Abstract

The vicissitudes of State funding for the performing arts are interwoven with the reorganisation of institutional jurisdictions, at the level of general statutory rules and the administrative rules that govern the disbursal of financial aid. The article accordingly addresses the different types of funding, first and foremost the FUS-Unified Performing Arts Fund, through which the State participates in performing arts activities, focusing on its development (including at the regulatory level) and dimensions. In the second part of the article, the author reflects on the prospects and new proposals that are being developed by the members of the AGIS-General Italian Association for the Performing Arts, in order to address the need for revision, together with the FUS, of the policies, terms and conditions for disbursal of public funding and defining new operating models and procedures for performing arts institutions.