Daniele Ninarello trained at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. He has performed for several internationally renowned choreographers, including Bruno Listopad, Barbara Altissimo, Meekers Uitgesprokendans, Virgilio Sieni, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. He has danced alongside musicians and composers such as Kai Gleusteen, Ezio Bosso, Dan Kinzelman, Francesco Romano, and the Xenia Ensemble. In 2021, he collaborated with singer-songwriter Cristina Donà to create Perpendicolare.
He was an associate artist at the Dance Residency Center – Lavanderia a Vapore in Collegno for the 2018–2020 three-year period. For the 2025–2027 period, he is an associate artist of Gender Bender in Bologna, Italy.
His notable productions include Rock Rose Wow (2013), winner of Movin’Up and the Teatri del Tempo Presente grant; KUDOKU, which premiered at the 10th International Festival of Contemporary Dance of the Venice Biennale Danza and was selected for AEROWAVES TWENTY17, NID Platform 2017, and Rencontres Chorégraphiques – Seine Saint Denis; Pastorale, a creation project selected for the ResiDance initiative of the Network Anticorpi XL and presented at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris in 2024; Healing Together (2024); and RISE (2025), co-produced with the RING project.
Since 2024, he has been working alongside Franca Ferrari on the Erbacce and Incubatore projects at CIDM in Milan, and serves as co-artistic director of the Più che danza festival.
As a choreographer, Ninarello has been invited to create works for various organizations, including the EgriBianco Danza company directed by Raphael Bianco; the MM Contemporary Dance Company in Reggio Emilia, directed by Michele Merola; third-year Modern Dance Theatre students at the Amsterdam University of the Arts; the European project Performing Gender: Dancing in Your Shoes at the invitation of Gender Bender, Bologna; and the Experimental Theatre of Tirana, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) of Tirana and the What You See Festival in Utrecht.
Through Codeduomo (founded in 2013), he has developed his own productions as well as educational and training projects for professionals, amateurs, local communities, youth, and adolescents.
ph. Luca Centola