Riccardo De Simone

Riccardo De Simone (Bologna, 1993) is a dancer and multidisciplinary artist. His artistic education includes contemporary dance (SEAD), picture’s books illustration (Ars in Fabula), graphic design (IsArt), and choreography (I Corpi e le Voci della Danza). Since 2016, he has worked as a performer for numerous Italian and international artists including Roberto Castello, Virgilio Sieni, Christoph Winkler, Nicola Galli, Ariella Vidach, Elio Gervasi, Andrea Zardi, Elisa Pagani, Pablo Bronstein, Anna Konjetzky, Thomas Danielis, David Brandstätter/Malgven Gerbes, Paula E. Paul/Sirko Knüpfer and Noritoshi Hirakawa.
His artistic research primarily merges performance and visual art, creating evocative imagery inspired by the relationship between the human body and the object-body.
His animated short film 1180 and more (2016) has been screened at over 40 events and festivals worldwide. It won the Audience Award at Danza in 1 minuto (COORPI, Turin, 2017), arrives as finalist at Cinematica Festival (Ancona, 2017) and SzólóDuó (Budapest, 2017) contests, and was selected as the official trailer for the festival Danse Élargie (Théâtre de la Ville / Musée de la danse / Fondation D’entreprise Hermès, Paris, 2018). In 2023 he was selected by Radic’Arte to co-create the dance short film Al Passo coi Tempi with director Robert Girdea for Speed Up Festival (Alessandria).
His first performance project Angry Butterfly (2024) received support from Culture Moves Europe, Collagene, and Piattaforma G/NAO24. The second piece Everybody Has a Fate (2025), has been selected for the Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore – Anticorpi XL Network, the final round of DNAppunti Coreografici, and once again supported by NAO25.
That same year, he began collaborating with Laura Cossignani on the community-based site specific project Giardinosofia, recently hosted by Kinkaleri at KLm (Alti Studi Coreografici) as part of Contemporanea/Focus Danza 2025 in Prato.