About Kiros

I have a spanish name, I don't like coffe and I hate to go to the beach even though I'm Italian. I guess it came quite natural that, at a certain point, I was closed in a box and sent in exile in the wild north (in The Netherlands to be exact).

but let's proceed step by step... I was 15 when I had my first dance class in my small city on the adriatic coast. My dance teacher asked me "do you want to dance seriously or do you want to dance to have fun?" I answered "I dance to have fun!!". It's following this "enjoyinment-let's have fun" feeling that I seriously started chasing a place to improve and go deeper in my dance and artistry. I started a "pilgrimage" that broght me to Florence, passed through Rotterdam (dance academy) and ended up in "GuyandRoningen" to make me part of the Poetic Disasters Club for which I'm courrently working.

Years after my first dance class, if someone would ask me if I want to dance seriously, I would answer "no, I dance to have fun", my philosophy is that important things should be done for fun...

I’ ve always been the kind of person that needs to belong to a space that I can call “mine”, dance happened to find me and became the best way to express this feeling.

Pureness and creativity are at the same time what I want to offer, and what I need to receive from this profession.... give myself to others, and receive from others another way of working and thinking. In general the concept of sharing it's quite of a powerful obsession and at the same time the relief that I'm exploring... I'm still, constantly, working on it though!!

BIOGRAPHY

Manuel Paolini was born the 24th September 1990 in Ancona, Italy. He moved to Pescara, a city in the south-east of Italy, where he started his dance training at the age of 15 in a private dance school. In 2010, decided to become a professional dancer, he moved to Florence and studyed at "Opus Ballet International Choreographic Center” directed by Daniel Tinazzi and Rosanna Brocanello. In the accademy he got to know and study different styles such as modern, contemporary and improvisation. One year later he was choosen by Rosanna Brocanello to be part of the Opus Ballet Dance Company in which he danced untill 2013. During this two years he performed in Italy and abroad pieces choreographed by Peter Mika, Loris Petrillo, Michele Oliva, Alessia Gatta and others. In 2012 beside the work with Opus Ballet he joined "Vis Ballet" directed by Eugenia Morosanu and the “Pontormo Project” of the Virgilio Sieni Dance Company.

Since 2013 he moved to Rotterdam to study in “Codarts, University For the Arts”, where he got to know Floorwork, Chunnigham, Counter Technique, and he danced choreographies of Felix Landerer, Marina Mascarell, jiri Kylian etc.

In 2015 he started working as a freelancer for choreographers such as Regina Van Berkel and Beppie Blankert.

Since the season 2015/2016 he is dancing as a member of Club Guy&Roni's Poetic Disasters Club.

“All Art Is Unstable. Its Meaning Is Not Necessarily That Implied By The Author.

There Is No Authoritative Voice, There Are Only Multiple Readings.”

David Bowie

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