EN Francesca Mariano (also Francesca Heart, Serpentine Dance) is a movement and sound artist, somatic practitioner, with volcanic and marine origins in Southern Italy. She trained with post-modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin at the Mountain Home Studio in California.
Her research explores the nuances between connection and alienation, through dance, hydro-feminism, electronic music fantasia and landscape choreology.
She is committed to creating and participating in spaces of experimentation and vibrant water circulation to remember and foster healing and systemic change. Central to her practice is the body as a vehicle of regeneration and transformation.
She is the creatrix of the dance projects Water Info Transmission and Archaeo-Choreology. In 2020 she co-founded Nuova Atlantide. Since 2016 she runs Serpentine Dance Studio, a private practice in Milan & Online that works with movement and voice in their therapeutic potential.
In addition to personal projects, she works on musical and choreographic compositions for documentaries, fashion and film.
Selected performances, workshops and collaborations
the University of California Santa Barbara, Istituto Svizzero, de Young Museum, Nextones, the AA School of Architecture, Leaving Records, Palermo Living Pavillion, European Alternatives, Fondazione Lac O Le Mon, Studio Concreto, East Contemporary, Hot House Series, Maison Margiela, Trascendanza, Subtle Neutrality, Virgin & Martyr, Holistically, Combo, Adidas Women, Zuma Festival & more.
Education and Trainings
Tamalpa Institute (USA) - Movement, Dance & Expressive Arts Therapy / Personal Embodiment / training with Anna Halprin, Daria Halprin, Dohee Lee
Silvestre Dance Technique (Brazil) - Contemporary Dance / training with Rosangela Silvestre and Vera Passos
Brighton School of Embodied Therapy (UK) / facilitator diploma
Reiki Usui Training (Italy) / facilitator diploma
University of Sussex (UK) - MA International Relations / Masters thesis on Eco-feminist critique of language and discourse in IR/
IT Francesca Mariano è un'artista del movimento e del suono, facilitatrice di pratiche somatiche, con origini vulcaniche e marine nel Sud Italia.
Si è formata con la pioniera della danza post-moderna Anna Halprin presso il Mountain Home Studio in California.
La sua ricerca esplora le sfumature tra connessione e alienazione attraverso laboratori collettivi, idro-femminismo, musica fantasy e coreologia del paesaggio.
Crea e partecipa a spazi di circolazione liquida e geologia somatica il cui elemento centrale è il corpo come veicolo di rigenerazione, ascolto e trasformazione.
È la creatrice dei progetti di sperimentazione corporea e sonora Water Info Transmission e Archaeo-Choreology. Nel 2020 ha co-fondato Nuova Atlantide.
Dal 2016 gestisce Serpentine Dance Studio, uno spazio a Milano e online in cui si lavora con il movimento e la voce nel loro potenziale terapeutico.
Oltre ai progetti personali, lavora a composizioni musicali e coreografiche per documentari, fashion e film.
Performance, laboratori e collaborazioni
Università della California Santa Barbara, Istituto Svizzero, de Young Museum, Nextones, the AA School of Architecture, Leaving Records, Palermo Living Pavillion, European Alternatives, Fondazione Lac O Le Mon, Studio Concreto, East Contemporary, Hot House Series, Maison Margiela, Trascendanza, Subtle Neutrality, Virgin & Martyr, Holistically, Combo, Adidas Women, Zuma Festival & more.