Artistic Director: Vanessa Tamburi
Artistic Associate: Cecilia Fontanesi
Film Curator: Nancy Allison
Artistic advisors board
Cecilia Fontanesi, Nancy Allison, Elizabetta Minutoli, Alessia Della Casa
Founders: Vanessa Tamburi, Enzo Celli
Producer Organization & Coordination: FLUSSO dance project
Admin: Cecilia Fontanesi
Press office, Communication, Promotion: TBD
Visual artist design: Valentina Celada
Graphic Design: Christian DeLuna-Zuno
Website, Social media: FLUSSO dance project
Promotion support: Alexandra Baxter/ Gigia Perenze
Vanessa Tamburi worked as a solo dancer for important European theaters (the Ballet of Montecarlo, the Hamburg Ballet and the Vienna Opera Ballet). Over the years, she developed experimental work, melding dance with theatre, visual and multimedia arts. Her choreographies have been performed in Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, and the United States. In 2007 she established the "FLUSSO Dance Project". She is the Artistic Advisor of the Visa 2 Dance and Time2dance dance festivals in Tanzania. She lived and worked in New York City from 2011 to 2018. Her work has been presented in many festivals and platforms of the NYC dance scene and abroad. She is the founder and the Artistic Director of IDACO nyc - Italian DAnce COnnectiona and she is an associate artist of New York Live Arts. Currently she lives in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Enzo Celli - Experimentation and research are the key to the interpretation of Enzo Celli’s work. In 2013 Igal Perry has asked Enzo Celli, Ohad Naharin, Dwight Rhoden and Sidra Bell, to create new work for Peridance Contemporary Dance Company.
Below are some of the choreographer’s most important works and collaborations: In June 2006 he was one of the choreographers of the event “L’amour et son amour, l’uomo che danza e la sua aspirazione”, performed by Roberto Bolle, Vladimir Derevianko and Viviana Durante at Todi Festival; in June 2006 Botega Dance Company, together with Alvin Ailey Company, Bèjart Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet and Staatsballet München, he joined at the Dance Gala “Amores”; in 2008 Enzo Celli collaborated with the Russian Drama Theatre; and performed at the Na Strastnom Theatre in Moscow. In October 2008 performed “Subway” at La Cigale Theatre in Paris. In 2010 he was a guest at the Erfurt Opera House (Germany). His latest work, Giselle, debuted at Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome with fifteen minutes of applause in November 2014.
Cecilia Fontanesi is a Dancer, Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) and Neuroscience PhD at CUNY, The Graduate Center. She is Core Faculty at the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, LIMS (New York), as well as Adjunct Faculty in the Dance Department at Marymount Manhattan College. She combines her performative and teaching practice with community effort as a Dance/Movement Therapist, working with people with Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s disease. She is currently supported by the Overtime Dance Foundation as a dance artist.
Nancy Allison is a New York-based performer, filmmaker and educator. Her award-winning films have screened at festivals throughout the world including the Venice International Film Festival (2017), International Festival of Films on Art in Montréal (2016) and Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera Festival (2015). A Certified Movement Analyst, she has taught at New York University, Laban-Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS/NY), Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (CANADA) and in Italy at Università di Venezia/Ca’ Foscari, Centro Teatro di Ricerca and Laboratorio Danza Contemporanea di Laura Boato.
Elisabetta Minutoli dances for Enzo Celli's Italian company Botega from 2008 and from 2014 became associate artistic director of the company. Elisabetta did her dance training in Italy in Rome and in Balletto di Toscana in Florence and later studied in New York at Steps on Broadway ,at Dance New Amsterdam, and at Peridance. In 2008 she worked with Molissa Fenley at the American Academy in Rome where Fenley's Cosmati Variations was set on her; she subsequentely performed the New York premiere of the work in 2009. In Italy she worked with Luc Bouy in his “Carmina Burana in jazz”(2010),she has performed in the musical Lady Oscar at Teatro Sistina Roma (2009);with Elisa Monte Dance Company at the Pergine Spettacolo Aperto Festival (2006);with Gloria Pomardi in the musical Datemi tre Caravelle, performing at the Teatro Greco Taormina, Teatro Sistina and throughout Italy,(2005);and with the Mvula Sungani Italian Dance Theatre touring throughout Italy performing Bernarda Alba and Sud Africa (2003).She has also worked with Marika Vannuzzi, Anabella Lenzu, Oxana Malitskaia, Mariapia Di Mauro and Franco Miseria
Alessia Della Casa is Originally from Ticino , Switzerland. She holds a 3-year degree from the Ballet Academy in Riga, Latvia and a 2-year certificate in Cunningham Technique from the Cunningham Studio, in New York City. After her classical training, Alessia joined the Mojalet dance collective in San Diego for 3 months and studied modern dance in Rome for 6 months. In 2009 she moved to New York where she received a scholarship at the Cunningham Studio, where she studied with Merce Cunningham's assistant and company members. After the enriching experience of studying American modern dance, Alessia danced for NYC based contemporary artists Anita Cheng, Sally Bowden, Vanessa Tamburi, Olsi Gjeci among others, and later started developing her own choreographies. Her work was presented in the united sTates and Switezerland. She was selected to take part in the Choreographic Lab 2014 ( Luzern, CH) and was invited to a summer residency in Losone, CH (2014). Alessia is also a GYROTONIC® AND GYROKINESIS® instructor. She is the founder and artistic director of the festival Ticino in Danza, that since 2013 takes place in Switzerland
Valentina Celada's "immersion" in the world of theatre, dance and music enriched her continuous research and experimentation in the perception and expression of the form. In order to “feel” the form, enhance spontaneity and bypass the rational brain, Valentina uses experimental techniques such as drawing with long sticks at the end of which she attaches her art tools.
Valentina’s first solo exhibition Figuring It was in May 2010 at 255Canal Gallery out in New York City. Since then she participated in a number of group shows held at The Pen and Brush, Inc. of New York, the most recent of which was Celebrating Women’s Work. She has also created video animation pieces for e-books and illustrations for various projects. The last two exhibits were an environmental themed show called Detritus at the Viridian Artists Gallery in Chelsea and an exhibit of her illustrations at The South Street Studios Gallery respectively in April and September 2015