Marta Ferraris, she/they,  is an Italian Berlin-based dancer, author, teacher, and circus artist.

She trained in ballet at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala (teaching diploma), contemporary dance with DEOS, oriental dance with Persepolis, movement research at Tanzfabrik, physical theatre with Teatro Akropolis, and circus arts independently.

Her work challenges normative aesthetics and body ideals, centering gesture, inner creative empowerment, and a playful pedagogical approach rooted in care, inclusivity, and shared agency.

Marta bridges tradition and experimentation. Investigating movement as a tool for expression, healing, and collective imagination, she works internationally as a performer, teacher, and collaborator, extending her practice to feminist, queer, and decolonial projects that reclaim urban spaces and foster intergenerational dialogue. 

 

 

 

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 

 •2022-23- Dance Intensive- Tanzfabrik, Berlin

 

•2020-2021- Contemporary Dance Program “l’ Azione Silenziosa”- DEOS, Genoa

(Artistic Director Giovanni Di Cicco)

 

•2017-2019- Classical-Academic Dance Teacher Diploma - Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Milan

 

 

CV: cv of marta ferraris- 2025.pdf

 

 

INDIPENDENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING 

• Physical Theatre with the company Teatro Akropolis founded by Clemente Tafuri David Beronio (2019-2021)• Workshops and creation with: Carolyn Carlson (2022), Giorgio Rossi (2021) Virgilio Sieni (2021), Sonia Rodriguez and Jorge Bascunan(2022)
• practitioner of: Contact Improvisation, Kinomichi, Butoh, Theater, Singing, Oriental Dance, Fusion Dance (Datura Style), Swing,Tango, Hula Hoop, Yoga, Acro-yoga.

The open, often astonished gaze, relaxed smile, and inner calm conveyed through the diverse flow of her movement serve as a model for merging reality, thought, and dreams. Her differentiated, dynamically varied rotations—sitting, standing, lying, or falling—are excellent stimuli for authentic creativity. They allow some of the freedom observed and experienced in the performer, rooted in the broad field of culturally inherent and artistic movement, to transfer to one’s own established rigidity.

Eveline Koberg