Vanessa Grasse is a choreographer and multidisciplinary artist, originally from Sicily(Italy) and based in Leeds,UK. She creates outdoor work exploring the crossover between choreography, walking-art and installation, as a vehicle for immersive experiences and embodied engagement with public spaces and landscapes. She specialises in site-responsive, ecological, improvisational, participatory and cross-disciplinary approaches. She is interested in how we inhabit places and coexist with others, acknowledging our relational and entangled nature with environments, and with human and non-human communities. Vanessa’s outdoor choreographic works have been commissioned by festivals and institutions including Yorkshire Dance, Dance4, The Great Exhibition of The North, Dance City & Badischer Kunstverein; have been in residency in several visual art settings including Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Wakefield and 4Bid gallery in Amsterdam; have toured across the UK, Europe and East Asia and been presented amongst others at Gwacheon Festival in South Korea, Freedom Festival Hull, Light Night Leeds, Sanafest,Norway…..
