FRANCESCA PEDRETTI

FRANCESCA PEDRETTI
Dancer, choreographer, teacher, "Master teacher".

Old school Tribal Bellydance, Tribal Fusion, Modern Bellydance, "Tribal Bellydance Emozionale".

Francesca started bellydancing in 1996, her first techers being Ada Went, Jamila Zaki, Aziza Abdul Ridha.

Since 2004, Francesca devotes her research to ATS, through its different styles: she studied with Paulette Rees-Denis (Gypsy Caravan), Wendy Allen and Caroleena Nericcio (FCBD), she then studied Tribal Fusion with Rachel Brice, Geneva Bybee, Darshan, Urban Tribal, Jill Parker, Kami Liddle and Anasma Wuong.

In 2006 she started her training in Hilal Dance (Contemporary Egyptian Dance) with Sabina Todaro. Through the years, she cultivated her interest in contemporary Flamenco.

At the end of 2008 she meets Miriam Szabo and her Duende. Some aspect of this discipline paricularly strike Francesca, and she starts a training in Dance Theater with Cristina Sforzini, which will deeply influence her artistic research.

In 2009 Francesca is Level 1 certified in the Suhaila Salimpour Format of Bellydance. She takes workshops of Contact improvisation with Marco Zontini and Contemporary dance with Ariella Vidach, at the Paolo Grassi School of Art.

All these encounters and the ideas suggested by the classes of theater result in new pieces that will define Francesca's style. She defines itTribal Bellydance Emozionale.

In October 2010 she gets her certification as teacher of "Modern Oriental Bellydance" in the Italian association S.I.M.D. (Società Italiana Maestri della Danza). She is now a referee for theis discipline inside the Association.

In 2009, after her breakup with her company "Les Soeurs Tribales", she devotes herself to a new project : "DE NOVA LUCE - tribal bellydance Emozionale™"

" The creation of the company De Nova Luce in October 2009 came out from the necessity to explore my new intentions, those that had taken me to leavs the previous condition. I had to put that confused material into shape, give it a specific direction. Since the first show created with the company, CorpoAcorpo, tha was a great success, we never stopped, and we have been living experiences that gave us a very big response from the audience. Our style mixes elements of theatrical expression to many usual bellydance movements. What results from all this is what we have called Tribal Bellydance Emozionale".

In 2010 Francesca creates the series of combos and formations called Tribal Bellydance Old School "De Nova Luce", made of specific moves that are the peculiar way of expression of the company "De Nova Luce".