All Posts

By Danielle Marie Fusco Original photo by Rob Klein I was born in the United States, but my blood remembers Southern Italy. As a multidisciplinary artist (dancer, choreographer, aerialist, educator, and ritual practitioner) I live inside the hyphen of Italian-American. My lineage is Southern Italian. My training is American. My body is the meeting point. To dance in the diaspora is to move with two heartbeats at once. It is to feel your being awaken to the rhythm of pizzica

A Call for the Italian American Community to Sustain Its Artists By Danielle Marie Fusco I am an Italian-American artist. I am a dancer, choreographer, aerialist, educator, cultural preservationist, and storyteller of ancestral memory. I am also a practicing shamanic lineage healer and mystic. I live in the space where Southern Italian traditions breathe into contemporary diasporic life ....where lineage meets innovation, where memory becomes movement. And I have to ask: Wher

An Italian American Artist’s Journey into Ancestral Cosmology By Danielle Marie Fusco There is something older than religion. Older than dogma. Older than the Church. Older than the word “pagan.” Older than the word “witch.” There is something primordial. Before there were temples, there was sky.Before there were saints, there were stars.Before there were intermediaries, there was breath. As an Italian American woman, a performing artist, a lineage seeker, and someone who mov