Lorena Dozio

Lorena Dozio was born and raised in Switzerland (canton of Ticino). She developed her choreographic work between Switzerland (Lugano) and France (Paris). She studied performance art at the University of Letters and Philosophy in Bologna before joining the Essais en danse et chorégraphie course at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh. In this context she began to create her first choreographic projects, and then collaborated with the Brazilian dancer and choreographer Fernando Cabral. In 2008 they created the production structure Bagacera (which became Plateforme Crile), with which she created several duet and solo pieces presented in Switzerland, France and Italy. She undertook research into the relationship between the visible and the invisible and into the transformation of matter. In 2012, as part of the choreography training course Transforme directed by Myriam Gourfink at the Fondation Royaumont, she created the solo Levante on the notion of levitation, in collaboration with the composers Carlo Ciceri and Daniel Zea, with whom she founded the Association Crile, based in Lugano. Her subsequent creations include Alibi (2014), I Nauti (2015), the quartet Otolithes (2016, LAC Lugano), Otolithes_ON AIR (2017), Dazzle (2017), the female trio Rame (2020) and the sound and choreographic installation Danses Invisibles (2020). She regularly collaborates with the composers Carlo Ciceri and Kerwin Rolland and the lighting designer Séverine Rième. As a performer she has worked with choreographers and artists such as Laure Bonicel, Deborah Hay, Eric Didry, Catherine Bay, Boris Achour, Tiziana Arnaboldi and Emmanuelle Raynaut. She also studied Vinyasa Yoga and teaches it in relation to her choreographic work.