Meet Claudia

Dancer, Choreographer, Performer, and Gestalt Counselor specializing in Artistic Mediation

Claudia graduated with honors in Modern Dance and Psychology from the University of Bologna, where she also completed an internship and thesis in Art Therapy. She later completed a three-year program in Gestalt Counseling, alongside an advanced theoretical and practical training course, Theater as a Tool for Educational Professionals, developed through a collaboration between the University of Bologna and several theater companies.

She has trained and worked extensively in Italy, France, and Argentina. In 2016, she participated in the Festival Mundial de Tango in Buenos Aires alongside renowned dancer and teacher Jorge Olguín. Her tango studies include training with distinguished maestros such as Corina de la Rosa, Julio Balmaceda, Mariana Montes, Lorena Ermocida, Pancho Martínez Pey, Alejandra Gutty, Sabrina and Rubén Veliz, Christian Santi, Agnese Franceschi, Cesira Miceli, Gabriel Glagovsky, and Marcela Trapé (BAM – Body Awareness Method and Tango), among many others.

In addition to classical, modern, contemporary dance, and tango, Claudia has explored and practiced a wide range of movement and body-awareness disciplines, including yoga, Pilates, bioenergetics, contact improvisation, the Feldenkrais Method, mindfulness, and other psycho-corporal approaches. She has also participated in intensive Vipassana meditation retreats in Italy.

From 2016 to 2018, in Rome, she collaborated regularly with Teatro negli Appartamenti, founded by the Italian-Argentine artist Silvio Benedetto, as well as with singer, actress, and director Olga Macaluso of Teatro Sottosopra.

Throughout her career, Claudia has participated in numerous performances, conferences, artistic projects, and international events. She has conducted courses, workshops, and professional training programs in Italy and abroad, including Buenos Aires, Brussels, Malta, St. Petersburg, and Lesbos. She also co-developed and facilitated a three-year Theater Therapy program with Harvard-affiliated professor, playwright, and poet Walter Valeri at the Art-in-Counseling School founded by Cinzia Lissi.

In 2023, Claudia wrote, directed, and performed her original work Corazón al Sur, featuring Fabrizio Mocata (music) and the participation of Piero Bianciardi (dance), Jeremías Cornejo (voice), and Nora Tabbush (voice). The production premiered on June 21 at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Florence.

In the summer of 2025, she attended an intensive theater-dance workshop led by Julie Stanzak at Casina Settarte. During the same season, she directed her residential workshop Metamorphosis of the Heart, in collaboration with yoga and tantra teacher Aroon Kalsi.

Her current artistic project, Venì Volà Sentì (The Unbearable Lightness of Tango), is a concert-performance featuring Lucas Cidade (dance), Alberto Becucci (accordion), and Jeremías Cornejo (voice and guitar).

Claudia consciously integrates her extensive experience in the performing arts into her work as a Gestalt counselor, specializing in somatic awareness, embodiment, and expressive movement. Through this unique synthesis of artistic practice and psychological insight, she offers transformative experiences that enrich both her students and audiences.iences benefit greatly from Claudia’s unique blend of these disciplines.