Evelin Facchini is a freelance choreographer, director and dancer born in Rome and based in Berlin.
She works internationally in dance, theatre and opera. She graduated from the ballet school of the Rome Opera House and she further continued her studies in Canada.
Since 2011 she works with Romeo Castellucci as choreographer and performer, in 2019 she is the choreographer for REQUIEM premiered at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and in 2023 for DAPHNE premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin.
In 2022, at the invitation of Marta Górnicka, she participates as guest choreographer in the research project Political Voice Institute at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin and in 2023 choreographs the performance MOTHERS A SONG FOR WARTIME, presented at the 78th edition of the Festival D’Avignon at the Cour d’Honneur du Palais des Papes.
In 2024 she starts collaborating with Oliver Frljić at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin and choreographs his last two shows ALICE IM WUNDERLAND and PROZESS.
Alongside these collaborations, she created Metalouda, a choreographic research project which aims to share and develop her compositional practices by creating installations, short films and performances.
In this context, she directed and choreographed the piece WRY/Second layer_anatomy of deception, which was presented in March 2023 at the Heizhaus-Uferstudios in Berlin.
She leads educational projects and workshops for students and professionals across movement research and choreographic composition.
 She directed the dance studio Theatre Dance Division in Rome from 2011 until 2018.
 
Her collaborations include: Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Italy) , Romeo Castellucci, Socìetas (Italy), Ballet Classique de France et Montreal, Concordia University of Montreal (Canada), Micha van Hoecke (Belgium), Larrio Ekson (Usa), Dina Abu Hamdan (Jordan), Teatret Om (Denmark), Floriane Facchini & Cie (France), David Stöhr (Germany) , Marta Górnicka (Poland), Oliver Frljić (Croatia).

Selection of works & collaborations:

Prozess
choreographer

directed by Oliver Frljić
2024 Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
https://www.gorki.de/en/prozess

Alice im Wunderland
choreographer

directed by Oliver Frljić
2024 Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
https://www.gorki.de/en/alice-im-wunderland

Mothers a song for wartime
choreographer

directed by Marta Górnicka
2023 Chór Kobiet, Festival D’Avignon, Teatr Powszechny, Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg Scène européenne, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Spring Utrecht, Tangente St. Pölten
https://gornicka.com/projects/mothers-a-song-for-war-time/

Deutschland: Einzeltäter – Einzelfall
choreographer
directed by David Stöhr
2023 Theater Unterm Dach, Berlin
https://davidstoehr.de/en/invisiblegame_eng/

WRY/Second layer_anatomy of deception
director/choreographer
directed by Evelin Facchini, Metalouda 
2023 Uferstudios-Heizhaus, Berlin
https://www.uferstudios.com/de/dance/veranstaltungen/cbd2a20d-6317-4131-9c0e-337c63105b7f/

Daphne
choreographer
directed by Romeo Castellucci 
2023 Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin 
https://www.staatsoper-berlin.de/en/veranstaltungen/daphne.11079/?spielzeit=2023-2024

Invisible Game (K)eine Grenze 
choreographer
directed by David Stöhr
2022 Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin
https://davidstoehr.de/en/invisiblegame_eng/

Political Voice Institute 
guest choreographer

a project by Marta Górnicka
2022 Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
https://www.gorki.de/en/political-voice-institute

Les yeux clos 
performer, co director
directed by Evelin Facchini & Marie Sanchez
2020 Berlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xral1dVsb34

Requiem 
choreographer
directed by Romeo Castellucci
2019 Premiered Festival D’Aix-en-Provence, Adelaide Festival, Les arts Valencia, Wiener Festwochen Vienna, La Monnaie/De Munt Brussels, Teatro di San Carlo Napoli, Theater Basel
https://www.societas.es/opera/requiem/

UR-NAT 
choreographer, dancer
2019 a project by Teatret OM, Ringkøbing Denmark
https://teatretom.dk/urnat/om-ur-nat

Democracy in America 
choreographer, dancer, rehearsal director
directed by Romeo Castellucci, Socìetas
2017 Premiered in DeSingel Antwerp followed by international tour
https://www.societas.es/opera/democracy-in-america/

Gioco coreografico sulle onde gravitazionali 
choreographer, performer
a project by Evelin Facchini & Margherita Cappelletto
2017 Falling Walls Berlin, European researcher’s night Frascati, Festival di scienza e filosofia di Foligno, Lucca Classica, European researcher’s night Pisa (Virgo-Ego)
https://www.luccaclassica.it/scienza-in-danza/

Di notte gli alberi camminano
choreographer, director, dancer
a project by Evelin Facchini & Paola Feraiorni
2016 Teatro Piccolo di Pietralata,  Rome

Chiqui-Llantu, la figlia del sole
choreographer, dancer
a project by Roberto Fiore
2016 Academia Belgica, Rome

Sublimazione Inversa 
choreographer, dancer, co director 
a project by Evelin Facchini & Elisa Di Francesco
2015 Festival Fucina underground, Mestre

Giudizio, possibilità, essere 
performer
directed by Romeo Castellucci, Socìetas
2013 Festival dei due Mondi Spoleto, Kunstfestspielen Herrenhausen Hannover, Teatro Comandini Cesena, Teatro Diego Fabbri Forlì
https://www.societas.es/opera/giudizio-possibilita-essere/

Sanctum Garageum-ou l’Esprit Garage
choreographer, dancer
directed by Floriane Facchini & Cie
2013 Panorama FAI AR, Marseille
https://www.florianefacchini.com/creations/sanctum-garageum-ou-l-esprit-garage#texte-en

The Four Seasons Restaurant 
performer
directed by Romeo Castellucci, Socìetas
2013 Roma Europa Festival, Teatro Argentina Rome
https://romaeuropa.net/archivio/festival/anno-2013/the-four-seasons-restaurant/

Wry/secondo strato anatomia dell’inganno 
choreographer, director, dancer
directed by Evelin Facchini, Metalouda
2013 Teatro Greco, Rome

Wry/ 
choreographer, director, dancer
directed by Evelin Facchini, Metalouda
2012 Teatro Greco, Rome

Attore, il tuo nome non è esatto
performer
directed by Romeo Castellucci, Socìetas
2011 Palac Kultury Warsaw, Teatro Comandini Cesena, Centrale Fies Dro, Festival Uovo Milano, Festival E la volpe disse al corvo Bologna, Ex arsenale austriaco Verona
https://www.societas.es/opera/attore-il-tuo-nome-non-e-esatto/

Stabile è solo la mia incoerenza
choreographer, dancer
a project by Evelin Facchini, Metalouda
2011 Festival Konteiner, Rome

Il peso dell’acqua 
choreographer, director, dancer
directed by Evelin Facchini, Metalouda
2009 Teatro Olimpico Rome, Teatro Greco Rome, Teatro Comunale G. Manini Narni

In-Certezze 
choreographer, dancer
a project by Evelin Facchini, Metalouda
2009 Teatro Flavio Vespasiano Rieti, Teatro Olimpico Rome

ph David Stöhr