Mela
Photo: Carolina Farina
Mela ha cambiato nome di recente, per sottolineare che non è né carne né pesce, ma un ibrido tra danzatrice, curatrice, ricercatrice. Attraverso le lenti del pensiero femminista intersezionale, Mela esplora la performance, la danza di comunità e il corpo come s/oggetto di gnosi.
Laureata in Relazioni Internazionali, dopo aver condotto una ricerca sui tabù mestruali in India e Etiopia, ha approfondito lo studio del movimento tra Genova e Torino, diplomandosi infine al Tanzfabrik di Berlino, città dove ora è basata.
Photo: Carolina Farina
Mela Seidenari is a dancer and social researcher working at the intersection of movement and feminist discourse. With a background in political science, she transitioned from working in refugee centers to exploring the body through movement. Her practice, influenced by Tanztheater and somatic research, developed through training in Italy, Germany, and India, and deepened during the Dance Intensive program at Tanzfabrik Berlin (2021).
Her career expands beyond performance, as she conducted sociological research on menstrual stigma in Italy and Ethiopia, creating a pilot project on menstrual stigma in India (2018). In Turin, she worked as a curator and producer in community dance projects (2019-21) and worked as an assistant choreographer with Chaim Gebber – open scene (Berlin, 2023).
Currently based in Berlin, she continues to develop her artistic practice while working as an archivist at the Media Library for Dance and Theatre at ITI. Her work explores the body as a space of tension between personal and political, presence and disappearance, often blending movement with social and anthropological perspectives.
Photo: Carolina Farina