Giovanni Leonarduzzi

Artistic director of Bellanda Company

His history as a dancer started with the word "B-Boy", in breakdance, where he has been active since 1996.

He has been invited as a participant, national representative but also as a judge in various national and international breakdance competitions.

These are just the most significant events to which he was invited: JusteDebout as a finalist Italian representative in Experimental (two times) ; judge at Dance Festival Berlin; Fusion Concept (Paris); Circle Industry (Austria); Break the Floor (Slovenia); HHC (Italy); B-Boy pro - am (Miami, Florida).

He soon started looking for an alternative path in this type of movement, trying to create his own identity and creating a new language that could now be classified in the "experimental" category. Going deeper and deeper into this research, he land at the dance theater, almost losing the starting point.

Everything he has created in these 25 years stems from an urban breakdance matrix and has its roots in an extremely physical and at the same time technical dance.

From this technique, in fact, he started a research that goes beyond the simple gesture and the main feature of this research is to abstract the movement born from breakdance.

Since 2012 he has been working in parallel as a breakdance dancer for Italian authors and companies and as choreographer and performer in his own artistic project, now concretely transformed thanks to a constant and decisive growth in the cultural association “Compagnia Bellanda ETS".

Thus began his authorial journey, which is confirmed by invitations and selections received from national and international events and platforms: Vetrina della Giovane Danza d'Autore (from 2012 to 2016) and related circuits, Premio Equilibrio Roma (2013), Oriente Occidente, Cadiz En Danza, Tu Danzas, Quinzena de Danca Almada, Mash Jerusalem, Lucky Trimmer , Choreography33 Hannover, MasDanza, StrayBirds Dance Platform Taipei, JEJU International Dance Festival, New Dance for Asia festival are just a few.

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