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HER LIFE 

Biography.

Born in Italy Roberta Pisu is a choreographer and performer based in Munich.

 

From 2012 till 2023 she was a solo dancer and choreographer at the

"Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz" and  a choreographer for many freelance projects.

Since 2020 she is the artistic director of arcis_collective based in Munich.

Born in Cagliari in 1984, she started her professional training at the “Academie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace” (France). Later, in July 2010, she completed her studies at the Department of Contemporary Dance at the “Accademia Nazionale di Danza”(Italy). In 2002, she worked as a soloist with the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. After relocating to Rome and gaining various experiences as a freelancer, she collaborated with Adriana Boriello in 2007 and joined the company “La Compagnia” in 2008 under the artistic direction of Pina Bausch and Ismael Ivo, Adriana Boriello, Cristiana Morganti and Margherita Parrilla. She worked with choreographers like Jacopo Godani, Robyn Orlin, Wayne McGregor, and Ismael Ivo.
In 2008, she began her career as a choreographer, winning the first prize at the Spoleto International Festival. In 2011, she received a choreography scholarship from the “Banff Center for Arts and Creativity”. In 2012, she worked as a dancer for the company "Liens et lieux danse contemporaine marginale" under the direction of Johanne Gour (Montreal).

From December 2012 to July 2023, she served as a solo dancer at the “Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz” in Munich under the direction of Karl Alfred Schreiner, also working as a choreographer from 2016 onwards. Over the 11 years, she has participated in all the numerous productions, collaborating with renowned choreographers such as : William Forsythe, Jacopo Godani, Marco Goecke, Alexander Ekman , Jo Stromgren, Michael Schumacher, Antony Rizzi, Christopher Roman, Erna Ómarsdóttir, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Nanine Linning, Nora Sitges-Sardà, Marguerite Donlon, , Emanuele Soavi, , Mauro Astolfi, Gaetano Soto, Edward Clug, Georg Reischl, Gentian Doda, Emanuel Gat, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Adam Cooper, Benoit la Chambre, Eyal Dadon, Roberto Zappalà, Moritz Ostruschnjak, Stijn Celis, Omar Rajeh, Frederic Ravel, Ina Christel Johannessen, Roy Assaf, Guy Nader, Maria Campos, Korsia, und Karl Alfred Schreiner.

As a choreographer for the Gärtnerplatztheater, she created various works, including "MINUTE MADE" (2016), "DE AMORE" (2017), "JE SUIS FAUST" (2018), "SIE" (2018) in collaboration with the Philharmonie at Gasteig Munich, the premiere of "MOMO" (2018), "FRIDA KAHLO", and "METAMORPHOSE" (2019). For the production "SPARKS" at the theater, she created "GEBISSEN" (2020), "WHAT SHE DIDN'T SAY...YET" (2022), and "THE ROSE OF SHARON" (2023).

As a freelance choreographer and producer, she created the solo piece "KHOROVOD" for the "Lago Film Festival" in Treviso (Italy) in 2020.

 

In 2020 she co-founded the Munich collective arcis_collective with the Arcis Saxophon Quartett where she serves as the artistic director and Choreographer. The collective has the vision to merge Chamber music and contemporary dance in a join performing act. 

With the collective, she created various works, including "HEIMAT" (2020), "2xGETANZT" (2021), the short film "DAVE" the solo piece "KNITTING GIRL" and "K.I.nd of Human" (2022), "2xGETANZT" (2023), "2xGETANZT2024” and “Quirky Nightclub Chronicles” (2024).

In 2024, she also created "REGER GETANZT" for the Max-Reger Festival in Weiden, the opening of the Monheim Cultural Center with “ZWISHEN WELT” and “A question of love” for the VokalSinn Festival in München.

Alongside of her work with the arcis_collective , since 2023, she has been also working as a choreographer in residence for the “HIDALGO KOLLEKTIV” in Munich.

She is currently working on the next production of the collective for the 2025 season.

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