Alessandro Sciarroni

With a background in the visual arts, Alessandro Sciarroni has been developing pieces between live performance and contemporary art since 2007. Drawing on a precise conceptual base and practices outside contemporary dance, such as circus and traditional dance, his work is characterized by rigor, coherence and intensity. In his work, the physical testing of dancers is an opportunity to question the obsessive nature, fears and fragilities inherent in the performative act. His work is presented in festivals, museums and unconventional spaces throughout Europe and internationally. In 2014, the Festival d'Automne invited Alessandro Sciarroni to present three pieces, UNTITLED_I will be there when you die, FOLK-S_will you still love me tomorrow? and JOSEPH_kids. Since then, he has been a regular guest, notably with TURNING_motion sickness version for the Lyon Opera Ballet in 2019 and DREAM in 2022. He has been invited to create IRIS for the Festival d'Automne on the occasion of the Cultural Olympiads in 2023, an in-situ performative creation at the Butte aux Cailles swimming pool with paralympic swimmers.

In 2019, the Venice Biennale awarded him the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement in dance. Alessandro Sciarroni is associate artist at CENTQUATRE-PARIS and at the Triennale Milano.