My writing spans academic research, poetry and dramaturgy. I write about embodiment, health, care, migration and the relationships between bodies and places.
I also devise plays and use writing within therapeutic approaches. Through words, I compose incarnated dances, exploring how language becomes gesture, sensation and movement.
Books
Notazione
Ambra Gatto Bergamasco and Paolo Fichera · L’Erudita, 2022
A collaborative exploration of Butoh and poetry, developed through exchanges between body, text and performance. Writing and dance become ways of attending to inner landscapes, ritual and the emergence of form.
Book Chapters
The H.E.P.P.Y Project: Esperienza di un percorso europeo
2015 · In Lorenza Garrino, editor, Strumenti per una medicina del nostro tempo. Firenze University Press.
A collaborative contribution on a European project connecting healthcare, education and the knowledge that patients and families bring to care.
Academic Book Reviews
Cohesion, Coherence, Cooperation: European Spatial Planning Coming of Age?
2012 · Urban Research & Practice, 5, 291–293
Review of Andreas Faludi’s book on European spatial planning.
Planning Cultures in Europe: Decoding Cultural Phenomena in Urban and Regional Planning
2011 · European Planning Studies, 19(5), 917–919
A book review addressing culture and European urban and regional planning.
Research Features & Contributions
When the Body Speaks: Clinical Dance Therapy, Migrant Wellbeing and Engaged Research
2026 · University College Dublin, College of Social Sciences and Law
A university research feature on my doctoral work, examining clinical dance therapy, migrant wellbeing and embodied approaches to care.
Volunteer Doctors and Migrant Healthcare
2026 · United Nations Volunteers, State of the World’s Volunteerism Report
A contribution concerning Camminare Insieme, featured in Box 5.2, “Measuring the impact of volunteer doctors on refugee and migrant healthcare.”
Current Writing
My current manuscripts and essays examine care, embodied knowledge, migration and artistic practice.
- Embodied Doors: Tracing Care, Memory, and Abolition through Time
A research manuscript on voluntary medical care, oral histories and the everyday work of sustaining healthcare access. - Doors Held Open
An essay submitted to the Hektoen International essay prize. - To Hold a Vanished Glacier: Residual Presence
A critical essay on Cecilia Vicuña’s work, submitted for editorial consideration for the IAAC - Therapeutic Body-Landscapes: From Emergency to Emergence
A manuscript exploring clinical dance therapy and migrant reception spaces. - Performative Dysmorphia
A manuscript examining academic wellbeing through somatic geographies and embodied practice. - From Clinical Movement to Qualitative Knowledge: A Methodological Framework for Clinical Dance Therapy in Migration Research and Studies
A methodological manuscript on movement practice and the production of qualitative knowledge.
Poetry & Dramaturgy
Poetry and dramaturgy run through my work as a writer and dance artist. I work with the rhythm, texture and physical presence of words, composing texts alongside movement and devising plays and performance works.
Writing also enters my therapeutic practice through images and verbal invitations that participants can explore in their own movement.
I look forward to meeting you.
