Piero Ramella (1991) is a performing artist and researcher. He has a background in painting and is capoeira teacher. He studied dance and movement most notably with Masaki Iwana, Lucia Palladino, Frey Faust and João Fiadiero. In 2014 he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Trieste with a thesis on the intersections between anthropology and philosophy of language in Ludwig Wittgenstein's work. In 2015 he joined the artistic collective Kokoschka Revival (Milan). In theater he worked mainly with Anagoor (Silver Lion at the Theater Venice Biennale 2018) and Teatro Valdoca. From 2016 until 2020 he worked with Lucia Palladino, with whom he gave workshops on improvisation and composition, in Italy and abroad (Ateliersì, Bologna; Posto Segreto, Alcamo; TSEKH, Moscow; Escola d'Art i Superior de Desseny de Vic, Spain et al.). Between 2018 and 2020 they followed the a.pass (Advanced Performative and Scenographic Studies) Post-Master Program in Brussels with a shared research project, investigating experimental documentation and score writing. In 2021 he followed the PACAP 5 program in Forum Dança (Lisbon), curated by João Fiadiero. Since 2022 he collaborates with the dancer and choreographer Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti and the collective “Um Cavalo Disse Mamãe” (Lisbon).