Giovanni Careccia, born in Bari in 1993, is an Italian artist, dancer and performer. He approached the world of dance at the age of 19 and in Milan attended the ArteMente, Higher Education Center for Dance in the three-year period 2015/2018, graduating with top marks.
He danced for the choreographer Daniele Ninarello in the performance ABCDE, for Silvia Gribaudi in #Oggièilmiogiorno and for Sofia Nappi in Adama.
Over the years his attention has moved to authorial dance, researching on other dancers’ bodies and his own. He participates in the project C.I.M.D. – Incubator for Future Choreographers, supported by the Ministry of Culture, and the advanced training course The Bodies and Voices of Dance, a project promoted by Cantieri Danza and L’Arboreto | Teatro Dimora in collaboration with the Emilia-Romagna Region and the European Community.
He debuted as a choreographer in 2018 with the creation After at Teatro Elfo Puccini in Milan, with which he was selected for the Dominio Pubblico Festival (2019), Dilemma, MArteLive, Corpo Mobile e CastelliinAria (2020).
In 2018 he presented the first studio of Tra 2000 e 6000 at the Teatro Fontana within the Festival Più che Danza, with which he won the residency call CosiDanzi 2019 and was selected for the FLIC – Festival Lanciano in Contemporanea.
In 2020 he created the performance After All with which he was selected for Corpo Mobile, winning the Award for Best Choreographer (2021), Anticorpi XL – Vetrina della Giovane Danza d’Autore, Strabismi Festival, Vuoti d’Aria (2021), Visioni di Danza (ACS Abruzzo), QUASI SOLO (CLAPS Circuit), Per-forming, Milano è Viva – Estate Sfrozesca, Fuori degli Sche(r)mi, ESPLORARE2022, FLIC – Festival Lanciano in Contemporanea and Voci dell’Anima (2022), Come una foglia portata dal vento and Presente Futuro (2024).
In 2021 he created a videodance project Golden Ratio with which he was included in the Buskers In Town festival (2021) and the interactive performance Form (ex Plushophiles | metamorphosis) selected for the residency project theWorkRoom Vapore and the included in the FLIC – Festival Lanciano in Contemporanea, Polibris project and AnteFestival (2021).
Since 2022 he is an associated artist of the Lost Movement Company.
In 2023 he performed the work From C. to You for Voci dell’Anima, FLIC – Festival Lanciano in Contemporanea (2023), Come una foglia portata dal vento and FLIC*35 (2024).
All these works are co-authored by the dramaturg Christian Consalvo.
Since 2023 he has been working on the With Love project, in collaboration with the author Beatrice Botticini Bianchi, which was selected for the residency Vorrei fare con te quello che la primavera fa con i ciliegi supported by L’Arboreto | Teatro Dimora, and programmed in Milano Dancing City and FLIC – Festival Lanciano in Contemporanea (2024).
He is Director Assistant and Responsible for Promotion and Communication of ArteMente, Higher Education Center for Dance, and Creative Manager of the Lost Movement Company. Since 2019 he has been one of the founders of Milano Dancing City, a dance promotion and audience education project recognized by the Ministry of Culture.
Since 2018 he has been a dancer of the Lost Movement Company.
