MATTEO MASCOLO

Matteo was born on December 29, 1990, in Milan, where he currently lives, and began to approach dance at the age of 19. His professional training started at the M.A.S. Music Art & Show academy, where he graduated with a BA in Professione MAS. At the same time, he participated in many contemporary dance programs, and after finishing the academic training, he moved to New York to improve his movement studies. Here he enriched his background by studying with the Limón Dance Company, learning their technique. Since 2018, he has continued to deepen Limón technique by blending it with his natural movement, thus beginning to create something currently new. In particular, he founded a method in which each person can develop their own natural movement and enhance their technical and creative skills. He based the creative processes of all his choreographic works on this method. In 2021, he created the contemporary dance work Movement happens in waves for the Festival Suelo y Aire, commissioned by the Cabildo of Lanzarote, also bringing it to the stage in the cultural event Cicatrici in Triennale Milano. The same year he won the open call for the Festival A Due Voci with the choreographic work I demoni di Nietzsche, which he also presented at Dap Festival 2022, in Pietrasanta, Tuscany. Next he created Rubric, winning the call for entries of the XXI Festival de Danza Canarios Dentro y Fuera, in which the work premiered in December 2022, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Then he created his choreographic work Bacchae, presented at Vapore d'Estate and at the Dap Festival 2023. His last work is Sequoia, presented in the event Pratiche Parallele and at the Dap Festival 2024.

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Matteo is currently a choreographer and researcher of movement as a potential means of artistic communication. In recent years his sensitivity for choreography has been amplified through listening and observing nature. He was recently finalist of the call NVED Nuovi Vettori Evolutivi Danza by Mandala Dance Company and winner of the residency program Road to Nowhere by DTS Collective, where he continued to develop Sequoia, which will soon be staged at Festival Nutida. Matteo is also one of the leading experts of Humphrey-Limón technique in Italy, in regular contact with the Limón Dance Company for continuous updates. He leads and has led classes, choreographic labs and in-depth courses in national and international schools, including Sharing Training Milano, Sala Nera, Arcobalenodanza, Accademia Ucraina di Balletto e MoveOn Performing Arts Academy.