ABOUT
Mariagiulia Serantoni is a dance artist, performer and choreographer whose fascination with the interplay of sound and body permeates her creative endeavors.
Sound and noises are interlocutors and inspiration to create universes adjacent to reality.
She integrates concepts such as frequencies, distortion, and tuning into energy modulations to trigger new relational forms and promote alternative ways of inhabiting intimate and common spaces.
She holds a degree in choreography and research from Master Exerce, ICI-CCN, Montpellier (2022) and a diploma at Paolo Grassi School of Drama, dance theater course, Milan, 2009.
Her original works, including "Eutropia," "Underground Memoirs," and “Diagonals and other love stories" have garnered acclaim at festivals and various venues, including MilanOltre, La Democrazia del Corpo, Sydney Fringe Festival and others.
In 2018, "Eutropia'' was nominated for the "Equilibrio" prize, while "Underground Memoirs" received the Vivo d’Arte prize in 2019, and it has been presented at the Romaeuropa Festival.
Since 2020 she collaborates with MICCE, a Bologna based association with a transfemminist, inclusive and plural vision. With MICCE, in collaboration with Francesca Penzo, she creates “Metis” a sound and choreographic action about gender geography which premieres at Danza Urbana Festival, Bologna, 2023.
She lives in Berlin since 2014 where she collaborates for four years with the company Laborgras, directed by Renate Graziadei and Arthur Stäldi, through which she also works with the choreographers David Hernandez and Keith A.Thompson.
Recently she collaborates with the choreographer Jule Flierl for the piece “time out of joint”, premiered at Sophensaele, Berlin, 2023.
She receives several scholarships amongst which the research fund “Tanzpraxis” (2022) sponsored by Berliner Senat for her choreographic practice “practice of an electric body”.
In 2009 she co-founded the Milan based company Fattoria Vittadini with which she collaborates until 2021, also encountering artists such as Salvo Lomabrdo, Maya Weinberg and Matanicola.
She studied with many artists amongst which Alessandro Sciarroni (2024), Deborah Hay (2023), Meg Stuart (2019).
In 2018 she participated at P.O.R.C.H. dance and performance module, Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen.
With her new solo work, still in progress, Mariagiulia is opening up a new artistic phase, grounding her choreographic research form a self developed practice called “of the electric body” based on the activation of body, voice and sound through physical, energetic and emotional crescendos. Blending synthetic sounds and vocal expressions, the line between sounds originating from the body and those produced by machines blurs.
A science fiction created by the body for the body.
Drawing by Irene Pozzi