Giulio Canestrelli

After his high school diploma he decided to dedicate himself to theatre. At first he attended a course at the Venice national theatre, where he worked with Gianfranco De Bosio, Marise Flash and Virgio Zernitz. He then took classes at the Actors School Bel Teatro in Padua headed by Roberto Innocente. Meanwhile, thanks to the Association of University Students, he participated in an international exchange organized by the Theatre Academy in Vilnius with teacher Dalia Tamuliaviciute. In 2004 he moved to Bologna, where he enrolled and graduated at the Alessandra Galante Garrone Acting School/Theatre Academy (Lecoq method). Right after, he also graduated from Bologna University in history of performing arts (DAMS) with a thesis titled The legacy of Commedia dell'Arte in Italian Comedy film. In 2009 he began various professional collaborations, firstly with the association Diecimenodieci directed by Pietro and Marcello Chiarenza and then with the international companies such as Commedia dell'Arte Venezia Inscena directed by Adriano Iurissevich and Pantakin directed by Michele Modesto Casarin. After that he was on stage with different independent companies like Rodisio directed by David Doro and Manuela Capece, Ca'luogo d'arte directed by Maurizio Bercini and Artisti Drama directed by Stefano Vercelli, Magda Sites and Tery Weikel in Modena. In 2013 he founded with Ariela Maggi the Manimotó. The poetics of this company responds to the choice of staging themes of civic importance using the language of figure theatre. In the same year they created TOMATO SOAP, a silent show that addresses the prominent and sensible issue of domestic violence in a delicate, ironic and humane way. A year after he acted in YOU, a one-man-show that tells the story of the disruptive encounter between a naif and primitive alien and a load of terrestrial waste. Over the years he worked with theatre masters such as Cesar Brie, Pierre Bylan, Toni Cafiero, Enrique Pardo, Silia Traversi, Govanni Pampiglione, Susanna Marcomeni and Mario Gonzalez becoming his assistant in 2010 at the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris.