Fortuna

Piergiorgio Milano is a cross-curricular artist trained between Italy and France. After a reputed career as an international performer ( collaborating with artists like James Thiérrée, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Rodrigo Pardo, David Zambrano, Roberto Olivan, Raffaella Giordano) , he founded in Bruxelles his own collective of artists in 2015 and started producing interdisciplinary performances and projects between Italy and Belgium.

Among the creations produced and signed during the last nine years, the most important ones marking the initial years surely are “Denti”, which won MASDANZA competition (2009), Baltic Dance Com-petition (2011), Factory dance prize (2012), and “Pesadilla”, which won Equilibrio Prize (2015) and was nominated for the Critics Prize at Festival d’Avignon and as Best Belgian Circus Show in 2017. Through this work, Milano intensifies the authorial strong feature that will mark most of his works, and it’s dramaturgically aligned with the idea of “funny tragedy”. He talks about it this way: “Tragi-comedy has always been the fundamental driving force behind my creations… being able to play down even the most difficult situations and deal with the most awful things, finding the strength to be ironic even during a tragedy”.

A crucial turning point in his production sphere is the creation of ‘White Out’, produced in two ver-sions; the second one, staged in July 2021, has successfully being performed on the most important stages, touring across Europe and beyond.

Milano’s artistic study has always been strongly linked to human sphere and with this project he pla-ces the relationship with landscape at the heart of his research, since mankind often relates, clashes and merges with nature and its sometimes opposite forces. This dialogue between man and nature un-derlies a successful production of artistic identity that runs through a series of important recent crea-tions made in situ, like “Au Bout Des Doigts”, “Vague” and the recent project (still in the process of being created) “Fortuna”, composed in harmony with both mountain environments and coastal landscapes.

From 2024 is an ORBITA | Spellbound associated artist.