2017


One week has passed by since the end of OpenFLR 2017. It has been an amazing and intense edition. The Openflr team would like to thank everybody involved: our choreographers Dorotea Saykaly, Shumpei Nemoto, Jasmine Ellis, Christopher Evans, their assistants Ale Marzotto, Miguel Angel Guzmán, Rachele Rapisardi, our Countertechinque teacher Jenia Kasatkina, our partners in crime Il Vivaio del Malcantone, Le […]

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Canadian dancer Dorotea Saykaly is currently working with the Goteborg Danskompani since 2014. Since joining the company, she has worked with choreographers Ina Christel Johannessen, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Marina Mascarell, Saburo Teshigawara and Alan Lucien Oyen. She has also performed works by Sidi-Larbi Cherkaoui, Hiroaki Humeda, Ohad Naharin and Sharon Eyal. […]

Dorotea Saykaly




Workshop di Countertechnique e Inprovvisazione condotto da M. Eugenia Demeglio. L’ incontro si svolgera’ all’Associazione Demidoff, da Venerdi’ 24 Marzo sera a Domenica 26 Marzo 2017. Venerdi’ 24 Marzo: 18:00-20:00 Countertechnique (tecnica contemporanea) Sabato 25 Marzo: 15:00-19:00 Improvvisazione Domenica 26 Marzo: 10:00-12:00 Countertechnique (tecnica contemporanea) 13:00-17:00 Improvvisazione e Instant Composition […]

Workshop OpenFLR Youth 24/26 Marzo





OpenFLR would like to open its doors to a young talent. After the successful past editions, OpenFLR 2017 (6th/23rd July 2016) is looking for one emerging choreographer to come to Florence and create a new piece, alongside internationally acclaimed choreographers. If selected, you will deliver two half-day workshops/auditions to the […]

OpenFLR Young Talent – Call for a young choreographer


Following the success of 2015 and of 2016, OpenFLR will organise an extra performance for the participants of OpenFLR. This improvisation performance will take place in Florence’s public space, and it will be lead by local artists Carolina Amoretti and Cristina D’Alberto, members of FIKA. NOTE: the process and the […]

Site Specific Performance 2017



Jenia Kasatkina studied modern and contemporary dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy, Codarts. During her education and after her graduation in 2009 she has worked with several companies and choreographers such as: Anouk van Dijk, Jack Gallagher, Arno Schuitemaker, Leine&Roebana, Norrdans, De Stilte, United-C, among  others. In 2012 Jenia became […]

Countertechnique with Jenia Kasatkina


Alessandro has graduated from Rambert School in London and he now is a freelancer developing projects across Europe. He has been Co-director of Impermanence Dance Theatre in Bristol (UK) for the past five years while also working on solo work presented at different festivals and cabaret stages internationally.He has started his career joining ITdansa in […]

Contemporary with Alessandro Marzotto Levy


Christopher began his career with the Hofesh Shecter Company.  Since 2006 he has been one of it’s original company members, making and touring Internationally.  His relationship to the work has always been strengthened through leading workshops and intensives  worldwide. During this time he has also worked with Jonathan Lunn to […]

Contemporary with Christopher Evans and Rachele Rapisardi



Born in 1980 in Italy, in 2004 he finished his MA studies in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Padua. He started studying dance in Padua with C. Di Napoli. In 2006, he was invited to join the Rotterdam Dance Academy (Codarts) where in 2008 he obtained a […]

Contemporary with Giacomo Della Marina


OpenFLR 2017 will take place in different locations around an area of the city: Headquarters and Studio 1: Il Vivaio del Malcantone – Via del Malcantone 15/b, 50137 Firenze Studio 2: oMA – Viale dei Mille 90, Florence Studio 3: Le Murate – Piazza delle Murate, 50122 Firenze, Italy Studio […]

Locations 2017