Francesca is an Italian dance artist based in Rome, Italy.
She graduated from the BA Contemporary Dance at National Dance Academy of Rome before achieving the MA Choreography from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with a postgraduate bursary award.
Francesca has over fifteen years of experience in dance teaching at various age ranges, abilities and levels and she is specialised in improvisation training, mindful movement, floorwork and dynamic release. In 2016 she joined the teaching team at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London as a graduate intern for undergraduate and postgraduate dance technique classes. Among others, she taught for Trinity Laban Summer School, Vi.P. Danza in Rome, WISPER vzw (Belgium), and the British Academy of Dramatic Combat (BADC) in London. In 2020 she joined the artistic organisation WISPER vzw (Belgium) as responsible for the dance department of Leuven and Antwerp. There she curates and offers various contemporary dance courses open to adults with different abilities, backgrounds and levels across Belgium.
Born in Rome, in 2026 Francesca is finally coming home. She spent eleven impactful years teaching and learning across Europe. Today, she imports that vast experience back home. Her purpose is to help individuals to reconnect to their own bodies through movement and transformative community teaching. Every session is both playful and graceful, restoring the pure joy of motion.
Francesca’s scientific background is highly informative for her choreographic choices. Space design, time perception, sound and movement cohesion are all shared aspects of her practice. As a choreographer, Francesca has developed works based on the application of astrophysics principles and kinesthetic perception to the choreographic process.
Among others, Francesca performed for choreographers Giorgio Rossi, Walter Matteini, Enzo Cosimi and Roberta Romei and worked with choreographers Lizzi Kew Ross, Daisy Farris, Martin Nachbar and Jacqueline Bulnes (Martha Graham Dance Company) as rehearsal assistant/ director.
As part of her ongoing professional development, she regularly attends workshops in UK, Austria, Slovenia, Belgium and Italy.
Francesca is also a 200hrs Registered Yoga Teacher at Yoga Alliance on her pathway to the 500 hrs RYT qualification. For more details check her Yoga space.
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