User talk:VanessaTamburi

Vanessa Tamburi( born on January 5, 1968 ) is a former Ballet Solo Dancer, Choreographer and a Dance Company and Festival Artistic Director.

She has worked as a solo dancer for key European theatres, including the Ballet of Montercarlo, the Hamburg Ballet and the Vienna Opera Ballet. In 1994 Vanessa received the “POSITANO award” as dancer revelation of the year.

Building on her professional experience as a classical dancer, Vanessa, over the years, developed experimental contemporary choreographic work, melding dance with contemporary theatre, visual and multimedia art. In 1999 she creates her first choreography at the Odeon theatre in Vienna. Her choreographies have been performed in Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Rwanda, Tanzania, USA, Papua New Guinea and in collaboration with numerous theatres they were staged at international festivals.

In 2007 she established the Company "FLUSSO Dance Project", of which she is currently Artistic Director and Choreographer. She was the Artistic Advisor of the Visa 2 Dance Festival (from 2008 to 2012) and now of the Time2dance Festival (2013 on) in Tanzania. In May/June 2010 she took part of the CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLISION project at “Biennale Danza” in Venice. In 2015 She founded IDACO nyc, Italian DAnce COnnection, a dance week event in New York City on Contemporary Italian Dance of which she is the Managing and Artistic Director.

After living in Brussel, Montecarlo, Hamburg, Vienna, Kigali, Dar Es Salaam, New York she moved recently to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.