Francesco Ferrari | Selfless States Movement Workshop

Selfless States: A Movement Workshop with

International Guest Artist

Francesco Ferrari

Especially curated for dance artists and practitioners

(recommended  16+ years)

Sunday 23rd November | 10:00 – 12:00 

ŻfinMalta Studios, Valletta

€30

On the 23rd November,  ŻfinMalta National Dance Company hosts international guest artist Francesco Ferrari (Damien Jalet, Anton Latchky, Sharon Eyal) who leads a movement workshop based on the creative process of his improvisation based work-in-progress ‘Selfless’.

Francesco’s workshop will focus on a sensorial, instinctive approach to movement improvisation: This session will be a study of a specific performative state, where the tension between mind and body might lead towards a distorted, contradictory physicality, and is applied to participant’s individual journeys, as well as applied to contact and partner work.

Find presence inside the moving body: explore imagery-based improvisation and tools to cross the space, including solo and partner work, floor work, and further training drills, before advancing to expansive, full-bodied movement phrases. An immersive and physically rich experience, and an opportunity to work with this exceptional movement artist.  

About Francesco Ferrari

Born and raised in Italy, Francesco graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2013, to then join Scottish Dance Theatre as company dancer. During this time, he works on creations by renowned choreographers, such as Damien Jalet, Anton Latchky, Botis Seva, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, Jorge Crecis, Fleur Darkin.

He later covered the role of Project Rehearsal Director for the company, working on choreographies by Emanuel Gat, Colette Sadler and Joan Clevillé, whilst freelancing across UK, France, Lebanon, Italy and Germany, performing in productions including ‘Planet [wanderer]’ and ‘Vessel’ by Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa, ‘Cents Mille Façons de Parler’ by Omar Rajeh, ‘Danse Macabre!’ by Jacopo Jenna, ‘Inlet’ by Saeed Hani, ‘ANIMA’, Netflix production directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and choreographed by Damien Jalet. His collaboration with Fleur Darkin developed towards their co-creation of ‘Ithaca’, which is presented as a work in progress in Milan, London, St Andrews and Glasgow. In 2024, as part of ‘Venere in Teatro’ festival in Venice, Francesco performed his first solo work ‘Hide and Reveal’, of which a live-set version has been recently presented in Milan, in collaboration with Scottish-Portuguese sound artist and musician SHHE.

Throughout the years, Francesco has also been developing a teaching practice, leading workshops and classes in various contexts, focusing on floorwork, improvisation and movement exploration. 

Participants attending classes must fill out ŻfinMalta’s participation form in advance of attendance: Only one form needs to be filled out per participant, for the season. Please check out our class policy prior to attending classes and for further details.