Bio

I was born and raised in Rome. My father was a painter and a cinema cartoonist, my mother a potter. I grow up messing up with colors, clay and dirt until I attendend fine art studies. Because of my extreme shyness at age 12 my mother decided I should go to a clown classes and I happly attended the workshop without saying a word. During this time I fell in love with acrobatics and contorsionism and trained daily for few years in a small family circus. After injuring my back I went on finding a different way to use the body, and started dancing.

The interest in dance made me travel to London and then New York where I got in contact with contemporary dance, butoh, contact improvvisation and creative dance and danced in off off broadway venues, such as PS122, Washington Square Church, Rapp Art Center, Movement Research.

While in N.Y. I met Jimmy Davies, illustrator, and started a long nomadic period, travelling and living in USA, Italy and South Korea with our growing family. Jimmy and I started researching on puppetry, which is a meeting point between my interest, body and movement, and his, illustration, and found La Capra Ballerina Puppet Theatre, with which we experiment and produce puppet shows and collaborate with musicians, actors, video makers, visual artists, social workers. With our shows we have been traveling in Asia, Latino America, Europe.

After many years of collaboration with Jimmy and with the increasing amount of time I get from having my children grown, I have started to work alone on new projects that involves puppetry, physical theatre and performance.

There are three main themes that recurs and cross each other in my research ground.

The body, enhanced since early age by a deep curiosity about how it works, how it feels, how it decomposes, and the relationship with surroundings and the emotional sphere, it’s limits.

The materials, that are so enjoyable to mess up with, and involve all the senses.

The nature in all it’s forms, texture, colors, geometry.

At this very moment I’m interested in the dialog between inner body – body surface– outer body.