BIANCA FALCO PILATES
Bianca Falco was born in Napoli, Italy, and speaks Italian, English Spanish and French. Bianca, earned her certification at The Kane School of Core Integration. She studied anatomy, trunk stabilization, spirals (a full body warm-up involving continuously changing spatial relationships) with renowned teacher, Irene Dowd. Bianca’s experience started in 1987 in Napoli, Italy wh
ere she taught dance, improvisation and choreography. From 1992 to 1994 she was the director and main teacher of a modern dance school. She was awarded a scholarship at the Nikolais and Louis Dance Lab in New York City. In 1996 she became part of the NYC aerialist community and learned acrobatic aerial skills which she incorporates into her group classes and private sessions. Her works have been presented at many NYC and European venues including Multimedia Events, La MaMa E.T.C., La MaMa Umbria Italy, DanceNow Festival, Quebec and Mexico. She’s been actively working as a choreographer and movement director for film, theater and video. BIANCA FALCO CHOREOGRAPHER
Bianca Falco is a choreographer, dancer, dance teacher, certified Pilates teacher, and musician born in Napoli, Italy. After dancing ballet in Italy for several years, she performed in a piece choreographed by Murray Louis and received a scholarship to study contemporary dance at the Nikolais and Louis Dance Lab in New York City. She also studied Zapateado and Son Jarocho (Veracruz folk dance), jazz dance, and movement for theater, as well as Cyr Wheel, aerial silk, and trapeze. She plays the clarinet and jarana, a Mexican string instrument. Besides dancing for Murray Louis, her early experiences in Europe include operating her own dance school and receiving first prize in an international video dance competition sponsored by RAI Italian national TV. Her dance/soloist credits include Freestyle Die Trilogie”, an experimental dance theater piece choreographed by Peter Fuxx, which premiered at the famous Schauspielhaus Theater in Vienna. She has also danced for Popo and the Gogo Boys at the Joyce Theater and performed with Fly-by-Night Dance Theater, a low flying trapeze company. Her long association with La Mama ETC includes choreography for several productions, among them “Intermezzo” (La Mama Moves Dance Festival), “Apnea” (La Mama NYC), and “Easy” (Spoleto Festival, Italy). From 2000 to 2003, she co-directed the emerging dance company, NuVoLe Dance Theatre, which presented new work at the Present Theater Company, the Montreal Fringe Festival, La Mama Moves, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Her choreographic credits also include the Artscorporation’s Acettes (the Highline, NYC), Intermezzo (La MaMa Moves Dance Festival), and several art/music videos for director Massimo Monacelli in Perugia, Italy. She has also worked as a choreographer and movement director for film, theater and video. She choreographed the music/art video “Somebody to Love” directed by Josh Jordan, the western-themed film musical ‘A Ballad for Tex” and the short film "ALEX", which won "Best Fiction Film" and "Best Cinematography" at the Directors Guild of America’s festival Cityvisions in 2011. From 2011 to 2015, Bianca was the choreographer and Movement Director for the Middle School and High School division of La Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi, the only Italian bilingual and bicultural school in New York City. Most recently, she workshopped “Searching” a dance/spoken word/live music event, performed at the No-Lesque performance art series at the Slipper Room.
