Curriculum Vitae Raffaella Galdi
I am Italian, (Genoa, 1973), based in Berlin. I am a teacher, previously a choreographer and dancer. I regularly teach at the DANCEWORKS berlin school, responsible for the education in contemporary dance, improvisation, dance composition and repertoire.
Teaching (from 2009 on going)
Always true to an ongoing process of maturation, my dance pedagogic approach finds its base in three principles: the body-mind connection, the use of the bone structure and its alignment, the relationship of the body to gravity. It encourages to discover the body as an instrument and to deflect from habitual movement pathways. My role as an educator is to coach, guide, assist via suggestions, assignments, exercises and to share and pass on my knowledge.
Dance Intensive Program
Tanzfabrik Berlin
November 2023
From 2016 til 2023
at the DANCEWORKS berlin school
BA - 3 years professional dance education and TAB - pre professional education
Contemporary dance
Improvisation
Dance composition
Repertoire
Previously
Open classes in Berlin
Tanzfabrik
LaborGras Studio
Urbanraum
Dock 11
Marameo
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Phynixtanzt Studio
Companies - Theatres
Anna Huber Company - Bern
Cie. Unit Control - Luxembourg
Theatre Heilbronn
Leipziger TanzTheater
Theater Vorpommern
3CL - Luxembourg
Choreographic Futures - Dance Base Limited Scotland - Berlin
Choreographing and Research Projects
Dance functions as a base and bridges to sound, words, plastic-visual art, employing an inter-disciplinary approach. Research projects are characterised by periods of exploration in which I research thoroughly on a choreographic idea for weeks, months or years. Some research periods give shape to several productions, others just stay a research phase in itself. I have been based as “choreographer in residency” in artblau Tanzwerkstatt Braunschweig from 2006 till 2013.
Research
Bodies bodies Words Objects (2013 - 2017)
Dance Sound Space Poetry (2011 - 2012)
Ali (2008 - 2010)
Mode (2007 -2009)
Site-specific Performances
Impro n. 7 - Eating or not eating
16th June 2018 - Lotringair Festival, Aachen
Impro n. 6 - The garden
8th and 9th September 2017 - Festival Kilowattt Summer - Giardini Margherita - Bologna Italy
Impro n. 4 - Eating or not eating
12th July 2017 - Commissioned by Entretempo Kitchen Gallery
Berlin Food Art Week Festival 2017 - Urban Spree – Berlino
Impro n. 3 - The travelling I am
2nd July 2017 - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U) - Gütermarkt - Berlin
Impro n. 1 - The vegetable stories
11th October 2015 - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U) - Gütermarkt - Berlin
Pieces
Turtle (2017)
Premier: 21st October 2017
ada Studio Berlin
Paula (2013) - dance performance with an installation touch, the space poetry
Premiere: 26th April 2013, Kunstmühle Braunschweig
Relations (2010)
Commissioned by Theater Vorpommern within Tanzzeit 2010
Premiere: 20th May 2010 / Theater Vorpommern, Greifswald
MODES of locomotion (2007-2009)
Premiere Solo I: 10th November 2007 / TANZherbst Festival, Sächsischen Staatsoper, Dresden Premiere all piece: 21st November 2009, Fürth Kulturforum, Fürth
UGO (2007) - Dance Performance Installation
Premiere: 12th January 2007, Sophiensaele Berlin - Tanztage Festival
LEGNA (2006)
Premiere: 9th January 2006, Sophiensaele Berlin - Tanztage Festival
Dancing
I was a member of the Belgian Companie Thor (1997-1999), the Dutch Het Spui Theater company (2000), the Berlin-based company Cie. Toula Limnaios (2002-2003), the Luxembourg company Cie. Unit Control (2003-2005). As a free lancer I was performing and participating in new creations with numerous choreographers touring throughout Europe and Africa.
2012/17
Dance Poetry - Wuppertal, Heidelberg, Berlin / Canan Erek
Der Körper ist ein Seismograph - Festival Month of performance art Berlin
Tranz-/-Flexion - DIN A 13 Tanzcompany Berlin and Cologne / Gerda König
Stabat Mater - Theater Thikwa Berlin / Alessio Trevisani
2008/11
The village - Tanznacht 2010 - Berlin
Vexations - fabrik Potsdam / Amos Hetz
Tanz-Musik Miniaturen - Vielstimmigkeit Music Festival, Hannover
Sender Weimar - Kunst Festival Weimar / Ingo Reulecke, Lukas Matthaei
Die TanzMedienAkademie 2008 - Kunst Festival Weimar / Ingo Reulecke
Collective Improvisation - Kaay Fecc Festival Dakar, Senegal and Florence, Italy / Giorgio Rossi
El Burro - Ni Vu Ni Connu Festival Luxembourg / Nicholas Elliott, Emre Sevindik
Le bruit du silence - Kulturfabrik Luxembourg / Nicholas Elliott, Emre Sevindik
2002/05
Eclectica Mudar - Brussels - Belgium / Andy Deneys
Triple Bill - Sophiensaele Berlin / Christoph Winkler
Love - Dock11 Berlin / Hans Werner Klohe
3 Pieces in April - Studio LaborGras Berlin / LaborGras
Member of Cie. Unit Control Luxembourg / Bernard Baumgarten
Engel _Engele - Studio LaborGras Berlin / Karin Wickenhäuser
Member of Cie. Toula Limnaios Berlin / Toula Limnaios
Biographyca - Tanzfabrik Berlin /Helge Müsial
By Pass - Choreografische Werkstatt - Rui Horta / Berlin and Lisbon
2000/01
Para-noid - Sophiensaele Berlin / Tomi Paasonen
Lui & Lei - Dansatelier Rotterdam - Holland / Sabine Linz
Dangerous Mode of Transportation - Hamburg / Trinidad Martinez
Member of Het Spui Theater Company Den Haag Holland / Sanne van der Put and Tom Stuart
1997/99
Member of Compagnie Thor Brussels - Belgium / Thierry Smits
Award
2006 Legna - Solo / Public Prize / Tanzherbst Festival, Dresden - Germany
2003 Solo / 3rd Prize “Das Beste Tanz Solo” - Schauspielhaus, Leipzig - Germany
1997 Elle s´appelle Rebecca / Best dancer / I.T.S Festiva, Amsterdam - Holland
Personal education
I learned a diversity of styles from classical ballet to modern, specialising myself in contemporary dance and improvisation. My early studies in architecture, drawing and plastic art influenced my approach on movement and performing art.
1995-97 Rotterdamse Dansacademie Holland (Diploma, 1999)
1994-95 Ecole de danse Rosella Hightower France
1992-94 Associazione Alicia Vronska (Maria Luisa Capiferri) Italy
1987-91 Fine Art high school Genoa - Italy (Diploma)
Languages: Italian (mother language), English, German, French