This Zoom event is free of charge to People Dancing Members and £5.00 for non-members.
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Booking deadline: Midday Tuesday 21 June 2022.
About Luca Silvestrini
Luca is Artistic Director of award-winning Protein, one of the most distinctive voices in British dance theatre.
Born in Jesi, Italy, Luca graduated in Dance History at the University of Bologna in 1995. He then moved to London to study dance and choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Here he met choreographer Lea Anderson and become a member of The Featherstonehaughs. As a performer, Luca has also worked with Maxine Doyle, Aletta Collins, Catherine Seymour, Sarah Rubidge, Ioanna Portolou, Ruth Segalis and with Bock&Vincenzi.
His choreography dates from 1997, when he co-founded Protein Dance (now Luca Silvestrini’s Protein). He is known for his unique style of dance theatre combining choreography, spoken word and social commentary to present the everyday in revealing and subversive ways, on and off stage. Protein’s catalogue of acclaimed work, including?Publife,?LOL (lots of love),?(In)visible Dancing,?Border Tales?and?The Little Prince, has toured around Europe and the world. Luca’s personality is stamped on participation and engagement projects which have made Protein a leader in the field of community dance. He has choreographed large scale participatory events for Big Dance and for Lift.?Crossroads, featuring a large intergenerational cast, has been remounted and adapted for community participants around the world, including France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Japan.
Through Protein’s?Real Life Real Dance?programme, Luca has created ground-breaking participatory performance opportunities for disadvantaged and disengaged people, including young people in alternative provision schools, refugees and asylum seekers, children in hospital and elders in care homes.
Luca is an Affiliate Artist at The Place and Protein is a Resident Artistic Company at Woolwich Works, London.
Image credit: Luca Silvestrini. Photo: ©Jane Hobson.