Davide Casiraghi

Italy
Year of starting to practice
2010
Year of starting to teach
2016

Bio

 

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Davide Casiraghi is a student in phisotheraphy, dancer, Contact Improvisation dance teacher, Ilan Lev method practitioner, based in Lecco, Italy. He has been exploring Contact Improvisation since 2010.

Member of the Round Robin Project that has the aim to create tools for global networking of the worldwide Contact Improvisation community. He is a web designer, developer, and technical manager of the Contact Improvisation Global Calendar (CIGG) - www.ciglobalcalendar.net
Previously from 2010 to 2018 webmaster of the Contact Improvisation Italian website - www.contactimprov.it (now closed)

His study started in Milan and continued in Europe with many teachers. Roberto Lun, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Angela Dony, and Nancy Stark Smith are his main influences.

He sees CI as a way to re-awake and enjoy fully our sensitivity and playfulness, working on trust, and exploring curiosity about movement principles out of daily movement patterns.

In Milan, he has been co-founder of Collettivo Daimon, a CI collective that organized once a month from 2013 to 2016 the Sunday Contact Jams.
From 2017 to 2022, he was a co-creator in Slovenia with Nayeli Spela Peterlin of Moave - www.moave.si and in Ljubljana of weekly jams, regular classes, and the CI festival dance in the city.
In Milan, he is a co-founder of Collettivo Marino which organize regular weekly jams since October 2024.

 
Bio ITA
Davide Casiraghi 
Esplora la Contact Improvisation dal 2010. Il suo studio inizia a Milano e continua in Europa con numerosi insegnanti. Roberto Lun, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Angela Dony, Nancy Stark Smith sono le sue principali influenze. Praticante del Metodo Ilan Lev e ora studente di fisioterapia.
A Milano co-fondatore del Collettivo Daimon che ha iniziato le Sunday Contact Jam, co-fondatore del collettivo Sloveno di Contact Improvisation che organizza le jam settimanali e il festival di Ljubljana.
A Milano è co-fondatore del Collettivo Marino che organizza regolarmente jam settimanali dall'ottobre 2024. 
E'stato webmaster del sito italiano per la promozione della CI www.contactimprov.it e ora del calendario mondiale della CI www.ciglobalcalendar.net

 

Significant teachers

Marco Zontini ('10, '11), Roberto Lun (’10, ’11, ’12, ‘13), Nita Little ('13, '14, '15, '16), Javier Curia ('10'), Vera de Propris ('13), Bernd Knappe ('12, '12, '13), Thomas Kampe ('12, ’13), Daniel Lepkoff (’14), Itay Iatuv (’14, '15), Yaniv Mintzer (‘16, '19), Joerg Hassman (’16), Adrian Russi (’16), Kirstie Sympson (’11), Ester Momblance (’10), Katri Luukkonen(’11), Scott Wells(’11), Alicia Grayson(’11), Ray Chung ('12, '13), Nancy Stark Smith (’14), Martin Keogh (’15, ’16), Benno Voorham (’13), Ezster Gal (’14), Patricia Kuypers (’15), Alyssa Lynes (’14), Eckard Muller (’13), Frey Faust (’14), Angelica Dony (’16, ’17), Leonardo Lambruschini (’16), Jess Curtis(’17), Simone Magnani (’14), Anatolliy Layaskallo ('11), Tim O’Donnell (’10), Riccardo Meneghini (’15), Claus Springborg (’14), Asaf Bachrach ('19), Romain Bigé ('19), Nuria Urcelay Martinez ('18), Leilani Weis (‘20), Ramón Roig (‘20)