Claudio Pisa
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He was born in Naples in 1987, he studied and graduated from the napolitan academy "Centro Regionale della Danza Lyceum" directed by Mara Fusco. When he was still a student, he joined to company Ballet di Napoli.

 

After studying dance, he improved himself with other teachers such as Antony Rizzi, Danys Ganio, Vladimir Vasiliev, Roland Price, J.Barret, Eric Quilleré, Brigitte Hermetz, James Urbain, Ivan Tzanov, Ricardo Nunez, ecc.

In 2007, he attended a training course at the "École Supereur  de Danse de Cannes Rossella Hightower" in Cannes, directed by Monique Loudieres.

 

 

After the first experiences with classical ballet, he worked with the contemporary dance companies Körper, Borderline Danza, Les Danseurs Napolitains, Balletto di Rovigo - Fabula Saltica, RBR Dance Company, c.ie Artgarage.

In 2010 and 2011, he participated in the international project of La Biennale di Venezia "Arsenale della Danza 2010, The Art of Performer".

 

Here he studied also with internationally renowned teachers as Marion Ballester, Niels “Storm” Robitzky, Inaki Azpillaga, Yasmeen Godder, Daniel Léveillé, Othella Dallas, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Francesca Harper, Kenji Takagi, Ismael Ivo, ecc.

Among the many personal experiences he has also studied with Wim Vandekeybus, Laura Aris Alvarez, Brock Labrenz, Emilio Calcagno, Francesco Nappa, Roberto Zappalà, ecc.

 

In 2012, he is assistant of Ismael Ivo in his dance classes for the festival ImPulsTanz 2012, in Wien, he is choreography assistant for the production of La Biennale di Venezia - Arsenale della Danza 2012 and for the show BUTTERFLY EFFECT, for the festival "Tones on the Stones" in Verbania (Italy). 

 

He has danced in theatres in Europe and outside Europe in cities such as Pamplona (Spain), Almada (Portugal), St. Petersburg (Russia), Sao Paulo and Santos (Brazil), Wien (Austria), Beijing and Urumqui (Cina).

 

For the season 2013/14 he works with the Stadttheater Giessen – TanzCompagnie. He dance choreographies by Tarek Assam, Paul Julius and Rui Horta.

For the seasons 2014/16 he is guest dancer at the theater Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf (Germany) and also he works in the season 2014/15 with the company Fattoria Vittadini for Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence.

In 2016 he danced for Emanuel Gat ESTRO and Dimitris Papaioannou EXTRACT FROM NOWHERE in the residence project of the Ravello Festival, Italy.

Furthermore, since 2016 he has been teaching for Biennale Educational, the Venice Biennale project, for contemporary dance workshops.


Choreographic experiences

As choreographer he created in 2014 in collaboration with the Stadttheater Gießen, the choerography ABEND. With the same choreography he's among the ten choreographers selected to participate in the choreographic competition CortoinDanza 2014 in Cagliari. 

Always in 2014, he created the choreographies for the play FAUST, for the theater TAF in Bad Nauhaim (Germany).

In 2015 he created the choreography TIMELESS PASSION that it's selected for the festival SGUARDI 2015 - festival for the Veneto dance and theatre, Notte della Danza 2016 Vicenza città palcoscenico, the edition 2016 of the festival 99Arts in Roma, Lago Film Fest 2017 and Monday Dance 2017 contemporary dance festival at Teatro Nuovo in Naples.


We present Claudio, BlaBlaStar of January 2016


Claudio Pisa
Claudio, BlaBlaStar di Gennaio