SERENA MALACCO

Serena Malacco was born in Milan in 1990. Throughout high school and university her studies focused on literature. In 2012 she graduated in Modern Literature from the Catholic University of Milan with the thesis The “wild value” of beauty: the poetics of the defect in Jean Dubuffet and Pina Bausch.

After a classical and contemporary dance education between Milan and Brussels, in 2014 she started her career as a dancer, performing in the works of, among others, Cindy Van Acker, Cie Les Gens d’Uterpan, Romeo Castellucci, Ariella Vidach, Fabio Liberti, Cie Dehors/Audela, Luca Silvestrini in theatres and festivals such as La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Bolzano Danza, Biennale Danza di Venezia, and Oriente Occidente.

In 2018 she moved to Paris. Her work as a choreographer is supported by La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, la Ménagerie de Verre de Paris, Danse Dense, Versiliadanza, MPAA Paris, Teatro Cantiere Florida in Florence, Anghiari Dance Hub, and San Raffaele University in Milan.

In 2019 her first production All Around Me won second place at Annecy Rencontres Chorégraphiques and was a finalist at the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition. In 2020 she started her new work, JUKEBOX, an interactive piece for nine dancers, where the audience has a decisive role in the structure of the piece, participating thanks to a mobile application.

SERENA MALACCO

Serena Malacco was born in Milan in 1990. Throughout high school and university her studies focused on literature. In 2012 she graduated in Modern Literature from the Catholic University of Milan with the thesis The “wild value” of beauty: the poetics of the defect in Jean Dubuffet and Pina Bausch.

After a classical and contemporary dance education between Milan and Brussels, in 2014 she started her career as a dancer, performing in the works of, among others, Cindy Van Acker, Cie Les Gens d’Uterpan, Romeo Castellucci, Ariella Vidach, Fabio Liberti, Cie Dehors/Audela, Luca Silvestrini in theatres and festivals such as La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Bolzano Danza, Biennale Danza di Venezia, and Oriente Occidente.

In 2018 she moved to Paris. Her work as a choreographer is supported by La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne, la Ménagerie de Verre de Paris, Danse Dense, Versiliadanza, MPAA Paris, Teatro Cantiere Florida in Florence, Anghiari Dance Hub, and San Raffaele University in Milan.

In 2019 her first production All Around Me won second place at Annecy Rencontres Chorégraphiques and was a finalist at the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition. In 2020 she started her new work, JUKEBOX, an interactive piece for nine dancers, where the audience has a decisive role in the structure of the piece, participating thanks to a mobile application.