Marco Balbi Dipalma

M. Balbi Dipalma is a performer, video artist, photographer and painter with a master’s degree in theatre from the Department of Art, Music and Performing Arts at the University of Bologna. In 2018, he completed advanced training in socio-cultural education at the Department of Education Sciences at the University of Bologna. In 2020, he completed advanced training in contemporary archives at the Central State Archives in Rome. Since 2001, he has been studying and collaborating with M.° D. Pasquali, from whom he has learned theatrical, cinematographic and vocal techniques. In 2004, he met Rena Mirecka, one of the most important actresses of the past century and a founding member of J. Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium. He collaborated with R. Mirecka for 18 years. Since 2004, he has continued to participate in Mirecka’s research on paratheatre, first as her assistant and then as the leader of “THE SUN – The School of Rena Mirecka”. From 2017 to 2022, he directed “The Sun” at the Grotowski Institute (Wroclaw|Pl). In 2022, he brought to light the Master’s archive collection. The Master passed on to him the training of the Teatr Laboratorium, in particular the plastic exercises and the creation of ritualistic performative actions. Balbi Dipalma has had various experiences in traditional rituals and meditation, which led him, in 2021, to begin new research into ritual performance arts. In 2022, he returned to Italy, where he focused his research on the format of ritual performance video art. In 2025, he began photography and oil painting projects. He studies modern and contemporary dance at the Balletto di Varese and painting with Pippo D’Elia. Since 2025, his work has been supported by M. Corazzini’s CSA Farm Gallery in Turin.