RAD Voices: Romina De Novellis

Romina De Novellis is a performer, visual artist and researcher. She studied the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus in Italy, and since a traffic accident in Rome she has worked in Paris in performance and body art.

Romina devoted several years to dance and theatre; on moving to Paris to study anthropology at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), she continued with a thesis in anthropology on autism and performance through the analysis of unusual behaviour. Her performances are centered on the concept of the body, its limits and the way society looks at it. Through repetitive gestures and work focused on the Mediterranean world, she delivers a political and social message by addressing issues such as the condition of women, the tragedy of refugees and LGBTQ+ rights.

Romina is represented by Alberta Pane gallery in France and in Italy, she works with Kreëmart in New York City, and will have her first solo show in London in 2022, with one of the most important contemporary art gallery specialising in feminist, conceptual and performance artists. Dance and choreography still feature heavily in her work, with the body central to her practice. Romina teaches somatic practices in Paris, and still studies classical ballet and contemporary dance.

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