BIOGRAPHY

Sara Maurizi is a dance artist and performer based between London and mainland Europe. Originally from Italy, she began her dance training at age six at Centro Civico Dance Gallery under the direction of Valentina Romito and Rita Petrone.

Sara graduated with First Class Honours Degree in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she received the Marion North Award for Outstanding Achievements in Contemporary Dance Performance. During her training, she performed works by Hofesh Shechter, Theo TJ Lowe, and Heidi Rustgaard (H2 Dance), among others.

She was a company dancer with VERVE, Postgraduate dance company of Northern School of Contemporary Dance under the artistic direction of Matthew Robinson, touring works by Maxine Doyle, Joan Clevillé, Ben Wright, and Noa Zuk & Ohad Fishof. Following this experience, she achieved her MA in Contemporary Dance Performance with Distinction, completing a practice-based dissertation on the performative disfiguration of stereotypical narratives attached to the female body in art, film, and literature.

As a freelancer, Sara has performed in a wide range of contexts — from stage to site-specific productions, museums, durational performances, tv series, and dance films. She has worked with renowned artists and choreographers including Marina Abramović, Blenard Azizaj, Laura Kenyon (WomanEwer), Claudia La Vista, Kimberly Bartosik, Patscharaporn Distakul, Maxine Doyle, Joao Cidade, Valentina Romito, Alice Gosti, Supple Nam, Foco al Aire Producciones, amongst others.

In 2023, she was a reperformer in Marina Abramović’s Royal Academy of Arts retrospective, performing Luminosity, Imponderabilia, and Nude with Skeleton. In 2025, she performed at the Southbank Centre in the durational work Vexations, directed by Marina Abramović in collaboration with pianist Igor Levit. In October 2025, Sara is a dancer in Balkan Erotic Epic, Marina Abramović’s new immersive durational production at Factory International in Manchester. For this role, alongside the Artist, she has worked with choreographer Blenard Azizaj.

Since 2021, Sara has been a company member and rehearsal director for WomanEwer, London-based contemporary dance company directed by Laura Kenyon. With the company, she has toured internationally and led workshops in the UK, Mexico, India, and Spain.

Sara is the co-founder of the London based collective VI.SA. Dance Project (see VI.SA. section for more info).

Alongside performing, Sara continues to develop her choreographic and artistic research — more information is available in the ‘works’ section of the site.