Stefania is an Italian/Brazilian dance artist, and rehearsal & movement director based in Leeds, UK. She trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, by taking part in the post-graduate performing company VERVE where she received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2016.

Within her dance career, she has mostly been involved in working as a freelance dance artist, devising, performing and touring works worldwide with companies and choreographers like: Michael Keegan-Dolan (Teać Damsa), Gary Clarke Company, Public Acts (National Theatre), Léa Tirabasso, Rebecca Evans (Pell Ensemble), Anton Lachky, Valentina Golfieri, Jamaal Burkmar (Extended Play), Douglas Thorpe (mad dogs dance theatre), Rod Dixon (Red Ladder Thatere Company), Susanne Thomas (Seven Sisters Group), Jaz Woodcock-Stewart (Antler Theatre)and Wayne McGregor (ABBA Voyage).

Stefania has been working as a rehearsal director and choreographer assistant on Bubble Up by Gary Clarke (Great Exhibition of the North 2018),Queer New Worldby Jake Evans,Suzy Homemaker by Erica Mulkern, andZoomers, BoomersandSnowflakes by Annie Kelleher.

As a maker Stefania’s work is issue-based, she wants to address human-social conditions and find ways to use dance as activism to invite and create conversation around taboo and stigmatized topics. With her collaborator, Amarnah Osajivbe-Amuludun, she is currently creating WOMB PARTY — a dance theatre piece about abortion and reproductive rights.