Save the Last Dance for Me

Alessandro Sciarroni is an Italian artist active in the field of Performing Arts with several years of experience in visual arts and theater research. His work starts from a conceptual Duchamp-like matrix using a theatrical framework and they are featured in festivals, museums and unconventional spaces, in whole Europe, South and North America and Asia. In his creations he involves professionals from different disciplines and uses some techniques and experiences from dance, as well as circus or sports. His work tries to uncover obsessions, fears and fragilities of the act of performing, through the repetition of a practice to the limits of the physical endurance of the interpreters, looking at a different dimension of time, and to an empathic relationship between the audience and the performers. In 2019 he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance by the Venice Biennial.

Alessandro Scarroni is associate artist of MARCHE TEATRO.

Gianmaria Borzillo was born in Sorrento in 1995. Dancer, performer, and director, after attending classical studies, he graduated from the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan and studied, among others, with Ariella Vidach, Biagio Caravano, Enzo Cosimi, Annamaria Ajmone, Cristina Rizzo, Maria Consagra, Ida Kuniaki, and Paola Lattanzi. His studies were complemented by training and workshop experiences with Erna Ómarsdóttir & Valdimar Jóhannsson, Virgilio Sieni, Leonardo Lidi, Dante Antonelli, Collettivo Cinetico and Anagoor. He graduated in modern literature with a thesis on film aesthetics and continued his studies in cinema and literature. In 2018, he collaborated with Israeli choreographer Dana Yahalomi and her collective Public Movement. In 2019, he supervised the scenic movements in Saul by Giovanni Ortoleva. He is a dancer in Augusto and Save the Last Dance for Me by Alessandro Sciarroni, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Dance Biennale. He is a performer in Nanaminagura by Antonio Ianniello. His first original work, Under the Influence, received a special mention at the under-30 call for directors at the Venice Biennale under the direction of Antonio Latella in 2020 and a special mention from the jury (Ippolita Di Majo, Maurizio Braucci, Davide Iodice, Roberto Andò, Viola Ardone) at the Premio Leo De Berardinis / Teatro di Napoli.

Giovanfrancesco Giannini is a dancer and choreographer who graduated from the Civica scuola Paolo Grassi Milan. He collaborates with Alessandro Sciarroni, Francesca Foscarini, Cie Eco Emilio Calcagno, Fabbrica Europa. He is an associate artist of Körper- Centro di Produzione della Danza and of Aiep- Ariella Vidach. He has danced for Sang Jijia, Dimitris Papaioannou, Stefano Poda, Luca Veggetti, Mathilde Rosier, Dominique Dupuy, Ismael Ivo. His works have been presented at the Santarcangelo Festival, Nao Performing Festival, FOG Triennale performing festival, Fabbrica Europa, CCDC festival Hong Kong, Korperformer, Secret Florence. The Memories project is among the winners of the Crossing The Sea 2019 call. In 2020, he was among the Italian artists selected for CRISOL.