Lupa Maimone

(Author, choreographer, dancer)

Lupa Maimone, a performer and multidisciplinary creator active in the Italian and international contemporary scene, is dedicated to uniting dance with various artistic disciplines, building a personal scenic language. A choreographer and dancer, she spent her childhood in theaters, raised in a family steeped in a passion for the performing arts. Immersed in theater from an early age, she inherited a love of performance as well as the ability to orchestrate and direct artistic projects. She developed an innate passion for creative expression, and today her versatility is also evident in her skills within the theater and in organizing meetings and cultural events.

Professional training:

Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School in Denmark and the Escuela Internacional de Circo y Teatro CAU in Granada. She received the Haztegia scholarship from Zirkozaurre in Bilbao. She participates in various creative and training programs led by European directors and choreographers.

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Lupa has been the artistic director and founder of Compagnia Oltrenotte since 2022, a Dance Production Organization for Under-35s recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture for the three-year period 2022-2024.

She produces and directs the following works: Finzioni, Zoologia, Adeus, Racconti dell’illusione, Blue Sunday, Clue, Simposio del Silenzio, Oltremai. She also produces the short films: I: Il sogno di Giacobbe, Eterna.

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She directs the multidisciplinary training project Anatomie Teatrali and Contemporanea Dance Week, programs that offer the city of Cagliari an international study of the performing arts.

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She created the choreography Lumina Prima for the company Equilibrio Dinamico.

She collaborates artistically with various companies such as La Vispera, La Bruma, and Nadia Addis.

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Before founding the company Oltrenotte, Lupa Maimone was a dancer with the company Zerogrammi (Turin) directed by Stefano Mazzotta from 2017 to 2020. She also worked as a dancer in the creation and production of the film Elegia delle Cose Perdute, and as a author in the works Nostos, Oltremai, and Simposio del Silenzio.

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From 2017 to 2019, Lupa worked in Spain as a choreographer and performer in the professional training project INSOMNIA, directed by Anthony Mathieu; From 2016 to 2017, he was a resident artist at the CAFE DE LAS ARTES TEATRO in Santander. From 2015 to 2016, she created and toured with the Collettivo La Balsa with the circus and dance show Donde mueren las olas. From 2014 to 2017, she worked with multidisciplinary artist and juggler Sebastian Sobrado on the show Nostos.​​