Marco D’Agostin
Marco D’Agostin is the winner of the 2018 UBU Award for Best Performer Under 35 and the 2023 UBU Awad for Best Dance Performance (The Years). In 2023 he was awarded the 4th Riccone Special Prize for the dramaturgical innovation. He is an associate of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
After training with internationally renowned masters (Yasmeen Godder, Nigel Charnock, Emio Greco), he danced as a performer for Claudia Castellucci/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Alessandro Sciarroni, Liz Santoro, Tabea Martin. Since 2010, he has been taking part in international choreographic research projects (ChoreoRoam Europe, Act Your Age, Triptych). He has twice been among the Priority Companies of the European network Aerowaves. He has been hosted in the main European festivals and theaters (Théâtre de La Ville – Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Kampnagel – Hamburg, Les Brigittines – Brussels, The Place Theatre – London, Julidans – Amsterdam, Santarcangelo, Romaeuropa, Torinodanza, OperaEstate, to name a few) and has presented his shows in many prestigious overseas contexts (Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo). As of 2019, he is one of the twenty dancers in Boris Charmartz’s XX Dancers for the 20th century project, for which he interprets the Schuhplattler repertoire from A. Sciarroni’s Folk-s show. In 2020 he was invited by Marie Chouinard, director of the Biennale Danza, to make a new creation for Biennale College, while in 2023 he created OKOKOK, commissioned by Paolo Mangiola for the Maltese national company ZfinMalta. He co-curated Centrale Fies’ Thank you for coming and Ogni volta unica la fine del mondo, Piccolo Teatro of Milan’s 2021 summer season. In 2024, Years, Letters and Avalanches, a volume co-written with Alessandro Iachino on dramaturgies for dance, was published by Il Saggiatore.
Marco D’Agostin is one of the founders of VAN, a dance production organization recognized and supported by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities since 2015. He was also the male lead in Marco Righi’s award-winning film Days of harvest (special mention of the jury at Rencontres du Cinéma Italien de Grenoble, 2011).
After training with internationally renowned masters (Yasmeen Godder, Nigel Charnock, Emio Greco), he danced as a performer for Claudia Castellucci/Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Alessandro Sciarroni, Liz Santoro, Tabea Martin. Since 2010, he has been taking part in international choreographic research projects (ChoreoRoam Europe, Act Your Age, Triptych). He has twice been among the Priority Companies of the European network Aerowaves. He has been hosted in the main European festivals and theaters (Théâtre de La Ville – Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Kampnagel – Hamburg, Les Brigittines – Brussels, The Place Theatre – London, Julidans – Amsterdam, Santarcangelo, Romaeuropa, Torinodanza, OperaEstate, to name a few) and has presented his shows in many prestigious overseas contexts (Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo). As of 2019, he is one of the twenty dancers in Boris Charmartz’s XX Dancers for the 20th century project, for which he interprets the Schuhplattler repertoire from A. Sciarroni’s Folk-s show. In 2020 he was invited by Marie Chouinard, director of the Biennale Danza, to make a new creation for Biennale College, while in 2023 he created OKOKOK, commissioned by Paolo Mangiola for the Maltese national company ZfinMalta. He co-curated Centrale Fies’ Thank you for coming and Ogni volta unica la fine del mondo, Piccolo Teatro of Milan’s 2021 summer season. In 2024, Years, Letters and Avalanches, a volume co-written with Alessandro Iachino on dramaturgies for dance, was published by Il Saggiatore.
Marco D’Agostin is one of the founders of VAN, a dance production organization recognized and supported by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities since 2015. He was also the male lead in Marco Righi’s award-winning film Days of harvest (special mention of the jury at Rencontres du Cinéma Italien de Grenoble, 2011).
