Brand Profile
MOTUS is a contemporary dance company based in Siena (Italy), supported by Tuscany Region, with artistic residencies in Italy and abroad.
Directed by Simona Cieri, choreographer and dancer, who founded the Company in 1991, MOTUS tour extensively to all major theatres in Italy and abroad.
The vast production of the MOTUS Company (more than 100 productions in 30 years) is characterized by plenty of collaborations with musicians, poets, actors, visual artists, video-makers, photographers, but also with institutions and associations engaged in the social field, while the artistic research is looking for new vocabularies where the body language is used to treat arguments of social impact.
The work of the MOTUS Company is well estimated in various countries (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Germany, Greece, India, Kosovo, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA).
MOTUS has been also awarded by many recognitions:
1994 - National Prize for Choreography (Spello)
2006 - International Prize TEATARFEST
2008 - International Prize TEATARFEST
2009 - Official Praise of the President of the Italian Republic for the play “Iris under the sea”
2009 - The first edition of “Move Off” International Contemporary Dance Festival takes place under the artistic direction of the MOTUS Company
2010 - Official Praise of the President of the Italian Republic for the play “Della tua carne-Just’us”
2011 - VENTI DI MOTUS (20 of MOTUS) a book written by Prof. Andrea Mancini about 20 years’ activity of the MOTUS Company was published
2014 - The first edition of “Aperitivi in Danza” Festival takes place under the artistic direction of the MOTUS Company
2021 -On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Company, the book “TRENTA DI MOTUS” was published by “La Conchiglia di Santiago”.
2022 - Lifetime Achievement Award
2022 - Award for the Commitment Against Violence on Women