Contemporary Dance Course

About the teacher

Samantha Franchini was born in Milan in 1981, after ballet, jazz, modern and contemporary dance studies, she started her apprenticeship with Loris Petrillo and after few months she became a member of his company.

In 2005 she began a six-year collaboration with Compagnia Zappalà Danza that ended when she decided to move to Berlin

Here she took part to Constanza Macras//Dorky Park last production "Forest: The Nature of Crisis".

From end of 2013 she invested in a project with Luana Rossetti, with whom created "Dumplings".

In my class I'll lead the dancer through different levels of movements with the purpose of bring his body back to his natural state and create awareness about anatomy and physicality.

I integrate the class with some elements from capoeira and acrobatic and after a dynamic warm up we'll work on disarticulation, contact improvisation and choreographic sequencies, learning how to move our own body,

consciously, through the space.

My classes are also open to actors, acrobats, etc.

Qualifications

From 1995 to 2005 I studied contemporary dance with:

_Enzo Paolo Turchi (S.Carlo_Napoli)
_Michele Merola (MMCompany
_Susanna Giarola (Aterballetto)
_Lucia Geppi (Aterballetto)
_Giacomo Sacenti
_Loris Petrillo
_Loredana Parrella
_Giusy Santagati (Cie Virgilio Sieni)
_Wei Meng Poon (Zappalà Danza)
_Roberto Zappalà

85–92

Ballet studies with:
_Sonia Paltrinieri (Arena Verona)
_Mayra Morelli (Arena Verona)

I'm a professional dancer with a lot of experience in teaching.

Experience

In 2011 she gave contemporary dance classes @ Instituto Fundación Por el Arte (Mendoza_Argentina) and in november 2012 teached Zappalà's repertory at Scenario Pubblico.