Ilenia Romano

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Dancer, choreographer, trainer. She graduated from the National Academy of Dance in Rome with full marks and honors. Her training extends from classical technique to the languages of contemporary dance to internal martial arts. She has recently undertaken the expressive-relational dance movement therapy course. In her debut as an interpreter in La Compagnia dell'AND she confronts personally with: Pina Bausch, Cristiana Morganti, Jacopo Godani, Wayne McGregor, Ismael Ivo, Robyn Orlin. She then dances for Les gens d'Uterpan, Micha Van Hoecke, DEOS Giovanni Di Cicco. She’s dancer and assistant for Compagnia Zappalà Danza, ALDES/Roberto Castello and Adriana Borriello Dance Research. She is also dedicated to the transmission of movement practices aimed at professional dancers, actors, amateurs, children. From 2015 to 2019 she is choreographer associated with Scenario Pubblico/CZD National Center of Dance Production. She collaborates with various musicians for the creation of shows with live music (Carlo Condarelli, Angelo Martines) and for performances related to improvisation with musicians (Alfio Antico, Puccio Castrogiovanni, Claudio Riggio, Giancarlo Bianchetti, Giacomo Piermatti). With several projects as a choreographer she is among the winners of: “L’Italia dei Visionari/Kilowatt Festival” (2016), “Bando SIAE Per chi crea” (2017), “Anghiari Dance Hub” (2018), MigraMenti-Teatro del Carro/Centro di Produzione Nazionale della Danza Virgilio Sieni (2023), Toscana Terra Accogliente (2024/2025). Since 2019 she is among the Italian choreographers selected for the international project Crossing the sea: in 2019 she is guest choreographer of Dance On – international Dance Exchange under the Hong Kong Arts Festival@Cattle Depot Creative Hub, and in August 2022 she is guest choreographer of the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. She is also guest choreographer for the Giovane Compagnia Zappalà Danza (2020), for productions of the Teatro Stabile di Catania (2020/21) and for the Teatro Nazionale di Genova (2022/23).In 2022 she is teacher of contemporary technique at Da.Re. and at the preparatory courses of the National Academy of Dance of Rome. Her work “SOMEWHERE” in collaboration with Lucia Guarino (NEXUS) was selected for the Open Studios of the NID Platform 2024 in Vicenza. In 2024 she was a choreographer for the National Academy of Dance in Rome as part of the Resid’And project. Since 2023 she has been a choreographer associated with PinDoc.

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