Maddalena Ugolini, dancer, choreographer, art dance movement therapist, founder of Dança Imaginal® and Centro Coreografico Rurale in Tuscia, Italy. She was born in Florence in 1986. She started with ballet when she was three years old and later she met dance theatre and contemporary dance. After graduating in Clinical Psychology at the University of Florence, in 2010 she moved to the United States where she lived for two years, practicing dance and photography, with exhibitions in NYC and Los Angeles. In 2012, she enrolled in a four-year master’s degree at the Centro Toscano of Art and Dance-movement Therapy, where she specialised in the “Authentic Movement” method and mastered with her thesis about Body Imagination. In 2017 she moved to Lisbon, where founded her project of “Dança Imaginal, espaço de imaginaçao corpórea”. In September 2018 she was selected for the Advanced Program of Creation in Performing Arts (PACAP) at Forum Dança curated by Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz. Her works “Corpo Azul”, “Alba” “Salt” and “Take me somewhere nice” were presented at many international festivals and galleries such as Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon. Since 2017 organizes the cycle of itinerant residencies “Lugares” to investigate the relation between body and landscape, anatomy and geography.