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Federica Porello
Dancer, choreographer, improviser, activist and pedagogue. She trained at the P.A.R.T.S. school (performing arts research and training studios) in Brussels (2002- 2006). In 2020 she started training in craniosacral biodynamics with Carme Renalies.
She has worked as a performer with the choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, the visual artist Anne Kathrine Dolven, the theater company Tg Stan, the object and puppet theater company AdonK!, the dance company ACME/Albert Quesada and the shadow theater company Le Théâtre de Nuit. In 2013 he joined the Catalan company Mal Pelo, as a performer and assistant director, and from 2016 he is part of the Belgian company ZOO/ Thomas Hauert.
In her path of research and creation, she focuses on the development of improvisation practices that put in dialogue the body and objects, movement and music, the poetic act and the political act.
In 2012 she begins to develop the practice Danza de Objetos, movement improvisation tools that include the object as an extension of the body, companion or landscape. The practice fed the creation of the shows WeWood (2018), Nowhen (2022) and VICINI (2024), created in collaboration with the dancers Marine Broise, Maria Mora and Majo Villafaina, the dancer and light designer Xavi Moreno and the composer Fanny Thollot, with the assistance in the construction of objects by Pep Aymerich and the artistic assistance of Leo Castro.
On the other hand, she explores the dialogue and analogies between the language of movement and music, developing the practice Musicality of Gesture and collaborating regularly with musicians in the creation of interdisciplinary and audiovisual performances: saxophonist Ilan Manouach, violinist Joel Bardolet, percussionist Núria Andorrà, cellist Daniel Claret, pianist Àlex Ramirez and guitarist Clement Nourry/Under The Reefs Orchestra.
In 2015 she is co-founder of Group LaBolsa, a group of independent artists with shared interests in relation to score-based movement research for stage improvisation.
She shares her improvisation experiences and tools by teaching at different dance schools and festivals. She also assists as an external look at artists; creations, accompanying them in the definition of the artist´s own language and the work.
In 2017 she receives the “Ciutat de Barcelona” Award and the “Premio de la Crítica de Barcelona” for her interpretation of Bach, a work by María Muñoz/Mal Pelo, created in 2004 and passed on to her in 2016.
In 2019 and 2021 she is nominated for the Butaca de Barcelona Award as best female performer respectively for her performance in On Goldberg Variations/ Variations and Highlands, two creations of the company Mal Pelo.