About

NICOLA MASCIA
Nicola Mascia was born in 1975 in Turin, Italy. He started dancing at the age of five, initially studying ballet with Loredana Furno and continuing with jazz and contemporary dance in Turin and Rome. While living in Italy, he worked with choreographers Claudia Bruni, Massimo Leanti and the company Amadossalto amongst others. In 1995, he spent the summer in Los Angeles where he trained at Joe Tremaine Dance Center. The following year, he moved to Berlin to work with the prestigious company Sasha Waltz & Guests. Over the next fifteen years, he was involved in the creation, performance and international touring of many productions, films and improvisation projects including “Allee der Kosmonauten”, “Zweiland”, “Na Zemlje”, “Dialoge 99/I and II”, “Körper”, “S”, “17 – 25/4 [Dialoge 2001]”, “nobody”, “insideout”, “Dialoge 04 – Palast der Republik”, “Dialoge 06 – Radiale Systeme”, “Jagden und Formen (Zustand 2008)”, “Dialoge 09 – Neues Museum” and “Dialoge 09 – MAXXI” amongst others. During this time, he also worked as choreographer and performer with various artists such as Emio Greco/PC, Benoit Lachambre, Constanza Macras, Joanna Dudley, Junko Wada, Jared Gradinger, AlexandLiane and Gianna Nannini amongst others. In 2003, he performed in the dance film “Elements of mine« directed by Norbert Servos and Khaled El-Hagar, for which he won the “Award for best onscreen performance” at the 13th Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film & Video in Toronto 2004. In 2005, together with Israeli choreographer and performer Matan Zamir, he co-founded the collaborative duo matanicola.

Matan Zamir was born in 1977 in Israel and grew up in Kibbutz Rosh-Hanikra. He started dancing in 1985, studying initially at the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance School (where he graduated in 1996) and at the Bat Dor Dance School. He was a scholarship recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. In 1996 he moved to Tel Aviv and joined the prestigious Batsheva Dance Company where he worked with several choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Noa Dar, Lara Barsacq, Keren Levi, Niv Shenfeld, Saar Magal, Yossi Berg, Itzik Galili, Joaquin Sabate, Linda Gaudreau, Frederic Lascour and performed in works of Angelin Preljocaj and Jirí Kilian amongst others. He also worked with theatre directors Omri Nitzan (New Israeli Opera), Itzik Weingerten (Habima) and choreographers Yasmeen Godder, Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Polak, Amit Goldenberg/Yaara Dolev and Rami Be’er amongst others. He moved to Berlin in 2002 and since then has worked with various choreographers and artists including Sasha Waltz, Benoit Lachambre, Junko Wada and AlexandLiane amongst others. In 2005, together with Italian choreographer and performer Nicola Mascia, he co-founded the collaborative duo matanicola.