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Trained as an economist, Daniele De Michele became a culinary anthropologist through his long-term research into Italian cuisine. He is a filmmaker and the author of numerous books on the subject. He is also a performer and regularly takes the stage as a chef and DJ. He is described by The New York Times as “one of the most
inventive activists in the food movement.” His first film, *I Villani*, co-produced by Rai Cinema and funded by Mibac, was presented at the Venice Film Festival’s Days of the Authors and, following an extensive national and international tour, premiered exclusively on Rai3 as a special episode of *Geo*. He collaborates with *Geo And Geo* (Rai3), *La Effe*, and *Fahrenheit* (Radio3). In 2014, he published *Artusi Remix* (Mondadori), the result of a collaboration with the Casartusi Scientific Committee. He produced the web-TV series *Le nonne d’Italia in cucina* for Treccani and *Corriere della Sera*, a journey through Italy’s twenty regions to meet grandmothers in their kitchens. His first project, Food Sound System, became a book, published by Kowalski, and a multimedia show that has been on a world tour for ten years now. In February 2013, he published *La Parmigiana e la Rivoluzione*. He writes regularly for *La Repubblica*, *Corriere della Sera*, and *Left*.

After a career in the circus that took him on the road at a very young age with a traveling circus—amidst carriages, horses, and the big top—he enrolled at the Lido, the Higher School of Circus Arts in Toulouse, and later joined the National Center for Circus Arts. He co-founded various companies,
including Baro d’evel and the GdRA, and collaborated as a performer with several artists and directors.
At the GdRA, which he has co-directed since 2005, he weaves connections between storytelling and choreography. Within the collective, he created Singularités Ordinaires (winner of Circus Next) in 2007 and Ethno-graphiques, two pieces invited to the 64th Festival d’Avignon.
He has contributed to the writing of some twenty plays, including: Le triptyque de la Personne; Singularités Ordinaires; Nour et Sujet; La Guerre des Natures; Siffleurs de danse; Au milieu des terres and Bois Sacré.
As a performer, Julien Cassier took part in the production of *Le Luthier de Venise* at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, an opera by Gualtiero Dazzi, directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti with musical direction by Alain Altinoglu. With Aurélien Bory and the Compagnie 111, he created the piece.
More or Less Infinity.
More recently, he reprised the role of Mazùt in Baro d’evel at the invitation of Camille Decourtye and Blaï Mateu Trias. He also performs in *Talk-Show*, a play by Gaël Santisteva.
Julien Cassier is regularly invited as an artistic collaborator, notably by Stéphanie Fuster on her Don Quixote, une femme à la tâche, by the Acrobatique de Tanger group alongside Aurélien Bory and Zimmermann & de Perrot and Maroussia Diaz Verbèke.
In 2026, he founded his company Nature Fauve and coordinates the production space Ça se passe à la Cave.

Concept by Daniele De Michele and Julien Cassier
Performance and Text by Daniele De Michele
Dramaturgy by Charlotte Farcet, Daniele De Michele, and Julien Cassier
Directed by Aurélien Bory
Set Design and Stage Management by Matthieu Bony
Lighting Design by Hervé Dilé
Images by Antonello Carbone, Davide Di Gandolfo, and Julien Cassier
Stage Manager Assistant Ricardo Gaiser

Produced by Théâtre Garonne and GdRA – Association Nos Autres
Executive production by Théâtre Garonne, Scène Européenne – Toulouse
Co-produced by Le Channel, Scène Nationale in Calais; Théâtre 71, Scène Nationale in Malakoff
Institutional partners Haute-Garonne Department, DRAC Occitanie, Occitanie Region, City of Toulouse