Antonella Sabrina Ravani lives in Arona, on Lake Maggiore. She graduated in Cultural Communication with a thesis on devadasi and Bharatanatyam dance. She then earned a cum laude degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, specialising in Indology, at the University of Turin, with a historical-anthropological thesis on witchcraft in the Lepontine Alps. As part of this research, she produced a short documentary filmed in Croveo (VB). In 2023, she contributed to the book Infine. Ritualità e corporeità al tempo delle catastrofi (published by Costellazioni) with the article Piedi che danzano, maniche pensano. Interconnessioni e crisi tra corpo umano e sociale. In this article, she draws on her experience in the practice of Bharatanatyam, an Indian dance form from Tamil Nadu, to explore the interconnections and crises between the human and social body.

Alessandra Consolaro is a Professor of Hindi Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities, University of Turin. She holds degrees in Sanskrit (University of Milan) and Hindi (University of Turin), and studied at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) on a Fulbright scholarship. She also earned a PhD in History, Institutions, and International Relations of Non-European Countries from the University of Pisa. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on feminist and gender critique, through which she examines Hindi language and literature and the history of South Asia. Among her most recent publications is the Italian translation of Geetanjali Shree's novel Ret Samadhi: Oltre la frontiera (Solferino, 2024), winner of the International Booker Prize 2022.

Dance IN-IT consists of Stella Penzo, Lucrezia Ottoboni, Cristiana Alfonsetti, and Antonietta Fusco, a group of dancers and practitioners of Indian dance-theatre who travel, train, and perform between India and Italy. United in 2021 in an online form, they quickly gave rise to a community project that supports the promotion and dissemination of classical Indian dance-theatre across Italy, a discipline with strong characteristics that is simultaneously extremely fragile when outside its place of origin. The key themes of Dance IN-IT range from the heart to the essence, from the search for the body to the creation of encounter. The lives of the four artists unfold in different parts of Italy and in equally eclectic paths of higher education in theatre, dance, Indology, pedagogy, and intercultural studies, finding in the collective a place for both artistic and emotional exchange. Dance IN-IT has performed and held artistic residencies at theatres and festivals in Italy and abroad, including the Art Vision Institute (Bhubaneswar, India), Teatro Due Mondi (Faenza), the contemporary theatre festival Aria (L'Aquila), and PACTA dei Teatri (Milan).