Enzo Celli

Enzo Celli is an Italian contemporary dancer, choreographer and dance company artistic director

Celli was born in 1972 in Sora. He approached dance as a self-taught person through hip hop. The passion for teather brought him to found the Botega Dance Company at the age of 23.

His continuous research and exsperimentation drew him to a contemporary language converted into a personal technique named Meme.

Botega is a breeding ground of dancers coming from different formative experiences and sharing a strong disposition towards artistic research and the contamination of styles. Botega Dance Company's dancers technical background includes contemporary, ballet, break dance and hip-hop. Although Botega's dancers follow a common artistic research based on the style contamination and the choreographic coherence, their own artistic nature has not been perverted.

Botega Dance Company's style is based on a strong theatrical and physical impact. Although it isn't a theatre-dance company, theatrical elements are important subjects belonging to the company artistic background. Therefore, each dancer can dance as a soloist and put his own individuality on stage.

Celli developed a type of technique called Meme. In order to create a dynamic characterized by a strong physicality in relation to the floor, Meme's main exercises focus on the core of body and its relation to movement. Working on the dynamic and the rhythm of bounce, the circularity, together with a new self-perception, become important elements of study.

About his contaminated choreographic style, three graduation thesis were written and discussed:

• In December 2007, at the department of Literature and Philosophy, University of Bologna.
• "Giselle alla Botega di Enzo Celli" discussed in November 2010 at the department of Literature and Philosophy, University of Bologna.
• In January 2012, at the department of Literature and Philosophy, La Sapienza University of Rome.