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Andrea De Siena

Andrea De Siena, portrait

A dancer from San Vito dei Normanni, Andrea De Siena is among the leading interpreters of traditional dance of the latest generation. Among the co-founders of the San Vito School of Pizzica (World Music Academy), he teaches regularly in Rome, Barcelona, Milan and Paris

He has a multi-year collaboration with Ambrogio Sparagna's Italian Popular Orchestra. In 2014 he took part in the 2014 Notte della Taranta and collaborated with the artist Emily Jacir and the cultural centre Dar Jacir in Bethlehem.

In 2022 he wins the Ethnos Gener/Actions choreography prize with the choreography TRADERE.

In 2024 he presented CONTRORA at the Fira Mediterranea in Manresa, a work produced by Pensiero Meridiano and World Music Academy, with the support of Puglia Sounds.

Second stage of a research on “slow time”, after CONTRORA (2024), dedicated to Southern Italy and its rhythm suspended between conviviality and silence, SCIUCARI explores play as a bodily and collective practice, inspired by the childhood street games of Salento.

A collective of performers: Viola Centi, Andrea De Siena, Maria Carmen Di Poce, Laura Esposito, Giulia Pesole, reworks these playful dynamics as choreographic devices, highlighting memory, proximity, and self-regulation.

The movements draw from the codes of traditional Southern dances, pizzica, tarantelle, tammurriate, reinterpreted through the language of contemporary performance. Thus, play becomes a key to reflect on the body as a space of relation and transmission, and to rediscover public space as a place of encounter, listening, and community.