I think the reason why I keep being involved in dance is because I still don’t understand it.
Though I love to understand as it gives me the illusion to be able to orient myself in this reality, what I need more is not to understand. In fact, not being able to understand makes me feel much closer to reality than any knowledge. It feels quite uncomfortable and it requires a certain level of energy, but it also provides a great freedom. I can say Dance is the only place where I allow myself not to feel safe.
I have always been practicing both Contemporary Dance and Butoh Dance
and increasingly I believe that the dividing line between the two is thin and evanescent, despite the fact that often these two movement cultures continue to preconceive themselves as distinct. As in all cultural diversity, I believe that a mutual knowledge and exchange can only be enriching, and that, although the Butoh of its origins possesses very strong stylistic characteristics, the path of research on the body that it has managed to implement is absolutely unique in terms of depth of purpose and clarity of images. This is why both languages are present both in my teaching and choreographic approach, as they feed off each other and are constantly entangled.
BIO:
Dancer, choreographer and teacher with a degree in architecture, she creates her individual projects with the collaboration and support of Compagnia degli Istanti formerly Compagnia Simona Bucci and pursues her choreographic research on the vision of performance as a ritual act. searching for a collective temporal dimension for the ‘group’ that performs this ritual, including performers and witnesses within the process and investigating the borderline between Butoh and contemporary dance. In parallel she also collaborate as a freelance performer and gives workshops and regular classes.
Since 2024 he has been co-artistic director, together with Matilde J. Ciria, of the BIG Butoh International Gathering, the main event for the dissemination of Butoh dance in Europe.
From 2006 to 2012 she trained in between Florence and Berlin in contemporary dance (Nikolais Technique with Simona Bucci and Paolo Mereu, contact improvisation with Alessandro Certini and Charlotte Zoerbey) and Butoh dance with Yumiko Yoshioka and other masters. From 2008 to 2011 he was a stable member of Ten Pen Chii Art labor, the Berlin-based experimental Butoh dance company of Yumiko Yoshioka and JoaXim Manger, with whom he danced in several productions and i site-specific contexts and festivals. Her interest for understanding body structure and functionalities leads her to create her own postural method –Movimento Sensibile – in wich her background studies merges with her personal approach to the body comprehension trough movement.
She has collaborated as a dancer and performer with amongst others: Foscarini/Lopalco, Sabrina Mazzuoli, Simona Bucci, Yumiko Yoshioka, Roberto Castello, Company Blu, ZachesTeatro, Zooteatro, Living Picture Theater, Katia Frese
Amongs my most precious collaboration:
Francesca Foscarini/Cosimo Lopalco – ‘Greta on the Beach’
Sabrina Mazzuoli – ‘Immisurabile Lua’
Marco Mazzi – ‘Directions ‘(film)
Ten Pen Chii Art Labor – ‘Wa-ku’, ‘Bi-kka’, ‘Ket-sui’