Ilaria Bagarolo aka GARY is an artist active in the fields of dance, performance and mixed media.

Ilaria Bagarolo aka Gary (Italy, 1996) is based between Turin and Paris.

With a background in art management and then contemporary dance, artistic process involves different fields of research. Gravitating between bodywork, video art and photography, installations, queer activism and practice-based investigation projects, she questions the meaning of well-being in a fluid-digitalized society. Gary’s research is a true metaphor in constant reshape; it goes through continuous semantic and conceptual reversals, which places particular attention on the human condition and its oppressive/curious/ridiculous/incoherent/ambiguous absurdity. 

As choreographer she developed three original works: an award-winning screendance artwork titled POLO (2023), O (2022) a dance piece focused on the figure of the circle and #0ENTER (2023). Her last work - in co-direction with Alice Pan and Edoardo Battaglia - Anatomy of a Memory (2024) is supported by the European Union grant Cultures Moves Europe and hosted by Studio Pro Arte in Freiburg/KOMMTANZ residency.

She is part of Las Bethas collective, a transfeminist collective, born in Buenos Aires in 2012, which conceives performance art (EVOKE, WORSHIP, DEVOUR) as an act of resistance, a strategy to form a common body against those mechanisms of oppression that regulate bodies and affections on a daily basis.

She collaborated both with important Institutions and local and independent events:

- KINKALERI x Gallerie dell'Accademia (Florence)

- Trisha Brown Dance Company x Pinault Foundation (Venice)

- Nico Vascellari x Museo Del Novecento (Florence)

- Malin Bülow x Piero Atchugarry Gallery (Turin)

- Virgilio Sieni Dance Company x Merz Foundation (Turin)

- Venere in Teatro Festival (Venice)

- Veinte Once Festival (Mexico)

- Venice International Performance Art Week (Venice)

- Tecnologia Filosofica x Morena Stories (Turin)

- Migration Dance Film Project (Montreal/Genoa/Turin)

- Schwere Reiter Theatre (Germany)

- Dance Base Yokohama (Japan)

- Nadine Bommer Dance Company (Israel)