KEO

Elena Sgarbossa is a young Italian dancer and maker. After training in contemporary dance at Balletto di Roma, she developed her practice through projects supported by the Anticorpi XL network and by OperaEstate Festival/Bassano del Grappa, where she was introduced to the teaching approach Dance Well (a research and movement project for people with Parkinson’s). As a performer, she has collaborated with Marco D’Agostin, Chiara Frigo, Masako Matsushita, Davide Valrosso, Andrea Rampazzo and Pietro Marullo. In 2018 she embarked on a choreographic project with the solo KEO, which won the DNAppunti Coreografici prize. In 2019 she took part in the European project “Empowering Dance” in the context of EU Erasmus+ and created Flying Carpet, with the support of Boarding Pass Plus Dance in collaboration with four other Italian artists.