Olimpia Fortuni is a prominent dancer and choreographer with a solid training background and an artistic path rich in diverse experiences and prestigious collaborations. She graduated as a dancer from the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan and later completed a two-year program in Contemporary Dance Writing under the direction of Raffaella Giordano. Her academic studies intertwine with those of acting, exploring the truth of gesture and giving rise to a profound encounter between the two disciplines. Her choreographic research examines the complex relationships between humans, nature, and animals. In 2010, together with eleven other artists, she founded the collective Famigliafuchè, a two-year research project that culminated in the synthesis of a horizontal creative process in which the present moment becomes the core of artistic creation. Between 2011 and 2014, Olimpia curated choreography for director Roberto Rustioni, teaching movement to actors, while her career as a performer led her to work with major figures of the contemporary scene, including Tino Sehgal (Kiss), Vettori Pisani (Lo scorrevole), as well as companies such as Costanzo/Rustioni, Arearea, Valdoca, G. Rossi, R. Giordano, Casa Strasse, Zerogrammi, Company Blu, E. Consonni, and D. Valrosso. Since 2014, she has presented her choreographic works at numerous dance festivals in Italy and abroad, earning recognition and acclaim. She co-authored, together with Pieradolfo Ciulli, Viale dei Castagni 16 (2014), winner of the Next Milano call. In 2016, her Soggetto senza Titolo was selected for the Anticorpi network’s Young Author Dance Showcase and debuted in 2017 at the Kilowatt Festival, where it won the GD’A Audience Award. Her piece Fray (2017) was once again selected for the Young Author Dance Showcase and toured in Italy and France. In 2018, she won the Mibact/S’ILLUMINA call with her first group choreography, DO ANIMALS GO TO HEAVEN?. In the same year, she created the co-working project Who cares? Ecology of Dialogue for Matera 2019 – European Capital of Culture. Since 2020, Olimpia has danced for Ambra Senatore at the Centre Chorégraphique National in Nantes (FR). In 2022, together with musician Katatonic Silentio, she created X, a powerful fusion of sound and movement that toured across Asia, reaching Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore, with the production and support of Fabbrica Europa and Sosta Palmizi, of which she is an associate artist. That same year, she began her research project Studio sull’Essere, which led her to residencies at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris and in Ísafjörður, Iceland, as part of the RoundTrip program. This research gave rise to her latest creation, FINE (2024), an homage to her artistic mentors, M. Costanzo and R. Giordano. Olimpia is also involved in art and fashion projects, collaborating as an artist with the brand RRUNA, which tells art through fashion.