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Italian dancer, actress, choreographer and author with a European background, Simona Lisi has acquired over the years a multidisciplinary training that has allowed her to move easily between dance, theatre and auteur cinema. In her career she has had the opportunity to collaborate with great names in contemporary entertainment including directors Paolo Sorrentino, Marco Bellocchio, Mario Martone, Cristina Comencini, Doug Liman, Pippo Del Bono, Francesco Saponaro, Fabrizio Crisafulli, Michele Sambati and with choreographers Micha Van Hoecke, Adriana Borriello, Giovanna Summo, Simone Sandroni (Deja Donnè), Nicoletta Cabassi. She collaborates with musicians of great depth with whom she develops her shows based on the contamination between music, voice and gestures, including Andrea Salvadori, Samson G. Balfour Smith and Paolo F. Bragaglia with whom she has formed a strong artistic partnership. In recent years her artistic research has focused on a form of “dance theatre – song” where she often composes original songs. Graduated in “Philosophy, research in aesthetics of dance and corporeality”, her written contributions are present in Agalma n.35 ed. Mimesis, In cerca di danza ed. Costa & Nolan, Creatori di senso, Aracne ed. Light, body, space, Artdigiland and in the online magazine “Limina Teatri” and “Argo”. She conceived and directed the festival “A piedi nudi nel parco” in Naples and “Cinematica-immagine in movimento” in Ancona.

Musician and composer, Paolo Bragaglia began his career as a musician in the 80s as a guitarist, participating in the then very active Italian new wave scene. It was in this period that his interest in analog and digital electronics began. He then expanded his interest to soundtracks for films, videos and advertising, to theater and dance, while at the same time curating numerous recording projects. He has collaborated with Mauro Pagani, Steve Piccolo, Howie B, Monica Demuru, Roberto Paci Dalò, Simona Lisi, Lillevan. Since 2006, Bragaglia has been the artistic director of the Acusmatiq electronic music festival held in Ancona and which has seen the participation of great artists from the world of electronic music.

Set Designer, Lighting and Visual Designer and Creative Director. Since 2005 Pietro Cardarelli has been working in theater and dance (including: Leo Muscato, Francesco Micheli, Gabriele Giromella, Flavio Bucci, Michal Znaniecki, Chiara Cicognani, Enzo Decaro, Irene Russolillo and others). Since 2009 he has been working as Creative Director in Italy and abroad for singers, artists, bands and music producers, stylists, choreographers, art structures and companies (Dardust, Ralf Schmid, Ivan Segreto, Garrison Rochelle, DiMaio, LaRua, AyseDeniz Gokcin , ObliqSound, ZKM Karlsruhe, Roland Europe and others), taking care of various aspects of artistic production, from promotion to live image (lighting design, live video, videomapping, live media, contemporary scenography and staging). Since 2011 he has held several courses in Ascoli Piceno on new forms of contemporary art. In addition to the application of graphic and pictorial artistic techniques, he experiments with new forms of digital art and contemporary art (installations, performance art, video installations, video mapping, video interaction, live media, digital painting, street art and new pop sculptures). His works have been exhibited in several art exhibitions and group shows.

Stefania Cempini lives and works in Ancona. She began her career in experimental theater in 1976, while also working in fashion as a stylist and image curator for fashion shows, commercials, and photo catalogs. As a costume designer, she has been working with the Teatro Stabile delle Marche (now Marche Teatro) since 1999, collaborating with various directors including Giampiero Solari, Pasquale Squitieri, Cherif, Marinella Anaclerio, Lino Musella, Pete Brooks, Marco Baliani, Luca Silvestrini, and Lucia Calamaro. Other directors and choreographers include Luigi Moretti, Sonia Antinori, Isabella Carloni, and Simona Lisi.