Gaia Santuccio
Gaia Santuccio is an aerial rope artist, teacher, and researcher. She graduated from Circomedia (Bristol) and the National Centre for Circus Arts (London) in 2014, trained in Étienne Decroux’s mime technique at Moveo in Barcelona, and completed a Master’s in Contemporary Circus Practices at DOCH in 2022. She also participated in the pilot year of ICCAR (International Circus Centre for Artistic Research), directed by Roberto Magro.
Her work explores the transformative potential of restriction - both physical and conceptual - as a catalyst for creative research. Communication between bodies is central to her practice, including the dialogue between human and object. She approaches objects as bodies in their own right, and rope as an extension of the body: a partner in movement, meaning, constraint, and liberation.
Since 2020, she has been developing the Rope Manipulation approach and is currently writing a book based on this research, to be published this year. She is a member of NèonTeatro, an Italian theatre company working with people of different abilities, and is currently creating her first solo performance, Isola-Ta.
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