The Facilitators
Once upone a time...
Sexy Imperfections was born from a friendship and creative collaboration between Riccardo Russomanno, Daniella Kassif, and Justy Tutti Gusti. The three of them met while living at SerVivo in Portugal, where they shared about a year and a half of community life together, witnessing each other’s artistic paths and personal transformations.
Out of this time spent living, creating, and exchanging ideas, a natural synergy emerged. What began as conversations, experiments, and shared curiosity slowly evolved into a collaborative project. The three facilitators started meeting regularly to nurture both their friendship and their vision.
Sexy Imperfections grew organically from this process, bringing together their different practices, clowning, burlesque, performing arts, and somatic intimacy work, into a shared space of exploration where vulnerability, playfulness, sensuality, and imperfection can be expressed and celebrated.
Links & Bio
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Educator • Community Artist • Performer
Justi is an educator, community artist, and performer with a BA in Fine Arts and a Master’s in Adult Education for Social Change. With over a decade of experience in community arts, in her creative work, she draws inspiration from burlesque, clowning, butoh, ballroom culture, theatre improvisation, and the work of Bill Plotkin.
Her methodology, Burlesco Wacko, has been presented at gatherings and festivals in Germany, Cyprus, and Portugal. It invites participants to explore seductive self-expression through playful dance, theatre, and performance.
In a daring space where weirdness and failure are celebrated, you are invited to discover your “seductive wacko”. By exploring the performative nature of sexuality, we will delve into our (un)conscious desires and fears, unlocking new possibilities for artistic inspiration. By shedding the skin of learned habits, we can witness each other in an utterly silly, yet deeply meaningful, creative process.
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Somatic Practitioner • Dancer and Choreographer • Performer
Dani is a facilitator of Contact Improvisation workshops and retreats, with a rich background in contemporary dance and choreography. Her work explores improvisation, the power of pleasure, and relational healing. In September 2025, she graduated as a SOMA Intimacy Practitioner after a two-year intensive training in embodied sexuality.
Rooted in a somatic approach, Dani shares tools for regulation and creates a soft space that holds the workshop together with care and supports personal processes to unfold.
Participants will be invited to explore the practice of self-love and the potency of witnessing others, moving between authentic gestures and the experience of being seen to tap into a deeper quality of presence.
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Clown • Visual Artist • Art Director
With over 11 years in the creative industry, Riccardo combines art direction and visual arts with the playful spontaneity of clowning. His work focuses on reconnecting people with their innate creativity, inviting them to embrace the joy of artistic expression. From street performances to animated collages, he explores the beauty of imperfection and the magic of collective creation.
Have you ever wanted to connect more deeply with yourself, transforming flaws and vulnerabilities into powerful resources? The clown offers a unique perspective—a non-conventional master who shows us how to live life as a comedy, filled with authenticity and joy.
In his workshop, participants will explore through the clown’s methodology, how to access a state of creative presence. By resourcing from the emotional body the participants will learn the magic power of failures as tools for growth. The clown’s honesty in expressing feelings transforms difficulties into opportunities, turning life into a joyful performance.