CODEDUOMO Cultural Association was founded in 2013 to disseminate and promote the activities, performing and formative, of choreographer Daniele Ninarello in the field of dance and performing arts. Over the years Codeduomo has been expanding more and more, espousing as its goal the desire to make itself a support for young artists who are beginning to enter the world of dance as professionals.

For the three-year period 2025-2027, in fact, Codeduomo accompanies not only the activities of Daniele Ninarello but also the work of: Michela Depetris, Francesca Dibiase, Marina Donatone, Martina Gambardella, Vittorio Pagani, Francesca Santamaria, and Valerie Tameu.

 

MICHELA DEPETRIS

Michela Depetris was born in Italy and trained between Italy and Spain in visual arts and contemporary dance.
She holds a Master of Performing Arts and Visual Culture degree from the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid. She has studied with La Ribot, Elena Cordoba, Xavier Leroy, Paz Rojo, Claude Coldy, Juan Dominguez, Raffaella Giordano among others. She has been a performer for Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo; Ari Benjamin Meyers; Derek Di Fabio; Roberto Casti; Maria Folguera. She works as a creator in performative contexts with hybrid languages between choreography, performance, video, sound and performative and participatory installations, situating her research in an open and mixed field in which each medium always brings with it bodily practices with an expanded vision of choreography. He designs choreographic-performance devices as potential detonators of temporary micro revolutions and impermanent visions in movement. He experiments with methodologies and formats that escape conventional logics and usual production timelines, which often slows, intricates and nourishes his projects.

In recent years with her research she has been an artist selected for Linha de Fuga 2020 (Coimbra, Portugal), Research X 2021 (Steam Laundry, Collegno), More Weeds 2022 (Cimd dance, Fondazione Cariplo, Base, Milan), Creation Atelier 2023 (Steam Laundry, Collegno), Research Camping Research x 2023-2024 (Steam Laundry, Collegno), Superficial Annotations 2025 (Steam Laundry, Collegno). In 2024 she was called, together with choreographer Gustavo Ciriaco, to be part of the jury of Linha de Fuga, a choreographic residency project in Portugal (Coimbra) curated by Catarina Saraiva. Also in 2024 she was part of the EDN Carte Blanche Artist Exchange symposium “Dancing While Writing While Changing a Diaper” in Copenhagen at Dansehallerne. In 2025 she began an artistic collaboration with choreographer Teodora Grano that began for her recent work Grindhouse. In April 2025, in collaboration with Krööt Juurak, at Steam Laundry inside the Spring Rolls festival, she will lead the performance workshop Co-domestication for (M)others on tour, with the support of Perform Europe.

 

FRANCESCA DIBIASE

Francesca Dibiase (1993) is an author and dancer. Her work focuses on the translation of signals expressed through movement, text and voice. Starting from the self in a feminist sense, her research is aimed at creating a subtle listening that opens the possibility of slipping together into a shared energetic dimension. She has been collaborating for several years with her colleague Ida Malfatti and from this alliance the performances Elettrica and CCC take shape. Since 2021 Francesca has been a performer in Zoe Francia Lamattina’s research project Archivia and since 2022 she has been part of the group dormiveglia together with Chiara Cecconello, Ida Malfatti and Zoe Francia Lamattina. She is a dancer in Daniele Ninarello’s Pastorale and his assistant in the PIUME project hosted by Lavanderia a Vapore (TO).

She participates in the Incubatore per future coreografi project directed by Franca Ferrari at C.I.M.D. (MI) and in the advanced training course I Corpi e le Voci della Danza, among tutors Alessandro Sciarroni, Collettivo Cinetico and Dewey Dell.
He has collaborated with artists such as Ariella Vidach, Gruppo Nanou, Simona Bertozzi, and Monica Francia.

 

MARINA DONATONE

Marina Donatone, choreographer and dancer, was born in Rome in 1993 and trained at the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy. She specializes in movement pedagogy for children with Ass.Choronde Progetto Educativo and CDCN Le Gymnase and La Briqueterie in France. She graduated in Literature, Music and Performance from La Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on the sensitive experience of movement as a tool for learning.
As a dancer she has worked in Italy and abroad with artists such as Virgilio Sieni, Jacopo Miliani, Daniele Ninarello and Csaba Molnár.
In her work she seeks a body in the making that gives itself to the choreographic system as an active matter, which works and is worked from the relationships in which it is inserted, bringing with it its own irreducible composition.
His work has been supported by entities including Mattatoio di Roma, Lavanderia a Vapore, Santarcangelo Festival, Teatro India – Teatro di Roma, Short Theatre, Sín Arts Culture Centre in Budapest, OperaEstate and C.U.R.A. Centro Residenze Umbre.
In 2020 and 2021 he is part, with the Short Theatre festival, of the MiBACT Boarding Pass Plus Dance internationalization project for artists and curators.
From 2020 to 2022 he curates and leads the projects of training and approach to art for adults and children at the Mattatoio in Rome.
From 2022, he collaborates with the educational departments of Palazzo Grassi -Punta della Dogana and the Civic Museums of Venice.

WEBSITE www.marinadonatone.it

 

MARTINA GAMBARDELLA

Martina Gambardella was born in Naples in 1993. Active in the field of dance, her research is oriented to the continuous deconstruction and expansion of the potential space of body matter, through the activation of learning processes that start from the constant relationship with others and with the places she inhabits. An associate artist of Associazione Codeduomo, she is the author of Mute, a project selected for the GDA 2023 Showcase and winner of the calls Boarding Pass Plus Dance, Più_Erbacce and the action Around a Process of Making, developed as part of the Marosi Festival in Stromboli. She is also the author of Error#1, a project selected for the GDA 2020 Showcase and Error supported by the ResiDanceXL action of the Antibody Network for the year 2021 and by CIMD-Incubator for futur_ choreograf_. She trained as a dancer between Leeds, at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) and Milan, at the International Center for Movement and Dance (CIMD). In 2014 she moved to Berlin where she deepened her studies of techniques and tools for choreographic improvisation and instant composition in solo and ensemble with Maya M. Carroll, Rosalind Crisp, Julyen Hamilton.
Here she also follows the Axis Syllabus International Research Community hub and co-founded the studio and performance collective Cavadoras in 2017, in collaboration with Lilly Pohlmann, Marcelo Schmittner and Marianne Tuckmann. In 2015 she collaborated as a dancer with The Instrument company. In 2016, she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Developing Artistic Practice in London at the London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS).

WEBSITE https://www.martinagambardella.com/
IG https://www.instagram.com/martina_gambardella/
FB https://www.facebook.com/martina.gambardella

 

VITTORIO PAGANI

Vittorio Pagani is a performer and choreographer originally from Milan, Italy.
In 2018 he joined Ballet Junior de Genève where he dances the creations of some of the most influential international choreographers (Marcos Morau,
Jan Martens, Olivier Dubois, Hofesh Shechter).
In 2021, he created the two-step Around 5:65, which was selected for the prestigious RIDCC2022 platform.
He has a Master’s Degree in Expanded Dance Practice, received in 2023 from the University of Arts London.
At The Place London she creates A Solo in the Spotlights: this creation is selected for Resolution2023, the Young Author’s Dance Showcase 2023 and Aerowaves2024, and is danced at numerous Italian and European festivals.
Since 2023, he has been part of the LARVÆ collective, an ensemble of performing arts professionals supported by Roberta Ferrara’s Compagnia Equilibrio Dinamico.
A freelance dancer and choreographer, he investigates themes such as performativity and subversion in his works.

 

FRANCESCA SANTAMARIA

Francesca Santamaria is an artist active in the Performing Arts.
Her research focuses on performance logics and, through the body in movement and its limits, she investigates and reflects on the concept of the performer.

In 2021 she creates and performs SHIFTING TOOLS, a video dance work presented and awarded in numerous international festivals. In 2022 she takes part in the research track Incubator for futur_ choreographers_ CIMD and in 2024 she debuts as an author with HOW TO SURVIVE IN CASE OF PERMANENT DAMAGE, co-produced by the Operaestate festival.

During the years within the Milan hub, she worked on the conception and creation of the GOOD VIBES ONLY trilogy. GOOD VIBES ONLY (beta test), the first chapter of the trilogy, is co-produced by MILANoLTRE, Più che Danza, FDE Festival Danza Estate festivals. He is currently working on GOOD VIBES ONLY (the great effort), the second chapter of the project.

Over the years he collaborates with divers_ artists_ of the theater and performance scene including Pietro Angelini, Vittorio Pagani, FanniBanni’s, UCCI UCCI. At the same time he graduated from Sapienza University in Rome with a master’s thesis on dance dramaturgy and took part in several projects with the ASAC of the Venice Biennale from 2021 to 2023.

 

VALERIE TAMEU

Valerie Tameu is a multidisciplinary artist and performer working at the intersection of performance, technology, and decolonial practices. Her research explores themes such as Afro-European identities, historical archives, and science fiction, using installations, performances, and workshops.
She has received grants and residencies, presenting her work in Italy and abroad.
Recent projects include Orynthia (2024), a performance and virtual reality environment that combines African mythology, technology and natural ecosystems; Time and Again (2024), an immersive installation on Afro-descendant communities in Italy, using video mapping and soundscapes, supported by Centrale Fies for Live Works; Where the Plates Trempered (2023), a project investigating historical archives and Italian Afro-descendant communities; Studio 1. I Miss You So Much! (2023), a solo exhibition produced with SPAZIO GRIOT and the Italian Cultural Institute in London, and part of a group show in Turin organized by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, dedicated to Afro-descendant workers in Italy in the 1980s; and Metabolo (2023), an exploration of the relationship between art and technology presented at Ars Electronica 2023. As a performer, she has collaborated with several Italian and international artists.

An honors graduate in Cinema, Performing Arts, Music and Media from the University of Turin, she specialized in Dance and Performing Arts with Compagnia Zappalà Danza.

An interview about the Time and Again project was published in L’Espresso and her work was included in Gucci Perspectives 2024 magazine.