I am an actor, singer, researcher and teacher working across performance art, film, and theatre. I trained in jazz vocals at the Mabellini conservatory of Pistoia, Italy, and had years long experience working internationally in avant-garde theatre companies and early music singing ensembles. Since 2023 I am part of Idrîsî Ensemble, a music collective that delves into the performance and study of rare, previously unrecorded medieval repertoire by way of music archaeology, medieval literature and postcolonial historiography, spanning from ancient Greek polyphony, Old Roman Chant, Corsican tradition, to Troubadour song from the 4th to 14th centuries.

I was a collaborator of critically acclaimed Song of The Goat theatre company and while with them I’ve worked with Gambian multi-instrumentalist Sona Jobarteh, male Corsican polyphonic ensemble A Filetta, and jazz singer Anna Maria Jopek among others. I am collaborating since 2019 with Musarc choir collective: while with them I’ve worked with composers Holly Herndon, Jennifer Walshe, Neil Luck, conductors Jack Sheen, David Young, Cathy Heller Jones, and singer Melanie Pappenheim, among others. I have performed internationally, most notably at Bold Tendencies, at LCMF London Contemporary Music Festival, at Leuven Artifact Festival, at the International Festival of Chamber music in San Paulo, at Yale University on the occasion of Yale Repertory Theater’s NO BOUNDARIES performance series, at Tbilisi International Theater Festival, at Battersea Arts Center, at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at Tramway Arts Centre and at several editions of BRAVE festival, among others.

Currently (2023-2027) undertaking a PhD at University of the Arts London: Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Colleges. Research interests include gig theatre, post-dramatic theatre, trauma-informed and body-centered therapies, anti-colonial and anti-racist critiques, Black, trans, and lesbian feminist traditions, and post-Marxist relational politics.

CONTACT

i.cipollari0620231@arts.ac.uk