Roberto Paci Dalo

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Composer/performer, director & artist Roberto Paci Dalò (Rimini, 1962) lives and works in Rimini with long residencies in Berlin, Vancouver, Rome, Naples. His work has won him international admiration from amongst others, John Cage and Aleksandr Sokurov.

He is Artistic Director of Giardini Pensili, performing arts company & media lab co-founded in 1985, an ensemble based on the collaboration among artists, technicians, theoreticians. Since 2006 co-founder and director of Velvet Factory - space for the arts (Rimini, Italy). As visual artist, he is represented by Fondazione Morra (Naples).

A pioneer in the use of digital technologies and telecommunication systems in art, particularly interested in performing arts as a meeting point of languages, he wrote, composed and directed since 1985 about 25 border-breaking music-theatre works presented worldwide. Parallel to his musical work there is a body of films & videos regularly presented in international festivals. His dramaturgical materials are frequently re-composed in sound and video installations – often site specific and interactive – presented in museums, galleries, and the public space.
His work is not easily situated in a particular genre of well-defined movement.

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