manuelapecorari

Manuela Pecorari

If you asked me what do you do? I’d tell you that I move, I write, I read, I draw, I weave, I practice yoga, I walk and look. I cook and make it sacred ---
My work as a creative but also my purpose as a creature on Earth can be boiled down to the search for the secret third thing: something that is generated when two entities enter in conversation ---
What I am striving for is to make myself a bridge, a mediation point where 1 + 1 = 3 ---

A MARGINE

WIP - Embodied Research

Score-making
Embodied Movement
Video Work

ON WEAVING

Video Meditation

Shooting & Editing
Writing
Voiceover

PORTALS

WIP - Writing and Visual Research

Video & Photography
Work on paper
Weaving
Writing

THE PLAYGROUND

Participatory Performance, submission to Scenography PQ 2023

R&D
Concept and visuals
Scenography

CONSCIOUS SCENOGRAPHY

Research Paper

Qualitative Research
Interviews

MURMURATION

Performance in six chapters

Active Scenography
Directing

AJAR

Play for two actors and voice over

Script adaptation
Co-producer
Creative R&D

REMNANT

Play for three actors and voice over

Scenography
Co-writing
Co-directing

About

Manuela Pecorari is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her work focusses on the limitations of spoken language and the need to exist in the interstices between self and the universal, between time and memory. She employs different entry-points to explore these themes, and her current practice is process-based, with and emphasis on video- documenting, auto-biographical writing, and marks on paper with watercolour, pen or pastel.

With a fascination for the philosophy of Yoga, fairytales and folklore, Manuela is bringing her physical body in her work by exploring somatic practices, embodied movement, and time-based interactions with landscapes. She holds a BA in scenography and an MA in collaborative theatre-making, and the interest in spatiality has remained crucial in her investigation, even outside of canonical theatre space.

Education

MA - Collaborative Theatre Production and Design
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
London, UK

Laurea triennale in Scenografia
(BA in Scenography)
Accademia di Belle Arti
Venice, Italy

Residencies

Arteles - Hamenkyro, Finland
March 2026 - May 2026

Arteles - Hamenkyro, Finland
July 2024

Theatre and Performance

Ajar, by Tom Gurn
Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide
Australia - 2025

Out, by Manuel Di Francesco
HMP Holloway
London - 2021

Rotten Kid, by Erchao Gu and Clare Best
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
London - 2021

Murmuration, by MA CTPD Cohort
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
London - 2021

Remnant, by MA CTPD Cohort
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
London - 2021

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