
Photo published on the magazine GLAMOUR
Italian May Issue 2008
Andrea Fagarazzi is a perfomer, visual artist and choreographer born in Vicenza, Italy. His stage experience started in a local Punk-Hard Rock band playing the roles of voice and electric-guitar, while he started his dance training from the age of eighteen in Vicenza. He graduated [BA, Fine Arts] at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera - Milano in 2006 with Francesca Alfano Miglietti (FAM), theorist of the mutations related to the visual languages. In 2002, he graduated with a scholarship in performing arts at
Professione MAS Academy directed by Susanna Beltrami, in Milan. In 2005 he was selected for the
danceWEB Scholarship Programme directed by David Zambrano at the
ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. He attended dance, voice, butoh and joga research projects with Vera Mantero, Ko Morobushi, Marten Spangberg, David Moss, Charmaine Le Blanc, Martin Kilvady, DD Dorviller, Mathilde Monnier, Wim Vandekeybus, M. Abbondanza e A. Bertoni, Mariah Maloney (
Trisha Brown Company), Ananda Leone, Anat Geiger, and masterclasses at the
Atelier de Paris Carolyn Carlson.
As performer, he has collaborated for several choreographers and directors such as
Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten,
Sasha Waltz & Guests,
Matanicola,
Frédéric Flamand/ Cherleroi Dance,
Micha Van Hoecke and
Cristina Muti Mazzavillani, with
Studio Festi in Tokyo, among others, joining prestigious venues as "Edinburgh International Festival", "TanzIm August Festival" in Berlin, "Norderzoon Festival" in Groningen, "Civitanova Danza", "Italia in Giappone", "Ravenna Festival".
The artistic research of Andrea Fagarazzi brought him to create different projects questioning the concepts related to the corporeity, the identity and its alterity, with different medias like performance and visual arts. From 2000 his work has been presented in Italy, Argentina, Nederlands, Belgium, Spain trough different exhibitions and festivals such as
es.terni - International Festival Of Contemporary Arts,
Inequilibrio.08 - Armunia Festival di Castiglioncello (IT),
Contemporanea/Colline/Festival 08 di Prato,
Primavera Teatri 08 (IT),
2008 Culturas Exhibition & Awards for the Intercultural Dialogue (ES),
OperaEstate Festival 2007 in Bassano del Grappa,
Festival Lavori in Pelle 2007 (IT),
Festival F.i.a.e.s. 2003 (Argentina),
Corpo e Anima,
Ultrasegno. As well, some of his photographical works have been selected as promotional images for the Festivals
Body Stroke '05 in Brugge (B),
Something Raw '05 in Amsterdam.
As author, since 2007 A. Fagarazzi has been invited, as representative for Italy, from international circuits that develop contemporary dance and the performing arts in the Mediterranean, organisations such as
DBM - Mediterranean Dance Meeting Programme,
La Mekanica in Barcelona and
Maqamat Theatre in Beirut, where he leads choreographic residencies and take part to symposiums.
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I-Chen Zuffellato was born in Taiwan in 1979 but grew up in Italy. In 2004 she graduated as a performer at the Amsterdam University of Arts, the TheaterSchool. Her earlier studies are based on ballet, modern and Chinese dance. She attended several workshops at Tanzwochen in Vienna, Laban Center and Royal Academy of Dancing in London. In the year 2000 she was invited by the choreographer Carolyn Carlson to attend the Accademia Isola Danza, promoted by La Biennale di Venezia, where she studied with important personalities of the dancefield such as Carolyn Carlson, Caterina Sagna, Jean Cebron, Ivan Wolfe, Malou Airaudo, Bill T. Jones, Frey Faust, Nigel Charnock, Larrio Ekson,Jennifer Muller, Janet Panetta and many others. In 2001 she was in Florence to deepen her knowledge of the Nikolais' method of composition, under the guidance of Simona Bucci and in the same year Carolyn Carlson offered her the special invitation of attending the Academy for another year.
During this time she collaborated as a dancer for Michele Abbondanza and Antonella Bertoni in the performance Argonautika and in the performance by Simona Bucci for the closing Galà of the Leone D'Oro Prize ( Biennale di Venezia). From 2002, after graduating, she mainly worked in Holland, collaborating as a performer with the Dutch company De Meekers of Arthur Rosenfeld; with Nienke Reehorst and Fabian Galama; in CONSTR/CTION by Sarah Manya, one of a three solo performance in domestic spaces presented in relevant festivals such as the Body Stroke Festival in Brugge (Belgium) and the Springdance in Utrecht (Holland); with Marie-Cécile de Bont and the company Piet Rogie & Co..
Meanwhile, she kept on studying attending, among others, the coaching project by Benoit Lachambre at Impulstanz , the Axis Syllabus workshop by Frey Faust and Improvisational Practice by Andrew Morrish.
In the summer 2006 she danced in the opera The Magic Flute of W.A. Mozart directed by maestro Riccardo Muti and choreographed by Min Tanaka for the Salzburg Festival 2006.
In 2006-'07 she has worked with director Michael Laub in Berlin and Rotterdam for the project Portraits Series that had its première at the Tanz Im August Festival in Berlin and with whom she will keep on collaborating as a performer for the next project Marching Series.
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