Clara Cafiero

Clara Cafiero is an Italian freelance dance artist Born in Venice, she graduated from the Centro Studi Coreografici Teatro Carcano in Milan and continued her training at the École Supérieure Nationale de Danse de Marseille, where she obtained the Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Danseur (DNSP). In 2015, she joined the Ballet National de Marseille under the direction of Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.
 
 In 2017, she became a member of the Spanish company Dantzaz, performing works by choreographers such as Barnaby Booth, Martin Harriague, Antonin Comestaz, Janis Claxton, and Itzik Galili. In 2018, she performed at the Venice Biennale Danza under the artistic direction of Marie Chouinard, in a new creation by Benoît Lachambre and in Sider by William Forsythe. After moving to Munich in 2019, Clara joined the ballet company of the Gärtnerplatztheater, working with choreographers including Karl Alfred Schreiner, Marco Goecke, Eyal Dadon, Ioannis Mandafounis, Omar Rajeh, Felix Landerer, Ina Christel Johannessen, Rui Horta, and Thomas Hauert. As a freelance artist, she has recently worked in productions by choreographer Matteo Carvone, Micha Purucker and collaborated with the choreographic house Korzo in The Hague for the creations Work Line and Something About Something by Rutkay Özpinar, with whom she premiered both pieces. She worked with choreographer Omar Rajeh on the production DANCE PEOPLE, which premiered in August 2025 at the Edinburgh Dance Festival. Alongside her performance work, Clara is deeply engaged in movement research and somatic exploration. She offers improvisation techniques for performing artists and incorporates the Gyrokinesis® method as a somatic practice to support physical awareness and creative flow in her workshops.