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Biography
Piotr Giro (born Piotr Torazawa Giro; January 16, 1974) is a Swedish freelance actor, dancer and choreographer. Giro was born in Wałbrzych, Poland and moved with his mother to Sweden at the age of seven. In 1993 he began training at the Royal Swedish Ballet school in Stockholm, 1996 he joined the Batsheva dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel led by artistic director Ohad Naharin. In 1998 he joined the Ultima Vez dance company led by Wim Vandekeybus based in Brussels, Belgium. Ultima Vez and Wim Vandekeybus has launched the company into a new stage. The company is made up of individually unique dancers and actors from Belgium and abroad. Giro has worked as an actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Gothenburg Municipal Theatre and Stockholm Municipal Theatre.
Filmography
- 2009 - Mannen under trappan
- 2009 - Olof 1440 min
- 2007 - The Blueberry War
- 2006 - Keillers Park
- 2006 - Wellkåmm to Verona
- 2004 - Graveyard Iland
- 2003 - Five Staircases
- 2003 - Skeppsholmen
- 2002 - Mantra
- 2001 - In Spite of Wishing and Wanting
- 2000 - Inasmuch
- 1999 - The last words
Theatrework
- 2009 - Unknown Pleasures dancetheatre Putervik and Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sweden 2009, touring in Sweden 2010, 2011)
- 2008 - King Edward The Secondby Christopher Marlowe Unga Klara / Stockholm Municipaltheatre
- 2006 - Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlmen or The Men in Grey by Michael Ende Skärholmen / Stockholm Municipaltheatre
- 2005 - As Don Juan, Don Juan by Molière Gothenburg Municipaltheatre
- 2004 - The Divine Comedy By Dante Alighiere rewritten by Niklas Rådström Ghothenburg Municipaltheatre
- 2003 - As Romeo, Romeo & Juliet by William ShakespeareRoyal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
Dancework
- 2010 - Equal (Shintaro Oue, Piotr Giro, Satoshi Kudo)
- 2008 - Triptych (Örjan Andersson)
- 2008 - Spiegel (Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus)
- 2000 - Inasmuch as Life is borrowed (Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus
- 2001 - In Spite of Wishing and Wanting (Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus)
- 2000 - L'Anatomie du fauve (Josef Nadj)
- 1997 - Batsheva Dance Ensemble/Ohad Naharin/Batsheva Dance Company
- 1997 - Deuce (Carl-Olof Berg) A Project in April 1997
- 1998 - ÄETT (Carl-Olof Berg) A Project in April 1998
- 1998 - Norrdans (Jens Östberg, Jo Strømgren)guest performer