Program Books/Marzia Memoli
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Marzia Memoli

dancer

Marzia Memoli (dancer) from Palermo, Italy, graduated with high honors from the Academy of Teatro Carcano in Milan. Memoli attended the Maurice Béjart School under the direction of Michael Gascard. There, Artistic Director Gil Roman asked her to perform in The Ninth Symphony and Le Sacre du Printemps with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne. In 2016, she joined the Martha Graham Dance Company, where her repertory with the company include Graham’s The Rite of Spring as the Chosen One, El Penitente, Chronicle, The Princess in Cave of the Heart, Satyric Festival Song, Diversion of Angels, Dark Meadow Suite, Act of Light, and Deep Song. She has also performed works by Hofesh Shechter, Elisa Monte (Treading), Bobbi Jean Smith, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Maxine Doyle, Pam Tanowtiz, Sonya Tayeh, Pontus Lidberg, Micaela Taylor, Lar Lubovitch, Andrea Miller, and Jamar Roberts. In 2022, Memoli appeared in Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room and Nine Sinatra Songs at New York City Center. A recipient of the 2023 Fini International Rising Star Award, Memoli is currently working with Twyla Tharp for this 2024–25 season.