Sinibaldo De Rosa explores the role of body movement in processes of socio-cultural differentiation across multiple performance practices and ethnographic contexts. He earned a PhD in Drama from the University of Exeter, a Diploma in Movement Notation (Laban) from the CNSMDP, a ResMA in Turkish Studies from Leiden University and a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Bologna University. He published on the journal Performance Research, and in the edited books Ritual Tanz Bühne and Aesthetic and Performative Dimensions of Alevi Cultural Heritage. He is a member of the Society for Dance Research Executive Committee, a massage therapist and a carer for the elderly. In 2020, he was awarded an Ivor Guest Research Grant to notate extracts of Yeşim Coşkun’s piece 4Kapı 40Makam (‘4Doors 40Planes’).