Elena Cattardico (1997) is an Italian artist currently based in Stuttgart and active as a freelancer in Germany and abroad.

She started dancing from an early age.
After graduating from the Germana Erba Dance High School (Turin, Italy) – where she had the opportunity to perform in numerous italian Theaters and Festivals the repertoire of the ex dance company “Teatro Nuovo di Torino” – she moves to Area Jeune Ballet (Geneva, Switzerland) in 2017.

Together with the youth company, Elena has performed works by José Agudo, Blenard Azizaj, Gil Carlos Harush, Fabio López, Gerald Durand and others in Switzerland and abroad (TEDx Geneva, Onu, BFM Theater, Flux Laboratory, Festival Arcachon, WIPO – World Intellectual Property, etc.).

In 2020, she moved to Germany to join Stadttheater Pforzheim for the 2020/21 season, under the direction of Guido Markowitz and Damian Gmuer.

From August 2021, Elena started a new chapter of her life as a ‘freelancer’, working mainly in Germany: Mini URBAN DANCE LAB project (Pforzheim); Wang Ramirez Company (Berlin / Principality of Monaco); Oper Frankfurt; dance film-project “EREMITES” (produced by Stadttheater Pforzheim), for which she joined the production as a dancer, but also as a scriptwriter and assistant editor; TANZTHEATER_Katja Erdmann-Rajski: Body Opera project with Wagner music “Tristan und Isolde und Petitcru” (Stuttgart); ORNAMENTA Gala 2023 (Pforzheim); ‘Zaplatanie’_Monika Blaszczak project (Berlin); Winter Leuchten at Waggons (Stuttgart); Azimuth Arts and Dance Ensemble (Stuttgart); POP UP EVENT (Pforzheim); Hugo Boss’s Christmas event (Stuttgart).

As a choreographer: First Prize with “Correspondences” (co-produced with Gabriele Rolle) at the ‘Fernando Alonso International Choreographic Competition’ in 2016 (Havana, Cuba);
“Carte Blanche” in 2019 (co-produced with Chiara Alessandro at Flux Laboratory Residency (Geneva, Switzerland); “In the Country of Last Things” in July 2022 (at ‘Centro Danza Savona’, Italy), recently selected for: “FESTIVAL DANCE DAYS CHANIA 2023” (Crete, Greece); “CORPOMOBILE Festival” (Rome, Italy); “FRINGE THEATER FESTIVAL” (Trier, Germany).

In collaboration with artist Stella Covi, she recently created and performed: “Noi, Cinema Paradiso”, a piece selected on the occasion of artistic interventions organized at the “Metropol-Kino” in Stuttgart and funded by the city; “Teatro Olimpico” on the occasion of the exhibition “PF8 – Pforzheims Partnerstädte” at EMMA-Kreativzentrum (Pforzheim).

Recently, the ‘concept-workshop’ – developed by the duo and intended for children – “Little dancing painters”, was selected by the prestigious Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.

Concurrently to her dance career, Elena graduated in Performing Arts and Communication (University of Pisa, Italy) and she recently got a scholarship for the Master in Management of Cultural Assets and Activities (Università della Sapienza di Roma, Italy).