Maria F. Scaroni

Maria F. Scaroni (IT/DE) has been active in the Berlin scene since 2004, both interpreting and choreographing works and building community through teaching workshops and hosting events. She worked with Meg Stuart, Tino Sehgal, Jeremy Wade, Wilhelm Groener, Manuel Pelmus and several others. Between 2004 and 2014 in San Francisco she met, trained and collaborated with artists such as Sara Shelton Mann, Stephanie Maher, Keith Hennessy, Jess Curtis, a.o., these encounters deeply shaped her physical and performative practice, where dance is intertwined with healing, queer methodologies, social justice and radical play. Her workshops and curated events swell beyond the dance field and include dancers, queers, theater makers, visual artists, academics, social workers, ravers, activists.