Katja CENTONZE

Current Position

6 February 2019-present: Associate Professor, Dept. of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’Foscari, Venezia 
Adjunct Researcher (shōhei kenkyūin) (招聘研究員), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University

Accademic Duties, Dept. of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’Foscari, Venezia

Ÿ   Member of the Research Committee (November 2023-present)

Ÿ   Member of the Undergraduate Teaching Board (October 2019-February 2024)

Ÿ   Member of the Undergraduate Quality Assurance Committee (October 2019-November 2023)

Ÿ   Chair of the Undergraduate Teaching Board (February 2019-October 2019)

Ÿ   Chair of the Undergraduate Quality Assurance Committee (February 2019-October 2019)

Board member Teatro Ca’Foscari (since 2020)
 

Education and Qualification

2021: National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for the function of Full Professor Settore 10/N3; Expiring date: 06/05/2032.

         National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for the function of Associate Professor (10/C1); Expiring date: 31/05/2032.    

2018: National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for the function of Associate Professor (10/N3 area) earned on 6 September             2018.

1998: MA Degree (Laurea magistrale, vecchio ordinamento) in Oriental Languages and Literature (Japanese), Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia. Degree thesis title: “Butō, l’A(na)rchidanza” (grade: 110 summa cum laude).

1990: School Leaving (Maturità Scientifica) from Liceo Scientifico "C. De Giorgi", Lecce (grade: 60/60).

Scientific Board, Peer Review, etc.

Scientific Board Member Edizioni Ca’Foscari – Japanese Studies
Scientific Board Member Arti della performance: orizzonti e culture. Series edited by Matteo Casari and Gerardo Guccini http://www.dar.unibo.it/it/rice rca/prodotti-della-ricerca/arti-della-performance-orizzonti-e-culture.
Editorial board member Marco Polo series
Editorial board member The Future Contemporary: Inquiries into the Visual, Performing, and Media Arts, Cristina Baldacci, Miriam De Rosa, Susanne Franco (eds), Edizioni Ca’Foscari
 

Peer Review for Edizioni Ca’Foscari
Peer Review for conference proceedings Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA)
Peer Review for Danza e ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni
 

01/09-11/11/2018: Jury member of dance festival “Tōkyō Babiron teki dansu korekushon 2018” (東京バビロン的ダンスコレクション2018) (The Tōkyō Babylon-Style Dance Collection), Tokyo Babylon Theatre, Tōkyō.
18/05-06/08/2017: Jury member of theatre festival “Tōkyō Babiron engekisai 2017” (東京バビロン演劇祭2017) (Tokyo Babylon Theatre Festival 2017), Tokyo Babylon Theatre, Tōkyō.
09-24/01/2009: Jury member of“Dansu ga mitai! Shinjin shirīzu 8” (ダンスが見たい！新人シリーズ 8), die pratze New Figure Dance Festival 8, Theatre die pratze, Kagurazaka (Tōkyō).  
07-19/01/2008: Jury member of “Dansu ga mitai! Shinjin shirīzu 7” (ダンスが見たい！新人シリーズ7), die pratze New Figure Dance Festival 7, Theatre d-sōko, Nippori (Tōkyō).
 

Awards, Scholarships, Grants

April 2021 Erasmus+ KA107 Staff Mobility for Training/Teachers (Waseda University ISCED 023) 2020-21.
08/05/2020-2022: Start up Funds (Fondi di primo insediamento), Università Ca’Foscari Venezia. Research project “Challenging Fe/male Bodies: Queering Corporeality against Power” (Katja Centonze H74I19001970005).
17/07-12/08/2019: Overseas Programme-Teaching Staff (Reference Year: 2019), Waseda University, Tokyo.
2009-2010: Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Research Fellowship (Doctoral Candidate, 12 months) (Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, 01/05/2009 - 30/04/2010).
01/04/2008-31/03/2009: Research Assistant (リサーチアシスタント) (RA), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum (Global COE Program), Waseda University.
2007-2008: Canon Foundation in Europe Research Fellowship (Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, 27/04/2007 - 26/04/2008)
2003-2004: Scholarship Italian Institute of Culture Tōkyō/Keiō University (Hijikata Tatsumi Archive, Art Center, Keiō University, 20/10/2003 - 31/08/2004).
2000: “Premio Alcantara” Associazione Amici Italia-Giappone (Fondazione Italia-Giappone).
 

Teaching Activity

’22/’23: Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2 (B.A course); Art, Architecture and Spectacles in Classic Japan (M.A. course), Dept. of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’Foscari, Venezia.
2021/2022; Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2 (B.A course, 3 classes); Art, Architecture and Performance in Japan (M.A. course), Dept. of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’Foscari, Venezia.
 2020/2021 (second semester): Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2 (B.A course); Art, Architecture and Spectacles in Classic Japan (M.A. course), Dept. of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’Foscari, Venezia.
2019/2020 (first semester): Bachelor’s degree programme, Dept. of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’Foscari, Venezia
Japanese Language 2 Mod. 1 (Surnames A-C); Japanese Language 2 Mod. 1 (Surnames D-L); Japanese Language 3 Mod. 1 (Class 1- Humanities track) (Surnames A-L); Japanese Language 3 Mod. 1 (Class 1- Humanities track) (Surnames M-Z).
2018/2019 (second semester): Associate Professor, Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2 (D-L); Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2 (M-R); Japanese Language 1 Mod. 2 (S-Z); Japanese Language Mod. 2 (as second Asian Language), Dept. of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’Foscari, Venezia.
2015/2016-2018/2019: Lecturer (hijōkinkōshi) (非常勤講師) of Italian Language and Culture, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University. Course title:イタリア文化を知る（都市を巡る）[Itaria bunka o shiru (toshi o meguru)]
2005/2006-2008/2009: Lecturer (docente a contratto) of Japanese Language and Literature, Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures, Università della Calabria.
01/10/2002-30/09/2003: Cultore della materia of Japanese Language and Literature (3rd-4th year courses) and History of Japanese Theatre, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Università Ca’Foscari.
01/02/2002-31/01/2003: Lecturer (docente a contratto) of History of Japanese Theatre (second semester), Dept. of East Asian Studies, Università Ca’Foscari.
01/10/2001-30/09/2002: Cultore della materia of Japanese Language and Literature (1st-4th year courses) and History of Japanese Theatre, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Università Ca’Foscari.
2000/2001: Lecturer of Japanese Language and Literature (3rd-4th year courses) and History of Theatre and Spectacle (Japan), Dept. of East Asian Studies, Università Ca’Foscari.
1999/2000: Lecturer of Japanese Language and Literature (3rd-4th year courses) and History of Theatre and Spectacle (Japan), Dept. of East Asian Studies, Università Ca’Foscari.
1998/1999: Cultore della materia of Japanese Language and Literature (3rd-4th year courses) and History of Theatre and Spectacle (Japan), Dept. of East Asian Studies, Università Ca’Foscari.
 

Training, Specialisation and Updates

2011/2012-present: Adjunct Researcher (shōhei kenkyūin) (招聘研究員), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University. Research Project Title: Shintairon to jissen: Hijikata Tatsumi no butō ni okeru “shintai” to “nikutai” o megutte (身体論と実践：土方巽の舞踏における「身体」と「肉体」をめぐって) (Theories on body and practice: shintai and nikutai in Hijikata Tatsumi’s butō).
01/11/2015- 31/10/2017: Research Collaborator (renkei kenkyūsha) (連携研究者), Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University.
2016-2017: Joint Researcher (kyōdō kenkyūin) (共同研究員), NICHIBUNKEN, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyōto).
2007/2008-2010/2011: Visiting Researcher (kyakuin kenkyūin) (客員研究員), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University.
2009-2012: Global Centre of Excellence (COE) Program Special Research Student (Gurōbaru COE puroguramu tokubetsu kenkyūsei) (グローバルCOEプログラム特別研究生), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum,Waseda University.
2008-2009: Global COE Program Special Researcher (tokubetsu kenkyūin) (特別研究員), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum,Waseda University.
2008-2009: Research Assistant (risāchiashisutanto) (リサーチアシスタント) (RA), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University.
2006-2007: 21st Century Centre of Excellence (COE) Programme Special Research Student (21 seiki COE puroguramu tokubetsu kenkyūsei) (21世紀COEプログラム特別研究生), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University.
2003-2005: 21st Century Centre of Excellence (COE) Programme tokubetsu kenkyūsei (特別研究生), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University.
2003-2004: Special Research Student (tokubetsu kenkyūsei) (特別研究生), Keiō University.
 

International and National (abroad) Research Projects

03/05-30/05/2023: Research Project “Urban Dramaturgies in Asia and Beyond: Social Movements, Environmental Crisis and Artistic Practices” in collaboration with Visiting Scholar Peter Eckersall (Graduate Center, The City University of New York).

08/05/2020-2022: Research Project “Challenging Fe/male Bodies: Queering Corporeality against Power” (Katja Centonze H74I19001970005), Start-up Funds (Fondi di primo insediamento), Università Ca’Foscari Venezia.

2019-2022: Interuniversity research project “Il caso Mishima Yukio: Una rilettura critica tra letteratura e storia a cinquant’anni dalla morte”, headed by Prof. Giorgio Amitrano.
24/03-31/08/2018: International research project “Responding to Ko Murobushi” supported by Arts Council Tokyo and organised by Ko Murobushi Archive.
22-25/06/2017: International research group “Ko Murobushi Wandering Archive Vol. 2” which carries out the project “Sokushinbutsu to 'soto' no shintai: Murobushi Kō o megutte” (即身仏と〈外〉の 身体―室伏鴻を巡って), a collaboration between Ko Murobushi Archive and Kōeki University (Tōhoku University of Community Service and Science), Sakata. The project includes field work and a symposium on the sokushinbutsu (self-mummified anachorite) and Murobushi’s performativity.
01/04/2016 (09/2015)-31/03/2017: Takes part as Joint Researcher (kyōdō kenkyūin) in research project “Nihon no butaigeijutsu ni okeru shintai: Shi to sei, ningyō to jinkōtai” (日本の舞台芸術における身体― 死と生、人形と人工体) (The Body in Japanese Performing Arts: Death and life, dolls and artificial bodies) led by Prof. Bonaventura Ruperti, at NICHIBUNKEN, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyōto). Proposed project title: “Hijiikata Tatsumi no nikutairon: Shitai kara shuppatsusuru koto” (土方巽の肉体論―死体から出発すること) (The theory on the nikutai in Hijikata Tatsumi: Starting from the dead body).
01/11/2015- 31/10/2017: Takes part as Research Collaborator (renkei kenkyūsha) (連携研究者) in the Special Research Project (tokutei kadai kenkyū) (特定課題研究) 2015B-080 entitled“Nihon no daigaku ni okeru daini gaikokugo toshite no itariago kyōzai kaihatsu” (日本の大学における第二外国 語としてのイタリア語教材開発) (Teaching material development of Italian language as second foreign language choice in Japanese universities) led by Prof.ssa Francesca Usicco and carried out at Waseda University.
01/04/2011-31/03/2012: Takes part in the Global Center of Excellence (COE) Program as tokubetsu kenkyūsei (特別研究生) (Special Research Student), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University with Prof. Takemoto Mikio (Course: 日本演劇研究コース: 能楽) (Noh and Kyogen, Japanese Theatre Research Course) and Prof. Kataoka Yasuko (Course: 舞踊研究コース) (Dance Research Course). Proposed project title: “Media toshite no shintai: ekkyōsuru Nihon pafōmingu ātsu o megutte” (メディアとしての身体：越境する日本パフォーミング・アーツをめぐって) (The Body as Media: Crossing Borders in Japanese Performing Arts).
01/04/2010-31/03/2011: Takes part in Global COE Program (tokubetsu kenkyūsei) (特別研究生), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University with Prof. Takemoto Mikio (日本演劇研究コース) (Japanese Theatre Research). Proposed project title: “Media toshite no shintai: ekkyōsuru Nihon pafōmingu ātsu o megutte” (メディアとしての身体：越境する日本パフォーミング・アーツをめぐって) (The Body as Media: Crossing Borders in Japanese Performing Arts).
01/04/2009-31/03/2010: Takes part in Global COE Program (tokubetsu kenkyūsei) (特別研究生), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University with Prof. Takemoto Mikio (日本演劇研究コース) (Japanese Theatre Research) e Prof. Kataoka Yasuko (舞踊研究コース)　(Dance Research). Proposed project title: “Media toshite no shintai: ekkyōsuru Nihon pafōmingu ātsu o megutte” (メディアとしての身体：越境する日本パフォーミン グ・アーツをめぐって) (The Body as Media: Crossing Borders in Japanese Performing Arts).
21/01-09/03/2010: Participates in the study project on Hijikata Tatsumi’s text “Yameru Maihime” (病める舞姫) (The ailing dancer) organised by the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive (Keiō University) in collaboration with the theatre company Gekidan 1980 on the occasion of Hijikata’s birth anniversary. This study is in preparation for “‘Yameru maihime’ o akitaben de rōdoku suru: Yoneyama Kunio shōnen ni sasagu” (「病める舞姫」を秋田弁で朗読する―米山九日生少年に捧ぐ), reading-performance in Akita dialect of “Yameru Maihime”, with the participation of Yamaya Hatsuo (Theatre Zamuza, Asagaya, 9 March). Takes part in the previous study trip (supported by Hijikata Tatsumi Archive) to Kakunodate and Akita with Morishita Takashi and Gala Motofuji (Hijikata’s daughter), aimed at rethinking Hijikata’s history and apprehending the dialect of the region for the practice of reading.
01/04/2008-31/03/2009: Takes part in the project Global COE Program as Special Researcher (tokubetsu kenkyūin) (特別研究員), Waseda University with Prof. Takemoto Mikio (日本演劇研究コース) (Japanese Theatre Research Course) and Prof. Kataoka Yasuko (Course: 舞踊研究コース)　(Dance Research). Proposed project title: “Media toshite no shintai: ekkyōsuru Nihon pafōmingu ātsu o megutte” (メディアとしての身体：越境する日本パフォーミング・アーツをめぐって) (The Body as Media: Crossing Borders in Japanese Performing Arts ).
01/04/2007-31/03/2008: Takes part in Global COE Program as tokubetsu kenkyūsei (特別研究生), Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University with Prof. Takemoto Mikio (日本演劇研究コース: 能楽) (Japanese Theatre Research Course: Noh and Kyogen). Proposed project title: “Ekkyō suru nōkyōgen no gijutsu” (越境する能狂言の技術) (Crossing Borders in nōkyōgen Technique).
01/04/2006 – 31/03/2007: Takes part as tokubetsu kenkyūsei (特別研究生) in the research project 21st Century Centre of Excellence (COE) Programme, Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University with Prof. Takemoto Mikio (Course: 古典演劇研究:能楽) (Traditional Japanese Theatre Studies: Noh and Kyogen). Proposed project title: “Ekkyō suru nōkyōgen no gijutsu” (越境する能狂言の技術) (Crossing Borders in nōkyōgen Technique).
01/04/2004–31/03/2005: Takes part as tokubetsu kenkyūsei (特別研究生) in the research project 21st Century COE Programme, Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University with Prof. Takemoto Mikio. Proposed project title: “Koten geinō ni okeru ‘waza’ ni kansuru kenkyū” (古典芸能における「ワザ」に関する研究) (Study on the concept of“waza”in classical theatre).
20/10/2003–31/08/2004: Carries out her research at Keiō University as tokubetsu kenkyūsei (特別研究生) supported by the scholarship Istituto Italiano di Cultura/Keiō University. Carries out intense research at Hijikata Tatsumi Memorial Archive, Research Center for Arts and Arts Administration, Keiō University (tutor: Prof. Sumi Yōichi). At the same time, carries out research at Waseda University (Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum) as tokubetsu kenkyūsei (特別研究生) of the 21st Century COE Programme.
01/04/2003–31/03/2004: Joins the 21st Century Centre of Excellence (COE) Programme as Special Research Student (tokubetsu kenkyūsei) (特別研究生) at Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University with Prof. Takemoto Mikio (Course: Traditional Japanese Theatre Studies: Noh and Kyogen). Proposed project title:“Nōkyōgen no tekisuto-engi ni okeru karada” (能狂言のテキスト・演技におけるのからだ) (The body in the texts and enactment of nō and kyōgen). Takes also part in the nō seminars (世阿弥研究会) led by Prof. Takemoto Mikio, in which Zeami’s texts are philologically examined (attends the seminars until 2011).
 

National and International Symposia and Conferences

10, 11/11/2023: (invited) “Waiting for Itō Hiromi, Kaseki Yūko and Nishi Kanoko’s Performance: Corporeal Words Dancing Sonic Friction”, Workshop and Performance “Transforming a Medieval Saga Into a Contemporary Ballad and Dance Performance”, organised by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Research Area 2: "Travelling Matters", Freie Universitaet Berlin, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities.

13/06/2022: (invited) Research presentation, Working Session I, GAX 2022 “Decolonizing Practices: On Art, Care and Climate Change”, Ca’Bottacin, NICHE, Venezia.
05/05/2022: (invited) “Theatres Towards the Body: Avant-garde Practice and Corporeality”, Convegno internazionale “The Rise of New Theatre and the Theatrical Avant-garde”, Università di Verona (online).
23/02/2022: (invited) “Karada wa kara da: il corpo pieno di vuoto”, International Festival Japan Contemporary Arts in Venice “The Aesthetics of Emptiness”, Auditorium Santa Margherita, Venezia.
25/11/2021: “Mishima Yukio: orditura di drammaturgie e atti performativi”, International symposium “Mishima Yukio e l’atto performativo: drammaturgie di un’artista”, Università di Bologna, DAMSLab/La Soffitta.
14/11/2021: (invited) “Murobushi Kō in bilico sul orlo dell’impossibile”, Teatro Akropolis Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni XII, Palazzo Ducale di Genova.
14/10/2021: PhD lecture “Corpi critici e corpi di crisi: studi accademici e performance”, PhD Programme Asian and African Studies , DSAAM, Palazzo Vendramin.
03/10/2021: (invited) “La danza sul ghiaccio di Hanyū Yuzuru”, Evento Speciale “L’Altro Giappone”: “The Total Package - Tribute to Yuzuru Hanyū”, Napoli (online).
28/08/2021: Closing session Performing Arts Section, Final discussion “Performing Crises Japan: Critical Responses”, online EAJS Conference 2021 (University of Ghent).
28/08/2021: (cfp) “Quicksilvering the Naked Body against Power: Trans-corporealities from kuronuri miira to ginnuri, Panel “Butoh-s in Color-s”, online EAJS Conference 2021 (University of Ghent).
25/11/2020: (invited) “Preludio a ‘Mishima e l’atto performativo: drammaturgie di un artista”. Online conference Preludio a “Mishima e l’atto performativo: drammaturgie di un artista”, Università di Bologna, La Soffitta.
07/11/2020: (invited) “Situare la protesta e il corpo: paradossi nella politica corporale del butō”, International conference Immagini e immaginari del butō. Il corpo tra cinema, fotografia, politica, performatività (Teatro Akropolis Festival Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni XI), Genova, Palazzo Ducale (online).
09/11/2019: (invited) Danza, scrittura, libri. Il caso del Butoh, roundtable/symposium with Samantha Marenzi, Raimondo Guarini and Alessandro Potremoli. Palazzo Ducale, Genova (Teatro Akropolis Festival Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni X).
31/10-01/11/2019: (cfp) “Placing Protest: Paradoxes in Butoh’s Body Politics”, Butoh Next Symposium, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York.
18/07/2018: Lecturer (invited) of “Fukanōsei? Kenryoku to kenkyū” (不可能性？権力と研究) (Impossibilities? Power and Research), within the Responding to Ko Murobushi project, Ko Murobushi Archive Café Shy (Waseda).
13/05/2018: Aftertalk (English) with Bernardo Montet and Nakajima Nanako following Bernardo Montet’s performance Le soleil du nom (a collaboration with Sugimoto Taku), within the Responding to Ko Murobushi project (organised by Ko Murobushi Archive), BUoY Kitasenjū Art Center (Tōkyō).
13/05/2018: Bilingual discussion (self-translation Japanese/English) with Nakajima Nanako on Aesthetics of Impossibility. Murobushi Kō on Hijikata Tatsumi (Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, 2018), within the Responding to Ko Murobushi project (organised by Ko Murobushi Archive), BUoY Kitasenjū Art Center.
30/08-02/09/2017: Speaker (cfp) of“Dance as a Political Choice: Murobushi Kō’s ‘Outside’ Corporeality”, 15th EAJS International Conference 2017, Facultade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH CHAM, Lisbon.
24/06/2017: Speaker (invited) of “Murobushi no hanshūkyōtekina ‘Theatrum Chemicum’: Miira, yamabushi ‘soto’ no nikutaisei” (室伏の反宗教的な〈Theatrum Chemicum〉：木乃伊、山伏と〈外〉の肉体性) (Murobushi’s Antireligious ‘Theatrum Chemicum’: Miira, Yamabushi and the ‘Outside’ Corporeality), International Conference Sokushinbutsu to 'soto' no shintai: Murobushi Kō o megutte (即身仏と〈外〉の身体―室 伏鴻を巡って) (Self-mummified Ascetics and the “Outside” Body: Considering Murobushi Kō), Kōeki University (Tōhoku University of Community Service and Science).
16/07/2016: Speaker of “Hijiikata Tatsumi no nikutairon: Shitai kara shuppatsusuru koto” (土方巽の肉体論―死体から出発すること) (Hijikata Tatsumi’s Nikutai Theory: Starting from the dead body), research project “Nihon no butaigeijutsu ni okeru shintai: Shi to sei, ningyō to jinkōtai” (日本の舞台芸術における身体―死と生、人形と人工体) (The Body in Japanese Performing Arts: Death and life, dolls and artificial bodies), International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyōto).
25/06/2016: Lecturer (invited) of “Nikutai to shisō (Murobushisan, shi to iu no wa ‘soto’ deshō ka?)” [肉体と思想 （室伏さん、死というのは〈外〉でしょうか？)] [Nikutai and Thought (Murobushisan, is Death the “Outside”?), Ko Murobushi Archive Café Shy (Waseda).
22/02/2016: Speaker (invited) of “Murobushi Kō to dansu no kakumei” (室伏鴻とダンスの革命) (Murobushi Kō and the Revolution of Dance), International Symposium, Murobushi Kō Festival “Soto” no sen’ya ichiya Outside (〈外〉の千夜一夜 Outside), Akarenga (Yokohama).
21/11/2015: Guest speaker (invited) of “Misemono to Hijikata Tatsumi no butō ni okeru ‘misenai’: Shikaku bunkaron o koete” (見世物と土方巽の舞踏における〈見せない〉―視覚文化論を超えて) (The “non showing” in misemono and Hijikata Tatsumi’s butō: Beyond Visual Culture Studies), Misemono gakkai (見世物学会), Misemono goya, Hanazono Jinja, Tōkyō.
28/10/2015: Takes part in “Artaud 24 ore. Ancora un giorno (a parlare di teatro) per Artaud”, round-table with Matteo Casari, Marco De Marinis, Yūki Isshi, Akuta Masahiko, Cinzia Toscano, Laboratorio delle Arti/Auditorium, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna.
28/08-01/09/2015: Speaker (cfp) of “Fluid Corporealities: Hijikata Tatsumi’s Bodies Trembling between States of Crisis”, Performance Studies International 2015 Tohoku, Aomori Museum of Art.
02-03/03/2015: Speaker (invited) of “Vibrations of March 11 in Japan’s Performance Scene: Yamakawa Fuyuki and the Sound of Radioactivity”, International Conference Rethinking Nature in Contemporary Japan: Facing the Crisis, Dip. sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea, Ca’Foscari, Venezia.
25/09/2014: Participates in the presentation of the volume Mutamenti dei linguaggi nella scena contemporanea in Giappone (ed. Bonaventura Ruperti, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2014), Aula Baratto, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia.
18-20/09/2014: Speaker (cfp) of “Letteratura invaghita del corpo: La danza di Hijikata Tatsumi riflessa nelle parole di Mishima Yukio”, XXXVIII AISTUGIA, Università del Salento, Lecce.  
06-08/06/2014: Speaker (invited) of “Butoh in Europe: Oscillations between Butoh and Contemporary Dance”, Butoh Season: International Butoh Symposium and Performance, TARUC College, Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur.
06-08/06/2014: Speaker (invited) of “Hijikata Tatsumi’s Butoh and ‘EurAsian’ Bodies”, Butoh Season: International Butoh Symposium and Performance, TARUC College, Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur.
06-08/06/2014: Moderator of “Aspects of Butoh: Examples of Butoh and Case of Hijikata Tatsumi”, discussion with Morishita Takashi, Waguri Yukio, Kawaguchi Takao, Butoh Season: International Butoh Symposium and Performance, TARUC College, Japan Foundation, Kuala Lumpur.
21/05/2014: Guest Lecturer (invited) of bilingual conference (self-translation Japanese/English) “Butōfu o koete (舞踏譜を超えて)/ A Research beyond Butōfu” inherent to research project and workshops Hijikata Tatsumi no butō. Shūchū wākushoppu ＆ kenkyūkai (土方巽の舞踏: 集中ワークショップ＆研究会)/Intensive Workshops and Events Inspired by Hijikata Tatsumi, organised by POHRC (Perspectives on Hijikata Research Collective) and Hijikata Tatsumi Archive, Keiō University.
14/12/2013: Takes part (invited) in Discussion “Nihon de manabu, Nihon de odoru” Kaigai joryū dansā uīku Tōkyō (「日本で学ぶ、日本で踊る」, 海外女流ダンサー・ウイーク東京). “Learning in Japan, dancing in Japan”. The Week of Foreign Female Dancers in Tokyo, organised by Hijikata Tatsumi Archive, Keiō University, Noguchi Room.
29/11/2013: Speaker (invited) of “Butoh, la danza non danzata: culture coreutiche e corporalità che si intersecano tra Giappone e Germania”, International Conference Il Butoh nella cultura europea, Laboratorio delle Arti/Auditorium, Università di Bologna.
28/11/2013: Speaker (invited) of “Avanguardia Giappone: Immagini, corpi” discussion/conference with Matteo Casari, Galleria Ono Arte Contemporanea, Bologna.
24/10/2012: Speaker (invited) of “L’Erma Bifronte: ecclettismo nelle arti performative del Giappone che guarda alla tradizione e alla contemporaneità”, Seminari Manabu, Italian School of East Asian Studies ISEAS, Kyōto.
27/04/2012: Lecturer (invited) of “Hijikata Tatsumi, Mishima Yukio e Hosoe Eikō: intrecci tra media e tecnologie di corpo negli anni ’60”, Japan Foundation, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Roma.
07-12/08/2011: Speaker (cfp) of “Hijikata Tatsumi’s Experiments with the Nikutai: Counter-Culture Performance from Innovation to Tradition”, 55th IFTR/FIRT Annual Conference, Ōsaka University, Ōsaka.
20/05/2011: Participates in the presentation by Prof. Rosa Caroli and Prof. Bonaventura Ruperti (introduction notes: Matsunaga Fumio, director Istituto Giapponese di Cultura) of the volume “Avant-Gardes in Japan. Anniversary of Futurism and Butō: Performing Arts and Cultural Practices between Contemporariness and Tradition” (ed. K. Centonze, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2010), Aula Baratto, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia.
02/08/2010: Lecturer (invited) of “Shintai to jissen: Hijikata Tatsumi no butō ni okeru ‘shintai’ to ‘nikutai’ o megutte” (身体論と実践：土方巽の舞踏における「身体」と「肉体」をめぐって) (Theories on body and practice: shintai and nikutai in Hijikata Tatsumi’s butō), Japan Foundation Fellow’s Seminar, Japan Foundation, Yotsuya (Tōkyō).
09-23/01/2010: Participates in the symposium of jury of dance festival and competition Dansu ga mitai! Shinjin shirīzu 8 (ダンスが見たい！新人シリーズ８), die pratze New Figure Dance Festival, theatre Kagurazaka die pratze, Tōkyō.
27-29/11/2009: Speaker (invited) of “Topoi of Performativity: Italian Bodies in Japanese Spaces/Japanese Bodies in Italian Spaces”, International Symposium Japanese Theatre in a Transcultural Context, Trier University.
25-27/11/2009: Speaker (invited) of “Le nikutai dans le butō de Hijikata Tatsumi comme politique choreutique: le corps qui résiste à la société du spectacle”, Colloque international: Scènes françaises et japonaises de 1900 à nos jours: allers/retours, Paris Maison des Cultures du Monde. Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France (site Tolbiac), Paris. Project supported by Global COE Programme, Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University.
20-25/01/2009: Guest Speaker (invited) of “Local Perceptions and Receptions: Murobushi Ko’s Butoh and Torcito Parco Danza I”. Guest Speaker all’ International Butoh Conference [IBC 1], Butoh Abroad Today: It’s Extension and Succession, organised by Hijikata Tatsumi Archive, Keiō University.
14-15/09/2009: Speaker (invited) of “Bodies Shifting from Hijikata’s ‘Nikutai’ to Contemporary ‘Shintai’: New Generation Facing Corporeality”, and chair of the panels “Butō: Past and Forward” and “Japanese Dance: Tradition versus Contemporarism” International Conference: Avant-Garde in Japan, Dip. di Studi sull’Asia Orientale, Ca’Foscari, Auditorium S. Margherita, Venezia.
19/01/2009: Participates in the aftertalk of the jury at dance festival and competition Dansu ga mitai! Shinjin shirīzu 7 (ダンスが見たい！新人シリーズ７), die pratze New Figure Dance Festival, at theatre d-Sōko, Tōkyō (Nippori).
20-23/09/2008: Speaker (cfp.) of “Listening to the Heartbeat of Contemporary Japanese Performing Arts: Challenges of the Body vis-à-vis Media in Kawaguchi Takao’s and Yamakawa Fuyuki’s D.D.D.”, and chair of the panel with Ishii Tatsurō and Fujii Shintarō “Media and Body: Perspectives on contemporary Japanese performing arts”, 12th International Conference EAJS, Università del Salento, Lecce.
14-19/07/2008: Speaker (cfp) of “Shifting Identities from Tradition to Inter-media Performance: Butō Dancer Murobushi Kō reflects in the Mirror of Salentin Tarantism”, 51st IFTR/FIRT Annual Conference, Chung-Ang University, Seoul.
21-23/09/2006: Speaker (cfp) of “Finis terrae: butō e tarantismo Salentino. Due culture coreutiche a confronto nell’era intermediale”, XXX Convegno di Studi sul Giappone (AISTUGIA), Università di Lecce.
15/12/2005: Speaker (invited) of “La vena contemporanea della danza giapponese” and moderator of contemporary dance/butō section (Massimo Moricone, Endo Tadashi), Event “Immagini e Parole dal Giappone”, Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia Orientale, Auditorium S. Margherita, Venezia.
22-24/09/2005: Speaker (cfp) of “Nuove configurazioni della danza contemporanea giapponese”, XXIX Convegno di Studi sul Giappone (AISTUGIA), Università di Firenze.
31/08-03/09/2005: Speaker (cfp) of “Flexibility and Versatility in Japanese Performing Arts”, 11th International Conference EAJS, University of Vienna.
29/10/2004: Speaker (invited) of “L’atto performativo di Murobushi Kō in sperimentazione, ovvero il butō di vecchia generazione si incontra con la nuova”, Conference “L’atto performativo-l’eredità della danza buto nella scena contemporanea" with Nicola Savarese, Endō Tadashi e Massimo Moricone, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, project within “Butō Generazione 3: nuove coreografie del corpo” festival organised by Massimo Moricone and Enzo Cosimi (Lab:oratory engines), Roma (25-30/10/2004).
17/10/2003: Speaker (invited) of “Ankoku Butō, la danza delle tenebre”, Rassegna “Ottobre Giapponese”, Università di Ravenna.
18-20/09/2003: Speaker (cfp) of “Ankoku Butō: una politica di danza del cambiamento”, XXVI Convegno di Studi sul Giappone (AISTUGIA) Il Giappone che cambia, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende.
27-30/08/2003: Speaker (cfp) of “The diachronic polymorphism of wazaogi”, 10th International Conference EAJS, University of Warsaw.
30/06-06/07/2002: Speaker (cfp) of “Subjective and Ethnic Memory: Two Paths of Ankoku Butoh”, XIV World Congress FIRT/IFTR Theatre and Memory, University of Amsterdam.
04-06/10/2001: Speaker (cfp) of “La ribellione del corpo di carne nel butō”, XXV Convegno di Studi sul Giappone (AISTUGIA), Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia.
30/09/2001: Lecturer (invited) of “Dalla differenza di scrittura alla differenza di corpo: Ankoku Butō”, Festival Nihon Monogatari. Storie dal Giappone, Libreria Mardi Gras, Bolzano.
02-06/07/2001: Speaker (cfp) of “Butoh: Against the West, through the West, for the West. A Perspective Proposal”, International Symposium Japanese Theatre in the 21st Century, University of Edinburgh and Royal Museum of Scotland.
13/03/2001: Lecturer of “Kazuo Ohno – Sankai Juku: due eventi butoh a Venezia” with screening of documentaries Biennale Danza 2000 directed by Gianni Di Capua, a collaboration of RaiSat, Biennale di Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia Orientale and DUTARS, at Auditorium S. Margherita, Venezia.
30/09/1999: Speaker of “La danza di Ōno Kazuo” at Encounter with Michelangelo Antonioni and Ōno Kazuo in presence of journalists, operators, students and teachers, a collaboration between Dip. di Studi sull'Asia Orientale and Biennale di Venezia, on the occasion of Premio Michelangelo Antonioni per le Arti, Biennale Danza 1999 “Solo Donna”, at Teatro Goldoni di Venezia.
 

Organisation of Conferences, Events and Workshops

18, 24/05/2023: Co-organiser with Francesca Tarocco of Workshop “Urban Dramaturgies in Asia and Beyond: Social Movements, Environmental Crisis and Artistic Practices” held by Peter Eckersall at DSAAM and NICHE.
15/11/2022: Organiser and discussant of “Borders, Lines, dumb type Lovers: Mediating Dynamics of Displacement, Border-Crossing, Anatomical Transmutation”, online conference by Stephen Barber. Patrocinated by Japan Foundation in Rome (Research project: Katja Centonze H74I19001970005).
25/03/2022: Organiser of dance workshop “Frontiere nel corpo” by Kaseki Yūko, in collaboration with Teatro Ca’Foscari and CTR, CTR Giudecca, Venezia (Research project: Katja Centonze H74I19001970005), followed by a conversation with Kaseki Yūko.
24/03/2022: Co-organiser with Teatro Ca’Foscari of performance by Kaseki Yūko “9 steps to dust”, Teatro Ca’Foscari Santa Marta, Venezia (Research project: Katja Centonze H74I19001970005).
25-26/11/2021: Co-curation with Giovanni Azzaroni, Matteo Casari of International symposium “Mishima Yukio e l’atto performativo: drammaturgie di un’artista”, Università di Bologna, DAMSLab/La Soffitta.
27/10/2021: Organiser and discussant of “Critical Performance, Crisis and Disasters” Online Conference by Fujii Shintarō and Peter Eckersall (Ca' Foscari Series 3.11, Ten Years on: Reflections on Contemporary Japan after the Great East Japan Triple Disaster; PhD Program of Asia and Africa).
April-May 2021: Organiser and discussant of lecture series Ciclo di conferenze “Dall’androide al corpo: librarsi nella performance giapponese” (Lectures by Matteo Casari, Fabio Massimo Fioravanti, Cinzia Toscano).
15/12/2020: Co-organiser and discussant of online conference by Jonathan Hall “Neither Nude nor Naked: Queer Exposure and the Japanese Body” supported by Ca’Foscari Student Association “Gesshin”.
25/11/2020: Co-curation with Giovanni Azzaroni and Matteo Casari, Online conference Preludio a “Mishima e l’atto performativo: drammaturgie di un artista”, Università di Bologna and Ca’Foscari University, La Soffitta.
07/11/2020: Co-curation with Samantha Marenzi International conference Immagini e immaginari del butō. Il corpo tra cinema, fotografia, politica, performatività (Images and Imageries of Butoh. Cinematic, Photographic, Political and Performative Bodies), Teatro Akropolis Festival Testimonianze Ricerca Azioni XI, Genova, Palazzo Ducale (online).
26-28/10/2015: Organises and curates with Matteo Casari Akuta Masahiko e Yūki Isshi: 24 ore con Artaud. Marionette che sfidano il teatro umano, project including workshop, round-table and lecture-performance, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna.
20/05/2011: Organises the presentation of the volume “Avant-Gardes in Japan. Anniversary of Futurism and Butō: Performing Arts and Cultural Practices between Contemporariness and Tradition” (ed. Katja Centonze, Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2010) presented by Prof. Rosa Caroli and Prof. Bonaventura Ruperti, (introduction note: Matsunaga Fumio, director Istituto Giapponese di Cultura), Aula Baratto, Università Ca’Foscari di Venezia.
14-15/09/2009: Organises the sections “Butō Past and Forward” and “The Japanese Dance: Tradition versus Contemporarism” of International Conference: Avant-Garde in Japan, Dip. di Studi sull’Asia Orientale, Ca’Foscari, Auditorium S. Margherita, Venezia.
20-23/09/2008: Organises the panel with Ishii Tatsurō and Fujii Shintarō “Media and Body: Perspectives on contemporary Japanese performing arts”, 12th International Conference EAJS, Università del Salento, Lecce.
15/12/2005: Organises the section of contemporary dance/butō section (Massimo Moricone, Endo Tadashi), Event “Immagini e Parole dal Giappone”, Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia Orientale, Auditorium S. Margherita, Venezia.
16-17/10/2003: Organises and curates workshop and performance [edge] by Murobushi Kō (Teatro Rasi), Festival “Ottobre Giapponese”, Ravenna.
13/03/2001: Organises “Kazuo Ohno – Sankai Juku: due eventi butoh a Venezia” with screening of documentaries Biennale Danza 2000 directed by Gianni Di Capua (RaiSat, DUTARS), a collaboration of RaiSat, Biennale di Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia Orientale and DUTARS (Diploma universitario di techniche artistiche e dello spettacolo), at Auditorium S. Margherita, Venezia.
30/09/1999: Co-organises “La danza di Ōno Kazuo” at Encounter with Michelangelo Antonioni and Ōno Kazuo in presence of journalists, operators, students and teachers, a collaboration between Dip. di Studi sull'Asia Orientale and Biennale di Venezia, on the occasion of Premio Michelangelo Antonioni per le Arti, Biennale Danza 1999 “Solo Donna”, at Teatro Goldoni di Venezia.
 

Organisation of Events, Performances, Scientific and Cultural Project Collaborations

2019-2020: “Progetto Anime Arte”. Joint project between DSAAM, Japanese film production and distribution company Asmik Ace, design agency OverDriveDesign, public relation agency Waku Work, and Francesca Usicco (Waseda University, Tōkyō) involving students from my course of Japanese language 2 mod. 1. This collaboration aims at promoting the anime series “Arte”, centred on a young female artist living in the 16th century.
09/12/2019: Reading of haiku in Japanese. A collaboration with Claudio Ambrosini (Ex Novo Ensemble), Festival des refusés “Come ascoltare la Musica Contemporanea 2: Tempo e Spazio”, Ateneo Veneto, Venezia.
03-04/11/2015: Co-organisation and collaboration with Museo Internazionale delle Marionette Antonio Pasqualino (Palermo) for the performances by Ayatsuri ningyō Isshiza at Festival di Morgana 2015.
26-27/10/2015: Interpreter of Akuta Masahiko and Yūki Isshi, workshop “Manipolare il corpo: Per un corpo d’arte politico”, Laboratorio delle Arti/Auditorium, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna.
28/10/2015: Interpreter of Akuta Masahiko, “Artaud 24 ore. Ancora un giorno (a parlare di teatro) per Artaud”, round-table with Matteo Casari, Marco De Marinis, Yūki Isshi, Akuta Masahiko, Cinzia Toscano, Laboratorio delle Arti/Auditorium, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna.
08/10-20/12/2015: Collaboration with Ōtori Hidenaga for the translation of the text　(Italian-Japanese) by Tadeusz Kantor for Festival Kantōru seitan 100nen kinen: Kantōru to engeki no nijūseiki, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre.
05/12/2014: Collaborates with Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Tōkyō) for the performance Solo Goldberg Improvisation by Virgilio Sieni.
04/12/2014: Collaborates with Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Tōkyō) for the performance Sonate Bach al confronto del dolore degli altri by Compagnia Virgilio Sieni.
28/11/2014: Collaborates with Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Tōkyō) for the performance “Seiza to seigun. Costellazione e Asterisma” by Alessio Silvestrin.
24/10/2014: Collaborates with Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Tōkyō) for the performance “Welcome to my World” by Compagnia Enzo Cosimi.
2013: Interpreter of Murobushi Kō (Japanese/English), Murobushi’s worshop (Morishita Studio, Tōkyō).
09/03/2010: Participates in “‘Yameru maihime’ o akitaben de rōdoku suru: Yoneyama Kunio shōnen ni sasagu”(「病める舞姫」を秋田弁で朗読する–米山九日生少年に捧ぐ), reading-performance in Akita dialect of Hijikata Tatsumi’s Yameru maihime (The ailing dancer), organised by the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive (Keiō University) in collaboration with the theatre company Gekidan 1980 and actor Yamaya Hatsuo, Theatre Zamuza (Asagaya).
02-05/08/2007: Curates as scientific advisor and co-organises with Andrea Pati and Annamaria De Filippi the project “Torcito Parco Danza I” (an encounter between the Salentin culture and butō) inviting Murobushi Kō. This project (art residency) includes workshop, performances and discussion, at Masseria Torcito, Cannole (Lecce).
03/08/2007: Interpreter of Murobushi Kō, Murobushi’s workshop at “Torcito Parco Danza I”.
20-23/07/2006: Interpreter of nō actor Matsui Akira during the “Ravenna Festival” on the occasion of the staging of “Ur-Hamlet” directed by Eugenio Barba, Odin Teatret.
15/12/2005: Interpreter of Endo Tadashi (German-Italian) during the lecture- performance of the dancer, Event “Immagini e Parole dal Giappone”, Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia Orientale, Auditorium S. Margherita, Venezia.
12-15/09/2004: Assistant and interpreter of Massimo Moricone (Teatro Koros) at Tōkyō Performing Arts Market, Coordinated Events: International Showcase 2004, Tōkyō.
01-15/09/2004: Translation with Francesca Usicco (Japanese-English) for architect Nakamura Ben: "Daito Bunka University, Itabashi Campus: First Stage”, Nakamura Ben’s contribution to the volume “Asian Breezes: Towards Sustainable Architectures”, pp. 44-51. Tōkyō: Japan Institute of Architects, 2005.
16/10/2003: Interpreter of Murobushi Kō during his workshop, Festival “Ottobre Giapponese” (Ravenna).
28/06 - 23/07/2000: Collaboration during interviews directed by Gianni di Capua for RaiSat with Amagatsu Ushio (Sankai Juku) and group Kodō, Biennale Danza 2000.
03-04/10/1999: Interpreter of Ōno Kazuo and Ōno Yoshito, workshop by Ōno Kazuo and Ōno Yoshito, Accademia “Isola Danza”, Venezia.
28/09-30/10/1999: Proposes the participation of Ōno Kazuo in the festival and collaborates in the organisation with Biennale for the presence of Ōno Kazuo at festival Biennale Danza 1999 “Solo Donna" and for the “Premio Michelangelo Antonioni per le Arti”, Teatro Goldoni di Venezia.
01-31/07/1998: Collaboration with the studio of composer Claudio Ambrosini, Venezia.
12/05-01/06/1998: Collaborates on the project "Geometrie Simpatiche" by Sonia Biacchi (director CTR Venezia) for public lower secondary schools with courses on historical avant-garde in the early 1900s combined with illustrative performances (carries out lectures and performances).
1997-1998: Organises for Pier Paolo Koss several workshops at CTR (Venezia).
07-08/06/1997: Interpreter with Mizohata Toshio (Japanese/English/Italian) of Ōno Kazuo and Ōno Yoshito during the dancers’ workshop, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
1996-1999: Numerous collaborations with Sonia Biacchi, director of Centro Teatrale di Ricerca (CTR) di Venezia, participating in the enactments of her recreations of Oskar Schlemmer’s costumes.  .
16-17/09/1995: Interpreter of Iwana Masaki, workshop held by the butō dancer, Studio Presa Diretta, Padova.
 

Dance Education and Training (brief profile)

Since 1975: Studies dance (classical, jazz, modern, contemporary) at several schools in Germany (Monica Huerzeler) and Italy (Grazia Miglietta, Annamaria de Filippi) participating in numerous workshops held by masters, such as Carlo Faraboni, Matt Mattox, Gianin Loringett, Dominique Mercy, Larrio Ekson, Bob Curtis, Roberta Escamilla Garrison, Antonio Carallo and others.
8-10/09/1989: Takes part with the dance company of Annamaria de Filippi (Elektra Ballet) in “Serate di Danza” at Teatro Storchi (Modena) presenting “Tresca”, awarded the first prize for choreography.
21/08/1993: Choreographs with Grazia Perrone and performs in "In Memoria di Paolo Borsellino" for and with Associazione Culturale "Big Sur", at Cantieri Teatrali Koreja, Aradeo (Lecce).
Since 1995: Starts taking butō lessons (Ōno Kazuo, Ōno Yoshito, Murobushi Kō, Waguri Yukio, Iwana Masaki, etc.). While working as an interpreter for the Japanese masters, she takes actively part in the workshops.
1990-1996: Studies contemporary dance with Wanda Moretti (The Place, Venezia).
16-17/09/1995: Workshop with Iwana Masaki, Studio Presa Diretta, Padova.
1997: Studies classical dance with Christian Ferrier (CTR, Venezia).
07-08/06/1997: Workshop with Ōno Kazuo and Ōno Yoshito, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
1996-1998: Takes part in several workshops held by Pier Paolo Koss, Bologna and CTR (Venezia).
2003: Workshop with Murobushi Kō, Festival “Ottobre Giapponese” (Ravenna).
2007: Workshop with Murobushi Kō “Torcito Parco Danza I”, Masseria Torcito (Cannole, Lecce).

Dance Training in Japan

1999: Takes lessons with Ōno Kazuo and Ōno Yoshito (Kazuo Ohno Studio). 
2003-2004: Studies with Ōno Kazuo and Ōno Yoshito (Kazuo Ohno Studio, Kamihoshikawa), Itō Kim (danza contemporanea), Waguri Yukio (butō). Takes regularly modern/contemporary dance lessons with Yagishita Norio (Hiyoshi, Yokohama).
24-25/07/2004: Participates as dancer in“Gendai buyō ten” (Exhibition of contemporary dance) with Yagishita Modern Ballet Group directed by Yagishita Norio, in Haioku nite (廃屋にて) (In the deserted house), Mail Park Hall, Shibakōen, Tōkyō.
2007-2008: Participates in workshops held by Carolyn Carlson (BankArt, Yokohama), Alessio Silvestrin (Session House, Kagurazaka), Kondō Ryōhei (Condors) (Session House, Kagurazaka).
2009: Takes classical dance lessons attending Suzuki Fumiko’s ballet school (Waseda).
2013: Workshop with Murobushi Kō (Morishita Studio, Tōkyō).
09-13/05/2014: Workshop with Kobayashi Saga (“Intensive Workshops & Events Inspired by Hijikata Tatsumi 2014”, organised by POHRC).
2015: Participates in workshops held by Kudō Taketeru, Yotsuya (Tōkyō) and Aomori (Aomori Museum of Art).
24-26/07/2015: Participates in workshop held by Ikeda Fumiyo (at Waseda University) and in the dance project “Re: Rosas, Dance Project Waseda” (26 July), https://www.waseda.jp/enpaku/ex/3317/.
 

Collaborations

AsiaMedia, https://www.unive.it/pag/15172/
Theatre Arts, http://theatrearts.aict-iatc.jp
 

Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi (AISTUGIA)
Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche Théâtrale/International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT/IFTR)
European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
Nōgaku gakkai (能楽学会)