Choreographic exchanges Québec | Bassano del Grappa

Matteo Marchesi, born in 1987, is an Italian dancer and choreographer. He comes from a mixed media background across academic studies in set design and visual arts at Fine Arts Academy of Brera (Milan) and in dance disciplines in the private Dance Academy Aloysius (Milan). Since 2009 until 2018 he collaborated as curator for people with Autism in creative processes across music, visual arts and body motion, for performances and installations. Matteo’s choreographic research brought him across the practices and processes of Roberta Mosca, Tilman O’Donnell and Keren Rosenberg in the years. In 2018 he collaborates with Interno13 Gallery, Fondazione Carisma and Doc. Stefania Becciu for the project In-Touch sharing dance practices in visual art spaces with families touched by cognitive diseases to raise life quality conditions. Since 2018 he collaborates with Silvia Gribaudi as performer in the productions and tournée of “Felice” and “Graces”, in community projects and video productions, and since 2018 he is Associated Artist of Associazione Culturale Zebra with the artistic direction of Chiara Frigo and Silvia Gribaudi, supporting productions, researches and community projects. Matteo’s artistic processes are dance-based, strongly related to improvisation technologies, community narratives, relational and cross-disciplinary soft skills.