Alessandro Sciarroni

Trained in the visual arts, Italian choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni develops a body of work at the intersection of the performing arts, visual arts, and theatrical research. Inspired by a conceptual approach inherited from Duchamp, he transposes this way of thinking into the field of performance. His works, presented in festivals, museums, and unconventional venues across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, bring together performers from a wide range of disciplines and draw on dance, circus, and sport. Through repetition and endurance, his work explores the limits of performance, the obsessions and vulnerabilities of the body, while questioning notions of time and the empathetic relationship between performers and audiences. In 2014, the Festival d’Automne à Paris presented three of his major works: UNTITLED_I will be there when you die, FOLK-S_will you still love me tomorrow?, and JOSEPH_kids. He has since been a regular guest of the festival, notably with TURNING_motion sickness version for the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon in 2019 and DREAM in 2022. In 2023, he created IRIS, a site-specific performance at the Butte-aux-Cailles swimming pool as part of the Cultural Olympiad programme opening the Festival d’Automne. Associate artist of Marche Teatro in Ancona, he was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2024, he returned to Paris with the premiere of U. (un canto), continuing his exploration of polyphonic forms.