Marco Berrettini, born in 1963 in Aschaffenburg, is an Italian dancer and choreographer. His interest in dancing began in a nightclub. In 1978, he won the German Disco Dance Championship. With this experience, he attended jazz, modern and classical ballet dance lessons. At 17, he began his professional training as a dancer; first at the London School of Contemporary Dance, then graduating at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, under the direction of Hans Züllig and Pina Bausch. There, he developed his interest in Tanztheater and began as a choreographer. Following his training, he tried to start his own company in Wiesbaden.
To support his attempts to make a name for himself as a choreographer, he studied European Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology and Theatre Studies at the Goethe University of Frankfurt for two years. In 1988, he moved to France to work with the choreographer Georges Appaix and, at the same time, created his own pieces. In 1999, Kampnagel Hamburg produced the show Multi(s)me.
Since then, Marco Berrettini has produced around thirty shows with his company. With Sturmwetter prepares the year of Emil, he won the ZKB prize at the Theater Spektakel in Zurich. Since 2004, he has created, among others, No Paraderan, *Melk Prod. goes to New Orleans (2007), iFeel (2009), iFeel2 (2012), iFeel3 (2016), iFeel4 (2017) and My soul is my Visa (2018). In 2019, he re-produced Sorry, do the tour. Again!, following the order from CND – Pantin. In 2020, he did a revival of No Paraderan following a commission from the Théâtre des Amandiers, CDN de Nanterre. In 2021, he created Music all with Jonathan Capdevielle and Jérôme Marin. Marco Berrettini’s activity ranges from performances in museums to collaborations with film directors, from installations with visual artists to dinner with famous people who don’t know him.
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