EDUCATION
Born in Bari (Italy) the 4.8.66, got her first education at the ”Scuola del Teatro Piccinni di Bari", where she had her first Stage experiences, dancing the ballet and neoclassical repertoire of the Theatre company she was studying in. After 6 years, she moved to Napoli (Italy) to study at the ”Lyceum Mara Fusco” and finally to Cannes (France) at the ”Ecole International de danse Rossella Hightower”.

DANCING CAREER
Since 1985 in Germany , dancing as a soloist in variuos theatres like Würzburg, Darmstadt, Saarbrücken. 1994 she joined the ”Tanzwerk Nürnberg” under the direction of Dirk Elvert and Jean Renshaw, where she worked with different choreographers like Roberto Galvan, Jenny Coogan, Rik Kam, Dyane Elsout and Frank Händler, Amanda Miller, Rui Horta, Jacopo Godani and Willyam Forsythe. 1998 she followed the direction of Tanzwerk Nürnberg to Dortmund Theatre. There she worked again with Rui Horta, Amanda Miller and Marc Dandy. 1999 danced for one season at the Landestheater Linz (Austria) under the direction of Robert Pool. Since July 2000 worked as freelance dancer (Vera Sander Art Connect in Köln,Unterwegs Theatre Heidelberg, Mouvoir/Stephanie Thiersch in Köln, Micha Purucker in Munich) , choreographer and teacher for contemporary ballet and contemporary dance. With the group Mouvoir, under the direction of Stephanie Thiersch, she has been working as a dancer/choreographer, taking part in the productions “Ripple -revue” and “Helter Skelters”. With this productions she toured in Belgium, Palestine, France and Germany.

CHOREOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE
For the season 2001/2002 she was invited as Guest Choreographer at Theatre Nordhausen (Germany), where she created the 30 minutes long piece "From one to zero" December 2002 she choreographed at the world premiere of Stanley Walden Opera ”Bach letzte Opera” at Theatre Erfurt (D ) She was selected to be one of the 6 choreographers of the SIWIC in August 2003 in Zürich (CH), under the direction of Carolyn Carson. In July 2003 she was invited as choreographer to take part in the project "Colina (Collaboration In Arts)" from Rui Horta, organised in Montemor-o- Novo (Portugal). She was selected to be one of 3 choreographers from Tanzhaus NRW (D), to take part at the "Dance Link NL & NRW" in December 2003 at Korzo Theatre / Den Haag (NL). In March 2004 she was the winner of the third choreography price at the "8th. Tanz Solo Festival" in Stuttgart (D) with the solo "Libero Arbitrio". She performed this solo in a tour in Germany during November 2004. She was invited with "Libero arbitrio" to the Festival "TanzTendenzen" in Greifswald (D) in October 2005. During the “Summer semester” 2006 she choreographed “Headmatter” for the graduating students at the Bruckner University. Performances in April in the “Jerger Saal” in Linz (A). In July 2006 she is one of the five choreographers invited to create a piece for the youth project “Sommertanz” in Wuppertal (D). Performances during the season 2006/07 in Germany. In October 2006 she is invited to choreograph a 30 minutes long piece for the postgraduate company “X.IDA” in Linz (A). Invited for the Festival Tanzzug 06 in Zug (CH) with the solo “Garden State”. For the season 2006/07 she is invited to choreograph a 40 minutes long piece for the dance company of the Theatre Vorpommern in Greifswald (Germany). In December 2007 she had premiere in Lisbon (P) with a new creation for three dancers “0º” and in January 2008 with “Green blankness”, a piece for 8 dancers of the High School for dance in Antwerpen (B) as part of program of the International dance festival “Amperdans”. Between July and September 2008 she created and danced the solo evening “In the land of p....” as a coproduction with Espaço do tempo. This evening had premiere in Montemor-o-novo (P) and is going to tour in Europe starting from January 2009. With the same solo she is invited to partecipate at the Portuguese Dance Platform 2009.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE By balancing her experience as a classical and contemporary dancer, along with her experience in gyrotonic/gyrokenesis and body awareness, Teresa Ranieri creates a class of physical expansion and movement efficiency. This way of working propels the dancer into a state of increased awareness, leaving him/her open for further discovery of the three-dimensional use of space and motion.
GERMANY Tanzwerk Nürnberg Tanztheater Irina Pauls in Leipzig Oldenburg Heidelberg and Freiburg Ballett Dortmund Ballett Nordhausen Tanzhaus Düsseldorf Folkwang Schule Choreographische Zentrum Essen Folkwang Tanz Studio Stadttheater Münster Kölner Tanzagentur
AUSTRIA Landestheater Linz (Austria) ABCDancecompany St Pölten (Austria)
HOLLAND Galili Dance Company-Gröningen
BELGIUM Ultima Vez
PORTUGAL Ballet Gulbenkian Lisboa Ballet Contemporaneo Companhia Portuguesa de bailado Contemporaneo
SWITZERLAND Stadttheater Luzern Was invited in April 2004 to support Rui Horta, as teacher and choreographer, in an Education Program in Lisbon at Forum Dança. She was for 2 seasons, from 2003 till 2005, regular ballet teacher at Ballet Schindowsky/Gelsenkirchen (D). In August 2006 she is invited to teach contemporary dance and composition at the “Korea Dance Festival”, organised by Modern Dance Promotion of Korea and Seoul Kook-Min University (South Korea). Since 2004 she is regular teacher for Contemporary dance and Choreography at the Brückner University in Linz (A) since 2005 at the High School of dance in Lisbon (P) and since 2007 at the Hoger Instituut voor Dans Antwerpen (B).