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
2024: Appunti per il sole
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
TEACHING
He taught dance course, workshops and masterclases in Dance schools, Theatres and Festivals since 2001.
From 2022 and 2025 he worked as Tutor for young choreographers in the project Incubatore – Cimd- Milano BASE.
Teaching areas: Contemporary dance, improvisation, somatic work.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
2017: Curatorship, in collaboration with Loredana Scianna and Europa Teatri (Parma), of the Festival Selachimorpha
2018: Curatorship, in collaboration with Europa Teatri and Teatro al Parco (Parma), of Festival May Days
2023: Artistic direction of the first edition of Parma Moving Festival – solo cose belle
2024: Artistic direction of the second edition of Parma Moving Festival – solo cose belle
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.