Matteo Levaggi, born in Chiavari, Italy, in 1977, begins studying ballet at the School of Classical Ballet directed by Liliana Cosi and Marinel Stefanescu. 

He joins in 1991 as a student and immediately as a dancer, the Balletto Teatro di Torino directed by Loredana Furno, where prestigious choreographers such as Karole Armitage, create for him. 

In 1993 he is the winner for the Contemporary/Junior dance section of the International Competition of the City of Rieti. In 1996 he won third place at the Concours International de Paris - Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.  

In 1997 he joins, under the direction of Mauro Bigonzetti, the new formation of Aterballetto. In the same year he is a guest with a solo by Bigonzetti at the Havana Ballet Festival directed by Alicia Alonso as a representative of Italian dance. 

In 1999 he is appointed resident choreographer of the Balletto Teatro di Torino, creating an unprecedented Salomé performed by himself, with sets and costumes by Eugenio Guglielminetti.

With BTT he wins the Award for Best Company d'Autore - Ballet2000, performing at the Palais des Festival de Cannes. 

In 2005 he creates for Arena di Verona Ballet, La Boutique Fantasque (Rossini/Respighi) and Drowning by Numbers to music by Michael Nyman. In 2006 Ismael Ivo wants him with the creation Canto bianco in un momento di orizzonte verticale at the Venice Biennale - Dance. In 2007 he creates for the Gala de Les Etoiles de Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), a pas de deux to music by Dmitri Shostakovich for Ballet de Genéve dancers Céline Cassone and Bruno Roy. In the same year he creates for the Zagreb Music Biennial Three Songs to music by Heiner Goebbels with dancers from the Rijeka Ballet Company. 

In 2008 he begins a collaboration with Corpicrudi, a duo of visual artists founded by Samantha Stella. The first co-signed creation, Primo Toccare White, is guest of La Biennale de la Danse de Lyon directed by Guy Darmet. The following year he is invited to the mecca of contemporary American dance the Joyce Theater, where the artistic team present Primo Toccare White and Black. The Financial Times calls the work "Sublime Gentleness."

In 2010, dance critic Francesca Pedroni, on the occasion of the World Premiere of Primo Toccare White, Black and Red at the Bolzano Dance Festival, dedicates a major documentary for the Sky Classica channel to Levaggi-Corpicrudi's work.

In 2011, the MilanOltre Festival dedicates an anthology to the choreographer, re-presenting his major works such as Caravaggio, Gee, Andy!, and Canto bianco. On the same occasion the work Le Vergini, a new creation with Corpicrudi, which premièred at International Ballet FEST, Miami, is presented in Milan.

In 2013 the work Caravaggio, to original music by Giovanni Sollima, enters the repertoire of the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company with a première at the Lacma Museum LA.

In 2014 Matteo Levaggi chooses a totally free career, thus leaving the Balletto Teatro di Torino. He begins a fervent activity, creating ballets for the Maggio Danza/Opera di Firenze, and Peter Martins wants him for the New York Choreographic Institute, a project associated with the New York City Ballet. He debuts at the MilanOltre Festival together with Samantha Stella with the performance Preludio per una Sinfonia in Nero, which is later presented at the Ace Museum in Los Angeles during LA Fashion Week. 

In 2015, director Davide Ferrario brings to the cinema in the form of a feature film the controversial choreographic work SEXXX, distributed by NexoDigital, present today on the prestigious NexoTv channel. Pop star Madonna, being in Turin for her concerts, will ask to see the film at the Turin Film Festival during its presentation. The film wins the Electronic Choreographer Award as well as other prestigious film awards. 

In 2016 he creates Mesh, inspired by the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni, for the Centro di Arte Contemporanea Pecci di Prato, and Antigone, to original music by Carlo Boccadoro / Sentieri Selvaggi ensemble, for Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan.

In 2017 he is resident choreographer of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and guest choreographer of Les italiens de l'Opéra de Paris where he creates a pas de deux for Etoile Valentine Colasante and Alessio Carbone - Ravello Festival.  

In 2018 he debuts the new creation Crises with Samantha Stella at the Transart Festival in Bolzano in co-production with the Ravello Festival. 

In 2019 at the Museo Madre in Naples commissions Levaggi and Stella to perform Death Speaks, as part of the exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe - choreography for an exhibition, with music by David Lang, thus imposing an aesthetic that over the years has evolved and well defined, in complete communication with visual art. From this work, the artistic duo Matteo Stella Dance Arts is officially born.

In 2020 the Festival Oriente Occidente commissions Levaggi and the artist Umberto Chiodi Over the rainbow, in collaboration with Museum MART. 

In 2022 Levaggi creates for the School of Ballet of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala. He is currently choreographer of the Advanced Course in Classical and Contemporary Dance of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala.

In 2023 Matteo Stella Dance Arts celebrate 15 years of collaboration by creating Largo: Giardino con la luna piena, with a production by Teatro alla Scala. The work debuts on the La Scala stage as a tribute to designer Masanori Umeda of Edra, in collaboration with the Accademia Teatro alla Scala.

In 2003/2024 "Largo" is performed with the Teatro alla Scala Academy at The National Theater in Tokyo and at Dubai Opera.
In summer 2024 “Largo”appears among the guests of “Stars of Tomorrow" Gala directed by Alessio Carbone. In Fall 2024 at Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce for “The Joy of DancIng” Gala of Teatro alla Scala Étoile Nicoletta Manni.

About Matteo Stella Dance Arts (Matteo Levaggi, Samantha Stella)

Samantha Stella and Matteo Levaggi met in 2007. At that time Stella signs works under the name Corpicrudi, a duo of visual artists co-founded with Sergio Frazzingaro. From the first artistic encounter, a sliver of innovation entered the dance world with the three-act work "Primo Toccare," which debuted at the 2008 Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, at the Joyce Theater in New York in 2009, and concluded with the third act at the 2010 Bolzano Danza Festival, an occasion when the Sky Classica TV channel documented the entire work, still in the schedule today. Two motionless models - now inside transparent vitrines amid symbols of seventeenth-century Vanitas, now on a stylized altar - give way to two Greco-Roman statues while the dancers move energetically with post-classical movements. 

From 2009 to 2014, Levaggi and Corpicrudi were resident artists of Balletto Teatro di Torino, based in the Lavanderia a Vapore in Collegno, a center of dance excellence. Together they create works that will tour the most prestigious theaters around the world. Works that often arise from an impulse that starts from a work of art sometimes conceived by Corpicrudi, and that take shape to be read simultaneously on different planes and languages, body, choreography, performance, video, installation.

Not only theater, but an overlapping of languages and situations that also pass through music, fashion and film. In 2014, invited to Los Angeles Fashion Week, Stella and Levaggi perform at the Ace Museum together with the Los Angeles rock band Von Haze. 

Their energy also bursts into cinema, as it does for Nexo Digital in 2015 with the film "SEXXX" by Davide Ferrario, dedicated to Levaggi's work, now featured on Amazon Prime's Nexo Plus channel.

And again, visual art. In 2019, under the joint name Matteo Stella Dance Arts, they create the work "Death Speaks," to music granted by David Lang, commissioned by the Madre Museum in Naples on the occasion of the exhibition on the famous New York photographer Robert Mapplerthorpe. Stefano Bucci dedicates a long article to them in the Corriere della Sera's "La Lettura" insert, recalling the profound suggestion of a fim director like David Lynch on their work and calling it "a dialogue between contemporary creation and art history."

The direct gaze toward the search for beauty and the love for classical art, revised with contemporary eyes and full attention to minimal but enigmatic and sometimes perturbing aesthetic detail, are the stylistic hallmark of the world of Matteo Stella Dance Arts. 

In 2022 the Artistic director Frederic Olivieri (School of Ballet - Teatro alla Scala Academy), invites me for LARGO, created in 2007.

In 2023, Matteo Stella Dance Arts came together to conceive a new creation for Edra's evening honoring author Masanori Umeda, in collaboration with the Teatro alla Scala and the Teatro alla Scala Academy.
In 2003/2024 "Largo" is performed with the Teatro alla Scala Academy at The National Theater in Tokyo and at Dubai Opera.
In summer 2024 “Largo” appears among the guests of “Stars of Tomorrow" Gala directed by Alessio Carbone. In Fall 2024 at Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce for “The Joy of DancIng” Gala of Teatro alla Scala Étoile Nicoletta Manni.