Iskandar Dance Company

Iskandar Dance Company is distinguished for its strong and singular aesthetic line and purity of movement drawn from a musical, emotional and human expression. The choreographies delve into the different stages of consciousness expressing points of transition between theatre and movement without superfluous elements.

Through the idiom of Hilal Dance, the Company works with music and live rhythm that are intrinsically connected to the musicality of the body portraying the dance at its core; a cultural tradition reinterpreted as an integrated contemporary expression.

Alessandro Bascioni, international dancer and choreographer is based in London and Florence. In 2005, he launched the Iskandar Company, with the premier of the new work El Saqiyeh (The Waterwheel) in the Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf in March 2006. Since then, the Company has gone on to tour his productions successfully, receiving critical acclaim throughout Europe.

"[Iskandar Dance Company] - The quality of the dancing is like no other… giving a wonderful sense of harmony between costume, dance and music" Ballet Magazine

Among some of the festivals and theatres are:

The Edinburgh Festival 2006
Kulturhaus, Switzerland 2006
International Dance Festival Karlsruhe 2006
Dance Base (National Dance centre for Scotland), 2006
CCA (Centre Culturelle Arabe) Brussels 2007
The Drum Auditorium, Birmingham 2007
Sadler’s Wells London’s Dance House 2007
IMA (Institute du Monde Arabe) 2007
Etnosfera Dance Festival, Milan, 2007
Teatro delle Erbe, Milan 2007
Kultur-Zentrum, Karlsrueh 2008
The Drum Auditorium 2008
Rotebuhl Theatre Stuttgart 2008
Tabacco Factory Theatre Bristol 2008
Tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf 2009

Present and future development:

Alessandro’s latest work "Becoming" has made a shift in his choreography with the strong elements of theatrical dramatisation the use movement/gesture and line also employing the skills an actress. Bascioni is planning to continue in this exciting way; working with other dancers, actors and musicians.