Biography
Daniele Ninarello // Dancer and choreographer
Daniele Ninarello is a dancer and a choreographer. After being trained at the Rotterdam Dance Academy (RDA Codarts), he worked as a dancer with several international choreographers such as Bruno Listopad, Felix Ruckert and Virgilio Sieni.
Since 2007, he has presented his own creations at different festivals and networks including Les Repérages/Danse à Lille, Les Hivernales Avignon 2011 – 100% Danse ‘Quand les régions s’en mêlent’, Anticorpi XL’ in Italy and ‘Dance Roads’ supported by Mosaico Danza.
In 2012 his work TROIS CORPS was selected to perform at DNA Romaeuropa Festival and he began working as a dancer with the company EASTMAN – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
2013 saw the debut of ROCK ROSE WOW, the first production of his own dance company. That same year he received the production prize ‘Teatri del Tempo Presente’,
In May 2013 he presented his project VERTIGO at Confluenze in Torino.
In 2014 with L.A.N.D. WHERE IS MY LOVE? he was awarded the production prize ‘COLLABORACTION’ which supports young choreographers.
In 2016 the new project STILL received the Prospettiva Danza Prize.
His new production KUDOKU created with the musician Dan Kinzelman had his debut in BIENNALE DANZA 2016 (Teatro La Fenice – Venezia)
Dan Kinzelman // Performer and composer
After earning an Honors degree in jazz at the University of Miami in 2004, Dan Kinzelman moved to Europe and to Italy where he has been living since 2005. He quickly embraced the Italian scene, joining the band of Italian trumpet legend Enrico Rava and collaborating with emerging talents of his own generation such as Giovanni Guidi, Simone Graziano and William Tatge.
His work is characterised by a strongly irreverent streak, combined with a profound knowledge of jazz history and a voracious appetite for risk and sonic exploration.
In the last year he began a collaboration with Italian choreographer Daniele Ninarello, leading to a debut performance this year at the Biennale di Venezia with the project ‘Kudoku’. The collective trio Hobby Horse’s 5th record was released to widespread critical acclaim in May 2016, and starting in November he will be part of the faculty of Siena Jazz, Italy’s oldest and most prestigious jazz school. He is currently hard at work writing music for new records with Hobby Horse and Dan Kinzelman’s Ghost, and for a new dance project with Ninarello slated to debut in 2017.
