MOTUS is a dance company based in Siena (Italy) supported by Tuscany Region and Siena City. The Company is resident in the Municipal Theatre of Siena and is recognized as a Social Promotion Entity.
The Company is a component of ADAC (Dance and Contemporary Art association), is associated to ARCI, to FEDERDANZA/AGIS and is a member of the International Dance Council (CID) belonging to UNESCO.

MOTUS was founded by Simona Cieri, choreographer and dancer with a strong classical background, who subsequently studied in depth modern, jazz and contemporary dance.
The Company, firstly named Duncaniando, begun the artistic activity in 1991 and produced three original plays, Profilo di donna, Arti magiche e Recitango. This last marked the beginning of the collaboration with Rosanna Cieri, journalist and writer, that remained the author of the Company plays in the subsequent years. From that moment, the sisters Rosanna and Simona Cieri directed together all the plays of the Company. In 1994, as the company quickly grew to be recognised as one of the most interesting young dance companies in Italy (confirmed by National Awards such as the Prize for Choreography 1994, in Spello) the Company was given the new name of MOTUS.
Under this name, the company started a full activity collaborating with the Siena Municipality and with the Tuscany Foundation of Spectacles as well as with ARTEUROPA FESTIVAL, that was the co-producer of the play State zitti se potete, in 1998.
In 2000, Simona Cieri founded as Artistic Director, the International Centre of Art in Siena, where the MOTUS Company works and a program of courses is in place. Nowadays the Centre is a known dance school with interdisciplinary character where the students can learn all artistic disciplines linked to theatre and dance, and can study in stages conducted by internationally recognised teachers.
MOTUS tour extensively to all major theatres in Italy and abroad and by invitation to international festivals.  In 2004 they were in New York to perform the play Schiavi at the Seymour Weiner Theatre and they were invited at the BOCES Cultural Art Centre (Long Island) to teach stages, laboratories and workshops. The work of the MOTUS Company is well estimated in European countries such as in The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Greece, United Kingdom, Romania, Bosnia Herzegovina as shown by international recognitions (International Prize TEATARFEST 2006 and International Prize TEATARFEST 2008).

Featuring a repertoire rich in collaboration with composers and artists, the Company has embraced the search for new vocabularies where the body language is used to treat arguments of social impact. This kind of artistic research can be defined with the French word “engagé” in the sense of social and ethic commitment, but the instruments that the Company uses are poetry, images, symbols and irony. The choreographic style is original and rich in contaminations.
Whether in abstract dance or dance theatre, they produce work that has theatrical and emotional impact.