CHARLOTTE ZERBEY and ALESSANDRO CERTINI’s artistic projects share a common vision of the body: a subjective yet vibrant physical/spiritual vehicle found within a system of relations and changes that each particular creative project calls fourth.
Within their artistic exploration, conducted in Europe since 1979, they have brought together dancers, musicians, video artists interested in the act of performing in the fragility and precariousness of the present moment. This unique movement language combines formal and instinctive aspects by bringing together choreography and pure improvisation. The company creations are a composed "product", being defined before each performance as well as a "process", a system of immediate and direct movement.
The strength of Company Blu's dance is its tangibility, the capacity to create choreographic relationships while also creating human relationships. Certini and Zerbey bring their creations to a public by using the body as material of intuition and thought, using theme to liberate dance from its usual esthetic confines.
Each project emphasizes a creative relationship with other artistic disciplines often in concert with live music and originally composed scores. The exchange of different poetic and cultural backgrounds makes the interaction between dancers, musicians and visual artists magnetic.
Company Blu also promotes a yearly performance series, ‘DINAMICHE SCOMPOSTE-Inquiries on contemporary dance improvisation’, presenting performances, meetings, research labs and the publication “SHOPTALK”.
Company Blu’s activities are supported by: Italian Ministry of Culture, Tuscan Region, Florence Province, and City of Sesto Fiorentino.

began his dance training in Florence with Streiff Traut Faggioni (Wigman, Kreutzberg). He has been influenced by Post-Modern techniques, ballet and contact Improvisation.
His professional career started in 1979 as a founding member of Group-O directed by Katie Duck. and has toured in Europe since ’87. Over the last 20 years Alessandro has worked with improvisation and choreographic skills which combine dance and theater to create his own language and style. He has worked in many performances and productions with leading improvisers, dancers and musicians: K. Duck, J. Hamilton, M. Tompkins, S. Paxton, K. Simson, L. nelson, P. De Groot, C. Zerbey, F. Poulstra, T. Honsinger, S. Lacy, M. Moore, S. Noble, A. Salis.
He has Taught at Dartington College (G.B.), SNDO (Amsterdam), Accademia d'Arte Drammatica (Milano), EDDC (Dusseldorf), Studio Area (Barcelona), Bewegungs Art Freiburg, Istituto de Danza (Caracas), Accademia Nazionale della Danza (Roma), studio Company Blu and other Italian dance venues.

Originally from Michigan, Charlotte trained in modern dance at the University of Utah in 1980.
Over the last 25 years her dance work has made a slow transformation into a multidisciplinary expression of dance and textual movement (more recently using song and rant poetry). Her performance language is influenced by an interest in the emancipation of the body through studies in vocal work, Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, and Traditional Chinese Massage. Charlotte often works in concert with musicians and originally composed scores and with meaning as it is communicated through gesture and text. Interest in also presenting womens feminine issue related work began in 1998 in ‘Silenzi’, inspired by Emily Dickenson’s poetry.
Charlotte moved to Europe in 1983, toured extensively with "Group/0" directed by Katie Duck until 1987, in 1977 collaborated in a few productions with "Gaby Agis and Co.". She has also worked with: in 1991, Virgilio Sieni in the pieces "Quartetto" and "Via della Seta,"(Florence) in 1992 with "Company Hamilton" (London) performing in the production "Hortus Botanicus," and in 1993 "Travelogue" with "Sasha Waltz and Guests" (Berlin). Other collaborations have included improvisational projects along side dancers: K. Duck, A. Certini, S. Paxton, P. DeGroot, J. Hamilton, K. Simson, N. S. Smith, A. Alessi, L. Nelson.
She has directed and choreographed the productions City Bits in 1994 and Bones in 1996 for EDDC Arnhem, and Idiom in 2001 for Bewegungs Art Freiburg.
Her teaching includes touch and relationship as a principle tools and helps students to find their own voice bringing them easily towards performance and composition. She has taught at institutions: "Dartington College of Arts, (England), EDDC Arnhem (Holland), SNDO Amsterdam, Accademia Arte Dramatica (Milano), IALS (Rome) Studio Area Barcelona (Spain), Bewegungs Art Freiburg (Germany), Istituto de Danza Superiore Caracas (Venezuela), Accademia Nazionale della Danza and IALS (Roma).

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