2020_MASAKO MATSUSHITA

Masako Matsushita

Italian/Japanese, freelance performer and choreographer comes from Pesaro where she first approached dance. In 2008 she attended a dance theatre course at Paolo Grassi School in Milan IT. She trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music&Dance in London UK obtaining a BA (Hons) Dance Theatre in 2012. As dancer she works forthe duo Curandi Katz visual artist american-italian with the work Resist Everywhere, Masako premier Drodesera Festival July 2015, Ingvild Isaksen Norwegian choreographer with the work Veggimellom presented at Scenhuset Oslo in February 2015 and with the work People invited to festivals such as Ravnedans; Dans5; MindtheGap; HangartFest; Sanafest; I n&Off; Norlys between 2013 and 2015.

Cornelia Voglmayr austrian choreographer with the work Sonata in 3 movements invited to Festival La Becquée 2013, Janne Camille Lyester Norwegian writer and choreographer with the work Adaptation as Choreographypremier Ravnedans July 2015. She worked between 2012 and 2013 for Josiah McElheny in Interactions of the abstract body for the White Cube Gallery London, Jeremy Nelson for City of London Festival, Leonie Nadler at The Place London, Rachel Lopez De La Nieta for City of London Festival, Matteo Fargion and Marie Gabrielle Rotie atBonnie Bird Theatre, Susan Sentler at Somerset House London. She presented her own works in Festivals such asIn& Off Danza inscena IT, Crash Festival UK, Neu/Now Festival 2012 on line e 2013 live NL, Its Festival NL, ArmuniaIT, Festival Aperto IT, Festival Ammutinamenti IT, HangartFest IX-X-XI ed. IT, Civitanova Danza 2.0 IT, Revnedans e Sanafest NOR. Masako is one of the founder of 4bid gallery in Amsterdam. Arstist selected for per la New ItalianDance Platform 2019 with UN/DRESS, she is involved in two international projects, Dancing Museum 2 – The Democracy of Being, supported CSC – Centro per la Scena Contemporanea with Arte Sella, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo e CA’ Foscari University in Venezia e Museum of Human E- Motion.