​ANDROMEDA GRAZIANO
Movement Research & Choreography
ANDROMEDA GRAZIANO​
TRAINING Andromeda trained at the Royal Ballet School Junior Associates, Merle Park Studios, and Stella Mann. She went on to study at Middlesex University: BA (Hons) Dance/Drama/French, and at London Contemporary Dance School:1 Year Special Certificate in Contemporary Dance and Choreography. She was granted an award from the Prince's Trust and Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes to create a full length work for the Ballet de Zaragoza, Spain. EARLY CAREER Upon her return from Spain she co-formed 'White Monkey Trip', a dance company that toured London contemporary dance theatres including The Place, Lilian Baylis Theatre, Chisenhale Dance Space and Jacksons Lane Theatre. She also returned regularly to Middlesex University's Dance Department as a choreographer, dancer and production manager for their post graduate performances at The Lilian Baylis Theatre.​​​​
CHOREOGRAPHER 'Leap of Faith' (2022) is a short dance film made in collaboration with Jack Elliott Hobbs. In a quest to change the future by understanding the past, to shine a light on self-knowledge, shared vulnerability, and kindness, a leap of faith is often required. This film explores and shares that leap of faith. The film has received awards, nominations and selections including: Best Dance Film, Milan Indie Film Festival Best Dance Film, London Women Film Festival Best Choreography, Sofia World Film Festival Best Dance Film, Swedish International Film Festival Best Dance Film, Berlin Short Film Festival Best Musical/Dance Film, New York Film & Actress Awards Best Musical/Dance Film, Best Hollywood Day Short Film Festival Best Short Film-Honorable Mention, One-Reeler Short Film Competition Best Film Short-Award of Merit, Best Shorts Competition Venezia Film Shorts review: 'Your film overwhelmed and captivated us: Beautiful cinematography, encapsulating the vibrant dance of Andromeda with grace.'  ​​ ​​After a leave of absence for successful treatment for endometrial cancer, she returned to dance and choreography full of energy with a new body and vocabulary of movement. 'Schumann: a love story'​​ (2026) a dance-piano.art production is a captivating dance film created through a collaboration between award-winning choreographer Andromeda Graziano and concert pianist Raúl Jiménez. Robert Schumann wrote a declaration of love for Clara in his early music and 'Schumann: a love story' is a 30 minute dance film about this declaration to one of his most famous works, Fantasiestücke Op.12. The three dancers and the pianist tell the story of how Schumann's two alter egos, Eusebius-the mild and Florestan-the wild fight for Clara's attention.Which of Schumann's two passionate sides will she choose? ​In research and development: Goldberg Variations - 31 piano-dance shorts Frisson - a dance/music installation piece. Manon Lescaut - a reframing of the French classic by Abbé Prévost.
TEACHER Attending her first Pilates class aged 18 and hooked on the veritable machines, she studied Pilates Based Body Awareness with the formidable Christine Hocking. Influenced by her method and passion, she has taught Pilates based classes and rehabilitation work for the past 25 years.​ She is a Somatic Movement Educator, Certified Practitioner and Certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and is a member of The International Dance Council CID. As part of the Sadler’s Wells Artist Development Programme, she offered an Artist-Led Session: Fingers and Toes: Discovering New Connections at Sadler's Wells East in March 2025.​
PRODUCTION MANAGER Since 1998 she has worked with conductor Jonathan Finney for: Palace Opera alongside the London Concertante Orchestra: on 'The Marriage of Figaro', 'Oedipus Rex', 'La Navaraisse', 'Falstaff', and 'Hansel & Gretel' at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, a U.K. tour, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 'By Means of Music': memorial concert for Stanley Kubrick, at the Barbican Theatre, London, and the Symphony Orchestra of Milan Giuseppe Verdi, Auditorium di Milano, Milan. 'A Kind Man': a new fully staged full length opera composed by Jonathan Finney based on Dame Susan Hill's novel of the same name premiered at Hoxton Hall, London. New Palace Opera: 'Oedipus Rex', 'Peter Grimes', 'Wagnerian Farewells', 'Billy Budd', 'The Rake’s Progress', 'Parsifal Act 2', 'Schoenberg' in concert performances at St. Johns Church, Waterloo, London.
Always inspired by dance, music, film, art, and nature, family is key. An avid cook, keen gardener and painter, and lover of animals, travel, classical music and French literature, the beach is where she finds her feet.