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.
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.
SIMONA
TOCCHINI
Dance teacher
Choreographer
Professional dancer in Italy and abroad with choreographers such as: Gianin Loringett, Gino Landi, Marco Garofalo, Stive Lachance, Rosanna Brocanello, Joseph Fontano, Lindsay Kemp, Virgilio Sieni, Chelo Zoppi. She has been a teacher for more than thirty years, she is the Founder and Director of "ST Danza Centroformazione" in Livorno, where she carries out, together with her staff, all the teaching, keeping the objective of training students capable of facing the professionalism.
Simona Tocchini's choreographic style is the result of an artistic journey of technical knowledge from post modern to contemporary. She immerses her teaching skills in floor work, release and contact with an important attention to the care of the gesture.
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.
NAWAL
EL TEMEMI
Oriental Dance teacher
Yoga Trainer
Nawal is an award winning multimedia artist specializing in Contemporary Egyptian Folklore, Lifestyle and Creativity Consultant. She has been teaching & practicing Yoga and Middle Eastern Dance for nearly 15 years, she is a registered Yoga Trainer E-RYT200/ RYT500 with Yoga Alliance who focuses YIN yoga, deep anatomy education and Gentle Hatha Yoga for body awareness, self care and maintenance. Since moving to Egypt Nawal has deepened her studies and practice of Egyptian folklore including Tannoura (Whirling) and Thatheeb (Upper Egyptian Stick Dance). She is also studying to be a dance movement therapist.
ASHRAF
TAWFIK
Project Manager
Visual Artist
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.