MARTA PAPACCIO

MARTA PAPACCIO Contemporary dance teacher

“Aesthetics without ethics, is cosmetics” Ulay”

BIOGRAPHY

Dancer

She trained at the Balletto di Toscana School in Florence, where she studied Ballet and Contemporary techniques with international renowed teachers. She later become a member of the “junior Company BDT” dancing in prestigious Italian theaters. She joined “Maggio Danza” company At the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence under the direction of Davide Bombana, dancing in creations by prestigious international choreographers such as Cayetano Soto, Marco Goecke, Davide Bombana.

She joines the state company “Ballett Chemnitz” in Germany as a soloist dancer , where she dances creations by Alexander Ekman, Mark Mc Cain,Ashley Lobo, Reiner Feistel, Peter Svenzon, Xu Yiming,and collaborates with him to choreograph her first solo. She then gets the opportunity to dance in Beijing (China),as a soloist within the Ballett Chemnitz company’s show “Solitude”.
Later she returns to Italy Where she dances in the crearion “Crises” by Matteo Levaggi at the “Transart” festival in Bolzano. She also collaborates with Federica Esposito in the project “The Waiting Duet”.

Over the years, she continues to develop herself as a dancer and teacher with internationally renowed choreographers such as Alleyne, German Jauregui, and countertechnique method.
Meanwhile she delves into the world of choreography and she is selected to attend the “Next Generation Choreographers” course under the Aterballetto foundation, where she choreographs for “Agora Coaching Project” directed by Michele Merola, under the supervision of prestigious choreographers such as Eyal Dadon, Fernando Melo, Philipp Kratz. She presents her first choreographic project “4.48” in collaboration with Federica Sorrentino at the Fonderia Aterballetto. Additionally she creates her first project ad dancer and choreographer “Unmei” together with Eugenio Micheli, which is performed at the “Morenica Festival” under the foundation “Piemonte dal Vivo” and festival “Forte Gisella” in Verona.

Choreography

Teaching

She also trains as a teacher at ““Contemporary Mood”,by Alessio Barbarossa and Valentino Porcu, in collaboration with Niccolò Abbattista (dance history), Francesca Fadda (Psychology), Rita Spadola (Experiential anatomy), Alessio Barbarossa (improvisation and experiential anatomy applied to dance), Valentino Porcu (Mindfulness applied to dance). She is a collaborator in the “Punto Aperto” project, a traveling masterclass event offering various techniques including site-specific, contact improvisation, as well as photography and physics applied to dance.

In addition to being a permanent teacher in various schools in the Piedmont region, over the years she has worked as a guest lecturer in peestigious institutions such as “DAW” directed by Eugenio Buratti (Florenc), “CDSH” Contemporary dance School Hamburg (Germany), “Solo Coreografico Festival” (Lyon), and recently “Elephant in the Black Box” directed by Jean Philippe Dury.