Italian-Brazilian performer, actor, dancer, choreographer, director and researcher, Biño Sauitzvy holds a doctorate in aesthetics, arts science and technology, specializing in theater and dance.
He began his career in Brazil in 1994, first as an actor, then as director of the Sotão (Porto Alegre) Group, with which he was awarded the prize for best director by the city of Porto Alegre in 2001 and best dance show in 2002.
He moved to Paris in 2003 and founded the Collectif des Yeux with whom he developed various performance, exhibition, film and video projects with artists such as Lika Guillemot, Antony Hickling, Thomas Laroppe and Nando Messias and with several theater, circus, dance and butô companies, including Cie L’In-Quarto directed by Julie Duclos and Alix Riemer’s Cie Paper Doll.
Since 2011, he has also collaborated with the group Coco Rosie. With Bianca Casady (Coco), he performs in the exhibitions Holy Ghost in Moscow and Daisy Chain in New York, choreographs and dances in the shows NightShift, created in Germany and Austria, Mother Hunting – A Miracle of Rose, The Angel Show in Norway and the multimedia project Porno Thietor by Bianca Casady & The C.I.A.touring throughout Europe.
Biño Sauitzvy was resident choreographer at Point Éphémère in 2009-2010, at micadanses– Paris in 2011 and has been associate artist at Générateur in Gentilly since 2014. He is the 2020 winner of Résidence sur Mesurefrom the Institut Français and the 2020 winner of Création en Cours from the Ateliers Médicis.
Since 2010, he has taught at the Theatre Department of Université Paris 8. He is also a guest teacher at NTA – Norwegian Theatre Academy in Norway and at Académie Fratellini in Saint-Denis.
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