SPECIFIC
International Advanced Dance Program
SPECIFIC 24/25
Athletic and Artistic Training for Contemporary Dancers
AUDITIONS 2025/26
advanced dance program by Loris Petrillo
with a cast of guest teachers & choreographers
within Loris Petrillo Program, the Company project dedicated to contemporary dance education
organized by Anonima Teatri in NotAcademy project
SPECIFIC is open to the dancers aged 18 and over who desire to enter advanced professional training in contemporary dance and to expand their artistic, technical and performative background, getting ready to embark with confidence and confidence in the professional career.
It is for a limited number of participants. Access is by audition.
SPECIFIC is open to the dancers aged 18 and over who desire to enter advanced professional training in contemporary dance and to expand their artistic, technical and performative background, getting ready to embark with confidence and confidence in the professional career.
It is for a limited number of participants. Access is by audition.
STRUCTURE
The program lasts for 3 years and you can attend 1, 2 or 3 years (find out more about the opportunities)
During the year, there will be performances, original creations with all the SPECIFIC dancers on stage.
STUDY PROGRAM
Identity
“The indispensable thing to understand about the path I have been leading for years is that it is based on an exclusive postulate:
There is only one technique, the one of the body.
All disciplines, styles, languages have their foundation on the mechanisms underlying the body movement.
For this reason, once determined these mechanisms applied in the universal sense, the dancer is encouraged to discover the freedom of movement and expression that derives from understanding and applying these universal rules, in a stimulating and constructive context where his potential finally emerges in all his beauty."
LORIS PETRILLO
“The indispensable thing to understand of the path I have been leading for years is that it is based on an exclusive postulate:
There is only one technique, the one of the body.
All disciplines, styles, languages have their foundation on the mechanisms underlying the body movement.
For this reason, once determined these mechanisms applied in the universal sense, the dancer is encouraged to discover the freedom of movement and expression that derives from understanding and applying these universal rules, in a stimulating and constructive context where his potential finally emerges in all his beauty."
LORIS PETRILLO
SPECIFIC trains dancers able independently to handle their own body.
During the course, the dancers are stimulated to develop their potential through a proper athletic and artistic preparation, which is essential to achieve a very powerful performance in both physical and expressive sense.
The SPECIFIC program provides for a daily training based on the study of the mechanics of body in movement and on continuous attempts that allow the dancers to concretely experiment the infinite possibilities of movement suggested by the application of the physical and mechanical laws.
Thus the training is composed by specific exercises designed to acquire practical and theoretical tools so that the dancer can achieve high technical and performing skills, coupled with other exercises which require a significant emotional approach, in order to encourage dancers to integrate their own sensitivity.
Over the years, the participants in the program have come from all over the world:
Colombia, India, Lithuania, La Réunion, France, Uruguay, Israel, Poland, UK, Brasil, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland
Chile, Denmark, Austria, Portugal, Taiwan, Argentina, Spain, Russia, Germany, Greece, Messico, Netherlands, Ukraine, South Africa, Canada.
Loris Petrillo trains contemporary dancers with notable technical and performing abilities for years: at the end of a study period with him, most of them have begun the career, joining in the staff of prestigious Italian and European companies.
The dancers who followed a dance training with Loris Petrillo worked for:
Akram Khan Company | Cie Emilio Calcagno | Balletto Civile | Keneish Dance | Zerogrammi | Theater Pforzheim | Compagnia Virgilio Sieni | Compagnie Zemiata | Compagnia Zappalà Danza | Compagnia Muxarte | Compagnia Petranura Danza | Cie Twain | SineSpazio | Compagnia Francesca Selva | Deja Donné | Compagnia Giovanna Velardi | Compagnia DNA |
How to access
The access is for a limited number of people and is by audition. (find out here)
How to apply
Sending your application is easy. Just fill the online form on the SPECIFIC auditions page.
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Past editions
2022/23
from 12 September 2022 to 19 May 2023
Tuscania (VT)
2021/22
from 9 September 2021 to 22 May 2022
Tuscania (VT)
2019/20
from 9 September to 21 December 2019
Ladispoli (Rome)
from 7 January to 17 April 2020
Bari
lady M effect - SPECIFIC dancers' performance
21 December
Supercinema - Tuscania (VT)
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2018
Specific training | Ensemble PP/T
September/December
Centro d'Arte e Cultura - Ladispoli (Rome)
Lithos - creation realized for Ensemble PP/T
22 December
Supercinema - Tuscania (VT)
Ensemble PP/T is the young group made by some of the dancers of SPECIFIC Athletic and Artistic Training for Contemporary Dancers directed by Loris Petrillo, within the activites of Twain CPD.
2017
Specific training
September/December
Centro d'Arte e Cultura - Ladispoli (Rome)
Impromptu#01 - creation realized by Loris Petrillo for the dancers of SPECIFIC training
28 October
Teatro Traiano - Civitavecchia (RM)
Impromptu#01 nasce da un lavoro prettamente fisico, intenzionalmente privo di disegno drammaturgico. In questo breve lavoro, Loris Petrillo si propone di manifestare la fisicità di un danzatore contemporaneo, un esercizio allo scoperto dove l’applicazione del metodo personale dello stesso Petrillo dà vita a una performance che vede in scena i danzatori del corso Specific.
2016
5 September / 25 November
Centro d'Arte e Cultura - Ladispoli (Rome)
2015
1 / 25 September
Centro d'Arte e Cultura - Ladispoli (Rome)
2014
9 / 18 September
Altamura (Bari)
2013
27 / 31 May
Spazio CTw - Ladispoli (Rome)
2012
11 / 29 September
Perugia
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