Giordana is dancer and performing arts administrator.

 

She is based in Zürich, Switzerland but has a base also in Italy and works across different countries. 

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Born in Perugia (Italy), she started training in ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz and hip-hop. Moreover, she has been playing the violin as a soloist as well as part of an orchestra for more than twelve years and taking drama classes.  After completing her high school diploma, she got accepted to undertake a professional one-year program at the Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School in Denmark where she came in contact with different teachers and styles (Bournonville ballet, flying low, floor work, gaga and Batsheva repertoire, and contact-improvisation among others). 

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She later moved to London, where she completed a bachelor's degree in Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance with First Class Honors. During her training, she studied with the international faculty of Trinity Laban while regularly attending master classes around Europe with David Zambrano, Emanuel Gat, Sadé Alleyne (Akram Khan), Natalia Iwaniec, Tomislav English (Ultima Vez), among others.

 

She performed a re-creation of Emanuel Gat's work Sunny and extracts of Hofesh Shechter’ Sun, as well as commissioned works choreographed by Heidi Rustgaard, Rahel Vonmoos, and Zoi Dimitriou.

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Over the years, she developed an interest in participating in the "behind the scene" work involved in putting on a performance. To further deepen her knowledge, she decided to attend a Master in Performing Arts Management held by the Accademia Teatro Alla Scala and MIP Politecnico di Milano. Her studies comprised of lectures with International experts of the fields about promoting stage arts as a fundamental social, political and economic asset as a means for conserving and passing on to future generations a people’s cultural heritage and identity, with a particular focus on Europe, North America, and emerging markets.

 

As part of her Master, she moved to New York City; joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as an intern in the production and development department. During her time in the States, she trained at the Ailey school and took regular classes at the Cunningham Trust, Trisha Brown Company, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and Klein Technique.

 

In 2020 she joined Two Can Do led by multidisciplinary artist Bianca Paige Smith later becoming B. Create. as part of the Strategic and Artistic Planning team and the dance touring programming team of the Italian dance agency ATER (Associazione Teatrale Emilia Romagna). During the time of confinement due to COVID-19 she completed her master’s thesis on the need for a space dedicated to dance in a given country with a focus on a specific case study based on the new Dance House Helsinki - Tanssin talo.

 

Between July and September 2020, as event manager, she curated a movie and music festival in her local town in Italy following the COVID-19 restrictions and regulations while setting up an enjoyable atmosphere for the audience reaching up to twenty-six thousands people. 

 

In 2021, she started working as a freelancer and trained with a specialized and personalized course on communication and social media strategy and analysis for the cultural sector.

 

She worked as artist manager for the Italian pianist and composer Maurizio Mastrini, as a team member of the Italian dance company DNA Dance Company, collaborator with HOME | Choreographic Creation Center (Perugia, Italy), production assistant and dramaturg consultant for the Swiss dance company EREM Dance (Delémont, CH) ​, as marketing coordinator for the dance center Earthdance (Plainfield, MA, USA) and as social media and marketing advisor for different performing art organisations across Europe and the US.

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Between 2021-2024 she worked for the General Management and Development/Special Projects department at the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto (Reggio Emilia, Italy) supporting grants writing and implementation of the newly nominated Choreographic National Dance Center of Italy. 

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After relocating in Switzerland, she joined as Strategic implementation advisor the Associazione Veicolo Danza and as communication and organisation manager the Ticino in Danza Festival (Mendrisio, CH). She is also part of the communication/production team Teatro Danzabile and ORME Festival (Lugano, CH). 

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At the beginning of 2024, she joined as International Project Manager & Company Manager the Swedish based production body ilDance.

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Giordana is also a writer contributor for two dance journals as well as a reformer pilates teacher. 

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