Francesco Dalmasso
artist curator

Francesco Dalmasso is a dancer, maker and researcher. After graduating from ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de kunsten (NL), he works as freelance dancer and performer in Italy and Europe for companies, projects and museums.

Since 2014, together with Elisa D’Amico, they have developed a collaborative artistic practice, working on research projects and productions, which they shape in different formats. Their collaboration is a place where questions and intuitions keep bouncing and multiplying.
Starting from a specific object of interest, they articulate thoughts, movement and writing practices, choreographic discourses, relational bodies and dances. In this process, the body in motion becomes a channel for knowledge, understanding and discovery, letting intuitions and unfoldings emerge. They are associated artists of Zerogrammi.

He collaborates with Elisabetta Consonni as choreography and dramaturgical assistant.
He is part of the organization of the sharing training platform shared training torino.
Since 2018, he has been co-curator of Workspace Ricerca X.

Elisa D’Amico
artist curator

Elisa D’Amico works in the field of performing arts and dance. She navigates research and creation, moving between physical practices, writing and scores, often in close collaboration with Francesco Dalmasso. Their collaborative artistic practice interweaves research, creation and curatorial practices.

As a dancer she collaborates with independent choreographers, companies, visual artists in Italy and Europe. Over the years she has encountered the work of, among others, Annika Pannitto, Mirko Guido, Chrysanthi Badeka, Cie La Bagarre_Erika Di Crescenzo, Pablo Bronstein, Aline Nari/Aldes, Roberto Castello/Aldes, Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup, De Stilte, Lucia Guarino/Nexus.
Graduated from ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL) with a Minor in Maker, a two-year program focused on artistic research, she is part of the project shared training torino, she is an associate artist of Zerogrammi, and works as Development Associate of Dance Italia.
Since 2020, she has been the co-curator of the Workspace Ricerca X.

Ambra Pittoni
artist curator

Ambra Pittoni’s research pushes the boundaries of bodily engagement and spatial contexts, probing these realms for their affective and epistemological potentials. Her work traverses environmental installation, choreography, sound experimentation, and writing, crafting circumstances that explore collective dwelling, spatial and somatic fiction, and embodied knowledge. In 2017 she founded The School of the End of Time alongside Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti. Her pedagogical methods have led her to visiting professorships at various art universities and independent institutions. Currently, she lectures on Multimedia Installations at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna. As a PhD candidate at the Linz University of the Arts, Pittoni’s practice-based research project, “The Promise of the Abyss: Body Practices and New Spaces of Knowledge,” earned her a fellowship at the VALIE EXPORT Center in 2022. Her work continues to redefine the intersections of body, space, and collective processes of knowing.
Since 2018 she has been co-curator of Workspace Ricerca X.

Erika Di Crescenzo
founder

Ricercatrice indipendente nel campo del teatro e della danza, antropologia, filosofia, mistica. Laureata al Dams con una tesi di carattere antropologico, ha frequentato la scuola di danza classica Academié Principesse Grace di Montecarlo, il Programma de Recherche et Composition Coreographique presso la Fondation Royaumont di Parigi, e il master in progettazione culturale presso Fondazione Fitzcarrardo. Ha modellato il suo percorso di autrice e performer attraverso creazioni originali principalmente in Italia, Francia e Svizzera (The Fish, Etude pour la Sainteté, Asfissia, Clara Falls in Love, La Bagarre, Tentativi Vergini di Oscenità, E20, E questo è, etc..).
Lavora come regista, e coreografa, interprete, autrice, danzatrice, performer, curatrice, organizzatrice, davanti e dietro le quinte nel campo della danza e teatro contemporaneo.
Nel 2015 con Carlotta Scioldo fonda il progetto Workspace Ricerca X, che cura fino al 2021.

Carlotta Scioldo
founder

Carlotta Scioldo is a researcher and consultant focusing on EU cultural policies. Through her professional and academic trajectory, she has acquired a multifaced view of the cultural and creative sector in Europe. Her fundamental drive is to bridge the communication gap between the cultural sector and policymaking, ensuring that the functioning and aspirations of the artistic field are effectively conveyed. With this motivation, she has worked as dance dramaturg, joined the Creative Europe Unit at EACEA, and served as Network Manager and Policy Advisor the European Dancehouse Network.
Carlotta completed her Ph.D. on how European Transnational Networks operate in the Cultural Sector at DIST the Interfaculty Department of the University and Polytechnic of Turin, and she was visiting researcher at the UCL’s Public Policy Department. Her work questions the political and empirical implications of Transnational Networks in the EU’s cultural sphere and the external dimension. Her doctoral dissertation has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2023 ENCATC Award.
She holds two master’s degrees, the first in Theater Studies from IUAV in Venice, the second in Cultural Projects for Development from ITC-ILO and UNESCO Centre in Turin. Carlotta’s expertise was also acknowledged through a visiting fellowship at New York University.
In 2015, together with Erika Di Crescenzo, she founded Workspace Ricerca X. She has been curating the project until 2018.

Andrea Macchia
image

Photographer.