Samer Zaher is a Lebanese dance and physical theatre artist exploring the body as memory and resistance. Trained with Beirut Physical Lab (Beiroot Bodies), he performed in Alteration, Imprints, and Frame, collaborating with the company’s associate artists and international guest choreographers. Blending Dabke, Bollywood, Voguing, and improvisation, he creates hybrid forms that challenge fixed identity. […]
Born in Grosseto in 1991. He has been living in Rome since 2010, where he works as a playwright, actor, and director in both theater and cinema. He followed a dynamic and cross-disciplinary educational path that led him to work with, among others, Dynamis (2011-2019), Bob Wilson, Semen Aleksandrovskiy, Kinkaleri, Collettivo Cinetico, Odin Teatret, and […]
Violetta Cottini is an artist from the Lepontine Alps, in Piemonte, who explores dance, performance art, and visual arts. She trained in contemporary dance at Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan. From 2020 to 2023, she collaborated with the collective Sorelle di Damiano. In 2023, she created the workshop Chincaglierie – Making Noise […]
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, […]
Laura Gazzani is an Italian choreographer who creates immersive performances designed to activate a deep relationship between performer, space, and audience. Her works, often titled with proper names, unfold like living beings: mutable, relational, and open to transformation. After training between the United States and Spain, she began her choreographic journey with PEDRO, selected for […]
Founded in 2021 through the collaboration between Linda Pasquini, Marianna Basso, and Daniel Tosseghini, Nanouk brought to life the first study of The Old Man, presented in 2023 following a residency at Officine CAOS in Turin. It was showcased at several festivals including Presente Futuro (Palermo), Tanzplattform Bern (Switzerland), Festival Voci dell’Anima (Rimini), among others, […]
Vittorio Pagani is a performer and choreographer from Milan, Italy. In 2018, he joined the Ballet Junior de Genève, where he performed works by some of the most influential choreographers on the contemporary scene, including Marcos Morau, Jan Martens, and Hofesh Shechter.In 2021, he created the duet Around 5:65, which was selected for the prestigious international […]
Gaetano Palermo (Catania, 1998) is an artist and choreographer based in Bologna. His research explores the ontology of performance at the threshold between reality and fiction, through the lens of movement and stillness. He studied philosophy in Bologna and performing arts at the Iuav University of Venice. Since 2023, he has collaborated with artist and […]
Nunzia Picciallo is a multi-award-winning multidisciplinary artist working internationally as a creator, performer, and facilitator. Since 2022 they have focused their practice on research, exploration, and the development of original works. Their artistic approach is transdisciplinary, weaving together dance, performance, conceptual and visual art. Their inquiry is a continuously evolving investigation into the foundational dynamics […]
Voluptas is a group dedicated to free experimentation between body, dance, visual art, and technology. It originated within the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan and was born as a manifesto for a body-centered research practice, deeply rooted in transfeminist and queer principles, with the aim of resemantizing the very meaning of the […]
