Dr. Ines Federica Tecchiati

I was born in Rome and have lived in the Castelli Romani area for almost 30 years. Movement, corporeity, and dance have always attracted my interest since I was a child, becoming a way to open up, to know and express myself, helping me to channel my insecurity and shyness into forms that allowed me to make myself visible and find my space in the world. In my teens, I practiced rhythmic and artistic gymnastics at a competitive level. My interest in the arts and a deep curiosity about the East and healing, in terms that saw the person as a whole, Body, Mind, Heart and Soul pushed me to flow into the world of Contemporary Dance and Yoga, seeking experiences that would fill an innate desire for evolution and transformation. I began to practice Yoga when I was very young, in my small room, through the few (at that time), Asana books I could find and through the few Yoga classes active in those years. At the same time I was taking dance classes, (Contemporary, Lìmon Technique, Classical, African, Jazz, Modern etc.) in Italy. Then, when I was abroad, these passions followed me on the trips I took for study, to learn Foreign Languages and in search of experience. I graduated from the Faculty of Languages at the University of Rome. I have lived and worked in Great Britain and the United States. In Rome I made my debut at Teatro La Piramide with Antonine Artaud’s I Cenci,(Compagnia Teatro Metropolitano). From my University experience with my thesis on Theater in the Appalachians and Story Telling, came a Performance, Quilt, which traveled in Italy from 1990 to 1993. Wheile I was in USA, working in a Dance company, Sincopathed Inc. (Lexington, KY), I began to hear about Dance Therapy. I have a very clear, though distant, memory: I can still recall an image of me, lying on the parquet floor of the Synchopathed Inc.(Lexington, KY, USA) dance studi, it appears clearly in my mind. It is a moment of listening at the end of an improvisational experience in Contemporary Dance. I see the ceiling, I feel air around the body. The space is large and populated by other dancer(s),: I am with others but I am mostly in a special moment of my own. I feel myself talking to myself, “this is what I want to take care of in my life.” It is my epiphany. I know that whatever choices I will make in my life, whatever needs take me in whatever direction, Dance, understood in this sense, will be a fundamental part of my existence. During my collaboration with Syncopathed Inc I have deepened the study of Clogging, Tip Tap, Caporeira and a whole repertoire of Caribbean Dance (Makulelé). I have participated in several performances aimed at Community and Integration in a Melting Pot context, such as the U.S., teaching Creative Movement classes for children from disadvantaged social backgrounds and with atypical functioning. The theme of the Melting Pot returns in my participation in Marco Torrici’s workshop, held this year in the setting of the Mattatoio, in Rome, as part of the art initiative Re-creatures. Upon returning to Italy, performances and studio i (M. Helena Gonzalez,- Seeing Voices inspired by Oliver Sacks’ book, in Rome and with Daniela Ferri, in Frascati) followed. A few years later, I specialized as a Dance Movement Therapist at the Italian Art Therapy and obtained the title of Art Psychotherapist (Goldsmith College, Univ. Of London). I have always been intrigued by body language, so I specialized in Movement Observation Tools (I published, in 2011, The Dance of Relation: tools of ODM in the healing relationship, Erickson Live, reprinted 2013). I studied with Susan Loman, becoming Movement Analyst 1st level in Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP). I am a member of APID (Ass. Italiana Danza Movimento Terapia), and I am an APID ® Trainer and Supervisor. I was a member of its Board of Directors and APID® President from 2018 to 2021. During the period of my presidency, APID® was included in the Ministry of Economic Development’s lists of Regulated but Non-ordering Professions.