Aristide Rontini

Aristide Rontini is a freelance performer, choreographer and community dance practitioner.

He graduated as a dancer from Codarts Rotterdam in 2010. He has worked as a performer with Simona Bertozzi (IT), the Candoco Dance Company (UK), Alessandro Carboni (IT), Alessandro Schiattarella/BewegGrund (CH), Teatro Della Tosse (IT), Michela Lucenti/Balletto Civile (IT), Angelica Liddell (SP), Carl Olof Berg/Spinn (SV), Vahan Badalyan (Armenia) and Diego Tortelli/Aterballetto (IT).

In the past few years he has developed his own artistic projects, such as "It moves me", "Giovane Notturno", "Talitha Kumi", "Alexis" and "Alexis 2.0". His research questions the dimension of identity, the relationship between individual and society and the relationship between nature and human beings. He is interested in choreographic practice, multidisciplinarity, literature and cinema.

He is a community practitioner. His artistic practice often encounters cοmmunities of non-professionals in projects aimed at the transmission of body practice, at the exploration of specific themes through choreographic language or hybridized with other language, and at the creation of performative events.

During the years he has been involved in different international projects aimed to empower artists with disabilities. In 2020, together with other Italian artists with disabilities, he founded Al. Di. Qua. Artists, a newly formed group leading the way in advocating for the autonomy and rights of disabled artists in Italy.