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SARA PEZZOLO
ASSOCIATED ARTIST
Part of the project #YoungDreamers
Born in Genoa in 1997, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and went on to study at the IUAV University of Venice, where she obtained a master’s degree in Theatre and Performing Arts.
During her training, she collaborated with artists, companies and choreographers, including Anagoor, Michele Di Stefano, Enzo Cosimi and Marco Martinelli, Teodora and Agata Castellucci, Chiara Bersani, Nicola Galli and Daniele Ninnarello. She attended the Susanna Beltrami Academy, where created and presented her choreographic projects: Perturbeted Artist, Trauma and Minotauro.
She also took part in the FIND festival with her performance Perturbated Artist. She has also worked as a performer for Virgilio Sieni, Enzo Cosimi, Collettivo Cinetico and for the El Conde De Torrefiel company in La Plaza, which subsequently toured after premiering at the Festival Contemporanea and the Primavera dei Teatri festival.
In 2024, she took part in the MILANoLTRE Festival, choreographing a project for Miolteens entitled Antigone: recitativo per voce sola.
Since 2025, she has been supported by DANCEHAUSpiù through the project #YOUNGDREAMERS, as part of which she created the performances Io Siamo (2025), Radical Bodies (2025), Cane Nero (2026) and Olympic Brass Street Parade (2026).
FEDE OLIMPICA /
OLYMPIC BRASS STREET PARADE
PH SALVATORE LAZZARO
MUSIC RUSTRY BRASS
COREOGRAPHIE SARA PEZZOLO
ARTISTIC DIRECTION MATTEO BITTANTE
DANCE SARA PEZZOLO, BARBARA ALLEGREZZA, NICOLO' CASTAGNI, MARCO ANTONIO HERNANDEZ ROJAS, MAFALDA MARIA FONDI, ALESSANDRO FLORIO
COSTUMES MARCO HERNANDEZ ROJAS
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù 2026
The event is part of the Piano Olimpico project organized by the Orchestra da Camera Canova, in collaboration with Musicamorfosi and DANCEHAUSpiù, with the support of Regione Lombardia on the occasion of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games.
A musical parade, directed by choreographer Matteo Bittante and choreographed by Sara Pezzolo, brings life to the towns of Morbegno and Teglio, celebrating the union of cultures from around the world. The dancers of DANCEHAUSpiù, the national dance production center, weave together movements, rhythms, and gestures from diverse traditions, transforming the streets of these two Valtellina locations into a multicultural stage where people from every latitude symbolically meet. All of this is accompanied by the irresistible energy of Rusty Brass, a vibrant “rusty” brass ensemble from Val Camonica, at ease across an endless variety of musical genres and sounds, from funk to rock, from Balkan rhythms to ventures into the classical tradition, from New Orleans jazz to Mexican folk, all the way to reggae and hip-hop.
CANE NERO
PH SALVATORE LAZZARO
BY SARA PEZZOLO
WITH SARA PEZZOLO AND MAKSYM PETRASHCHUK
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù 2026
This creation was produced within the framework of #YoungDreamers, a project dedicated to the emerging creative scene under 30, conceived by DANCEHAUSpiù – National Dance Production Center.
Are we what we love, or is it love that makes us who we are?
How many times do we love? How many times do we live and die?
Black Dog draws on the myth of Penthesilea and Achilles, embracing that harmonious ambiguity between ancient and contemporary, where ferocity and serenity equally define the nature of the two characters—figures who have always been inherently ambiguous and double: a man and a woman, Adam and Eve, two prototypes of perfect yet imperfect human beings, raised in opposition to their own sex, drawn to one another yet driven by their history to fight and destroy each other. In fighting, coupling, and killing one another, they inevitably become part of our fragmented and unbalanced contemporary society.
Both the myth and the work speak intensely about the profound meaning of existence, the struggle for identity, the fragmentation of the human being, and the ongoing conflict with life and death, in search of a desperate solution: acceptance. An acceptance by male and female, reunited in a single dual nature that is not therefore impossible, unsettling yet not to be rejected.
This work seeks to humanize these two characters and explore their inner worlds, also addressing fear, metaphorically embodied in the concept of the black dog: the messenger of the underworld, a nocturnal creature, a monstrous ghost, a supernatural being, an animal associated in mythology with physical and psychological pain.
Penthesilea’s black dog is also Achilles’ black dog.
Penthesilea longs to live fully, refusing to remain passive before an existence that flows relentlessly not only in the face of pain but also of human passion. Yet her strength has always coexisted with fear: she acknowledges her terror; her “black dog” appears as something outside herself, yet at the same time it lives within her. Achilles is a man who weeps, who carries sorrow, intoxicated with death, devouring life, and experiencing fear: neither man nor woman, neither male nor female, yet all at once. Penthesilea and Achilles live for and within their language; they are both being together and not being at all.
RADICAL BODIES
BY SARA PEZZOLO
WITH BARBARA ALLEGREZZA, MAFALDA MARIA FONDI
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù
This creation was produced within the framework of #YoungDreamers, a project dedicated to the emerging creative scene under 30, conceived by DANCEHAUSpiù – National Dance Production Center.
Radical Bodies is a performance that investigates the term politics, and the role of the artist in society. It shows a politically engaged performance artist who structures his performances to respond to socially relevant issues. His artistic actions are always driven by a sense of appropriation, denunciation and resistance, his mood is therefore often disrupted. He sees his actions as necessary and inevitable in these times of unconditional crisis in which artistic entertainment and creative gimmicks seem to have little reason to exist. The performance enacts a revolution: it is intended to be a feminine manifesto, staging the political body of the artist. The artist feels the need not to be indifferent to society despite it crushing him. The project traces the emotional and social stages that the artist goes through during her expressive journey within society.
With this performance I intend to create a space for a possible civil negotiation, and a public space to analyse and deepen the debate on how to overcome and transform patterns, rules, conventions and social and cultural barriers. Finally, I would like this debate to be seen as a radical act, in which the self collides and joins the world's perception of the artist and performance. You will witness an act of rupture in which the artist's body becomes the means of expression as well as the reason for being judged.
IO SIAMO
BY SARA PEZZOLO
WITH SARA PEZZOLO E MAFALDA MARIA FONDI
PRODUCTION DANCEHAUSpiù / YoungDreamers 2025
Duration 20'
This creation was produced within the framework of #YoungDreamers, a project dedicated to the emerging creative scene under 30, conceived by DANCEHAUSpiù – National Dance Production Center.
PH SARA MELITI
This project is inspired by the literary work Minotaur by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a reinterpretation of the famous Greek myth, used here to focus on the emotional and psychological dimension of the characters. It stages the duality of a body that becomes the container of two very different personalities: the Minotaur and Ariadne.
It is a journey of female self-analysis, exploring what it means to live with two souls that reflect two possible ways of being a woman. We witness a destroyed body, consumed by illness and no longer fully human, inhabited by a dark mind that survives only through memories—also because of Theseus, who represents the one who killed her most human part, abandoned her, and led her to feel diseased, through an obsessive relationship with her two souls.