We are proud of our diverse team of dancers.

Chiara Cascino

I broke down seemingly insurmountable barriers and I was finally able to get to know myself, to experiment, to allow my most intimate feelings to come out. Nowadays dance is my safe place. It is a beautiful and powerful journey in space and time, literally without any limit. It is thanks to Dance that I found out that the world around me is not just black or white, but instead is full of many different colours and shades. This has changed my vision of life. Dancing is a huge privilege and it nourishes my soul.

Fun fact: I was planning to be in the military before I fantasised a life in the arts

Born: Palermo, Italy in 1998

Experience:
2022-2024: Choreography assistant of Etienne Bechàrd, Louis Stiens,Anne Jung, Yoshito Sakuraba, Rome
November 2023: Guest dancer at Mongrove Festival, China
2022-2024: Internship with Spellbound Contemporary Ballet
September 2022: Mauro Astolfi’s choreography assistant in St. Gallen at Tanzkompanie, Switzerland

Education:
2022-2024: “NEXT PROGRAM”, 2019- 2022 Graduated at Dance Arts Faculty, Rome
2015- 2017: Graduated at “Balletto di Roma” Paola Jorio

Chiara Cascino
Marta Crocamo

Dance is the most intimate way I know to exist—there’s no way to filter or hold back, it’s just me. Moving together creates a kind of connection I haven’t found anywhere else. Watching others, catching fragments of their work, feeds my curiosity and pushes me deeper into who I am as an artist. I believe the most beautiful thing we can do is give the audience a chance to step out of reality—to enter our world for a moment, lose track of time, and leave with something that stays with them.

Fun fact: I love baking, it’s another way I express creativity and show love to the people around me. I often catch myself imagining what it would be like to run my own bakery… there would definitely be brownies!

Born: Novara, Italy, 2004

Experience:
2024–2026: Apprentice with Ballett Plauen-Zwickau, Germany

Education:
2023–2024: DART DSP Contemporary Dance Program, Berlin, Germany
2020–2023: Ballettschule Theater Basel, Switzerland

Marta Crocamo
Fernando Gabriel Luis

Art has always been present in my life. For me, dance reflects what opera represents for Wagner: the great total work of art. An extreme form of expression, fusion, and cohesion. An international language that, through its physicality, expresses millions of emotions and feelings. A passion that has become a profession.

Fun fact: You can find me either sending an email or with a glass of wine in my hand (or both).Love the sea and my doggies.

Born: Santa Úrsula, Tenerife, 1993

Experience:
2023-24: PR Evolution Dance Company
2018-2023: ⁠Royal Ballet Fehérvár
2016-2018: Dantzaz Company
2013-2016: ⁠Danza en Superior / Dansup
2010-2013: ⁠Ballets de Tenerife

Education:
2013-2020: Conservatorio Superior de Danza María de Ávila, Madrid
2013-2020: ⁠Centro Internacional de Danza de Tenerife
⁠Escuela de Ballet del Sauzal

Fernando Gabriel Luis
Rut Nache Lopez

I feel a lot, I think a lot and I move a lot. Dance is the place where all can merge as a whole, where I am not too much or too little. Dance is where my deepest sense of soul can honestly thrive. I want to move an audience so that they can feel freely in their way, question without judgment to themselves and be unlimitedly curious, as much as I am. Pushing what is stablished and inspiring whilst getting inspired. Giving and receiving, conversation, exchange; stryking to find a balance in this unstable present. I aim to find a balance through dance by being fearlessly extreme and simultaneously present in the now.

Born: Altafulla, Spain, 2000

Experience:
2024: Soloist as ‘la Niña’ in Astor Piazzolla-Horacio Ferrer: ‘María de Buenos Aires’, Csokonai Theatre, Hungary
2023-2024: Apprenticeship Csokonai Theatre
2022-2023: Apprenticeship ImPerfect Dancers, Italy
2021: Re-imagination of Rudolf Laban’s ‘Drumstick’ with Alison Curtis-Jones, UK

Education:
2018-2022: BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK

Rut Nache Lopez
Matthew Joseph Retcho

It is very cliché to say that “life is dance”, but I really do believe that. We are a part of a system originating from movements and bodies staying in motion since life’s conception. The cells of our make up never stop moving and or evolving. How beautiful is that? Before we are born, we are moving and after our death we remain in motion. I’m interested in the human experience that binds our flesh and that can be guided into choreography.

Fun fact: I like green and I like trees, a lot.

Born: Mahwah New Jersey, United States, 2000

Experience:
2023: FRESCO Dance Company
Education:
2019-2023: Joffrey Ballet School

Matthew Joseph Retcho
Elise Paris Turco

My mother first enrolled me in dance lessons when I was 3 years old, as she didn’t know how to handle my high energy levels. I guess it stuck with me. Movement has always been my way of speaking. Words have always been difficult for me but with movement I can string together a whole story.

Fun fact: I love to sing and it was my dream to join the circus when I was 10 years old.

Born: Sydney, Australia, 2001

Experience:
Apprenticeship with kibbutz contemporary dance company 2

Education:
2015-2017: Alegria ballet studios
2017-2018: Rudra Bejart ballet Lausanne
2019: Sydney Dance Company pre professional
2021: kibbutz contemporary dance company masa program

Elise Paris Turco
Varga Bendegúz

I have been dancing since childhood, thanks to my parents. I started with show dance, then discovered the world of contemporary dance. Its depth and diversity quickly made it clear to me that this is what I want to pursue. What I enjoy most about what I do is that every day brings a new challenge and a different experience. Learning and performing different choreographies always excites me.

Fun fact: I enjoy playing board games and trying out different sports.

Born: Kecskemét, Hungary, 1999

Experience:
Dancer at Budapest Dance Theatre for 5 years

Education:
Hungarian Dance University

Varga Bendegúz
Lina Verveckken

To live more intensely. To experience things that might otherwise not be felt so deeply. To feel every cell of this ever-changing body that we inhabit as we move through life on this earth. To feel music so deeply that it needs to be manifested into a physical space. I dance because it allows me to be anyone, anything, giving me the freedom to express and share as deeply as (I) needed. A freedom so deep that it has no choice but to move me through time.

Fun fact: From a young age on I have been intrigued by the art of doll making.

Born: Antwerp, Belgium, 2002

Experience:
2025: Café d’Amour by Laboratorio Danza
2024 - 2025: Bern Ballett (Bühnen Bern)
2023 - 2024: Apprenticeship with Bern Ballett (Bühnen Bern)

Education:
2020 - 2024: ArtEZ University of the Arts (Bachelor Dance Artist), The Netherlands
2017 - 2020: De! Kunsthumaniora Hedendaagse Dans Antwerp, Belgium

Lina Verveckken
Valerio Zaffalon

I grew up surrounded by art. It's like it was already part of my dna since before I was born. I consider myself a curious human being on a constant self discovery, trying to slowly understand what tools I can master in order to fully embrace the beauty and mistery of life."

Fun fact: I love cooking, fashion design, photography and cinema. I believe in ghosts and I like taxidermy.

Born: Chieri,Turin, Italy, 1999

Experience:
2016: La Scala Opera "I due Foscari" World premiere
2018/2019 : English National Ballet (Nutcracker-My First Swan Lake-Cinderella)
2019/2023: Fehervari Balett Szinhaz
Since 2023: Csokonai National Theatre

Education:
2013-2014: Teatro Carcano coreographic centre
2014-2016: La Scala Ballet School
2016-2019: English National Ballet School

Valerio Zaffalon