Marco Torrice is a performing artist, teacher and choreographer, based in Brussels. His work focuses on the facilitation of dance exchange between dancers from different dance styles and cultural back-ground, and on the redefinition of the concept of ‘contemporary dance’ by opening a dialogue with different dance performance practices then the one usually present in western academic environments. 
His fascination for autodidact dance artists and for movement languages which carry different histories and contents than the one of the western dominant culture, such as Voguing, Krump, Hip-Hop Freestyle... led him into an approach to choreography which combines different performance procedures: the frontal contemplation of the dance show with the Cypher, the Happening with the Participatory dance, etc. Often the actual dance forms present in his works rise as a result of an experience of dance sharing.

Born and raised in Rome (IT), he studied philosophy at La Sapienza University of Rome. At the same time he started to take dance classes and workshops in Italy and all around Europe, mainly related to somatic works and ‘post modern’ movement approach. 
 In 2006 he moved to Brussels to study at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios, directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker) where he graduated in 2010.
He worked for different choreographers such as Thomas Hauert, Jerome Bell, for the Hungarian dance company Hodworks, and for the Belgian dance companies Mossoux- Bontè, and Rosas. 
In 2011 he created Me, Myself and I, a solo based on a collaboration with Marta Virag, researcher in the field of Neuroscience, and Kitty 2012, which was selected for Aerowaves 2013. In 2012, together with the Hungarian choreographers Adrien Hod and Csaba Molnar, he created The way my father imagined it all, within Jardin d’Europe project, and Centipedes, commissioned by SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance) for the Bodhi Project dance company. In 2014 he collaborates with Csaba Molnar for the creation of Decameron. 
In 2015/2016 he performed a series of solos based on a movement research which focused on the exploration of patterns, qualities, dynamics and content of movements, different than the one we are already familiar with due to our education and motor system. These solos were performed within the context of Liminal, a music electronic festival based in Rome. 
In 2017 he opened his dance research to all sort of performing artists, dancers and actors with different back-ground. Out of this research period, between Brazil, Budapest, Rome and Bruxelles, Marco’s  artistic focus shifted from a sophisticated movement exploration, to the actual ‘social aspect’ of dance, to how a dance practice can gather different kinds of people and serve different functions such as performance, pedagogy and fun. Out of this research period he set up the basic elements of Melting Pot, a dance practice based on improvisation which works as a meeting place for dance challenge and exchange, where dancers from different styles and cultural back-ground can enter in dialogue and liberate different sort of feelings and emotions, such as joy, anger, sensuality, social frustration…

Besides his work as a dancer and choreographer, Marco also teaches and gives workshops in different dance schools such as the Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy, SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Isadora Duncan Center (Prague), Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool (Antwerpen), and at Da.Re. Dance Research (Rome).

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