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Valentina Saggin

DANCER/CHOREOGRAPHER

TRAINING EXPERIENCE

In 2009/2010 she attended the two-year course “Scritture per la Danza Contemporanea” (Writings for Contemporary Dance) directed by Raffaella Giordano, with the support of the Teatro Stabile di Torino and L’Arboreto di Mondaino, where she met Gey Pinn (Grotowski method, poor theatre), Chiara Guidi (Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio), Cinzia De Lorenzi (Danza sensibile), Francesca Della Monica (vocal techniques), María Muñoz and Pep Ramis (Mal Pelo).

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE

Since 2002 she has been part of the core ensemble of Compagnia Arearea, working as a dancer, choreographic assistant, and choreographer. In 2016 she performed in “Play with me,” a show for young audiences that won the Piccolipalchi 2017/18 audience award. Since 2014 she has been choreographic assistant to Marta Bevilacqua, on the works: Ruedis_ruote di confine (2014); Le Quattro Stagioni (2016); the Choreographic Novel trilogy, co-produced by HangartFest – Contemporary Dance Festival of Pesaro (2018–2020), BO.LE.RO (2023), OZ (2024), Lo Schiaccianoci (2025). In 2025 she was choreographic assistant to Alessio Maria Romano (Silver Lion, Biennale Teatro 2020) on the show PETIT #1 (2025).

EXPERIENCE AS A CHOREOGRAPHER

In 2010 she created “Sentire nella memoria,” a finalist at the XVI Festival of Choreographic Miniature at the National Theater of Belgrade. The solo was later presented that same year at “Anticorpi XL – Vetrina della giovane danza d’autore.”
In 2014 she created “God, don’t save the queen!,” presented at Anticorpi XL. From 2021 to 2023 her research focused on exploring the themes of geographic and political borders in depth. In 2021 she created “Attraverso,” a project born out of the performance Visavì, presented in October 2020 in Piazza Transalpina in Gorizia at the Visavì Dance Festival, whose research delves into geographic and political borders. In 2022 her attention turned to the natural environment, specifically the Isonzo river, and she created “Come un acrobata sull’acqua”; she concluded the trilogy in 2023 with the inner limit — that is, the individual with and against themselves — in “Inside Human Being.”
Currently, her research has turned toward the feminine, drawing inspiration from the women Ulysses encountered on his journey. The first show of this trilogy, presented as a work-in-progress, is Circe (2025).ransalpina a Gorizia a Visavì Dance Festival e la cui ricerca vuole affondare nei confini geografici e politici. Nel 2022 l’attenzione si sposta sull’ambiente naturale, nello specifico il fiume Isonzo e crea “Come un acrobata sull’acqua”; conclude la trilogia nel 2023 con il limite interiore, ovvero l’uomo con e contro se stesso: “Inside human being”.
Attualmente, la sua indagine si è rivolta al femminile, prendendo ispirazione dalle donne incontrate da Ulisse nel suo viaggio. Il primo spettacolo della trilogia, presentato in forma di studio, è Circe (2025)