The Ita­li­an Ales­san­dra Cor­ti is a cho­reo­grapher, per­for­mer, and dance te­a­cher ba­sed in Mainz.

Ales­san­dra gra­dua­ted in 2001 from the Ci­vica Scuo­la di Tea­t­ro Pao­lo Gras­si in Mi­lan. That same year, she mo­ved to Ger­ma­ny, whe­re she con­ti­nues to live and work to­day.

With a care­er span­ning more than 20 ye­ars, Ales­san­dra has pri­ma­ri­ly worked as a dancer and cho­reo­grapher in va­rious Ger­man sta­te thea­ters, in­clu­ding Bre­mer Thea­ter, Ol­den­bur­gi­sches Staats­thea­ter, and Staats­thea­ter Mainz. She has col­la­bo­ra­ted with in­ter­na­tio­nal­ly re­now­ned cho­reo­graph­ers such as Gar­ry Ste­wart, Guy Weiz­mann and Roni Ha­ver, Ina Chris­tel Jo­han­nes­sen, Omar Ra­jeh, Ann Van den Br­oek, Koen Au­gus­ti­j­nen and Ro­sal­ba Tor­res, Jo Strøm­gren, Alex­an­dra Wai­er­stall, Sharon Eyal, and Wen Hui.

Along­side her dance care­er, Ales­san­dra de­ve­lo­ps her cho­reo­gra­phic re­se­arch around the con­cept of sto­ry­tel­ling, ex­plo­ring the fine ba­lan­ce bet­ween rea­li­ty and fic­tion. Her work mo­ves fluid­ly bet­ween dance, thea­ter, and vi­su­al art. She has crea­ted works for com­pa­nies such as tanz­mainz and Bal­lett­Com­pa­gnie Ol­den­burg, as well as for Thea­ter Wre­de+, Schau­spiel­haus Es­sen, and Thea­ter Ober­hau­sen. Her cho­reo­gra­phic work also in­cludes pie­ces for young au­di­en­ces and solo per­for­man­ces.

Ales­san­dra holds an MA in Con­tem­po­ra­ry Dance Edu­ca­ti­on from the Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts.