Federica was born in November 1997 in Milan and grew up in a family immersed in art and nature. She quickly discovered a passion for the body and for vertigo, climbing trees and scraping her knees in the meadows near her family’s lakeside home.
Drawn to jumping from one sofa to another while “imitating circus acts on television,” she practiced classical dance until she unexpectedly encountered circus: the “Piccola Scuola di Circo de Milan” set up its big top just a few steps from her home, and her parents enrolled her at the age of six. Two years later, she saw a swinging trapeze act on stage for the first time. At that moment, she decided she would become a trapeze artist.
Later, she attended a literary high school, where she developed a passion for Latin, Ancient Greek, and creative writing, before being admitted in 2017, at the age of 19, to the FLIC Scuola di Circo. There, she began her training on the swinging trapeze, guided with passion and dedication by her teacher and school director Matteo Lo Prete. She spent three years in this fertile environment of experimentation and encounters, with the opportunity to participate in the creation of numerous collective performances. She met figures such as Roberto Magro, Claudio Stellato, Simon Thierrée, Eva Ordonez, Piergiorgio Milano, and many others.
In 2020, she was directly admitted into the third year (DNSP3) of the Centre national des arts du cirque. There, she continued her technical and artistic training, constantly seeking to develop her personal imprint in order to inhabit emptiness.
Circus arts fascinate Federica through their universal nature and their ability to deeply move audiences through emotion. Married to her apparatus, she feels alive and capable of opening what she describes as a “fourth dimension,” through a body that is both strong and feminine, a vessel of both technique and emotion.
Federica is fascinated by Being in all its forms—complex and multifaceted. In her future creations, she aims to merge her bodily language in situ with natural, wild environments, blending artistic creation with the authenticity of humans and nature.
She is currently collaborating with Lucia Heege Torres, also a swinging trapeze artist from the 33rd CNAC promotion, both driven by a desire to experiment together through shared experiences and common themes.