About Silvia Titotto

Dr Silvia Titotto is an interdisciplinary choreographer, dance artist, researcher and educator working across choreography, architecture, biomimetics, technological innovation, 4D printing, installation art, classical ballet, Tanztheater and contemporary performance. Her interdisciplinary research has included the development of innovative bioinspired design solutions, while her artistic research investigates how principles found in living systems can be translated into choreographic tools that generate new movement vocabularies rather than imitate natural forms.

Drawing on a background spanning architecture, design work within naval engineering and Vaganova ballet training, she works with biomechanics, geometry, origami-based structures, kinetics and kinematics, self-assembly, modelling and coding as choreographic materials. Her practice translates natural mechanisms into experimental movement and spatial systems, enabling artists to transform embodied patterns, expand their physical repertoire and actively shape choreographic space.

Across theatre, outdoor, site-specific and installation environments, Titotto approaches choreography as a dynamic system in which bodies, forces, structures, light and space continually reorganise one another. Her work has been presented in the United States, Brazil and across Europe, while her academic and artistic trajectory spans two PhDs completed in Brazil and Italy, postdoctoral fellowships, peer-reviewed publications, awards and distinctions, international teaching, and interdisciplinary collaborations.