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Claudia Brazzale is an artist and a scholar from Italy, who joined academia after an extensive experience

as a performer, dancer, and choreographer in Europe and in the USA. As a scholar, her training

includes a Ph.D. in Culture and Performance (UCLA’s World, Arts & Cultures department), an

M.A. in Performance Studies (New York University), and a B.A. in Anthropological Studies of

Dance (SUNY). Her scholarship and pedagogical approach are deeply influenced by her crosscultural

intellectual and artistic trajectory and her continuing dance-theater practice. Her interest in

the body and movement has led her to explore diverse forms of dance and performance genres–

from ballet, modern/post-modern dance and somatics to Butoh, Bharata Natyam, West African

dance, Hawaiian Hula and Balinese dance. Placing these studies in a critical interrogation of her

own transnational formation as a dancer and scholar, her work focuses on the seduction,

potentiality, limits and consequences of mobility. She approaches the moving body as a productive

avenue for thinking the politics of laboring, globalisation and cosmopolitanism not only in dance

training and the performing arts but also in domestic and entrepreneurial spaces, as in her

dissertational research on the family firms of North East Italy. Through writing, choreography and

video, her work engages with the body in relation to the global flows of traditional dance forms,