Mario Coccetti

Mario Coccetti, choreographer and dancer trained in Italy, Madrid and New York, has been artistic director of Compagnia della Quarta since 2009 and artistic director of the ZED International Screendance Festival since 2019, which gathers artists, cultural realities and European institutions to create a focus on screendance and the use of new technologies applied to virtual and augmented reality. Since 2016 he is the founder of S Dance Company, which hybridizes choreography, styles, musical sonorities, cinematic language and contemporary dance technique to create original works strongly identified by the physical power of the bodies on stage, the emotional states of the dancers and the percussive rhythm of the action. In 2023 he was Professor of Contemporary Dance Technique at the National Academy of Dance.
Dance, for which he also curated a choreographic project within Resid’AND. He also created DRIFT for the company Egribianco Danza in Turin. Recent works include the video installation created for Dolce&Gabbana for the retrospective exhibition “From the Heart to the Hands” at Palazzo Reale in Milan and at Casa Dolce&Gabbana in Zhangyuan, Shanghai, participation in the festivals Quartiers Danses in Montreal – Canada, the festival Danza Canaria Dentro y Fuera in Santa Cruz – Spain.