Our Team
Our team is made up of professionals with long experience in areas relating to dance movement, art therapies and the processes of evolution and healing.
The richness of our team is the origin of our teachers, with different nationalities, from multiple educational, applicative and cultural backgrounds which converge on crucial points, such as the well-being and evolution of the person, cultural and social integration, Quality of Life in a Global project between Art and Science aimed at Personal Health through processes of awareness and sharing.

SIMONETTA
OTTONE
DanceMovementTherapist
Choreographer

DanceMovementTherapist, Dancer, Choreographer, Dance Teacher since 1990. Dance with various professional companies, performer, author of Dance Theater shows presented in Italy and abroad. She is the author of two publications and several articles on Dance Therapy,
She studied and practiced Dance Movement Therapy with Maria Fux, Maria Jose Vexenat, Pio Campo, Lilia Bertelli, France Shott Billmann, Herns Dupian, Paola De Vera, Cinzia Saccortti.
Graduated from Maria Fux in Dance Movement Therapy (Florence 2009)
She studied Psychological Sciences and Techniques at the University of Florence.
She chaired the Italian Association of Professional Dance Movement Therapy and collaborated with the European Association.
Founder of the Dance To Live method.
ASHRAF
TAWFIK
Visual Artist
Web Designer

Web Designer, Visual Artist, Graphic Designer and Digital Marketing.
Travel Agent with more than 20 years of international experience, he lives in close contact with various continents, of which he retains their respective cultural, linguistic and social baggage. Egyptian by birth and education, Italian for more than twenty years, he reveals himself to be a profound expert on the points of contact and integration between the Middle Eastern and European worlds.
From this attitude and from his interest in the world of Dance and Art the collaboration with Associazione Compagnia DanzArte was born
Co-Founder and Project Manager of DANCE TO LIVE® METHOD, creator and Area Manager of DANCE TO LIVE® EGYPT based in Cairo, where he develops numerous meetings and exchanges with important realities in the country.
PAOLA
MORELLI
Educational psychologist
Health Manager

Cognitive-behavioral orientation educational psychologist, University of Kent.
She works at Social Services London, London Borough of Hackney.
She is involved in Italy in the field of Diversity, she deals with Work Psychology and Management.
GIADA
GARRISON
Music Therapist
Musician

Musician, composer and vocalist, she studied at the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence and at the Il Testaccio Jazz school in Rome. She has lived for 15 years in New York, USA, where she works on various television programs (including RAI CORPORATION), she publishes CDs of Middle Eastern music, gospel and original compositions.
Music therapist, Nordoff-Robbins Creative Music Therapy New York University method.
You work at the Palliative Care Functional Unit -Hospice- in the Livorno Hospital and for the Adult Mental Health Department of Company 6 of Livorno.
BARBARA
PROSTEDER
DanceMovement Therapist
Oriental Dance Teacher

Oriental Dance Teacher and dancer since the late 90s, she trained as a Systemic Dance Therapist at EZETTHERA Munich and joined the BTD® association in 2016. Since 2015, she has worked in a psychosomatic hospital and in child psychiatry, specializing as a trauma-informed dance therapist to support women's self-worth and dignity. She is the owner of the "Tanz-Therapie-Oase" studio in South Germany and organizes specialized dancing tours in Morocco. Her work beautifully connects dance with painting, poetry, and old spiritual wisdom to nurture deep creativity.
MANUELA
TONELLI
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Music therapist
Composer

Primary school teacher, multipurpose specialization qualification for disabled students, music therapist since 2013.
Singer in various formations from jazz to blues, bossa nova pop and gospel.
She was director of the JOYFUL GOSPEL Choir (Italy) and of school choirs for 25 years.
She is engaged as a music therapist in the field of mental health, diversity in school and private facilities.
Composer of soundtracks for the theatre.
She is an expert in Body Music and Body Percussion.
JACOPO
BELFIORE
MD - PHD
Acupuncture Specialist

MD, PhD, anesthesiologist and intensive care physician at the Anesthesia and Transplant Intensive Care Unit of the Pisa University Hospital. His clinical and research activity is focused on the perioperative management and intensive care support of liver transplant recipients, with a particular interest in hemostasis, transfusion therapy, and viscoelastic coagulation monitoring. He obtained his PhD from the University of Pisa and a second-level University Master's degree in Hemostasis and Thrombosis from the Careggi University Hospital in Florence. He is the author of scientific publications in international journals and conducts clinical research in the field of coagulation disorders in advanced liver disease and liver transplantation. He specializes in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.