Laura D’amico

Laura D’Amico is a multi-hyphenate performance artist with a formal background in STEM and agriculture. She is a 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholar, where she trained and performed for one year with the Anfibia Artist Program in Bologna, Italy, under the direction of Mattia Gandini, Martina La Ragione, and Carlo Massari. Using heightened sensitivity and vulnerability from her lived experiences, her work emphasizes blurring the lines between humans and the animal species with which we interact.

In Italy, Laura closely worked on her breadth of creation tools with mentorship from artists of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekybus, Les Ballets C de la B, Compagnie Maguy Marin, Batsheva, Peeping Tom, C&C Company, Micce, and Artemis Danza. Using these intimate learning experiences as a resource, Laura was a creator and collaborative artist/performer of seven original works presented in Bologna during her time with Anfibia.

In addition, she earned a certificate in Corpo Poetico ®, created by Anna Albertarelli and Roberto Penzo, which dissolves the barrier in dance-making between disabled and able-bodied movement artists through improvisational relationship-building methods and contactdance.

Both in Europe and North America, Laura has taken five Gaga Labs, including studying with Ohad Naharin at the Orsolina28 Foundation, and continues this movement research remotely online.