Piotr Giro (born ''Piotr Torazawa Giro''; January 16, 1974) is a Swedish freelance

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, dancer and choreographer. Giro was born in

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and moved with his mother to Sweden at the age of seven. In 1993 he began training at the

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school in Stockholm, 1996 he joined the Batsheva dance company based in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

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led by artistic director

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. In 1998 he joined the Ultima Vez dance company led by Wim Vandekeybus based in

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. Ultima Vez and Wim Vandekeybus has launched the company into a new stage. The company is made up of individually unique dancers and actors from

and abroad. Giro has worked as an actor at the

Royal Dramatic Theatre The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The the ...

in Stockholm, Gothenburg Municipal Theatre and Stockholm Municipal Theatre.

Filmography

* 2009 - Mannen under trappan * 2009 - Olof 1440 min * 2007 - The Blueberry War * 2006 - Keillers Park * 2006 - Wellkåmm to Verona * 2004 - Graveyard Iland * 2003 - Five Staircases * 2003 -

Skeppsholmen Skeppsholmen is one of the islands of Stockholm. It is connected with Blasieholmen and Kastellholmen by bridges. It is accessible by foot from Kungsträdgården, past the Grand Hôtel and Nationalmuseum, by bus number 65, or by boat from Slus ...

* 2002 -

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* 2001 - In Spite of Wishing and Wanting * 2000 - Inasmuch * 1999 - The last words

Theatrework

* 2009 - Unknown Pleasures dancetheatre Putervik and Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sweden 2009, touring in Sweden 2010, 2011) *

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- King Edward The Second by Christopher Marlowe Unga Klara / Stockholm Municipaltheatre * 2006 - Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlmen or The Men in Grey by Michael Ende

Skärholmen Skärholmen is a suburban area in the district of Söderort in south-western Stockholm, Sweden. Together with Bredäng, Sätra and Vårberg, it forms the borough of Skärholmen. The community primarily consisting of ''Million Programme'' s ...

/ Stockholm Municipaltheatre * 2005 - As Don Juan, Don Juan by Molière Gothenburg Municipaltheatre * 2004 - The Divine Comedy By Dante Alighieri rewritten by Niklas Rådström Ghothenburg Municipaltheatre * 2003 - As Romeo, Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

, Stockholm, Sweden

Dancework

* 2010 - Equal (Shintaro Oue, Piotr Giro, Satoshi Kudo) *

- Triptych (Örjan Andersson) *

- Spiegel ( Ultima Vez/ Wim Vandekeybus) *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

- Inasmuch as Life is borrowed (Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus * 2001 - In Spite of Wishing and Wanting (Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus) *

- L'Anatomie du fauve ( Josef Nadj) *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

- Batsheva Dance Ensemble/

/ Batsheva Dance Company *

- Deuce (Carl-Olof Berg) A Project in April 1997Carlolofberg.com
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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

- ÄETT (Carl-Olof Berg) A Project in April 1998 *

- Norrdans (Jens Östberg, Jo Strømgren) guest performer

Filmography

Theatrework

Dancework

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