Perypezye Urbane ETS is an organisation for the production and promotion of contemporary dance that operates at local, national and European level. Artistic Directors of Perypezye Urbane are  Giuseppe Esposito and Giovanni Sabelli Fioretti.

Since August 2022, it has been recognised by the Lombardy Region as an institution of regional relevance for dance production. Perypezye Urbane has been organising events and festivals related to contemporary dance since 2005. First with the Festival ‘Solo in Azione’, realised in Milan from 2007 to 2015, and later by entering in 2020 the artistic direction of the Festival Venere in Teatro, supported among others by the Ministry of Culture.

Besides producing dance works by Esposito, Perypezye Urbane also supports emerging creativity, producing and supporting choreographers such as: Sara Sguotti, gruppocorp3, Francesca Santamaria, Francesco Ferrari, Davide Degano, Chiara Ameglio, Tommaso Serratore, Daniele Albanese, Raffaella Menchetti and Giselda Ranieri.

Perypezye Urbane has also been active since 2005 in the field of cross-media, performing arts and cultural policies. In the field of European cultures and cultural policies, Perypezye Urbane launched in 2010, Studio28 Tv, a web TV that is still giving voice to dance professionals and artists. Since 2011, Perypezye Urbane has been working creatively with dance and digital platforms, creating DanceMe (www.danceme.eu) where several young choreographers were produced, and later, in 2016, creating the mobile version of DanceMe.

Since 2010, Perypezye Urbane has also been organising artistic residencies in the field of contemporary dance. Initially in its own performance space in Milan, Studio28, and later in partnership with other organisations throughout Italy and Germany, able to host artists in their own spaces, including Artemista (PV), Corsie of (PG), Teatro Sociale di Camogli (GE), Spazio Iris (RA), Forte Marghera (VE), Mediagrammi (Berlin – Germany), UferStudios (Berlin – Germany).

European Projects

Perypezye Urbane ETS works at local, national and European level. As a Dance Organization with Regional Relevance recognised by the Lombardy Region, it has been an active partner and coordinator in European cooperation and mobility programmes, with a consistent focus on contemporary dance, education and creative innovation.

• DanceMe UP (coordinator) — Creative Europe, 2019–2022 (ref. 607384-CREA-1-2019-1-IT-CULT-COOP1). A cooperation project that led to DanceMe, a platform for choreographic research, now recognised by the Italian Ministry of Culture as an official tool for dance production.
• Professional Media Presence – PMP (partner) — Creative Europe, 2023–2026 (contract no. 101094493). An international partnership strengthening the professional and media presence of dance artists across Europe.
• Mother — S+T+ARTS, 2024. Support for Mother, a creation living at the meeting point of art, science and technology, built on segmentation and the infinite saturation of creativity — Mother as the endless exhale.
• Tandem (partner) — Erasmus+, 2024. An international cooperation project fostering exchange and shared practice between European partners.
• Culture Moves Europe — Culture Moves Europe, 2024. An international artistic residency supporting cross-border creation and exchange.
• Perypezye Urbane Goes Europe — Erasmus+, 2019–2021 (ref. 2018-1-IT02-KA104-047184). A staff training and mobility project supporting international professional development.
• Shareculture.eu (coordinator) — Creative Europe. 2012-2013. A professional network of cultural grassroots webtvs across the EU.