Fernando Roldan Ferrer (E)
Fernando Roldan Ferrer was born in Spain in 1984. He started to study flamenco and Spanish dance at the Conservatorio de Musica y Danza in Almeria (Spain). In 2002 he received a scholarship for the participation to Contemporary Dance classes and workshops at the C.A.D in Seville. In 2005, he collaborated as a dancer with the Cie. Coline at Istres (Marseille). In 2006 he has been selected to participate to the specializing training course “MoDem Studio Atelier” in Catania (Italy), produced by Compagnia Zappalà Danza. Since then, he collaborates permanently with Compagnia Zappalà Danza as a dancer and assistant for all the productions. He also collaborated as a dancer with other dance companies, among them Petranura Danza by Salvatore Romania and Laura Odierna, Cie. Deja Donné by Simone Sandroni and the company Ariella Vidach – Aiep by Ariella Vidach and others. Together with Valeria Zampardi he is protagonist of the dance-video “La demiurge” by Alain El Sakhawi. He started his choreographic experimentation in 2011 with “Lui/Lei”, followed by “Seen/Unseen” (2013) and “Nocturno” (2014). In 2016, he began the artistic collaboration with artist Alessandro Sollima, with whom he created several creations, the latest “Haeresis”
In the last six years Fernando collaborated with Roberto Zappalà as assistant and teacher of the MoDem language – language of Compagnia Zappalà Danza.
He is also the director of the MoDem Atelier program, produced by Scenario Pubblico CZD / National Dance Production Center