Artistic Training

She discovered her passion for dance at the age of four and, while still very young, inaugurated a permanent movement research workshop for amateurs, through which she began to experiment with her own highly personal compositional technique.

After earning a law degree from the University of Siena and a Master’s in International Protection of Human Rights from the University of London, she decided to dedicate herself completely to dance.

In 2000, she was a visiting student at the University of Texas at Austin – Department of Performing Arts, and in 2001, following an international audition, she was admitted to the Accademia Isola Danza – La Biennale di Venezia, where she worked with important dancers and choreographers, including Carolyn Carlson herself, with whom she established a strong bond through collaborations and artistic projects. Since 2005, she has continuously followed the work of David Zambrano and his techniques “Flying Low” and “Passing Through,” which have significantly inspired her own pedagogical and choreographic research.

Choreographic Career

She began her career as a choreographer in 2002 with the show Frida, inspired by the life and art of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, produced under the supervision of Carolyn Carlson. In 2005, she created PULCINELLA — a contemporary dance performance set to music by Igor Stravinsky — exclusively for the Ballet Company of the Arena di Verona, followed in 2009 by CARMINA BURANA set to music by Carl Orff.

From 2010, she embarked on a specific choreographic research project focused on contemporary dance in urban spaces, aiming to develop a language that maintained the complexity and sophistication already achieved in theater settings, while also incorporating characteristics essential to public city spaces such as visibility, concreteness, and adaptability. The result is an apparently informal language, relying on an idea of dance linked to instinct and the unconscious substance of the body.

Her creations for urban and theatrical spaces have been presented at numerous festivals and theaters in Italy, France, the UK, Spain, Albania, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, and Israel.

A large part of her artistic research is dedicated to the relationship between dance and music; she has collaborated with the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and with prominent jazz and classical musicians such as Francesco Dillon, Ettore Bonafè, Silvia Bolognesi, Emanuele Parrini, Cristina Abati, and Andrea Beninati.

Artistic Direction of Festivals and Pedagogical Research

She is the artistic director of the company ADARTE, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture (since 2006) and the Tuscany Region (since 2002). Since 2009, she has been the artistic director of Ballo Pubblico, an International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Urban Spaces, now in its 8th edition. She is often invited to lead workshops and masterclasses in Italy and abroad; she has taught at the DAMS of Turin – University of Turin, the University of Siena, UNAM University – Mexico City, the Hakvutza Dance Center – Tel Aviv, the Centro de Bellas Artes in San Luis Potosí – Mexico, and the Escuela Superior de Danza in Mazatlán – Mexico. She collaborates regularly with ACS Abruzzo Circuito Spettacolo and Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo on numerous audience and dancer training projects.

She has worked with the Fondazione Un Cuore si Scioglie (UNICOOP Firenze) on training and choreographic production projects dedicated to the theme of integration, involving high school students and a group of young people with disabilities. For the same foundation, she created POP STAR — a performative art project in the workplace aimed at COOP supermarket employees.

The University of Siena invited her to develop a movement research workshop for European and non-European students, from which the project SOUL CORPUS was born — a dance piece dedicated to the theme of European geographical and cultural borders.