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Simona Bertozzi

Simona Bertozzi is a choreographer, dancer and performer based in Bologna, where
she graduated in Theatre and Dance Studies at Bologna University.
Since 2005, she carries on a research in movement, composition and choreography,
merging the impact of a strong physicality with theoretical references from visual
arts, anthropology and philosophy.
In 2008 Bertozzi founds the Compagnia Simona Bertozzi/Nexus and starts creating
works with various groups of dancers, challenging the transmission of her research
and practice to adult performers but also to kids and teenagers.
In her research, choreography appears as a landscape of events, an architectural
system where each movement cannot exist without the clear perception of the
ambient in which it takes place. Anatomy and presence become part of a wider
image, a microcosm in which nothing seems to start nor end.
This topic is particularly evident in Homo Ludens (2009-2012), a four episodes project
based on the ontology of game, in the Prometheus (2015-2016) and Anatomy
(2016), both pushing forward the idea of choreography as a an ecology-epidemic
system.
In 2016 the Prometheus final tableau, And it burns, burns, burns. In this work there
adults and teenagers dancers, together to reiterate the
Prometheus’ technè consideration and the know-how handing down as an unlimited
practice, aimed to upset the human nature. It’s a flame that does not extinguish. And
the horizon stays suspended between the possibility of falling or elevation.
In 2018 Bertozzi debuts with her new creation, Joie de vivre. Starting from the
behaviours of the most ancient and common life forms of the Earth, the plants, Joie
de Vivre does a choreographic research to investigate those attitudes, willingness’s,
emerging behaviours that all the life forms, human being included, operate in the
constant attempt to achieve a state of happiness.
In 2019 Bertossi works on the re-arrangement of ILINX – playing vertigo, which
debuted at the Venice Biennale. ILINX, originally created in 2008, was the first action
of Homo Ludens, a choreographic project created around the four play categories of
Roger Caillois: Ilinx, Alea, Agon, Mimicry.

-2020 Tra le linee [Between the lines] co-produced by Torinodanza Festival,
MilanOltre, Nexus, EstOvest Festival as part of CORPO LINKS CLUSTER – PC INTERREG
VA Cooperation Program – ITALY – FRANCE ALCOTRA 2014-2020
-From 2018 to 2020 she is associate choreographer of the MilanOltre Festival
-In 2021 debut as part of the Romaeuropa Festival with Quel che resta [what
remains] production Nexus with the support of the National Center for the
Production of Dance Virgilio Sieni and the CR Firenze Foundation Creative Residences
in the context of Residences for artists in the Territories curated by Masque teatro,
Artists in ResidenSì Bologna, in collaboration with Dialoghi – Residences of Performing
Arts at Villa Manin 2021, CSS Stable Theater of Innovation of the FVG, AlmaStudios
Bologna.
-In the same year starts the creation of SISTA a project supported and coproduced by
Balletto di Torino and MilanOltre Festival.

Istitutional supports
Since 2015, the company is supported by Regione Emilia Romagna and by the Italian
Ministry of Culture.

Collaborations
Over the years important collaborations have been consolidated with artists and
scholars including: Francesco Giomi artistic director of Tempo Reale, Enrico Pitozzi
and Cristiana Natali, professors of the University of Bologna, Egle Sommacal musician
and guitarist of Massimo Volume, Angela Baraldi actress and cantatas and Tabea
Martin choreographer and dancer with whom he co-created This is my last dance
work that has had an important European circuit including the Swiss Dance Days.

Awards
– In 2007 she’s the chosen Italian choreographer selected by Aerowaves ,The Place,
London.
– In 2007 she wins the GD’A, Emilia Romagna, Ravenna

– In 2008 with the video-dance project Terrestre-movement in still life she wins the
TTV Production Award, by Riccione Festival 2008.
– In 2009 she wins, again with the video-dance project Terrestre-movement in still
life, the Best Independent Work Award by Coreografo Elettronico, Naples.
– In 2012 with the work Bird’s Eye View she wins the Audience Award by Festival 17
Masdanza, International Contemporary Dance Festival of the Canary Islands.
– Again in 2012, she was selected by the NID Platform, Platform of the New Italian
Contemporary Dance, Lecce.
– In 2013 she’s one of the four selected companies in the Italian area for the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland).
– In 2017 she directs one of the 5th winner projects of the Migrarti Prize with the
production Lotus
– In 2017, And it burns, burns, burns is one of the final four candidate shows at the
UBU prize, as the best dance project in Italy.
– In 2019 she wins the “Corpo a Corpo” award of the Hystrio Prize.
– In 2019 she’s selected for the Nid-New Italian Dance Platform, placed in Reggio
Emilia
– 2019 Hystrio Award. “For the artistic and research path marked by rigor and
radicalism, naturally inclined to one of the crucial themes for performative art, that is
training and the handover, and capable of nourishing and contaminating his creation
with disciplines and readings broad spectrum ”
– 2019 ANCT Award (National Association of Theater Critics). “To Simona Bertozzi and
her career as an artist in a luminous balance between the search for hidden beauty
and ethical posture, visual composition and generation of meaning, human care,
cognitive strength and aesthetic splendor”.