Davide Casiraghi is a student in phisotheraphy, dancer, Contact Improvisation dance teacher, Ilan Lev method practitioner, based in Lecco, Italy. He has been exploring Contact Improvisation since 2010.
Member of the Round Robin Project that has the aim to create tools for global networking of the worldwide Contact Improvisation community. He is a web designer, developer, and technical manager of the Contact Improvisation Global Calendar (CIGG) - www.ciglobalcalendar.net
Previously from 2010 to 2018 webmaster of the Contact Improvisation Italian website - www.contactimprov.it (now closed)
His study started in Milan and continued in Europe with many teachers. Roberto Lun, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Angela Dony, and Nancy Stark Smith are his main influences.
He sees CI as a way to re-awake and enjoy fully our sensitivity and playfulness, working on trust, and exploring curiosity about movement principles out of daily movement patterns.
In Milan, he has been co-founder of Collettivo Daimon, a CI collective that organized once a month from 2013 to 2016 the Sunday Contact Jams.
In Slovenia, from 2017 to 2022 he has been co-creator with Nayeli Spela Peterlin of Moave - www.moave.si and in Ljubljana of weekly jams, the regular classes, and the CI festival dance in the city.
In Milan, he is co-founder of Collettivo Marino that organizes the regular weekly jams since October 2024.