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Marco D’Agostin won the 2018 UBU Award for Best Performer Under 35 and the 2023 UBU Award for Best Dance Performance (Gli anni). In 2023, he received the 4th Riccione Special Award for dramaturgical innovation. He is an associate artist at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
His work investigates how memory functions, creating choreographic scores that start from personal or collective archives and aim to trigger participatory and empathetic practices with the audience. He has studied entertainment as a specific form of the relationship between performer and spectator, considering its gray areas and failures as sites of brilliant revelations. His dance, a complex geography where sounds, words, and movements constantly collide, always seeks the emotional compromise of both those who perform and those who watch.
After training with internationally renowned masters (Yasmeen Godder, Nigel Charnock, Emio Greco), he has performed as a dancer for Claudia Castellucci/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Alessandro Sciarroni, Liz Santoro, and Tabea Martin. Since 2010, he has been a guest in numerous international choreographic research projects (ChoreoRoam Europe, Act Your Age, Triptych). He has twice been among the Priority Companies of the European network Aerowaves. His work has been featured in major European festivals and theaters (Théâtre de La Ville – Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Kampnagel – Hamburg, Les Brigittines – Brussels, The Place Theatre – London, Julidans – Amsterdam, Santarcangelo, Romaeuropa, Torinodanza, OperaEstate, to name a few) and he has presented his shows in many prestigious contexts overseas (Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo). Since 2019, he has been one of the twenty dancers in Boris Charmartz’s project XX Dancers for the 20th century, for which he performs the Schuhplattler repertoire from A. Sciarroni’s show Folk-s. He has co-curated the festival Thank you for coming at Centrale Fies and Ogni volta unica la fine del mondo, the 2021 summer season at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. In 2024, Il Saggiatore published Anni, lettere e valanghe, a volume co-written with Alessandro Iachino on his dramaturgy for dance.
Personal webpage: http://www.marcodagostin.it
Archivio Anno Zero, project for archiving the choreographic works of the VAN company: https://www.associazioneculturalevan.it/progetti/archivio-anno-zero/
The portrait of Marco D’Agostin is by Masiar Pasquali | Piccolo Teatro di Milano