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Starting from the name, Sanpapié renounces paper, documents, definitions. Its nature is always been to know how to renew itself in each project, changing with it, developing, growing.

training

LARA VISCUSO

events
choreography assistance

FABRIZIO CALANNA

press
office

SARA PRANDONI

president

FABIO FERRETTI

artistic director
choreographer / dancer

LARA GUIDETTI

musician / playwright

MARCELLO GORI

distribution
production

LORENZA PANICCIà

managing
administration

TABATA MONICO

THE TEAM

THE COMPANY

Outwardly we are just one apple among others. Internally, we are the tree.

Alan W. Watts

After studying acrobatics and acting, she graduated as a dancer and choreographer from the theater-dance program at the Paolo Grassi School in Milan. She studied with renowned national and international masters such as Susanne Linke, Emio Greco, André Minvielle, and participated in projects by Franco Brambilla and Luciana Melis, Reinhild Hoffmann, Lucinda Childs, Susanna Beltrami, Yong Min Cho. She continued her education in the world of dance and performing arts by exploring various methods of pedagogy and actor training through workshops and productions with Rimas Tuminas, Cesar Brie, Paz Rojo, Carolina Bolouda, Joao Garcia Miguel, among others. In 2006, she founded the company Sanpapié, where she serves as the artistic director, choreographer, director, and performer. For the company, she has choreographed over 30 works and more than 40 performances presented throughout Italy, Europe, China, and Saudi Arabia. In 2017, her show Lei won the Sonia Bonacina Award, dedicated to women in theater. She works as a choreographer and performer in the theater world, collaborating with prominent directors such as Massimo Navone, Franco Branciaroli, Valter Malosti, Bob Wilson, Giampiero Solari. She has collaborated as a choreographer, co-director, and dancer with the JGM company in Lisbon for over two years. Her work in the realm of classical and operatic music led her, in 2016, to choreograph Giuseppe Verdi’s Giovanna d'Arco under the direction of Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke, and in 2019, to choreograph Verdi’s Aida directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti at the Ravenna Festival, where she also assisted in the movement direction for Carmen, directed by Luca Micheletti. She has collaborated with La Scala in Milan as a dancer and acrobat. She teaches at professional schools such as the Paolo Grassi School, the Dancehaus Academy, and the Teatro Stabile School in Turin, in addition to numerous training centers in Milan. Since 2022, she has been an associate artist of the Milanese festival MilanOltre and the artistic director of the multidisciplinary festival Terre d’arte in Castellarano (RE). She works regularly with the Centro Coreografico Nazionale/Aterballetto as a choreographer and creator of projects related to the territory and cultural welfare, such as Over Dance, Dal liscio al rave, and Revival Rhapsody, supported by the municipality of Reggio Emilia and the Emilia-Romagna region.

LARA GUIDETTI

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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choreographer
dancer

Project Manager, producer, theatrical manager, knight, and stunt-man: despite a degree in History (at the University of Bologna) He gives in to the charms of dance, also due to a Master in Organization of cultural events (Catholic University of Milan). He starts as a "runner" at the first edition of the Festivalfilosofia of Modena, where he then works until 2020 as manager of production; in the meantime, he gets the grips at the International Festival of Contemporary Circus (2006-2007), at the Entertainment Sector of the Municipality of Milan (2007-2008), at Outis - National Center of contemporary dramaturgy (2009). From 2011 to 2014 he is on the board of directors of Etre, an association of Lombard theatrical residences, taking care of international projects, services, and administrative supervision. Between 2016 and 2018 he is production manager for PianoCity Milan, production manager of the evening “The Voices of the City”, directed by Daniele Abbado for BookCity Milan. He is a founding member of Crono Events, an historical reenactment project, and is director of the Mutina Boica festival. Since 2018 he has been responsible for the development and special projects for the National Foundation of Dance / Aterballetto. In all of this, he has been with Sanpapié since the beginning, in the sense that he was present on the night were, in his kitchen in via Benevento in Milan, the constitutive act of the company was signed. From 2008 to 2017 he has, in no particular order: driven vans to Edinburgh (with stops for shows in Paris, London, Manchester, Barnsley ...), discussed with accountants and directors in Italy, bought airline tickets to China, sold shows between Germany (not speaking German) and Calabria, learned Spanish on tour, co-managed residency projects between Sesto San Giovanni, Crescenzago and Pessano con Bornago, assembled light drawings and fittings, dividing himself between stage, direction, rehearsal room, and endless meetings. In other words, he has been the organizational, administrative, and touring manager of the company. Since 2017 he has remained "only" President of the Cultural Association. He is our first audience member and continues to personally make the monthly bank transfers that pay each person on our team.

FABIO FERRETTI

PRESIDENT

From Genoa, he graduates in Modern Literature with a thesis on “Hamlet” by Giovanni Testori and graduates in dramaturgy at the Paolo Grassi School in Milan (2007). During the theatrical studies, he approaches the composition of electronic music, especially in relation to dance, and thanks to Franco Brambilla and Luciana Melis, has the first experiences of what will become his job. As a musician, he has worked, among others, with the dancer Annamaria Ajmone (In [quiete], 2015; Tiny, 2016), with the director Carmelo Rifici (La testa del Profeta, 2009), with director Veronica Cruciani Le verità di Bakersfield, 2018), with director Carolina De La Calle Casanova (Invisibili generazioni, 2017; Humana, 2020); he has collaborated with several companies of the Milanese scene and Lombard, such as Scarlattine (S-catenati, 2015), Compagnia delle furie (Tito Andronico, 2011), Famiglia Mastorna (Little Eyolf, 2014). In 2013 he founds, together with Paolo Giorgio and Sarah Chiarcos, the collective Circolo Bergman, with whom he experiments in the territories of performance, with a particular preference for site-specific projects (Pergine. Via San Peter 4, 2017; Rooms, 2018; Bilderatlas, 2018; Decade, 2019). In 2015 he gave birth to a Genoa, together with Federica Bastoni and some longtime friends, to the Association Culturale Ateneo del Libero Pensiero, with which he carries out research multidisciplinary between music, dance, and painting. In Sanpapié since the foundation, he has curated the sound and music of almost all the shows, from Boh (2008) to Amartés Il viaggio di Caino (2018). As a playwright, he is co-author of Lei (2016, winner of the 2017 Sonia Bonacina Prize); he wrote the lyrics for Memoire. Beauty stories hidden (2017) and A [1] BIT (2018) and, together with Matteo Poli, the Teatro-canzone show Mi sono perso a Milano (2013), which coincides with his debut as a songwriter.

MARCELLO GORI

MUSICIAN
PLAYWRIGHT

Tabata graduates in Economics and Management of Cultural Heritage and Entertainment at the University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in 2007 and 2009 obtains the Magistralis Degree in Management and Innovation of Cultural and Artistic Organizations at Alma Mater Studiorum - the University of Bologna, during which she carries out an Erasmus project in London attending the Master in Events Management at the University of Greenwich. She then follows an internship at La Biennale di Venezia for the Grado Zero dance project and for the International Contemporary Music Festival From 2010 to 2011 she is a fundraiser for Arts' Council Srl; from 2011 to 2012 y she is group manager and ticketing assistant for Poltronissima Srl; in 2013 she collaborates with the international distribution and organization of Scarlattine Theatre company's shows; she, therefore, collaborates in the organization of the 2012 and 2013 editions of the festival of MilanOltre dance - Elfo Puccini Theatre; from December 2013 to March 2018 she is the Ticketing Manager and Booking for Show Bees Srl. From March 2018 to December 2019 she is the organizer for the company Lumen; from March 2018 to today she deals with distribution and organization for ServomutoTeatro and from April 2018 to today she is in Sanpapié as administration and production manager.

TABATA MONICO

Managing
and administration

After having obtained in 2013 the Master's Degree in Live Entertainment Disciplines at the Dams at the University of Bologna, in 2014 she attends the Master of Entrepreneurship of UNIBO show and acquires skills in the organization, programming and promotion of entertainment activities. She carries out internships at the artistic and general secretariat of the National Dance Foundation / Aterballetto, and at Amat (Association of theatrical activities of the Italian region Marche) as part of the CivitanovaDanza Festival, at the art office and organization of the Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia for the Open Festival and as organizational assistant as part of Virgilio Sieni's project In the folds of the body_Bologna. Since 2016 she has been supporting as artistic, managing, and theatre assistant, the international choreographer and performer Valerio Longo in his training projects related to the new generations of dance. She has been president since 2017 of the Kinetic Performances Association - dance management, whose goal is to help Italian dance realities to equip themselves with the services they need to grow, expand, develop as coherently as possible with their artistic goals. From September 2017 to March 2019 works at the Nexus Cultural Association-Compagnia Simona Bertozzi as manager and producer of associated emerging choreographers. Since September 2018 she is the coordinator of Percorso Radici directed by the choreographer Valerio Longo, a program of artistic training in the field of contemporary dance. Since February 2021 she has been collaborating with Sanpapié to distribution.

LORENZA PANICCIà

DISTRIBUTION

By passion, study and personal attitude, I have been involved in communication and media re lations for dance and theatre for several years. I started in 2004 as a production assistant for the Fondazione Mantova Capitale Europea dello Spettacolo for the Arlecchino d'Oro Festival, and two years later I became general manager of the Italian - Swiss dance association and company Ariella Vidach - AiEP, dealing with the organisation of press conferences, festivals, and performances. Since 2010, I have been working as a freelancer. The focus of my work is in Milan, where I have taken care of the institutional press office for the PimOff and Leonardo da Vinci theatres and regularly collaborate with associations, companies and private individuals for the communication of events in the city's main cultural venues (Teatro Elfo Puccini, Triennale, Mudec, Fabb rica del Vapore, Casa dei Diritti) or at special events such as Fuori Salone. I have had the opportunity to collaborate with many artists and companies over the years: Fattoria Vittadini, for which I have been press office manager since 2010 - receiving the 2019 Critical Network Award for Communication Strategies - , Daniele Albanese, Compagnia Abbondanza/Bertoni, CampoverdeOttolini, Teatro dei Lupi, Lyra Teatro, Antonella Ferrari. I also collaborated with the Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara in Trento as national press office. Since 2013 I have also been PR Advertising Manager for Danza&Danza, Italy's leading dance industry magazine

SARA PRANDONI

Press Office

A freelance dancer and performer, she perfected her studies from 2006 to 2008, thanks to a scholarship, at the PierLombardo Academy directed by Susanna Beltrami, with whom she collaborated for the following ten years as a dancer and choreography assistant.

From 2013 to 2015 she is a teacher of Company Repertoire at the Dancehaus academy and from 2016 to 2019 she is a teacher of Contemporary Technique at the Kataklo' Academy directed by Giulia Staccioli, with whom she will resume her collaboration in 2023. In 2010, together with Fabrizio Calanna, she founded the Compagnia VuotoPerPieno in which she is a dancer and assistant choreographer.

She is currently a teacher of Classical, Modern and Contemporary Technique at various schools in Milan and its provin ce, choreographer for the rhythmic gymnastics team (A1 series) Forza e Coraggio of Milan and teacher and training manager of Sanpapié .

Since 2022, she has been artistic director of the professional start - up course DANCEgroup LAB.
She looks after stag e movements and collaborates as choreographer, as well as aerial dancer, with FestiGroup.

She holds internships throughout Italy.

LARA VISCUSO

TRAINING

Born in Catania in 1982, he has a background in Latin and flamenco dances, then specialised in choreographic danc es and graduated in 2008 from the Pier Lombardo Academy in Milan. He collaborates as a freelance dancer in various contexts including: Teatro Cassanese, TdC Milan, Teatro Antico Taormina, Arena di Verona, Studio Festi Group; TV and fashion: Rai, Mediaset a nd Sky, Marni, Frankie Morello, Swarovski, Miss Muretto.
From 2009 to 2019 he was a dancer for the Compagnia Susanna Beltrami.
In 2010, together with Lara Viscuso, he founded the Compagnia VuotoPerPieno for which he created several shows including: Gamelan; AmeName; The Last Bohemian and the Snail, Hypertrophic Idiots, etc.
Moreover, in 2017 he creates, directs and produces Impronte_D'artista (Rassegna culturale San G. Piacentino 2017) and in 2018 Rassegna_Dimissioni_Danza at DanceHaus Milano.
Contextually to h is research work, he collaborates with academy and Kataklò company covering, depending on the event, the role of assistant, logistics manager, executive, for conventions and big events, some of them: National Day Kuwait_expo2015; Bulgari_Piazza di Spagna 2016, corporate events for Maserati, BMW, Audi, Patek Philippe, Vodafone, Wega, Amundi, Topolino, Nexi, Antares Vision, etc.
Furthermore, with Compagnia VuotoPerPieno he curates performances within events and conventions for Sanofi, Codacons, Corriere della Sera, etc.
Since 2017, he has been a stable dancer with the company Sanpapié, subsequently integrating roles as costume designer, choreography assistant and event curator.

FABRIZIO CALANNA

events AND
choreography assistance

STABLE
COLLABORATORS

Fabrizio Calanna, Sofia Casprini, Matteo Sacco, Lara Viscuso, Luis Fernando Colombo, Gioele Cosentino, Francesca Lastella, Antonio Caporilli // dancers
Saverio Bari, Marco De Meo, Cecilia Vecchio, Susanna Gozzetti // actor and perfomers
Maddalena Oriani, Valentina Tescari, Maria Croce // set and costume designers
Alberto Sansone // videomaker
Sara Prandoni // press office

Sanpapié is a member of AIDAP, within Federdanza AGIS, founder of Associazione Etre and Associazione K, through which it is the promoter of C.Re.S.Co.

ONCE PART OF THE SANPAPIÉ FAMILY

Paola Bedoni, Marco Bissoli, Giuseppe Brancaccio, Noemi Bresciani, Federico Melca, Martina Monaco, Giuseppe Morello, Luciano Nuzzolese, Francesco Pacelli, Cecilia Tragni, Claudia Tiziani, Simona Semeraro, Giovanni Leone, Fabio Calvisi, Davide Boi, Valentina Papparella, Chetan Chauhan, Alessandro Lely, Miriana Possidente, Alessia Smorta, Francesca Martignetti // dancers
Carmen Giordano // director
Marco Di Stefano // playwright and director
Andrea Tibaldi // actor and director
Tony Contartese // actor and director
Valter Malosti // actor and director
Giulia Bonaldi // set and costume designer

Cecilia Sacchi // set designer
Luca Tilli, Andrea Parazzoli // musician
Carlo Boccadoro// composer
Luca Mariani// videomaker
Sara Ribeiro // actress and musician
Luna Mariotti, Paolo Casati, Marcello Marchi // light designer
Marta Marchesi, Federica Bastoni, Silvia Pinto, Eleonora Cotugno, Luca Degl’Antoni // organizers
Andrea Lietti, Monica Bonomi, Federica Bognetti // actors
Damiano Fiorella // singer and songwriter
João Garcia Miguel // director

THE ORIGIN

STEP BY STEP

From solos to duets, to international co-productions and site-specific challenges, Sanpapié has crossed numerous territories of live performance, trying to bring an ever wider audience to the world of dance.

THE
JOURNEY

BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE

Sanpapié is an artistic research project in which the body is at the same time a field of investigation and an instrument with countless communicative, expressive and performative capacities. An artistic nucleus born in 2008 and in continuous opening, in which dancers, choreographers, actors, composers, dramaturgists, visual artists are exploring together contaminations, drifts, possibilities and limits of physical language, between abstraction and theatricality, classicism and performance. The ever-close link between dramaturgy and choreography, the relationship between content and form, lead to the triggering of creative processes that experiment with the language of dance in the encounter with other disciplines, non-theatre contexts and different audiences. More than fifty works, site-specific projects and community-oriented activities have lead the company to move between Italy, Europe, China and Saudi Arabia, establishing artistic and human collaborations that have nurtured its cultural commitment, social reflection and project momentum. It is not in an unequivocal style that Sanpapié's work is reflected but, on the contrary, in the evolution of language as a response to the provocations of contemporaneity that moves away from definition towards a broader idea of vision and composition.
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PORTFOLIO

From 2015 to 2017 Sanpapié was recognised by MiBACT as a dance production organisation and won the Funder35 call for proposals by Fondazione Cariplo for the three-year period 2017-2019. From 2018 to 2022 the Company receives an annual contribution from the City of Milan for its ongoing activity in the field of live performance. In 2021 the Compagnia is recognised by the MiC as a new FUS instance and again in 2022 it is the beneficiary of the FUS contribution as a "first three-year instance" dance production body for the three-year period 2022-2024.

Since 2014 Sanpapié has been a member of AIDAP, since 2017 it has been a member of the FUnder35 community of Fondazione Cariplo and in 2021 it joined the C.RE.SCO association as a promoter and active member of the dance tables.

In 2012, it participates in Islotes en Red, a project financed by the European Community, and produces the show Io Sono Figlio.

In 2013, the company presents due+due=5 and Mi Sono Perso a Milano, the first theatre-song show signed by Marcello Gori, musician and author Sanpapié.

2014 is dedicated to Della caduta, un passo di danza, a project by Lara Guidetti directed by Carmen Giordano.

The three-year ministerial period 2015-2017 sees the company engaged on different fronts, from an "agile" work such as the solo Lei (2016, winner of the 2017 Sonia Bonacina Prize), to more demanding productions such as Ode all'olio (2015) or the operas Le Sacre du printemps and Histoire du soldat (2016 and 2017, produced for the Stresa Festival), up to site-specific works: above all, En haut en bas (2015), produced for the Festival Torino e le Alpi, and Memoire. Storie di bellezza nascosta (2017), in collaboration with FAI; finally, the international co-production Skies (2016, directed by João Garcia Miguel). Meanwhile, in 2015, at the Teatro della Contraddizione, the multi-sensory performance project Balerhaus was born, successfully replicated in many squares in Italy and Switzerland.

In 2018, the company produces Amartés - Il viaggio di Caino, a show selected by Next 2017/2018, Se una notte d'estate un viaggiatore... (a site-specific performance commissioned by the Stresa Festival), the TWINS project (two creations by young authors/dancers of the company: Trans-Ferre curated by Sofia Casprini and Martina Monaco, and Forlorn curated by Matteo Sacco), Orfeo Reloaded (a co-production with the Teatri del Cimone festival). In the same year, the company starts the project A[1]BIT, in collaboration with the MilanOltre and Exister festivals and with DanceHaus+, which in 2019 wins Next 2019/2020. Also in 2019, the company won the Invasioni Contemporanee call for tenders (thanks to which it realised, in collaboration with Orchestra Musica Manens, Tac-tus, a site-specific for Offida) and started the Circolo Virtuoso project at the Circolo Cerizza in Milan, with the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo.

From the beginning of 2019 until 2021, Lara Guidetti collaborates permanently with the Portuguese company JGM for the debut of the shows Passos em volta (Lisbon 2019), Um plano do labirinto (Porto 2020) and O judeo, interrupted due to the second wave of Covid-19.

In 2020 Sanpapié has a short tour with the shows A[1]BIT (thanks to NEXT) and Evoluzione (in collaboration with Achab Group and RTS). During the first lockdown, the company is committed to producing digital and video dance content as well as a program of free online lectures and projects, while during the reopening months it carries out a summer tour of A[1]BIT (festival Trasparenze, Teatri del Cimone, MilanOltre, APP Ascoli Piceno promoted by AMAT), is once again included in the program of the Estate Sforzesca festival with the concert-show tribute to Fabrizio De André C'era un cartello giallo con una scritta nera, and debuts with the show 24 Volte al Secondo in the Caffeine review, obtaining the support of NEXT 2020.

In 2021 the company re-enters the FUS funding as the first Italian dance production company and this achievement is fundamental to sustain the activity, make it grow and diversify it with a careful work on new audiences and the enlargement of the artistic core. In addition to a rich summer tour, 2021 will see a series of debuts - Three Little Rooms, Teatri del Cimone festival; Incontro con una rana, Caffeine festival; Amigdala, MILANoLTRE festival; Common Landscape, Pacta Theatre in Milan; preview of Stabat Pater, Alma Rosé space Milan. 2021 is also a year of redesigning the training activity (Call Cassandra- intensive seminar course aimed at the scenic and choreographic writing of a performance in which the myth of Cassandra is related to contemporaneity; contemporary dance classes-technical classes of contemporary dance and choreographic composition, held in rotation by the dancers of the company, without final outcome; Jardin- the company's first direct proposal that sees a group, selected by audition, carry out the study and composition work proper to a company, aimed at the creation of a performance for the theatre) and territorial projects, in particular on the suburbs of Milan and Reggio Emilia (COLLABORATION AGREEMENT "PORTA ADRIANO": the company is a signatory to the agreement for the shared care of Piazza Costantino - Municipality 2 - Adriano district of Milan and of its historical memory, through the realisation of aggregative and inclusive cultural activities for urban regeneration projects; MILANO DANCING CITY: the collaboration with Centro ArteMente begins for this project in which the company is a partner for the three-year period 2022/2024 with the creation of performative actions aimed at cultural centres and suburban neighbourhoods in Milan, presenting in 2021 the show A[1]BIT in the neighbourhood of Via Padova and Naviglio Martesana, involving citizens in the creation of the text and the vocal recordings that accompany the performance; PROGETTO MAGNETE: in 2021 the company won the Call for Partners Future Days for the Adriano Community Center and committed itself to the development of projects aimed at the new generations; SCUOLA DIFFUSA, in collaboration with Officine Educative, Polo delle Arti, Conservatorio Peri, Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, with students from 5 high schools, teachers and educators, whose first phase begins in September 2021 through conferences and workshops, is a project that was born in Reggio Emilia where the Municipality makes "uncommon" spaces available to guarantee the holding of school lessons. An unusual experience being experimented in an attempt to reaffirm the values of the Educating City, in which city spaces can become non-neutral places for meeting and learning).

2022 is a year of growth and openness, also thanks to the ministerial recognition that allows for a relaunch in managerial solidity, stability of the artistic core, strengthening of territorial and national ties with actions on several fronts: tours (national, European - Germany and non EU - Saudi Arabia and Turkey), 5 new productions (STABAT PATER - co-production with Alma Rosé, winner of the L'Italia dei Visionari Junior award; DANCING BRUNO - co-production with Fondazione Luzzati Teatro della Tosse; TOXIC GREEN; FROM GARBAGE TO STARS - winner of the Greening Arts prize promoted by the Rete Intersezioni del Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Arearea dance company; GAMELAN, a new creation by Fabrizio Calanna and Chiara Verzola), support for emerging choreography (INCONTRO CON UNA RANA by Sofia Casprini; THREE LITTLE ROOMS by Matteo Sacco; GAMELAN), increased training and special projects.

On the special projects front, 2022 sees the start/continuation of several actions including: SCUOLA DIFFUSA (DIFFUSED SCHOOL), on the city of Reggio Emilia, which, under the supervision of the company, sees the planning of three workshop paths between dramaturgy, dance and music, aimed at the realisation of an artistic action in the historical centre of the city of Reggio Emilia involving more than 120 students; TEATRO ARCOBALENO (Rainbow Theatre), promoted by ERT, Gender Bender and Cassero, aimed at themes on gender identity in secondary schools, sees the creation of a team of choreographers engaged in the design of workshops in schools and the start of activities in high schools in Bologna and Cesena/Forlì. The process of experimentation and exchange of practices will give rise to an extensive and shared documentation that can be consulted by teachers and artists who will continue the project. It also begins the first part of the project DAL LISCIO AL RAVE, promoted by the Municipality of Reggio Emila, National Dance Foundation and the Reggio Emilia Theaters, which involves a group of about 70 citizens over 60 and under 25 in an intergenerational dance and drama journey, in fortnightly meetings from May to June hosted by 4 social centers in the city, and which will lead to a major urban happening during 2023.

For the first time in this area, under the artistic direction of the company, in collaboration with the Municipality of Castellarano (RE) and the associations and organisations of the territory, the first edition of the summer festival TERRE D'ARTE was held between May and July 2022: 11 performances of dance, theatre and music realised site-specific, with low environmental impact, through urban, historical and natural places of the territory, accompanied by workshops and meetings with the public and local communities. The first edition was a great success with the public, reaching different targets and training a large group of volunteers under 30. The second edition, which began in late March with a city workshop, ended in July 2023.

On the international front, there has been considerable progress with the tour of A[1]BIT in Saudi Arabia (20 performances in February 2022) and the opening of collaborations with Germany (THREE LITTLE ROOMS in Munich in April 2022), Switzerland (a repeat of COMMON LANDSCAPE in Balerna in March 2023), Turkey (MEETING WITH A FROG in Istanbul in June and September 2022 and a residency planned for September 2023) and Israel (a residency held April 2023), leading to the winning of the ministerial call BOARDING PASS PLUS for 2023, together with the leader Arearea and other Italian and foreign partners, thanks to which the company will be involved in artistic actions in Jerusalem and Istanbul, where a new creation will be realised with dancers of different nationalities.

The first debut of 2023 is dedicated to theatre, in March, within the Exister festival, STAND BY ME: a trio on the life of the English serial killer Dennis Nilsen, which deals with the theme of loneliness, the horror hidden in everyday life and the concept of the "monster" in our days.

We will then continue with the duet TACA TE', a co-production with the National Dance Foundation and the MilanOltre Festival, which will host its debut in October: it is a pas de deux between an over-65 dancer and a young dancer, centred on the theme of longevity and the relationship between different generations, travelling along the timeline in the two opposite directions, only to make them converge in the danced action. The dramaturgy will be a poetic synthesis of the work done within the aforementioned DAL LISCIO AL RAVE.

The site-specificity research will abandon wi-fi headphones to experiment the use of "sound suits", i.e. installations on the dancers' bodies, which will allow the performance to be completely autonomous from external sound systems. The works will be created by the Revolving Doors collective of Genoa and the performance, entitled SUPERMEGAWONDER, will be realised starting from workshops with children and adolescents who will be asked, with the help of comics experts and playwrights, to reflect on the world around them, on the needs of the planet, and to invent new superheroes in relation to what they think needs to be saved or repaired. The project will be supported by Fondazione Luzzati-Teatro della Tosse in Genoa, Fondazione Nazionale della Danza and MilanOltre: the autumn will therefore see the start of three workshops in three different regions that will produce the contents of the dramaturgy of the show to debut in 2024.

Still on the urban side, making its summer debut at the i Teatri del Cimone Festival is SUPERFERNANDO: a multidisciplinary performance between theatre, dance and live music, dedicated to Fernando Pessoa and his many heteronyms.

The training sees a strong increase in course enrolments and opens up to a wider audience, made up of professionals, enthusiasts, teachers, educators and ordinary citizens, extending the proposals to different regions of Italy. In particular, a strong link is created with the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, which in 2022 invites Lara Guidetti, artistic director and coreographer of the company, to hold two conferences on the themes of cultural welfare and the combination of culture and health.

dancer and teacher

Sofia is born in the province of Florence and leads a life as an athlete since she is a child dedicating herself first to artistic gymnastics and then to dance. She continues her path academic at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London graduating in 2016.

Among her qualifications, there is also the Master in performing arts obtained at the London Contemporary dance school (2018). She specializes in floorwork technique thanks to the masters Fernanda Prata, Jorge Crecis, Katie Lusby, and Francisco Cordoba. You also collaborate as an apprentice with companies such as Scottish Dance Theater (Dundee, Scotland), Danish Dance theater (Copenhagen, Denmark) and José Limon Dance Company (NY) and she works in London for such choreographers Marina Collard, Zoi Dimitriou, Dam Van Huynh, Shobana Jeyasingh, Allen Kaeja (Kaeja Dance Company) and Tony Adigun (Avant Garde Dance Company). At the end of 2016 she starts working for the English company EDgeDance Company, directed by Jeanne Yasko with whom she goes on a four-month tour in the UK, Portugal, Austria, and Italy.

From 2017 she moves to Milan and starts working for Sanpapié, Ariella Vidach A.I.E.P., directed by Ariella Vidach and Claudio Prati and also for international artists such as Jonathan Burrows (UK) and Martin Talaga (CZ). She also started her own path as a contemporary dance teacher (dynamic floorwork, contact-impro and release techniques), ballet and theater-dance teaching to professionals, beginners, adult amateurs and children in schools such as Artichoke Academy, Sharing Training Milan, MoveOn, Theater Field, American school of Milan and Danceattitude (Milan), Movimento danza (NA), Talent Academy (FI), La Fenice School (AL), Danzaria (AR), Stoke Newington School (London) and Escola de Artes (Porto). She also experiments as a choreographer by producing some unpublished works including Transférre (2018), in collaboration with Martina Monaco and part of the ‘Twins’ young choreographers support project of Sanpapié, winner of the Lumintenda 2018 award (Modena); Origami, choreographic solo (2019), finalist of Corto In danza 2020 (Cagliari) and presented at The Pink House Festival (Paris), Teatro dell’affratellamento and Florence Dance Festival (Florence), Cajka Popular avant-garde theater (Modena) and Palazzo Ducale (Solofra, AV); Huracan, in collaboration with Loredana Tarnovschi and Andrea Giomi (2020), Finalist of the TWAIN 2020 award (Tuscania) and presented at Teatro della Limonaia (Sesto Fiorentino), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan) and Palazzo Ducale (Solofra, AV); Object-Oriented-Choreography, in collaboration with Francesco Luzzana presented in the 2020 Triennale Milano season.

Projects produced by A.I.E.P, Triennale Milano and Sanpapié company.

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