BIOGRAPHY

Dewey Dell is a dance and performing arts company active since 2006 composed of Agata Castellucci, Teodora Castellucci, Vito Matera and the musician Demetrio Castellucci.

The choreography research is constantly inspired by the animal kingdom and the images of art history, combining the actions and behaviors of unrecognizable animals and plants with the expression and compositional traditions of painting and sculpture.

A new body language wedges its way between culture and instinct, stylization of the forms and knowledge of the wild. 

In the past few years Dewey Dell’s research has developed its own path of bold confrontation with archetypes and narrative frames drawn from the ancient world, with the intention of turning the model into a cast for pouring out a new and contemporary essence.

Dewey Dell has created dance works that intersect different art forms, pursuing other lines of experimentation in music performance, video and visual art. Over the years Dewey Dell has collaborated with different artists such as visual artist Yuichi Yokoyama, theater director Kuro Tanino, graphic designer Clio Casadei, visual artist Thom Roberts - Studio A, musician Massimo Pupillo (Zu), vocalist Attila Chsihar (Mayhem), sculptor Matteo Lucca and audiovisual collective Transforma among others. The company has an ongoing collaboration with lithuanian costume designer Guoda Jaruševičiūtė.

The production “The Rite of Spring” (2023) with the original music by Igor Stravinsky won the “Danza&Danza” award as Best Italian Production of 2023.

In 2026 Dewey Dell premieres with an electroacoustic version of the baroque opera “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell.

Ph. Eva Castellucci