Damiano Fina
Artist
Damiano Fina
Artist
“We high-five with the dead, embraced by eternity. We dance, like statues, waiting. Beyond the night, it has always been day!” Damiano Fina
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Damiano Fina investigates the original meaning of eternity through philosophy and butoh dance. His academic and artistic research is influenced by the philosophy of Emanuele Severino, the philosophers of ancient Greece and butoh dance. Damiano Fina applies his philosophical research and artistic practice to the realisation of dance therapy workshops to cross the ridge that separates the world of ‘before’ and the world of ‘after’ with respect to mourning and trauma. His publications include: "Spring of a Dancer" (2025), "Letters to My Mom: Grieving with Philosophy and Dance"(2024), "Dance and Alchemy" (2020) and "The Dance of Eros and Thanatos: Butoh and Queer Pedagogy" (2018). Listen to his podcasts on Spotify "WADING" and "Lettere a mia mamma".
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Birth Date
May 19, 1990
Nickname
damianofina
Birth City
Vicenza, Italy
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Damiano Fina has performed in Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Japan, at various Italian festivals and regularly conducts dance workshops. He adopts an approach that combines theoretical reflection with research through body and movement, involving people who have never danced in the experience of dance, without age or mobility limits, through workshops and courses. In 2023 he obtained a Master's degree in Death Studies & The End of Life at the University of Padua and in 2017 a Master's degree in Pedagogy of Expression at the University of Roma Tre.
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"Maybe one day we will stop calling everything by the right name." - Damiano Fina
“We high-five with the dead, embraced by eternity. We dance, like statues, waiting. Beyond the night, it has always been day!” Damiano Fina
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