Christian Consalvo, author and dramaturg, was born in Lanciano, Abruzzo, on June 1, 1990.
He approached dance at the age of 11, and after classical high school, he was admitted to and graduated as a performer at MAS, Music Arts & Show in Milan.
In 2012, he joined the Lost Movement Contemporary Dance Company, where he danced for Nicolò Abbattista until 2016 in all productions. Since 2015, he has collaborated as a co-author, director, and dramaturg, subsequently assuming the role of Artistic Director and winning the Audience Award of the Network at the IV Edition of La Danza in 1 Minuto.
Since 2014, he has founded and organized the FLIC – Festival Lanciano In Contemporanea, a multidisciplinary festival with a focus on dance, supported by the Ministry of Culture.
In 2015, together with Nicolò Abbattista, he founded ArteMente, Higher Education Center for Dance in Milan, where he is the Didactic Director and teacher of Tanztheater. In 2020, he created the video creation Ceci n’est pas une vidéo, selected for the Interfaccia Digitale review within HangartFest.
Since 2018, he has been a dramaturg for the dance author Giovanni Careccia, curating the dramaturgy of After All (2021), a creation selected for Anticorpi XL – Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore.
Since 2019, he has been one of the founders of Milano Dancing City, a project for the promotion of dance and audience development supported by the Ministry of Culture, for which in 2023 he created and supervised the format Tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere sulla danza contemporanea* (*ma non avete mai osato chiedere), with the actress and comedian Annagaia Marchioro.
During the academic year 2020/2021, he was Assistant to the Creation of Aida Vainieri, a dancer from Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Since 2024, he has collaborated on various projects by the singer Romina Falconi and is a finalist at the X Edition of La Danza in 1 Minuto with the work a lot of FAUNES.
