She began studying dance in 1965, and completed her technical and artistic training with leading international teachers. She has won numerous prizes and has extensive experience on both a professional and teaching level in addition to carrying out an intensive activity as a choreographer.

Gabriella can boast a solid background and extensive experience as a teacher, but through teaching she started off on her own research journey, focusing on physical energy, in which dance becomes a risk, instinct, speed and expressiveness.

Angelo began his career as a choreographer in 2011, and since then has created and danced in major performances all over Italy and Europe. Since 2012 he has been collaborating on a permanent level with Marga Nativo and Keith Ferrone.

Born in Florence, she started dancing as a child and trained at the Florence Dance Center, where she studied classical ballet, contemporary dance and tip-tap. She has taken part in numerous performances put on by the Florence Dance Center and worked for the RAI (Italy’s national TV company), as well as dedicating much of her time to teaching.

Marga Nativo’s professional and artistic itinerary is studded with successes and extraordinary experiences. Former Prima Ballerina Étoile of the Teatro Comunale of Florence, she has danced in the most important theaters under world famous choreographers. As artistic director of the Florence Dance Center and co-founder of the Florence Dance Festival, she continues in her untiring commitment to spread dancing in all its forms.

With a degree in classical literature, Silvia is a journalist and critic and works for specialized Italian and foreign magazines. She prepares essays and conferences on dance-theater for the main Italian festivals and theaters and is a history lecturer at the Urbino, Venice, Siena and Florence Universities. The author of monographs, she also collaborated in writing Storia della danza italiana-History of Italian Dance (2011).

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