THE TEAM
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Raffaella brings to PROTEO decades of experience in the performing arts and cultural management, at the highest national and international level. Trained in classical and contemporary dance with teachers such as Risa Steinberg, Peter Goss and Andrew De Groat, she began her career at Balletto di Roma, where she became teacher, choreographer, deputy director and, in 2006, director.
From 2016 to 2024 she was education coordinator of the Balletto di Roma school, running its teaching projects and events. She also led the dance programme of Teatro Villa Pamphilj, part of the City of Rome's “Teatri in Comune” circuit.
She has worked as a dancer and choreographer in theatre and music productions, including the musical Il Gatto che scoprì l'America (directed by Marco Mattolini) and projects with the contemporary music group Sintesys Ensemble, and has appeared in the film La Lettera (L. Cannito) and in stage productions directed by Cannito, Parpaglioni, Reim and Zannola. In 2018 the City of Rome gave her the WAW – Women in Art Week award.
She has curated large-scale events, including two charity evenings at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome (2007–2008) with over 100 international artists, broadcast on Canale 5. In 2023 she organised International Dance Day at Castel Sant'Angelo, bringing together 300 professional dancers and young talents.
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Patrizio brings to PROTEO a broad international experience in the performing arts. Born in Rome, he moved to the Netherlands, where he has built a career combining performance, artistic direction and strategy. Since 2013 he has been part of SALLY Dansgezelschap Maastricht, first as a dancer and, since 2019, as Assistant Artistic Director and Rehearsal Director.
He has guided artists in discovering their potential, with a strong focus on training and inclusion. As a performer he has worked across theatre, dance and interdisciplinary projects, with orchestras such as Philzuid and theatre companies such as Het Laagland. He has strengthened SALLY's partnerships with cultural organisations such as VIA ZUID and Schrittmacher.
Patrizio teaches movement at the Toneelacademie Maastricht, the theatre academy in Maastricht (NL).
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With a career between London, New York and Rome, Tommaso brings to PROTEO a global outlook on artistic direction. From 2018 to 2023 he was part of the coordinating team of Dance Bridges Festival in Kolkata, facilitating intercultural collaborations between artists from around the world.
For six years he was part of the managing team of Centre 151 in London, a cultural hub in Hackney dedicated to art, inclusion and community, where he ran multidisciplinary events and supported projects with a strong social focus.
He has worked with vanhuynhcompany, Tavaziva and Mathieu Geffré, and with composers Elaine Mitchener and Dai Fujikura. His work as a performer and choreographer includes In Realness, with Dam Van Huynh, and These Cost the Earth, presented in 2024 at Somerset House in London under the direction of Elaine Mitchener.
His choreography uses a multidisciplinary language of voice and movement. His main works includeA Study in Resilience, commissioned by CDN24 in Cairo,SANT'ANNA, commissioned by Balletto di Roma, andPrEP ME(2017), on LGBTQ+ themes. He has worked in 26 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.
Photo: Tramaproduction di A.M. Trabucco