Alessandro Schiattarella is a Neapolitan choreographer, performer and disability advocate based in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2024, he has served as Artistic Co-Director of DISFRAME (formerly IntegrART), a Migros Kulturprozent-funded initiative advancing inclusive performing arts. His work, deeply informed by his experience with Hirayama disease, interrogates ableism, queer-feminist narratives and the politics of embodiment through movement.

As a choreographer, Alessandro creates works that fuse technical precision with radical accessibility. His recent and upcoming productions include Handling Hands at Beijing's National Center for the Performing Arts (2024), Breaking Point at Staatstheater Hannover (2024), Supernormal Superpower at Staatstheater Braunschweig (2025), and Voglio Vederti Danzare! for Wildwuchs Festival (2025). His work Zer-Brech-Lich premiered at Festival Theaterformen in 2023, while his collaboration with Unmute Dance Company, A Chink in the Rubber Wall, debuted in Cape Town (2022).

Alessandro's performance career includes engagements with Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Ballett Basel and Grand Théâtre de Genève. He actively collaborates with collectives including Criptonite (Creature Comfort, Tanzhaus Zürich 2023), The Army of Love (Venice Biennale 2021) and the queer-feminist platform Blasphemic Readings Soirées.

Trained at Teatro alla Scala and Rudra Béjart, Alessandro holds an MAS in Fine Arts from HGK FHNW and a CAS in Dance Science from Bern University. As an educator, he has taught inclusive methodologies at institutions worldwide including ZHdK Zürich, Unmute Dance Company in Cape Town, and various ProHelvetia projects across India and Lebanon. His lecturing on disability aesthetics has reached platforms from LAC Lugano to Bottega Veneta Milano and Palucca Hochschule Dresden.

Currently developing Im Namen der Liebe for Staatstheater Braunschweig (2026) and Bioluminescence with Criptonite (2025), Alessandro continues to expand the boundaries of inclusive dance practice.

Follow his work: @alessandroschiattarella