Gabriella Maiorino, born in Torino (IT), 1971.

Gabriella Maiorino works as a dancer, choreographer, performer and teacher since 1998.

In 2002 she has graduated in the School for New Dance Development of Amsterdam.

In collaboration with Danswerkplaats Amsterdam (DWA) and different other European partners, Gabriella created the pieces: Terra! (2002), Crash (2003), Stab (2004), Anarchistas (2005) - which has also been part of the first Dansclick tour, ZOO (2006-08)and Trilogia del Desiderio (2008-09) : Prayers, Kunikuli, Underground.

Side projects:Scarti, Cruel, Tripodi and Love_about - program MIXED EMOTIONS.

She also collaborated with other choreographers (Leine & Roebana, Bob Foltz among others) in the project Moving Log.

Gabriella has won the Junge Hunde European network Award with Anarchistas and the Aerowaves Award in London with ZOO and received very positive critics by numerous different newspapers in Europe. Her works have been invited to prestigious festivals and she performed throughout The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Portugal, France, Norway, Spain, England, Belgium and Poland.

Presently she is part of DANSLAB research initiative in Den Haag, for the years 2010 and 2011 and is also starting a new creation (for a group) titled IOVIODIO - an acid piece against - which will premiere in Amsterdam in February 2010.

Her work is recognized as strong, forceful and spirited, anti-formal, physical, new and deeply thrilling.