DAF International Artists – Francesca Frassinelli

Resident artist within the DAF International Program, Francesca Frassinelli returns this year for her regular appointment with the students of the professional project, after a season that has brought her as a guest artist to some of the leading European theatres. Her return is not simply another presence in the season’s calendar, but the continuation of a creative relationship that, year after year, builds an increasingly profound connection with the dancers of the international program. A new original creation brings her back into the studio as an active part of a process in which choreographic work is not limited to the transmission of material, but becomes a true experience of passage: a place where the body is observed, questioned, and reorganized.

DAF’s choreographic residencies take shape as cognitive laboratories, spaces where dance moves beyond the dimension of physical practice to become a field of inquiry, a tool of observation, and a device for constructing thought. The creative process unfolds as a system of research, capable of generating original mechanisms and activating a real dialogue between artist and dancers, where the experience is never linear, but constantly renegotiated. Each season presents itself as a perceptual experiment: an interweaving of trajectories that meet, transform, and rewrite themselves, continuously opening new fields of possibility. In this space, dance takes on the value of a language of knowledge, resonating with the deepest tensions of contemporary culture