Leonardo Maietto

Leonardo Maietto, born in Orvieto in 1985, was trained at the National dance academy and studied Arti e Scienze dello Spettacolo at Università La Sapienza. In 2010 he moved to Paris, where he danced for the companies of Emilio Calcagno, Pal Frenak, and Karine Saporta. At the same time, he collaborated with Centre G. Pompidou for the performances of Tino Sehgal, Ass. Felix Gonzales Torres, M. Abramovic´, Les Gens D’Huterpan, Willi Dorner, Living Theatre, Alexandre Roccoli, and Davis Freeman. In Italy he collaborated with Paola Lattanzi, Enzo Cosimi, Cristina Rizzo, Simone Forti, Giancarlo Cauteruccio, and Fabio Ciccalè. He moved to Rome and in 2017 created “The Club Lab,” a laboratory for professional training of the Vivo Ballet. He founded, with Margherita Dotta, the collective Verso Energhèia; here he experiments on crossbreeding performances and visual arts. During a residency at Centro 6 Aprile Audiovisual, he created Matrice A and De la Cage à l’abîme, which were supported by Ass. PinDoc, MACRO and Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris.