Established 1999 in Rome, the group MK moves along an autonomous and auto-poietical research line, focusing on body research, choereography and sound matter.
Soon engaged by distinctive international festivals for new dance and theatre, mk is considered as one of the most interesting research ensemble of the Italian scene.
It staged at Santarcangelo International Festival, Montpellier Danse-Italian platform, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, TRAFO House of Contemporary Arts Budapest, La Porta Barcelona, IIC and Kitazawa Town Hall Tokyo, Tanzfabrik Berlin, FISCo festival Bologna, Teatri90 Milan, the new Auditorium by Renzo Piano and the Museum of Ara Pacis in Rome, the international project Biennale delle Arti by Achille Bonito Oliva in Padula, and so on...
2011 production "Around the world in 80 days" will premier in October at TorinoDanza Festival (avant-premiere April 2011 Teatro Palladium Rome)
The 2010 production "speak spanish" is in tour.
2010 mk stages two productions about Fundamentalism at the NuovoTeatroNuovo in Naples, commissioned by Antonio Latella and a new productive format – the Instruction Series – in collaboration with Xing.
Michele Di Stefano collaborated in Cristina Rizzo's project Dance n.3, together with Eszter Salomon and Matteo Levaggi.
He helds the 2010-11 masterclass at Scuola Paolo Grassi Milan, with a commission by Biennale Danza 2011 in Venice.
The 2008 production staged on October 29th at the IX Indonesian Dance Festival in Jakarta and february 09 at the Sparks Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in Minneapolis, USA.
The 2006 production has been commissioned by La BiennaleDanza in Venice.
MK is amongst the five groups selected for "Corpo Sottile" (Ubulibri, Milan 2003), a book about the new European dance scene (with Jerome Bel, Xavier LeRoy, Myriam Gourfink and Kinkaleri), edited by Silvia Fanti/Xing.
In 2000 Michele Di Stefano wins the "Danza&Danza" Award for contemporary dance.

Lorenzo Bianchi is composer and musician. He creates music with MK starting 2005. Amongst his activities, the collaboration with IRCAM Paris and the development of projects for Richard Siegal, Luca Ronconi and Luca Francesconi.

 

 

 

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