Lara Pilloni

Born in Sarzana (Italy), she began her classical and modern dance training at the Studio 4° Movimento school in her home town with Lucia Boschi, Giuseppe Gilardi and Alice Maruelli. 

The meeting with Franko Schmidt, dancer of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, leads her to the Folkwang Universität der Künste. Here she has the opportunity to deepen the study of classical technique and learn about the Jooss-Leeder technique with the teachers Malou Airaudo, Lutz Förster and Stephan Brinkmann, Rodolpho Leoni, Henrietta Horn and she participates in in-depth workshops with Mu-Yi Kuo (department of Physical Theater / Improvisation), Juan Cruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola (Sasha Waltz Company), Kenji Takagi (technique and improvisation), Peader Kirk (performance composition / direction and physical theater)..

In 2018 Lara is invited, together with Sara Valenti, to present their dance theater performance “... E il mare non si riempie?”, freely inspired from the book “In nome della madre” by Erri De Luca, at ParallelaMente Festival | Festival della Mente in Sarzana, Italy. 

She graduated from Folkwang Universität der Künste, Institut für Zeitgenössischen Tanz, Essen in October 2021 and she is now joining the MA Tanzkoposition / Interpretation program. She participates as a dancer in various projects including “TABLEAUX…” choreographed by Iñaki Azpillaga and “Kurze Stücke” by Ben J. Riepe and she took part, mentored by Henrietta Horn, in the reconstruction research project of “Der Grüne Tisch” by Kurt Jooss.  

At the same time she is interested and researching about the photographic method in relation to dance: she is documenting choreographic research projects of various freelancer dancers and choreographers: Annalisa Palmieri “Kati”, Florian Entenfellner & Seulki Hwang for the film version of “Busy Bodies”.

The photographic method, in relation to dance, is another personal way of exploring artistic language: from the practical and explored body, inside, to arrive at the aesthetics of the instantaneous on the outside. Cross transposition between space, body in its infinite forms and expressions, and above all light.