Antonella Fittipaldi
A multidisciplinary artist from Basilicata, Antonella Fittipaldi works as a choreographer, teacher, and researcher in radical alternative pedagogies for the performing arts, both independently and at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam.
For the year 2026, she teaches Philosophy in the ECD (Expanded Contemporary Dance) department and has been awarded the Teacher Fellowship Scholarship within the Lectorate Research Program at ATD – Academie voor Theater en Dans in Amsterdam.
Her research is characterized by a tendency toward fluid environments for multidisciplinary encounters, bringing together her background in performing arts and philosophical hermeneutics. Across dance, text, and live sound, her aim is to orient the audience toward responsibility as co-creators of the work itself.
Nature and culture: overlapping and interchangeable categories chosen by Antonella Fittipaldi to question the social, economic, and political constructions acting upon the body and the feminine, shaping perceptions, roles, and possibilities.
The project takes shape through performance, live sound, text, and scenography, creating domestic environments guided by a dreamlike logic: spaces that progressively transform, becoming unstable and suspended between familiarity and estrangement. It is the dream that drives these transformations, suggesting a fragmented, non-linear rhythm and opening space for new modes of relation between bodies, objects, and presences.
Within this space, the audience is not a passive spectator but an active presence: they move through it, listen, and contribute to the construction of the experience. The artist invites a reclaiming of dreams, encouraging action and collective movement in solidarity toward possible futures.
The project unfolds through Couch Talk: Stories of a Sofa, a participatory workshop centered on the transformation of a sofa—symbol of domestic life and relationships—and Opera Aperta, an ever-evolving performance that is co-created with those who encounter it.