riccardo buscarini
riccardo buscarini
Award-winning choreographer Riccardo Buscarini focuses on constantly changing his creative approach to choreography and exploring its possible interactions with other art forms.
Riccardo has worked on independent dance works and collaborated with many artists on installations and events. He has been commissioned to create works for dance companies internationally. Silk, his Golden Mask 2018 double-nominated creation on Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theater (Russia) was restaged at ZfinMalta, the National Dance Company of Malta in autumn 2019. In 2020 he was one of the choreographers of EDGE (The Place, London). In 2022 he premiered Requiem for Juliet, his own version of W. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for ZfinMalta.
Highlights of his career so far include winning The Place Prize 2013 with the piece Athletes, the participation in the international research projects danceWEB (Impulstanz, Vienna), Creatives in Residence at The Hospital Club (London), ArtsCross London 2013 (UK, Taiwan and China), Performing Gender (Italy, Croatia, Spain, the Netherlands), MAM-Maroc Artist Meeting in Marrakech. His work in the visual arts field include collaborations with Summerhall (Edinburgh), London Festival of Architecture (2016 and 2019), and with London gallery Nahmad Projects during the exhibition i’m NOT tino sehgal curated by Francesco Bonami and miart - fiera di arte moderna e contemporanea di Milano 2017. In 2023 he directed G. Puccini's Madama Butterfly at Teatru Aurora in Gozo where he directed the national premiere of G.Puccini's Il Trittico in 2024. He is the founder and artistic director of dAS FESTIVAL in Piacenza.