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Vanessa Grasse
Vanessa Grasse is a dance artist from Sicily based in Leeds. She explores the crossover between choreography, walking-art and installation through site-specific, improvised, participatory and cross-disciplinary practice. Her work focuses on ecology, participation and inclusion, offering embodied experiences to a wide range of audiences and transforming public spaces. She has been commissioned for outdoor and site-responsive work by The Great Exhibition of The North, Dance4, Yorkshire Dance, Still Walking Festival, The University of Leeds, Ludus Festival, Juncture Festival, amongst others. She has been an artist in residency in several visual arts settings such as Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Wakefield, MoMa Oxford, 4Bid Gallery in Amsterdam. She teaches internationally for wider communities and runs Leeds Contact Improvisation. She holds an MA in Creative Practice from Trinity Laban and regularly teaches at universities including Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Trinity Laban and Leeds Beckett University.