Damiano is a choreographer, dancer and performer born in Rome, Italy. From the Opera of Rome to DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU, passing through several French contemporary dance companies, such as the CCN de Nantes with Claude Brumachon, before joining the TANZTHEATER WUPPERTAL directed by PINA BAUSCH. He became a member of Tanztheater in 2005, creating new pieces and performing a wide range of works from repertory, and is now collaborating with the PINA BAUSCH FOUNDATION as rehearsals director.
In 2010, he participated in the film PINA by Wenders.

The meetings of his career led him to cross different creative experiences and visions, enriching his world and inspiring him as a choreographer and pedagogue.

Damiano Ottavio Bigi also created the solo Ciudadela, which was performed around the world, Signs for the Massimo Theatre of Palermo. He curated the movements for the winner of In Viva Voce / Teatro Ragazzi, Parlami Terra, and for Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, directed by Giorgios Skevas, at the Athens Epidaurus Festival 2023.

In 2016, he was awarded the “Premio Capri Danza International”, and in 2020, the “Premio Sfera d’Oro per la Danza”.