2023

5-9 June Profitraining , dance training for professionals, @ 4FurTanz Leipzig

29 April till 10 June Saturdays Body and Sound classes, icw Moving Strings @Splendor Amsterdam

11 June Dance and Improvisation workshop for children and parents icw Valentina Campora @Zaal 100 Amsterdam

28 June Try out of Gathering Fantasies, by Moving Strings @Splendor Amsterdam

30 June commemoration service in the Nieuwe Kerk marking 150 years of the end of slavery in the Netherlands.@Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam

7-8-9 July Play as you are summer retreat icw Maya Felixbrot, Alex Welch and Alexandra Baybutt @Splendor Amsterdam

9 July Koro Koro performance for babies and family icw Makiko Ito, Alphen aan de Rijn

15-29 July workshop dance @Buitenkunst Drenthe

3-7 August residency with Nebulae collective, Lucca Italy

19-26 August workshop dance @Buitenkunst Drenthe

1 September Music and Dance performance night icw Annarita Ricciardi , Polina Fenko, Clotilde Cappelletti, Robbert van Hulzen and tba @ de Tanker Amsterdam

3 September Dance and Music improvisation for children and parents icw Maya Felixbrodt @Teatro Munganga Amsterdam

6-10 September collaboration with Moving Strings Ensemble for Gathering Fantasies, a programme within Gaudeaumus Music Festival @Utrecht

30 Sept-16 October Vancouver events in collaboration with Ben Brown

30 Sept@ KW Jazz Jam , KW  Studios Vancouver 

Trio with Lisa SImpson electronics , Ben Brown- drums Manuela Lucia Tessi –  dance 

3 Oct @KW Studios 6-9 pm

I will be leading the MAMM Music and Movement Monday session

6 Oct@ Left of Main Vancouver 

I will be performing as part of Listen, Listen Festival, a two-day multidisciplinary festival celebrating improvised arts sparked from joyful spontaneous play, presented by Vancouver Improvised Arts Society in partnership with the plastic orchid factory. 

10 and 12 Oct Training for Professionals at Training Society of Vancouver accompanied by Drummer Ben Brown

12 Oct @ KW Studios 

I will be reworking  and presenting  “The Shell” a piece  I created in 2020 , this time with a score with live music by Ben Brown

The same night interdisciplinary musician and sound artist Roxanne Nesbitt will play a solo set. 

16-20 October Teaching contemporary for professionals /Profitraining 10:00-11:30 @Dock 11 Berlin

19 October

23 October

10-25 November MusicDance Cape Town, Theatre Arts Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

4-5 March Research with Nebulae collective @Vicenza Italy

March-August residency with Moving Strings Ensemble/creation of Maelstrom @Splendor Amsterdam

25-26 March Dance and Improvisation workshop for children icw Valentina Campora @Zaal 100 Amsterdam

6-12 April research with Nebulae collective @ studio Bodlabot and Kunstkapel Amsterdam

13 April SINGASHORE a performance project by Nebulae collective (Valentina Campora, Marta Sponzilli, I-Chen Zuffellato and Manuela LuciaTessi) 20:00 @Kunstkapel Amsterdam

14 April Ad Hoc, Music and Dance Performance icw Friederike Wendorf-flutes, Marie-Laure Fiaux- dance @Schwerin

15 April Kling Klang, performance for children and family icw Friederike Wendorf-flutes, Marie-Laure Fiaux @Raum am Ozean, Schwerin

17-21 April Teaching contemporary for professionals /Profitraining 10:00-11:30 @Dock 11 Berlin

19 April trio with Friederike Wendorf- flutes and Rieko Okuda- keyboard @Hosek Contemporary Berlin

21 April Musiktanznulldreissig performance night with Friederike Wendorf- flutes Hannah Schillinger -dance , Simon Rose- saxophones, Nicola Hein- guitar @Club der Polnischen Versager Berlin

29 April/6 , 13, 20 May/3,10 June Body and Sound – Movement Research and Improvisation classes for Dancers/Movers with Live Music with Manuela Lucia Tessi and musicians from Moving Strings Saturdays 10:00-12:00 Register: lunamatisse@yahoo.it @Splendor Amsterdam

20 May Music and Dance performance night icw Ben Brown and Malleus Trio, dancer Thalia Laric and M.L.Tessi @ de Tanker Amsterdam

21 May Workshop for musicians and dancers icw Ben Brown , 12:00-16:00 @Bodlabot studio OT301 Amsterdam

26-29 May workshop dance @ Buitenkunst Randmeer