Paco Decina

Of Neapolitan descent, he settled in Paris in 1984 and founded his company Post-Retroguardia. In June 1987 he received the Ménagerie de Verre/Glass Menagerie Prize for his choreography “Tempi Morti”, a nostalgic and nonchalant choreography for five dancers he had created in Milan. In 1997 he was awarded at the 6th Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis for his piece “Veli”. He has created over twenty choreographies, all of them are on the repertory of prestigious theatres both in France and abroad. Decina is an exceptional artist, a master of stressing out what is hard to tackle; he is a painter of space, of vibrations and the mysterious “something in between”. Thanks to invitations from the part of SE.S.TA's, Decina has been intensifying his cooperation with Czech artists. He has also presented a number of his productions in Prague, among them “Intervalle“, “Knights without Armours” or “A Fresco of a Woman Looking Left”. His piece “Salto nel Vuoto“, created in Prague and featuring Czech dancers, was commissioned by SE.S.TA.