Background
Buscarini was born on 4 July 1985 in Piacenza, Italy.
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Riccardo Buscarini
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Education
After some experiences in cinema and theatre, he came to dance quite late, at 17, approaching ballet and contemporary dance studying at Accademia Domenichino da Piacenza, Piacenza, Italy to then move to the London Contemporary Dance School, The Place, where he graduated in July 2009.
Career
In 2011 Riccardo was also announced one of the 8 Creatives in Residence at The Hospital Club, London. In the frame of CiR he has collaborated with knitwear designer Brooke Roberts, for whom he choreographed (Wo)man + Machine, her fashion presentation part of the London Fashion Week (September 2011, The Hospital Club). From December 2011, he has been teaching choreography and performance at Birkbeck University of London.
Achievements
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In 2010 he received a danceWEB scholarship for Impulstanz, Vienna"s international contemporary dance festival and one of the 16 choreographic commissions of The Place Prize, sponsored by Bloomberg. In April 2011 Riccardo Buscarini won Premio Prospettiva Danza, Padua/Information Technology with "volta", fragment #1 of the Family Tree trilogy, a project by disabled performer and director Chiara Bersani. Riccardo Buscarini"s project "10 tracks for the end of the world" won Fondo Fare Anticorpi 2012, a contemporary dance fund given to emerging artists from Emilia Romagna, Italy. In 2013, he has won The Place Prize for Dance, sponsored by Bloomberg with the piece "Athletes", featuring costumes by fashion designer Brooke Roberts and was one of the three United Kingdom based choreographers involved in ArtsCross London 2013, an international choreographic research project between United Kingdom, China and Taiwan part of ResCen, Middlesex University.
