About

Beatrice Allegranti is an Italian-Irish, independent feminist artist, psychotherapist and scholar. Through her award winning practice she has been producing international work for 25 years across several forms including choreography, film, psychotherapy, capoeira, research, writing, pedagogy and public speaking.

The transdisciplinary strands of her work tackle burgeoning and interrelated social and environmental justice issues of intersectional body politics, loss, traumatic experiences in mental health, migration and war, through ethical, progressive sustainable, embodied and re-generative practice. Beatrice is founder and Artistic Director of Moving Kinship® an international practice that has toured UK, Norway, Japan, Italy, Latvia, Ukraine and the Netherlands and that offers ways of practicing feminist justice in our more-than-human world.

Beatrice Allegranti’s feminist practice bridges the arts, science, and mental health, breaking down boundaries between performance, participation, and activism. Her work spans international theatres, galleries, community organisations, environmental forums, science labs, hospitals, and open landscapes.

With nearly three decades of experience in the arts, psychotherapy, and academic research, she has developed ethical and sustainable processes for organisations including the Irish Government and Arts for Peace, the Wellcome Trust, Codarts Netherlands, and the UK NHS.

Allegranti, an award-winning researcher, has held Associate and Visiting Professor posts in the UK and Europe. She has taught, mentored, and supervised doctoral research, shaping a generation of dance artists, psychotherapists, psychologists, and theatre makers to work collaboratively and across disciplines. Her work is regularly presented worldwide in the arts, health, and higher education sectors.

Beatrice Allegranti’s work has received numerous and wide ranging awards, grants and commissions including: Perform Europe; Dutch Dance Days, the Netherlands; Independent Shorts Awards, Los Angeles; Arts Council England; Surrey Arts; Dance21; Public Health; London Arts; the Japanese Directors Association; Bergen International Festival; The Last Chapter Festival, the Carl Couch Award; UnLtd Catalyst Award; Grieg Academy of Music – Norway; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia – Porto; hYbrid – Conversations between Science and Art at IBMC Porto; University of Roehampton – Department of Psychology; White Hart Lane Therapy Centre; N Creative; Women Director’s Cut – Video Channel Cologne, Santander Award for UK-Brazilian Collaboration; 2015 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award; 2004 Directors Cut Award, Cologne Film Festival.

Photo: Jackie King

Illustrations: Neil Max Emmanuel