Born in the Italian region of Abruzzo, Marioenrico D'Angelo is a freelance choreographer, dance teacher, and performer based in Bern, Switzerland.
Professional experience as a choreographer:
2024 / original creation for CoLab 3rd Edition, The Link, Bern
2024 / Yours truly: original creation for Daegu City Dance Company South Korea, included as part of the double bill evening East X West
2024 / Tightrope: choreographed for the students of the academy DAF Dance Arts Faculty in Rome (IT)
2023 / Was uns hält: full evening creation for MiR Dance Company Gelsenkirchen (DE)
2023 / Prelude: 2nd prize winner at the 37 International Choreographic Competition Hannover
2022 / Grace: original creation for Saarländisches Staatsballett Saarbruecken (DE)
2022 / Afterthought won the fifth prize in the 21 Burgos and New York International Choreography Contest, as well as the prize offered by Martín Padrón and the Choreographic Center La Gomera
2022 / Dekarnation: full-length evening produced by V-Create Bern (CH), realized with Sophie Vergères and Max Levy
2022 / Força Estranha: choreographed for the students of the academy DAF Dance Arts Faculty in Rome (IT)
2021 / Medea: full-length dance evening co-created with Marguerite Donlon for Theater für Niedersachsen Hildesheim (DE)
2019 / Skinny Dipping: original creation for Frontier Danceland Singapore (SG)
2018 / Phersu-na: choreography commissioned by Think Big artist residency program, Ballet of the State Opera Hannover, and TANZtheater International (DE).
2018 - 2014 / annual participation in the evening SubsTanz of Saarlandisches Staatstheater Saarbrucken, for which Baustelle (2018), Blue Screen (2017), Swept Under (2016), Azulejos (2015), and Do you like my Flowers? (2014) were created.
2017 / PAN: choreographic solo created for Jin Young Won for the Festival KOTID Frankfurt am Main (DE).
2013 / Stipo A: original creation for Equilibrio Dinamico Dance Company (IT).
Professional experience as a performer:
During his career, Marioenrico has performed in many international tours and productions between Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Belarus, USA, Korea, and Thailand, dancing with Bern Ballett (CH), Joshua Monten Dance Company (CH), Saarländisches Staatsballett (DE), Donlon Dance Collective (DE), Spellbound Contemporary Ballet (IT), DaMotus! (CH), and Luzerner Theater (CH) among others.
Marioenrico has performed in choreographies by Stijn Celis (Your Passion is pure Joy to me, Peer Gynt, Goldberg Variation, Pulcinella, Der Wunderbare Mandarin, Dornroschen), Ohad Naharin (Hora), Jiri Kylian (Forgotten Land, 27’52’’), Sharon Eyal (Lost Cause), Johan Inger (Walking Mad), Marguerite Donlon (Heroes, Strokes Through the Tail, Wings, Shadow, Liebe in Schwarz Weiss, Die Räuber), Alexander Ekman (Cacti), Andonis Foniadakis (Selon Desir, Eligmos), Anna Konjetzky (Ground), Joshua Monten (Pursuit of Happiness), Cathy Marston (Nachtviolen), Caroline Finn (Moths), Shahar Binyamini (Mensch), Duda Paiva (The Garden), Martin Chaix (Firebird), Mark Baldwin (Not a Cloud in the Sky), Kenneth MacMillan (Anastasia), Gerhard Bohner (Die Folterungen der Beatrice Cenci), Mauro Astolfi (Fear, Postlude, Don Giovanni, Carmina Burana, Lost for words, Quattro Stagioni, Downshifting, Nafas, How to Pray), Estefania Miranda (Vier Jahreszeiten, La Divina Comedia), Antonio Buhler and Brigitte Meuwly (déComposition), Young Soon Hue (Imperfectly Perfect), Nunzio Impellizzeri (Corpo Barocco), Po-Cheng Tsai (Aegir), Iratxe Ansa and Igor Bacovich (Drifting Out), Anna Papst (Ich, aber anders), Etienne Bechard (Anger), Francesco Vecchione (SIUK, I killed my Darlings, Finchè morte non ci separi), Katherine Lake (Habit of falling), Ramon John (My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy), Youn Hui Jeon (Durch die Tür), Saul Vega Mendoza (Ash), Dean Biosca (The sense of an ending, Inter-Echo), Randolph Ward (Gag: a Vogue extravaganza), Louiza Avraam (Mind your Step), Edoardo Cino (I am in a room different from the one you are in now).
In 2018 Marioenrico won the SponsorClub Prize of Saarländisches Staatstheater as Best Performer for his performance in Stijn Celis’s Your Passion is pure Joy to me.
