Alessandro Certini artistic projects share a common vision of the body: a subjective yet vibrant physical, emotional and spiritual vehicle found within a system of relations and changes that each particular creative project calls fourth.

Within their artistic exploration, conducted in Europe since 1979, they have brought together dancers, musicians, video artists interested in the act of performing in the precariousness vitality of the present moment.

Choreographic approach

This unique movement language combines formal and instinctive aspects by bringing together choreography and pure improvisation. The company creations are a composed "product", being defined before each performance as well as a "process", a system of immediate and direct movement.

The strength of Company Blu's dance is its tangibility, the capacity to create choreographic relationships while also creating human relationships. Certini and Zerbey bring their creations to a public by using the body as material of intuition and thought, using theme to liberate dance from its usual esthetic confines.

Rapport with live music

Measuring up to projects and performances in which the compositions and musical improvisation and execution holds a decisive role, is for Company Blu a consolidated practice and distinctive trate. The musicians involved have been prestigious  artists in the area ‘New Jazz’: Tristan Honsinger, Michael Moore, Antonello Salis, Steve Noble, amongst others. Other musical ambients for more recent company productions have been Pop/Rock and Elettro Punk, in particolar encounter’s with musicians like Marco Parente, Massimo Fantoni, Paolo Benvegnù, Spartaco Cortesi and Marco Canaccini.

Dance and multimedia art

Each project emphasizes a creative relationship with other artistic disciplines often in concert with live music and originally composed scores. The exchange of different poetic and cultural backgrounds makes the interaction between dancers, musicians and visual artists magnetic.

Company Blu also promotes a yearly performance series, ‘DINAMICHE SCOMPOSTE-Inquiries on contemporary dance improvisation’, presenting performances, meetings, research labs and the publication “SHOPTALK”.

Company Blu’s activities are supported by: Italian Ministry of Culture, Tuscan Region, Florence Province, and City of Sesto Fiorentino.

ALESSANDRO CERTINI dancer, improviser, choreographer

began his dance training in Florence with Streiff Traut Faggioni (Wigman, Kreutzberg). He has been influenced by Post-Modern techniques, ballet and contact Improvisation.

His professional career started in 1979 as a founding member of Group-O directed by Katie Duck. and has toured in Europe since ’87. Over the last 20 years Alessandro has worked with improvisation and choreographic skills which combine dance and theater to create his own language and style. He has worked in many performances and productions with leading improvisers, dancers and musicians: K. Duck, J. Hamilton, M. Tompkins, S. Paxton, K. Simson, L. nelson, P. De Groot, C. Zerbey, F. Poulstra, T. Honsinger, S. Lacy, M. Moore, S. Noble, A. Salis.

He has Taught at Dartington College (G.B.), SNDO (Amsterdam), Accademia d'Arte Drammatica (Milano), EDDC (Dusseldorf), Studio Area (Barcelona), Bewegungs Art Freiburg, Istituto de Danza (Caracas), Accademia Nazionale della Danza (Roma), studio Company Blu and other Italian dance venues.