Artistic director
Giovanna Velardi
Giovanna Velardi is artistic director of the Company Giovanna Velardi and artistic co-director of PinDoc, an association financed by Mibact and Regione Sicily, that supports the her choreographic work.With her art direction, Giovanna Velardi develops projects related to dance in Italy
and beyond the choreographic creation, she realizes projects dedicated to the diffusion and promotion of dance and works as dance teacher.
Giovanna Velardi during her activities in Italy and abroad has received the support of the Ministry of Heritage and cultural activities and tourism, the region Sicillia, the Paca Region, Ville de Marseille, Department 13 des Bouches du Rhone, Ballet National de Marseille, Marseille Objectif Danse, National choreographic Centre of Orleans (CCNO Josef Nadj), Point Ephemere (Paris), Stage Dance Center in Palermo, Rialto Sant'Ambrogio (Rome), Chapel Orsini (Rome), Officine Ouragan Palermo, the Italian culture Institute in Marseille, Centre Culturel Français in Palermo, Centre Culturel Français in Rome, Lazio Core, Duncan 3.0, the Turin platform, Center dance Theatre in Palermo, New Montevergini in Palermo, Armunia Castiglioncello Festival, KLAP Marseille.
Ricky Bonavita
Lecturer of modern and contemporary dance technique at the Accademia Nazionale Danza in Rome, guest teacher of European universities as Norges Dansehøyskole, Oslo; University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, Estonia; Konzervatoř Duncan centre, Praha.
the artistic direction of PinDoc producing the work of twelve Italian companies and choreographers with the support of MIBACT and Regione Sicilia.
During an intense artistic and professional career as choreographer and dancer since the 80s he has been on stage in more than 800 shows in Italy and abroad. In 1994 he founds with Theodor Rawyler the Compagnia Excursus, supported by MIBACT. For the company he creates more than 30 productions making an own choreographic and aesthetic research, where he merges the love for dreamlike environments governed by dynamic bodies and abstract lines with the need to tell stories and to explore interpersonal relationships.
As guest choreographer he has collaborated with Fundación Opera Panamá, International World Stars of Ballet Art in Kazakhstan, La Compagnia dell'AND in Rome, Akarwerkstatt in Switzerland, as part of theatrical productions for "Memorie di Adriano" by Maurizio Scaparro with Giorgio Albertazzi, for "Il funambolo" by Daniele Salvo for Napoli Teatro Festival; in television for RAI1 Eurovision live "L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra", Concert by Andrea Boccelli from the Colosseum, Rome.
Choreography awards: 1st prize at the The Young Ballet of the World competition 2010, in Sochi, Russia, chaired by M° Yuri Grigorovich, 3rd prize at Serge Lifar International Ballet Competition 2004 in Kiev, Ukraine, Fausto Maria Franchi Award at Premio Roma 2010, 1st prize "Singolari di danza 1988" of Spaziozero Theater in Rome.
Bonavita shares the artistic directon of Festival TenDance with Theodor Rawyler, the festival is organized by Rosa Shocking and supported by MIBAC and Regione Lazio.
General manager
Danila Blasi
Danila Blasi works as organizer at Teatro Spazio Uno (season 93-94) and for logistics at Volterrateatro festival in '99, '00 and '01. In 2002’s edition, she is the coordinator of Volterrateatro festival. In 2003 she founds 369gradi cultural association of which she is vice president.
Her focus on work, and in life, is an authentic search for movement and its deeper, bodily and psychological dynamics. The body as a container and also the content of unconscious mechanisms, which find it a symptom of important signals to listen to, process and overcome, in an attempt to transform it into a refined instrument of expression. She currently works as an organizer at the Pindoc Onlus Cultural Association in Rome and as a contemporary dance teacher at ASD Vitinia Sport, Vitinia (RM).
Manager
Giordano Novielli
Collaborates since 2010 as production assistant for Compagnia Excursus, for Coordinamento Regionale Danza Contemporanea Lazio e for Tendance Festival(2012- 2016).
at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Theaterschool, where he completed the degree in Moderne TheaterDans in 2004.
Already during the academy he is chosen by Arthur Rosenfeld, ex dancer of the company of Pina Bausch in the 80’s, to dance for his company “Dansgroep de Meekers”, Rotterdam. He dances also in co-productions with the Hans Hof Ensemble, another significant Dutch company, and in projects by Ninke Reehorst and Fabian Galama (from “Ultima Vez”), and in cooperation with the Danish director Leela May Stokholm.
n Italy he dances in projects of Mario Piazza, with Balletto ’90, where he cooperates with Benedetta Capanna, and with the company Arsmovendi by Andrea Cagnetti.
At the Opera Theatre of Rome he works with directors such as Zeffirelli, Pieralli, Kokkos under the directions of the choreographers Amedeo Amodio, Simona Chiesa, Marco Berriel among others. Since 2010 he’s one of the main performers of the integrated company Superdiverso, directed by Luciana Lusso Roveto.
In 2013 he took part in the international project “Destroy//” by Dance Elixir (USA/PA).
After gaining in 2009 a Master Post.Lauream in Art Therapy at the Univeristy Roma 3, he leads dance therapy laboratories and Community dance
He studied as a Yoga teacher in Netherlands and Rome, gaining a Teaching Diploma at the Universal Yoga Institute in Rome.
His workshops have been realized in different projects financed by government institutions, as Attacchi di Core from Provincia di Roma, Officina Coreografica from Regione Lazio, Officine Culturali and Festival Tendance from the Minister for the Cultural Heritage.
Since 2012 he leads courses of Physical Expression and Dancetheatre in the center for theatre education and production “Latitudine Teatro”, Latina, where in 2014 he directs “Non Cercarmi” and in 2015 “P.Grafia”
His choreographic works, supported by Compagnia Excursus with the contribution of the Minister for the Cultural Heritage, appeared in different festivals, as site specific projects in the territory of Pontecorvo (in cooperation with ATCL), Officina Coreografica 2013, E-Novaction, Che Danza Vuoi and in the theatre season of Tor Bella Monaca Theatre.
His work “Forgotten” has been invited to the Solo’s Night at the cultural centre OT301 in Amsterdam and for the Pillole MIlan Festival in 2017.
In 2014 he is co-founder of the collective “Cadavre Exquis”; the three productions of the group (“Never Look for Me”, Stupor” and “Bared”) has been invited in several festivals, like Tendance 2014, Oltre la Linea 2015, Perpaspera Drammaturgie Possibili 2015 and 2016, Passages/Dejà Donné 2016, Artescienza 2017 and for the 2015 dance season of OT301 in Amsterdam.
In 2015 becomes one of the resident of the MA program of the National Dance Academy in Rome, specializing in contemporary dance teaching methodologies, completed Cum Laude in 2017.
As performer he appeared in several international festivals, as Nederlandse Dansdagen, Berner Tanztage, Marrakesh International Theatre Festival.
Manuela Cirfera
Organizing Secretary
Dancer and contemporary dance teacher, graduated from the National Academy of Dance in Rome, her interests and activities range from the field of performance to teaching, from research in dance studies to management and dance production.
an authentic search for movement and its deeper, bodily and psychological dynamics. The body as a container and also the content of unconscious mechanisms, which find it a symptom of important signals to listen to, process and overcome, in an attempt to transform it into a refined instrument of expression. She currently works as an organizer at the Pindoc Onlus Cultural Association in Rome and as a contemporary dance teacher at ASD Vitinia Sport, Vitinia (RM).
Letizia Coppotelli
Administrative and accounting management
Letizia Coppotelli was born in Rome in October 1980. She graduated in 2010 in Political Science and International Relations at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis in economic statistics.
Duncan 3.0 performing arts center, dealing with administrative and accounting management.
From 2014 to date she collaborates with various dance companies, theaters and festivals dealing with accounting and administrative management and specializing in the management of Ministries and Regional Reports.
Among her collaborations there are Compagnia Excursus, Compagnia Atacama, Compagnia PinDoc, Spellbound Contemporary Ballet, Festival TenDance / Rosa Shocking, La Scatola dell'Arte (choreographic center), Tor Bella Monaca Theater.
Benedetta Boggio
Plans cultural services and creates communication strategies
She is one of the founders of 369gradi, society of production of performing art and theatre that works for the national and international promotion of artists and companies and she is president of Rosa Shocking,
in contemporary dance that organizes Tendance, a contemporary dance festival in the province of Latina, since 2012. Since 15 years she is involved in production, management, communication for theatre and dance.
She also works as press office for festival, shows, theatre’s season and she is responsible for communication for Pindoc, a cultural association that groups together several choreographers. She collaborates with Angelo Mai, a production and creation center in the city of Rome and has been teaching at the IED Rome international arts and management master for two years, on communication and press office.