Francesca Mariano (IT, 1992) is Milan-based dance and sound artist whose practice moves freely between the borders of these disciplines. She trained in postmodern dance with Anna Halprin and integrates landscape, sound, archaeology and feminist sensitivities into her evolving palette of choreography, music production and sound installations. Her practice expands in its educational application and through workshops that have a focus on an interdisciplinary method of somatic research and exploration. She has performed and exhibited in international venues and institutions, including The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Rewire Festival, Museo Madre, Fondazione Sozzani, Valentino and Club to Club. Her latest album, Eurybia, was released in 2022 with Leaving Records. Alongside her personal projects, she works on commissioned choreography and music scorings for film, fashion, theatre and documentaries. She is part of the 2023/24 Shape+ artist platform for innovative music in Europe and has been selected for Room to Bloom (2020-2023), a feminist platform for ecological and postcolonial narratives of Europe.

Francesca Mariano will perform at Morion on November 6 during the festival launch party Voices of The Undercurrents