Italy – CSC

Elena Sgarbossa is a young Italian dancer. She completed her training at the Course of Contemporary Dance of Balletto di Roma in Rome, and participated to projects supported by various Italian festivals, mainly by OperaEstateFestival in Bassano, where she trained as a teacher of the practice Dance Well – movement and research for Parkinson. She has performed works by Marco D’Agostin, Chiara Frigo, Davide Valrosso, Andrea Rampazzo and Pietro Marullo. In 2018 she created her first solo, Keo, winner of the Italian Prize DNAppunti Coreografici.

Italy – CSC

Vittoria Caneva is an Italian dancer who graduated in a Contemporary Dance Course from the Ballet of Rome. She began her career at the Ballet of Rome in 2015, the year in which she took part in the project “Prove d’Autore XL”, working with Francesca Pennini. In 2016 and 2017 she participates to the b.Motion Festival and the Gender Bender Festival. In 2017 she was selected by the Veneto region for the project “Botteghe D’Arte”, thanks to which she had the opportunity to participate in the project “Dance Makers 2 – Choreographic Reasearch Week”, an intensive research program focused on dance dramaturgy. She also participated to the Volcano project coordinated by the Arboretum – Dimora di Mondaino Theater, and at an intensive month at the NOD Nuova Officina della Danza in Turin, in collaboration with Fondazione Piemonte. In 2017 she presented, together with Yuri Locci, their first co-production work “Ypsilon”. She worked with choreographer Pietro Marullo for the WRECK-List of extinct species performance. In 2018 she partecipated to Performing Gender project that took place in Bologna, with choreographer Jija Sohn. She recently worked with choreographer Masako Matsushita and different dance artists such as Beatrice Bresolin and Andrea Rampazzo.

Italy – CSC

Ilaria Marcolin is an Italian contemporary dancer (1995, Bassano del Grappa, Italy). Since 2015 she has attended the Professional Education Course for Contemporary Dancer at Balletto di Roma and she graduated in June 2018. In this context she has studied with artists and dancers that are now involved in the national and international contemporary scene. Since 2011 she has been collaborating with Operaestate Festival Veneto and CSC Garage Nardini in Bassano del Grappa. She worked with different choreographers, among them Davide Valrosso (We are not Alone,2017), Pietro Marullo (WRECK – List of extinct species, 2018), Masako Matsushita (Folk Manifold, 2019), Beatrice Bresolin (Borderline, 2019). In 2018 she started
collaborating with DANCE MAKERS Collective, which is engaged in the creation of site-specific performances. In 2018 she participated to the Italian session of the Performing Gender – Dance makes differences European project, with the choreographer Jija Sohn, and as a creator to the final symposium in Bassano del Grappa.