Riccardo (Bologna, 1993) is a dancer and multidisciplinary artist. His education spans contemporary dance (SEAD), illustration (Ars in Fabula), graphic design (IsArt), and choreography (I Corpi e le Voci della Danza). Since 2016, he has worked as a performer for numerous Italian and international artists, including Roberto Castello, Virgilio Sieni, Christoph Winkler, Nicola Galli, Ariella Vidach, Elio Gervasi, Pablo Bronstein, Anna Konjetzky, Thomas Danielis, and Noritoshi Hirakawa.
His research merges performance and visual arts through evocative imagery, focusing on the relationship between the human body and the object body. His animated short 1180 and more (2016) has been screened at over 40 events and festivals worldwide: it won the Audience Award at Danza in 1 Minuto (Turin, 2017), was finalist at Cinematica Festival (Ancona) and SzólóDuó (Budapest), and was selected as the official trailer for Danse Élargie in Paris in 2018.
In 2023, he was selected by Radic’Arte to co-create the videodance short Al Passo coi Tempi for Speed Up Festival. His first performance project, Angry Butterfly (2024), won Culture Moves Europe, Collagene, and Piattaforma G/NAO24 grants. In 2025, Everybody Has a Fate had been selected for the Young Authors Dance Showcase of the Anticorpi XL Network and winner of DNAppunti Coreografici. In the same year, he began the community-based project Giardinosofia in collaboration with Laura Cossignani presented at KLm (Alti Studi Coreografici) during Contemporanea/Focus Danza.
From 2025 to 2027, Riccardo is among the artists selected for SupportER, a program supporting emerging dance artists in Emilia-Romagna.
In parallel, he is preparing the publication of his first picture book with the publisher Ideestortepaper, scheduled for release in 2026.
