SERENA MALACCO
Serena Malacco, choreographer and artistic director of Jukebox Contemporary Dance Company, is an Italian multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. Her interest in crossings between literature, cinema, visual arts, and choreography dates back to her high school and university studies. In 2012, she graduated in Modern Literature from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis titled The “savage value” of beauty: Poetics of the defect in Jean Dubuffet and Pina Bausch.
After training in classical and contemporary dance in Milan and Brussels, she began her career as a performer in 2014. She danced for various artists, including Cindy Van Acker, Cie Les Gens d’Uterpan, Romeo Castellucci, Ariella Vidach, Fabio Liberti, and performed at renowned festivals and institutions such as La Monnaie in Brussels, Bolzano Danza, Opéra de Lille, and Venice Biennale Danza.
In 2019, Serena embarked on her choreographic career with her first piece, All Around Me. She won the second prize at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques d’Annecy and was a finalist in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition.
In 2020, she founded the Jukebox Contemporary Dance Company in Paris, aiming to connect her literary and artistic studies with dance practice. Her artistic approach, described as anthropocentric choreography by critics, seeks to narrate lives through the language of movement. The emotions that move (from the Latin “ex-moveo”) and touch human beings are indeed the choreographer’s focus, along with the personality and uniqueness of each performer. Her work has garnered support from French and Italian institutions, including Danse Dense, La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, L’Avant Seine/Théâtre de Colombes, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Micadanses, Maison Populaire, Escales Danse network, Versiliadanza, MPAA Paris, Cantiere Florida Theatre in Florence.
In 2021, she created JUKEBOX, an interactive piece for nine dancers where the audience actively participates through a mobile application. She also collaborated with the director Mitch Hooper for Macbeth at L’Epée de Bois Theater in Paris and created choreographies for Andromaque, directed by Anne Coutureau at Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar.
The 2022/2023 season is filled with projects and collaborations. Serena dedicates herself to the tour of the JUKEBOX show in France, Italy, and Thailand. She starts her new piece Screaming for 12 dancers. She leads a cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis with the support of DRAC Île-de-France, DAC Villeparisis, and local educational institutions. In 2023, she collaborates with internationally acclaimed theater and film artist, costume designer Franca Squarciapino, creating the performances From Past to Future N.1 and N.2 as part of the Aspettando il Museo events.
In 2024, supported by La Maison des Métallos, she focuses on the research and writing of the Plot in Motion trilogy, including the pieces: Screaming, Couples and Us. She coordinates a workshops project at the International School of Bangkok and directs the cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis for the second consecutive year, thanks to the renewal of the grant from DRAC Île-de-France.
After training in classical and contemporary dance in Milan and Brussels, she began her career as a performer in 2014. She danced for various artists, including Cindy Van Acker, Cie Les Gens d’Uterpan, Romeo Castellucci, Ariella Vidach, Fabio Liberti, and performed at renowned festivals and institutions such as La Monnaie in Brussels, Bolzano Danza, Opéra de Lille, and Venice Biennale Danza.
In 2019, Serena embarked on her choreographic career with her first piece, All Around Me. She won the second prize at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques d’Annecy and was a finalist in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition.
In 2020, she founded the Jukebox Contemporary Dance Company in Paris, aiming to connect her literary and artistic studies with dance practice. Her artistic approach, described as anthropocentric choreography by critics, seeks to narrate lives through the language of movement. The emotions that move (from the Latin “ex-moveo”) and touch human beings are indeed the choreographer’s focus, along with the personality and uniqueness of each performer. Her work has garnered support from French and Italian institutions, including Danse Dense, La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, L’Avant Seine/Théâtre de Colombes, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Micadanses, Maison Populaire, Escales Danse network, Versiliadanza, MPAA Paris, Cantiere Florida Theatre in Florence.
In 2021, she created JUKEBOX, an interactive piece for nine dancers where the audience actively participates through a mobile application. She also collaborated with the director Mitch Hooper for Macbeth at L’Epée de Bois Theater in Paris and created choreographies for Andromaque, directed by Anne Coutureau at Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar.
The 2022/2023 season is filled with projects and collaborations. Serena dedicates herself to the tour of the JUKEBOX show in France, Italy, and Thailand. She starts her new piece Screaming for 12 dancers. She leads a cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis with the support of DRAC Île-de-France, DAC Villeparisis, and local educational institutions. In 2023, she collaborates with internationally acclaimed theater and film artist, costume designer Franca Squarciapino, creating the performances From Past to Future N.1 and N.2 as part of the Aspettando il Museo events.
In 2024, supported by La Maison des Métallos, she focuses on the research and writing of the Plot in Motion trilogy, including the pieces: Screaming, Couples and Us. She coordinates a workshops project at the International School of Bangkok and directs the cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis for the second consecutive year, thanks to the renewal of the grant from DRAC Île-de-France.
SERENA MALACCO
Serena Malacco, choreographer and artistic director of Jukebox Contemporary Dance Company, is an Italian multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. Her interest in crossings between literature, cinema, visual arts, and choreography dates back to her high school and university studies. In 2012, she graduated in Modern Literature from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis titled The “savage value” of beauty: Poetics of the defect in Jean Dubuffet and Pina Bausch.
After training in classical and contemporary dance in Milan and Brussels, she began her career as a performer in 2014. She danced for various artists, including Cindy Van Acker, Cie Les Gens d’Uterpan, Romeo Castellucci, Ariella Vidach, Fabio Liberti, and performed at renowned festivals and institutions such as La Monnaie in Brussels, Bolzano Danza, Opéra de Lille, and Venice Biennale Danza.
In 2019, Serena embarked on her choreographic career with her first piece, All Around Me. She won the second prize at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques d’Annecy and was a finalist in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition.
In 2020, she founded the Jukebox Contemporary Dance Company in Paris, aiming to connect her literary and artistic studies with dance practice. Her artistic approach, described as anthropocentric choreography by critics, seeks to narrate lives through the language of movement. The emotions that move (from the Latin “ex-moveo”) and touch human beings are indeed the choreographer’s focus, along with the personality and uniqueness of each performer. Her work has garnered support from French and Italian institutions, including Danse Dense, La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, L’Avant Seine/Théâtre de Colombes, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Micadanses, Maison Populaire, Escales Danse network, Versiliadanza, MPAA Paris, Cantiere Florida Theatre in Florence.
In 2021, she created JUKEBOX, an interactive piece for nine dancers where the audience actively participates through a mobile application. She also collaborated with the director Mitch Hooper for Macbeth at L’Epée de Bois Theater in Paris and created choreographies for Andromaque, directed by Anne Coutureau at Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar.
The 2022/2023 season is filled with projects and collaborations. Serena dedicates herself to the tour of the JUKEBOX show in France, Italy, and Thailand. She starts her new piece Screaming for 12 dancers. She leads a cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis with the support of DRAC Île-de-France, DAC Villeparisis, and local educational institutions. In 2023, she collaborates with internationally acclaimed theater and film artist, costume designer Franca Squarciapino, creating the performances From Past to Future N.1 and N.2 as part of the Aspettando il Museo events.
In 2024, supported by La Maison des Métallos, she focuses on the research and writing of the Plot in Motion trilogy, including the pieces: Screaming, Couples and Us. She coordinates a workshops project at the International School of Bangkok and directs the cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis for the second consecutive year, thanks to the renewal of the grant from DRAC Île-de-France.
After training in classical and contemporary dance in Milan and Brussels, she began her career as a performer in 2014. She danced for various artists, including Cindy Van Acker, Cie Les Gens d’Uterpan, Romeo Castellucci, Ariella Vidach, Fabio Liberti, and performed at renowned festivals and institutions such as La Monnaie in Brussels, Bolzano Danza, Opéra de Lille, and Venice Biennale Danza.
In 2019, Serena embarked on her choreographic career with her first piece, All Around Me. She won the second prize at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques d’Annecy and was a finalist in the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition.
In 2020, she founded the Jukebox Contemporary Dance Company in Paris, aiming to connect her literary and artistic studies with dance practice. Her artistic approach, described as anthropocentric choreography by critics, seeks to narrate lives through the language of movement. The emotions that move (from the Latin “ex-moveo”) and touch human beings are indeed the choreographer’s focus, along with the personality and uniqueness of each performer. Her work has garnered support from French and Italian institutions, including Danse Dense, La Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, L’Avant Seine/Théâtre de Colombes, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Micadanses, Maison Populaire, Escales Danse network, Versiliadanza, MPAA Paris, Cantiere Florida Theatre in Florence.
In 2021, she created JUKEBOX, an interactive piece for nine dancers where the audience actively participates through a mobile application. She also collaborated with the director Mitch Hooper for Macbeth at L’Epée de Bois Theater in Paris and created choreographies for Andromaque, directed by Anne Coutureau at Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar.
The 2022/2023 season is filled with projects and collaborations. Serena dedicates herself to the tour of the JUKEBOX show in France, Italy, and Thailand. She starts her new piece Screaming for 12 dancers. She leads a cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis with the support of DRAC Île-de-France, DAC Villeparisis, and local educational institutions. In 2023, she collaborates with internationally acclaimed theater and film artist, costume designer Franca Squarciapino, creating the performances From Past to Future N.1 and N.2 as part of the Aspettando il Museo events.
In 2024, supported by La Maison des Métallos, she focuses on the research and writing of the Plot in Motion trilogy, including the pieces: Screaming, Couples and Us. She coordinates a workshops project at the International School of Bangkok and directs the cultural action residency project in schools in Villeparisis for the second consecutive year, thanks to the renewal of the grant from DRAC Île-de-France.