage writing. After several collaborations over the years, Francesca Sproccati joined the team in 2026.
The collective is known for its multidisciplinary and contemporary approach, with artistic research focused on relationships, attentive listening, and the urgency to narrate the present through innovative and hybrid languages.
Over the years, it has received important recognition and has taken part in national and international collaborations and tours, establishing itself as one of the most vibrant emerging groups in the Swiss and European performance scene.
The name Treppenwitz – a German word meaning “staircase wit”, the clever remark that comes too late – reflects the collective’s poetic sensibility, transforming delays, missed intuitions, and fragility into creative strength and expressive drive.
ANAHÌ TRAVERSI
Anahì Traversi has Italian, Swiss and Argentine origins. She attended the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Milan and the Luca Ronconi School of Theatre at the Piccolo Teatro. She specialised in a two-year course directed by Federico Tiezzi. In 2012 she was chosen by Riccardo Muti for the new production of Sancta Susanna by Paul Hindemith at Ravenna Festival. Since 2013 she has collaborated with the RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera prose department and with the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, and is an actress in the company of the Teatro Sociale Bellinzona.
In 2014, together with Fabrizio Rosso, she created the theatrical project “La extravagancia#0” from Rafael Spregelburd’s monologue, a show selected by Schweizer Theatertreffen (2015). In 2016, together with Camilla Parini, she debuts with Princesses Karaoke or something like that… a finalist show at the Schweiz Prize. In 2016 she began working with LAC Lugano; Carmelo Rifici directed her in Gabbiano, Ifigenia liberata and I Cenci; Andrea Novicov in Elektra; Emiliano Masala in Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore; Alan Alpenfelt in Jackie, Leonardo Lidi in Zoo di vetro and Fedra.
She is one of the founders of the Collettivo Treppenwitz, which debuted with L’amore ist nicht une chose for everybody directed by Simon Waldvogel (2019), the first chapter of an exploration of love as a motor of/in human relationships. The second chapter, KISS! by Camilla Parini was presented in 2021, and at the FIT 2022 Anahí makes her solo directorial debut with AMOR FUGGE RESTANDO.
@ FIT
AMOR FUGGE RESTANDO
2022 Edition
28.09 – 11.10
Princesses Karaoke or something like that…
2016 Edition
30.09 – 09.10
