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Anna Grigiante is a young Italian dancer. In 2018 she draguated from the three-year training in contemporary dance at Balletto di Roma, in Rome. Thanks to this experience she had the opportunity to meet and work with choreographers and dancers active in the national and international contemporary dance scene, such as Marta Ciappina, Pablo Tapia Leyton, Giorgia Nardin, Daniele Ninarello, Andrea Costanzo Martini, Francesca Pennini. She participated in many activities organised by the CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, she was one of the dancers selected for the second year of the european project Performing Gender dance makes differences, and one of the performers in Folk manifold by Masako Matsushita. She’s currently part of the Sharing Training activities in Bassano del Grappa, and she is investigating new languages such as Yoga and Tai-Chi.  

Italy – CSC

Victoria Okebugwu is a school student living in Bassano del Grappa, as her sister Grace. She was put in contact with the activities of the CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea in Bassano thanks to a summer project of volunteer work that included a Dance Well class. Thanks to her spontaneous dance language, she was selected as one of the local performers for Muljil by Koean Company Elephants Laugh.

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Grace Okebugwu is a high school student living in Bassano del Grappa. As a performer, she took part in many workshops offered by ‘Operaestate’ in Bassano, leaded by artists from all over the world, and had the opportunity to join some debates during B.Motion. She’s been doing volunteer work with babies, kids and women from the local refugee community, and she’s been a short-time intern for the Association Casa a Colori, helping refugees of any age and the staff of the association in different activities. She’s very involved in the organisation of local Fridays for Future event.

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Abderraouf Selmani is a young student living in Bassano del Grappa. His studies focused on scientific subjects, especially: Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Math and Informatics, but being extrovert by nature, he has always been involved in performing arts projects and voluntary work, especially with kids and people with disabilities. Being a native speaker of both Italian and Arabic, he’s also been a Museum Guide.

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.