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Nunzio Impellizzeri (born 1980, Acireale) is a Zurich based Italian choreographer.
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Early life and education
Impellizzeri completed his studies in Visual Art at the Istituto Statale D’Arte di Giarre, in Italy. After discovered dancing he began to study and practice dance at the pedagogical project MoDem improving his skills in classic and contemporary dance.
Career
In 2000, Impellizzeri began his dancing career as a soloist with the Compagnia Zappalà Danza directed by Roberto Zappalà in Sicily.
Impellizzeri has worked with such well-known choreographers as Enrico C. Musmeci, Linda Magnifico, MDA Production and Aurelio Gatti, visual artist and composer Shirin Neshat, Sussan Deyhim. From 2004 to 2005 he has worked in Spain with the Compañia Metros Dansa directed by Ramón Oller Martínez; in Austria and Switzerland as a soloist dancer he worked with the choreographers Jacqueline Beck for the Walk Tanztheater Project Peter Bichsel in 2006 and the choreographer Kinsun Chan; from 2006 to 2007 in Germany for the ballet of the Theater Augsburg and for the Stadttheater Kempten Allgäu directed by Jochen Heckmann.
Nunzio Impellizzeri began his choreographic career in Italy in collaboration with the Theater Company Gruppo Iarba for Le mille e una notte in 2003, the Genius Loci and Studio Ferrera with Terre Laviche in 2004. In 2011, in Germany, he cooperated with Giorgio Madia and the Cottbus Staatstheater in the creation of Harlequin, which plays with the tradition of the Italian Commedia dell'arte. In Switzerland, in 2009, on behalf of Gisela Rocha Dance Company, in 2010 for the Faa-Zone Dance Company, in 2006 for Cinevox Junior Dance Company, in 2008 for the ZTTS of Zurich, from 2008 to 2013 for the SZZ_Junior Company and in 2015 for the ZHdK: BA Contemporary Dance.
In 2009, Impellizzeri was one of the four choreographers chosen for the review 12 Min. Max. at the Tanzhaus Zurich. In 2010, he was selected amongst six other choreographers for "SiWiC 2010" – (The 14th Swiss International Coaching Project for Choreographers) directed by Reinhild Hoffmann. He participated in ChoreoLab 2013 in Zurich and in Warsaw, directed by Tanzhaus Zürich and Centrum W RU-CHU Warsaw.
In 2012 and in 2013, Impellizzeri won the choreographic competition Ballet-ex in Rome. In 2014, he founded the Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company of which he is the artistic director. He created Quieta... inquietudine, a short dance video in 2014, which received the public award 60secondsdance, during Loikka Dance Film Festival 2016 in Finland. Lost & Found which was performed at Tanzhaus Zurich and Way Out which premiered in Theater am Gleis (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Grabenhalle (St.Gallen, Switzerland) in 2015. In 2016 he was invited to create two works “#Il-prete Rosso” and "Bleeding heart" for the ZHdK/BA Contemporary Dance. In the same year he was appointed to choreograph "Happening" for the Opening of Zurich Landesmuseum. In 2017 for the Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company in collaboration with the composer Selma Mutal, Nunzio has directed and choreographed “IN.QUIETA ROOMS”
Impellizzeri from 2006 to 2017 has taught workshops and classes for the ZHdK/ BA Contemporary Dance (Zurich, CH), Jessica Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance (Munich, DE), Profitraining Tanzbüro Basel (Basel, CH), Ballettschule Theater Basel (Basel, CH), Cinevox Junior Dance Company (Neuhausen am Rheinfall), Staatstheater Cottbus (Cottbus, DE), Progetto danza (Catania, IT), Theater St. Gallen (St. Gallen, CH), Tanzhaus Zurich (Zurich, CH), Zurich-Tanz-Theater-Schule (Zurich, CH), Tanzwerk 101 (Zurich, CH).