Camilla Barbera was born in Italy and was interested in dance and theatre since childhood. She started dancing, as many children do, in her bedroom, or with her mother in their living room.
She was sensitised to different movement disciplines before entering the dance world.
She began to be able to express herself and understand a part of what dance meant to her and, as a result, she wanted to know more about what things mean to people, and how and why they mean.

She enrolled and then graduated from Torino's University in Cultures and Literatures of the Modern World with a thesis in Semiotics and Comparative Literature. She continued her studies in Lyon (France) in Communications/marketing and UX/IU Design, starting to gather material to nourish her and her research into a deeper understanding of the world and how humans exist.

After several years of theatre and dance practice, where she had explored different theatre techniques and styles, including the Meisner technique (which connected her deeply with her impulses, the humans and the space around) she decided to join Arthaus Berlin (International Training and Research Centre for Theatre and Performance Makers). She obtained an MFA equivalent Diploma in Advanced Devised Practice (Devised Theatre and Performance & Embodied Dramaturgy).

The training in Arthaus pushed her to enter a practice of deconstruction, experimenting every day a little bit more how we exist as singularities and collectively. Words were not at the center, neither always at the start of creation. A very interdisciplinary approach allowed her to discover and understand new perspectives and ways of doing.

She started diving in a very deep, dedicated and endless research with bodies and ideas.

To know more about her interests and current projects, have a look here.