Nica Portavia2023-06-09T14:06:29+00:00

Nica Portavia

I was born in Fano, Italy, from an Italian father and a mother from Lebanon.

I start dancing as a child.

I am a dancer, teacher and researcher, performer in the field of Contact Improvisation.

I discovered CI many years ago, after having followed a first training in contemporary dance, and I fell in love since the first moment.  I mainly trained abroad with many teachers including Steve Paxton, Daniel Lepkoff, Charlie Morrissey,Angelika Doney, Asaf Bacharach, KJ Holmes, Anya Cloud.

I followed a training on Material for the Spine, by Steve Paxton, where I had the big pleasure to meet and study with Steve, diving completely in his research. I have taught and teach in France, Ukraine, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Russia, Poland, Tanzfabrik in Berlin, Germany.

I am organizer of national and international events, including the Italycontactfest (International CI Festival which takes place in Italy and has now reached its tenth edition www.italycontactfest.com) and
of Being Touch Festival (www.beingtouch.org)  I was in the organization team of Ecite 2022 Portugal, I am communicator for the CI Global Calendar project.

I have participated as a teacher in numerous international and European festivals, and have taught intensive workshops in different parts of the world. I presented various performances during my residency in France and the latest performance ‘SottoSale’ traveled to Russia in summer 2019.