Flavia Zaganelli (she/her) works in choreography and performance with an interdisciplinary approach that favours hybrid forms and collaborative processes.
At the core of her research is the body, understood as a site of somatic perception, relational knowledge, and potential transformation. Her work, supported by institutions in Italy and abroad (Santarcangelo Festival, Lavanderia a Vapore, Graner, Moving in November, Dom Utopii among others), investigates how embodied experience can reshape ways of sensing, relating, and imagining collective realities. Moving between choreography, performative situations, and shared practices, she develops processes that foreground presence, affect, and interdependence.
Her works (The Game We Play; INVISIBILIA; electrica/ecosi'stɛma/) have been presented in theatres and festivals across Italy. Her recent research, Placebo Dances, explores pleasure as a political and sensorial field, proposing an erotic reconfiguration of how we inhabit the world and it premiered at Santarcangelo Festival 2025.
Flavia regularly facilitates spaces for artistic and somatic exploration with a feminist and queer perspective, and she is a Dance Well and Pilates teacher.
Since December 2023, she co-founded and co-curates the activities of Bologna for Palestine together with artists Laura Agnusdei, Agnese Banti and Elena Mattioli.