Born in Rome in1974, Emanuela Iacopini is a dance artist living in Luxembourg. Active within the international creative, scientific and academic scene since 2001, her present focus is on the exploration of the connective tissue as a living matrix to re(de)fine training, creation and performance. Graduated in chemistry, then dance, she was certified as a KET bodyworker, Reiki and Yoga practitioner, and more recently as an Axis Syllabusⓒ teacher. Since completing her post-graduate studies in Dance Science at Trinity Laban London, she collaborates and performs with pioneers of connective tissue movement research as it applies to dance including Florence Augendre, Annemari Autere and Frey Faust. A course leader in contemporary dance, she created and leads the dance kinesiology course at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg and is a guest teacher at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. She co-founded VEDANZA Artists International with sound artist Rajivan Ayyappan, an artist-led organisation, dance company and studio space. Her most recent projects include UNDO (2017), Form of a Motion/Two to One (2018), BLAST (2020), Danse pour piano à quatre mains (2022), We Thought We Knew What We Were Doing (2023), Mother (2023) and Stumbling Upon You I Found Myself (2025).
Current courses led by Emanuela Iacopini
The Axis Syllabusⓒ at VEDANZA STUDIOS
Taking breath – online class recordings
Contemporary dance and Dance Kinesiology at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg
CONTACT: emanuela@vedanza.org
