Overview
Piotr Giro (born Piotr Torazawa Giro; January 16, 1974) is a Swedish freelance actor, dancer and choreographer.
Giro was born in Wałbrzych, Poland and moved with his mother to Sweden at the age of seven.
In 1993 he began training at the Royal Swedish Ballet school in Stockholm, 1996 he joined the Batsheva dance company based in
Tel Aviv, Israel led by artistic director Ohad Naharin. In 1998 he joined the Ultima Vez dance company led by Wim Vandekeybus based in
Brussels, Belgium.
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 Belgium and abroad.
Giro has worked as an actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre 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
2002 - Mantra
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)
2008 - 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 / 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 Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
Dancework
2010 - Equal (Shintaro Oue, Piotr Giro, Satoshi Kudo)
2008 - Triptych (Örjan Andersson)
2008 - Spiegel (Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus)
2000 - Inasmuch as Life is borrowed (Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus
2001 - In Spite of Wishing and Wanting (Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus)
2000 - L'Anatomie du fauve (Josef Nadj)
1997 - Batsheva Dance Ensemble/Ohad Naharin/Batsheva Dance Company
1997 - Deuce (Carl-Olof Berg) A Project in April 1997
1998 - ÄETT (Carl-Olof Berg) A Project in April 1998
1998 - Norrdans (Jens Östberg, Jo Strømgren) guest performer
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