Italian-German dancer and choreographer Marco Berrettini was born in 1963 in Aschaffenburg, Germany. His interest in dance began in the discotheque. In 1978 he won the German Disco Dance Championship. With this experience, he attended lessons in Jazz, Modern and Classical Ballet. At 17, he began his professional training as a dancer; first at the London School of Contemporary Dance The Place, then graduated from the Folkwangschulen Essen, under the direction of Hans Züllig and Pina Bausch. There, he developed his interest in the Tanztheater and started out as a contemporary dance choreographer.
Following his training, he tried to set up his own company. To accompany his attempts to make a name for himself as a choreographer, he studied European Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology and Theater Sciences at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. In 1988, he moved to France, to work with choreographers and at the same time to create his own pieces. Since then, Marco Berrettini has produced around 40 shows with his company. With Sturmwetter Preparing for Emil's Year, he won the ZKB Prize at the Theaterspektakel in Zürich. 2018 he won the Swiss Dance Prize with iFeel3 and 2022 the Swiss Dance Prize for the whole of his work. Marco Berrettini's activity ranges from performing in a museum to collaborating with filmmakers, from installing with visual artists to dining with famous people who don't know him. But his best achievement remains his daughter Stella.
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