I dance, therefore I am!

 

Since I was born, I felt the rhythm flowing through my veins and the irreproachable need to use my body for a complete and profound expression of my being. Thanks to a humanistic first education and a constant research to discover the beauties of the world – after a childhood filled with art and passions, including dance and piano – I finally went to university and got in touch with the Middle East dance. After the graduation in Science of Communication, my need to know the world pushed me to start traveling across Europe, moving for a year to Cadiz, in Andalusia, and later in other parts of the world, like Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Canary, Turkey, Morocco, etc. In 2008, I moved back to Milan where I started my professional career as a dancer. First, I graduated in Oriental Belly dance with Aziza Abdul Ridha and Mo Geddawi. Then, I approached a more experimental and contemporary world, studying with the pioneers of Tribal Belly dance in Italy, Les Soeurs Tribales. I joined the company from 2012 to 2015 taking part to many performances, seminars and projects all over the world, that I also kept doing in tandem with Cinzia di Cioccio, a friend and companion of countless adventures. At the same time, I took part to an ambitious project of the Modern Middle East Belly dance company Foesia, which debuted in July 2016 at the prestigious theater Elfo in Milan with the show Maya's Dream.

 

My need to work on a project on my own led me to found a choreographic laboratory called Mandalance, where every week talented and passionate students study and collaborate with me in shows, festivals and private events. It is still active and available, also in this difficult pandemic moment we are training online, on ZOOM platform. From 2013 to 2017, I accompanied my passion for dancing with a job equally imbued with art – I was Store Manager at the famous worldwide tattoo studio Milano City Ink, where I got the chance to meet the best artists on the scene and manage their work, nurturing also my passion and knowledge of the tattoo world.

 

In 2017, I decided to move to the Italian region of Liguria, living between the mountains and the sea and experiencing a direct relation with nature and its products, also maintaining two days of work in Milan every month and dance courses at my new home. I am vegetarian from the first day of the new millennium; I use the bike to move; I love reading, practicing yoga, running, swimming and walking in all the natural environments offered by the Earth; I write articles on matters of current interest and I try to study while making my garden bloom or traveling far away - with my mind, with my dance or with a backpack on my shoulders whenever is possible, substantially in Asia. In the last seven years, my passion for South-East Asia and Indochina has been transformed into numerous cultural trips, works on international dance seminars and holidays in contact with local people in Thailand, Laos, Burma, Indonesia, China, India and Nepal. In 2016, after many years of transition in Bangkok enjoying daily massages, I decided to undertake a basic training in Traditional Thai massage. I studied in Chang Mai, on the mountains of the North, at the ancient School of Wat Po, recognized by the Ministry of Health that has spread for years the knowledge of this interesting and beneficial ritual. I graduated also in sports / deep tissue massage at the prestigious Mantra Spa in ITM (International Thai Massage), the other great Northern style School of Thai massage. I'am almost finish the Holistic Operator School in Milan, attending every weekend the gorgeous "Alma Matters" school with super teachers.