Graduated in DAMS of Bologna, since 2007 she has been pursuing an original path of choreographic research and production, creating works with professional dancers as well as with teenagers, amateurs, asylum seekers, second-generation immigrants, and athletes.

In her work, choreography becomes a field of events — a dynamic system in which the body turns into a driving force for new anatomical punctuations and relational trajectories. Her creations emerge from interactions with other fields of knowledge and physical practices, turning the creative act into an opportunity to embrace multiplicity as a vital form of understanding.

In 2007 she won the choreographic competition GD’A – Giovani Danzautori dell’Emilia Romagna.

 In 2008 she founded Compagnia Simona Bertozzi | Associazione Culturale Nexus.

In 2008 she was the Italian choreographer selected  Aerowaves Festival at The Place Theatre (London) and, in the same year, with the solo Terrestre, she took part in the international project Choreoroam, supported by British Council/The Place, Dansateliers/Rotterdam, and Bassano Opera Festival.

With the collective Gemelli Kessler (Simona Bertozzi, Marcello Briguglio, Celeste Taliani), she won Il Coreografo Elettronico 2009 as Best Independent Production with the video dance work Terrestre – movement in still life. 

In 2012, the collective created I was wondering, a video dance piece made to celebrate the centenary of Michelangelo Antonioni’s birth.

• Homo Ludens (2009–2012): four choreographed episodes on the ontology of play, with artistic collaborations including musician Egle Sommacal and Collettivo Gemelli Kessler.

• Elogio de La Folia (2013): choreographic work on music by Arcangelo Corelli, co-produced by Ravenna Festival and performed live by the Delfico Ensemble quartet.

• Prometeo (2015/16): a project structured in six choreographic episodes, some co-produced by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto Centro di Produzione.

• Anatomia (2016): a shared creation with Francesco Giomi, artistic director of Tempo Reale, and Enrico Pitozzi from the University of Bologna.

• Joie de vivre (2018): co-production ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione and Nexus.

• Ilinx – Don’t Stop the Dance (2019): commissioned and supported by the Venice Dance Biennale.

• Tra le linee (2020): show co-produced by Torinodanza, MilanOltre, Nexus, Est Ovest Festival within CORPO LINKS CLUSTER.

• Quel che resta (2021): Nexus production with the support of Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Virgilio Sieni and Fondazione CR Firenze.

• Onde (2023): work dedicated to The Waves by Virginia Woolf, co-produced by Nexus, Festival Danza Estate di Bergamo, and Operaestate Festival Bassano.

• Athletes: project between dance, sport, and vocality involving numerous collaborations and co-productions, including Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia, Dance Gallery / Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Festival Prospettiva Danza, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Parigi / Rassegna Passions Olympiques.

Over the years, she has developed significant collaborations with artists and scholars, including musicians Francesco Giomi, artistic director of Tempo Reale, Luca Perciballi, and Claudio Pasceri; scholars Enrico Pitozzi and Cristiana Natali, professors at the University of Bologna; and choreographer and dancer Tabea Martin, with whom she co-created This is my last dance, a work that toured widely across Europe, including the Swiss Dance Days.

• Masdanza Festival, Audience Award – International Festival of the Canary Islands.

• Selection for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

• MigrArti 2017 Prize – awarded to her dance project.

• Finalist at the UBU Award 2017.

• Hystrio Corpo a Corpo Award: for an artistic and research path marked by rigor and radicality, naturally inclined to one of the crucial themes for performing arts, namely education and the passing of knowledge, and capable of nourishing and contaminating her creation with wide-ranging disciplines and readings.

• ANCT Award (National Association of Theater Critics): for her artistic path in luminous balance between the search for hidden beauty and ethical posture, visual composition and generation of meaning, care for the human, cognitive strength, and aesthetic splendor.

From 2004 to 2008 she led training and research workshops in contemporary dance for students of the Department of Music and Performing Arts (DAMS), University of Bologna, in collaboration with Professor Eugenia Casini Ropa, and in 2012 with Professor Elena Cervellati.

In 2013 she won the call for external teaching positions (floor work technique) within the three-year project on Choreutic Technical-Compositional Disciplines promoted by the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome.
From 2015 to 2017 she was engaged in the design and realization of VOLCANO – Choreography and Complexity, a project conceived and directed with Enrico Pitozzi, in collaboration with L’arboreto Teatro Dimora di Mondaino and supported by the AnticorpiXL Network.

From 2020 to 2022 she conducted intensive workshops for the Luca Ronconi School at Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
In 2021 she led a performance-masterclass with second-year students of the Dance Theatre course at Civica Scuola Paolo Grassi in Milan.

In 2025 she is teaching at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza with the course: 2nd Three-Year Cycle in Composition.

Since 2019 she has been carrying out teaching and workshop activities in collaboration with the ALMADANZA center in Bologna.