Elisa Sbaragli is a choreographer supported by TIR Danza since 2023.
At the core of her research is the body, understood as a malleable material, trained toward a state of presence, listening, and relationship. She considers the transformation of the body as a tool for perception, memory, and narration, where every gesture becomes a means to inhabit space and to enter into dialogue with other bodies.
Her most recent works include Se domani, performed by Alice Raffaelli and Lorenzo De Simone, winner of the Premio Danza&Danza 2025 for Italian Production/Emerging Author, selected for NID Platform 2025 in the Programming section and for NID Platform 2024 in the Open Studios section, recently mentioned by Aerowaves 2026, and winner of the residency calls Citofonare PimOff 23/24 and HOME Calling 2023; Falena, performed by Alice Raffaelli, a special project for InCastro Festival; and Mirada, winner of the Danza Urbana XL 2024 call promoted by the Network Anticorpi XL.
In 2025 she began the artistic research for La Plaza, performed by Rafael Candela, winner of the Progetto CURA 2025 call and supported by ResiDance – places and residency projects for choreographic creation, an initiative of the Rete Anticorpi XL.
She was selected for CRISOL – Creative Processes, the new internationalization project for creative processes funded by the Boarding Pass Plus 2022/2024 program, to undertake two residency periods in Norway together with national and international artists. Guided by choreographers and dancers Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki as tutors, the group developed the project elsewhere & elsewhen, focusing their research on landscape. At the end of the second residency, a public sharing of the work was presented at (((O)))utpost Festival 2023 in Flørli.
Her interest in training and the transmission of practices led her, in 2022, to become co-organizer of Sharing Training MI.
In 2022 she attended Dancescapes – In a Landscape, an advanced training program organized by Associazione Culturale Danza Urbana in Budrio, focused on artistic research in contemporary dance for urban and natural spaces.
In 2017 she completed Azione, directed by Sosta Palmizi, where she encountered some of the leading figures of Italian contemporary dance research, including Raffaella Giordano, Giorgio Rossi, Alessandro Certini, Charlotte Zerbey, Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Michele Di Stefano, Fabrizio Favale, Marco Mazzoni, Marina Giovannini, Simona Bucci, and Roberto Castello.
In 2013 she completed the two-year Professional Training Program for Contemporary Dancers at C.I.M.D., directed by Franca Ferrari.
In 2011 she graduated in Political Science – Social Sciences for Cooperation and Development at the Università degli Studi di Siena.