BIOGRAPHY

LAURA PANTE (1983) is a dancer and artistic researcher performance theory and practice. She graduated in Visual Arts at Iuav University of Venice in 2008.

From 2020 to 2024 she has been a PhD student at the same University where she have developed a thesis titled Land, Landscape, Habitat - three ways of the relationship between presence, body and virtual, under the supervision of Prof. Annalisa Sacchi, and of Cristina Kristal Rizzo.

In 2019 she completed two years of study at APASS (Advanced Performance and Scenographic Studies) in Brussels.

Her artistic research focuses on the analysis of the political articulation of thought and movement in the context of the relationship between body techniques and technologies of the self. She actualizes her processes by developing choreographic devices, performance projects, pedagogical experiences, dramaturgical practices and critical writings in which body’s knowledges stimulate new theoretical discourses and encourages the development of trans-disciplinary and trans-historical procedures under the definition of expanded choregraphy and post-dance.

Some of her writings appeared in Artex (2022) and in Peng X, a notebook of signs, words and discourses edited by Silvia Fanti and Daniele Gasparinetti at the conclusion of the Live Art Week X festival (2021). She published her text Your wifi is streaming, my wifi is dreaming in the book titled In these circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organization and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices, edited by Lilia Mestre and Philippine Hoege, and produced by APASS (Brussels, 2022). Since 2017 she has been writing for Cactus Magazine, a visual culture magazine edited by Simone Rossi in which he develops a column titled Habitat series where she writes critical interventions on the artists and choreographers Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Anna Franceschini, Barok the Great, Annamaria Ajmone, and Enrico Malatesta.

In recent years she is on stage as a dancer for Jérôme Bel (Laura Pante, 2021-ongoing), Cristina Kristal Rizzo (Sonno, 2021), Virgilio Sieni (Aura - on touching things, 2021), Romeo Castellucci (Tannhauser, 2017 - Ethica - Nature and origin of mind, 2016 - Giudizio, possibilità, essere, 2015 - Unheard, 2014), Silvia Costa (Alla traccia - Lode a ciò che è stato rimosso, 2016 - A sangue freddo, 2015), Compagnia Abbondanza Bertoni (Armida, opera directed by Luca Ronconi, 2015).

As performer, she works for visual artists such as Giorgio Andreotta Calò (Remoto, 2022); Anna Franceschini with whom she has collaborated since 2015 (Heels, 2021- Discolite, 2016 - 2022 - Doposole, 2016 - The diva who became an alphabet, 2015) and Alexis Blake (We will not be moved, 2016). Since 2019 she has been collaborating with the choreographer Cristina Kristal Rizzo as a theoretical accompaniment to her projects titled Toccare (2019) and Monument Quartetto (2022), and Monumentum DA (2023).

In July 2022 she has been invited by Festival Danza Estate and Contemporary Locus to take part at TAD residency together with the artists Marta Cuscunà and Silvia Hell, at Monastero del Carmine in Bergamo. In 2017, she was invited by Tanztendenz at the 5th International Choreographers’ atelier, in Munich.

She develops her artistic practices through projects titled respectively: No title (2024) with musician Vincent Glanzmann, La danza dello sfondo - Episodio 01 (2024), Linguaggio in stato d’abbandono - Concerto per pietre e sostanze (2023), After Affect Clinique (2019), A space to be red (2019), No House no Place no space (2018), Screenshot (2018), Untail 2000.16 (2016), Ex and Esercizi di misura (2016) with dancer and choreographer Miranda Secondari, Cute (2016) with dancers Francesca Antonino and Alessandra Bordino (2014), Aphonos - which has no voice (2015), in collaboration with dancers Giovanna Rovedo and Elisa Sbaragli.

She leads dance and performance workshops on somatic movement and choreographic writing: Abbandoneremo le nostre case. Pedagogie radicali per un’etica delle migrazioni ecologiche (2024-ongoing); a stable one class a week seminar titled Body-Matter into Space (2022- ongoing) in Venice; Cosmo-Techno-Poetics - Incroci di pratiche per un habitat ecologica with Danila Gambettola and Edoardo Lazzari in the context of the Dance Festival Venere in Teatro, Forte Marghera (2022). She has curated the study day titled Form and Format - the decoding agency of touching, in collaboration with Cristina Kristal Rizzo, at APASS (Brussels, 2019). She is a teaching assistant for the choreographic and performance workshops conducted by Chiara Lagani - company Fanny & Alexander (2018), Collettivo Cinetico (2019), Arkadi Zaides (2019) Cristina Kristal Rizzo (2022),and the fashion and performance workshop Tamar Levit & Yaen Levi (2023-2024) at Iuav University of Venice, where he had the opportunity to collaborate with Luca del Pia as a performer for his photographic workshop (2018). She also lead his own movement workshop entitled The Matter-body into Space (2018) with students from first and second year of the Master course.

Her training in these years is constant. She took part at Yes to the Wind, an intensive seminar held by Meg Stuart (Warsaw, 2019); from 2014 to 2017 she has taken part Biennale College Dance and Theatre in Crowd by Gisèle Vienne (2017), Unfolding Figures by Yasmine Hugonnet (2016), Title in progress, by Xavier Le Roy (2015), Bolero Variations by Cristina Rizzo (2014). She received an annual fellowship from Raffaella Giordano and Compagnia Sosta Palmizi in 2015; she participated in seminars led by Leonardo Delogu including Dal terzo paesaggio al terzo luogo with Gilles Clemént (2014), and Camminare nella frana (2012); she was selected to participate at Esperienzze in variazione - Rete veneta arti performative (2014).

Furthermore, she completed a four-year training in Danza sensibile® a somatic and osteopathic technique developed by the dancer and pedagogue Claude Coldy (2016); she studies Hatha Yoga with Francesca Proia, and Swami Samarpanananda Saraswati (Rishikesh, 2012).