EDUCATION
1980-1986: training in artistic gymnastic
1990-1993: training in ballet with étoile Marina Fisso from Teatro Nuovo in Turin
1988-1993: training in contemporary dance and theatre, while attending High School in Parma (Italy)
1993-1997: EDDC/European Dance Development Centre – Hogheschool Voor de Kunsten/Arnhem, The Netherlands /now called ArtEZ (Bachelor’s degree)
2000: intensive week of studies at Odin Teatret in Holstebro, Denmark
2001: XII ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) in Bielefeld, Germany
2019-to the present day: Schule für Alexander Technik directed by Dan Armon in Berlin, Germany
CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS
1995: L’opera al nero
1996: Grand duet
1997: Broken Lapsus
1998-2000: Organismo 1 e 2
2002: Danza per delfino ucciso
2004: Gin; Lego 1 ; Lego 2; àrebours (-2)
2005: àrebours 100
2007: Tiqqun – 1° studio: nemmeno l’allodola vede l’aperto
2008: Pietro – 1° studio
2008: In a Landscape
2008: Death Pattern
2008: Only You (and you alone)
2009: Andless
2010: AnnotTazioni and Something About Today (The Vicious Circle)
2012: D.O.G.M.A. (Dance On Gardens Manufactured Artificially)
2014: Digitale Purpurea I
2015: Red Blue Works (Red blue work 1 and Drumming Solo)
2017: VON / VON solo
2018: Birds Flocking Project
2019: Elsewhere (in duet with Eva Karczag)
2020: Home
2021: Home Altrove
AS A PERFORMER
1993: Apollo’s disciples (by Peter Pleyer)
1994: City bits (by Charlotte Zerbey)
1994: Studs (by Tony Thatcher)
1995: Signo Nù (by Joao da Silva)
1996: Our Dainty Little Tracks (by Jennifer Lacey)
1997: Global tm (by Martin Butler)
1998-2000: Dimmi che sono Bella (Compagnia Corte Sconta)
2001: Idiom (Company blu)
2002: Barcelona Project (by Nigel Charnock)
2002: Il brutto@natroccolo (TPO)
2003: Buffers (by Ariella Vidach-Aieprod)
2005: Mi difenderò (by Virgilio Sieni)
2007: Boreas (by Karine Ponties)
2013: Snakeskins (by Benoit Lachambre)
2013: L’ivresse des croisées (Open air Improvisation with Benoit Lachambre)
2016: Estasi (by Enzo Cosimi)
2017: Xebeche (gruppo Nanou)
2020: A love song (by Simona Bertozzi)
AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1997: Selected as representative of Hogheschool Voor de Kunsten/Arnehm at Roos Gesink Prijs
2008: Finalist at Equilibrio Prize – Roma/Auditorium Parco della Musica with Pietro 1° studio
2008: Finalist at Masdanza 2008 (Gran Canaria) with Pietro 1° studio
2008: Finalist at EXTRA Prize / Young Italian Artists with Only You (and You Alone)
2008: Finalist at Festival-Concorso Mondo, Masque Teatro/Forlì with Tiqqun
2011: Selected as representative of Italian choreographers at DancEUnion2011/Southbank Centre in London with AnnotTazioni
2016-2017: Winner of CollaborAction XL Production Prize with Von
RESIDENCY/RESEARCH PROGRAMS
2006: residency at Pact-Zollverein (Essen, Germany) with Tiqqun
2010: Fondo Fare Anticorpi research program with Something about Today and AnnotTazioni
2014: residency at Atelier Re.al (Lisbon, Portugal) with Digitale purpurea
2016: residency at Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Bruxelles, Belgium) with Von
2019: ResiDance XL residency program with Birds Flocking Project
2017: residency at Lavanderia a Vapore (Turin, Italy) with Elsewhere
2020: Crossing The Sea (a performing arts project of connection and cooperation between Italy and the Middle East/Asian countries) with Home
2021: ResiDance XL residency program with Home Altrove
SIDE PROJECTS
In 1999 he published the collection of texts Geometrie d’acqua e altre poesie with the publishing house Montedit. In 2015 he took part as a dancer/performer in Film E42 by American filmmaker Cynthia Madansky.