Vanessa Tamburi began her career at the National Dance Academy of Rome and went on to study at Mudra, the school directed by M. Bejart, in Brussels. She has worked as a solo dancer for key European theatres, including the Ballet of Montercarlo (direction of P. Lacotte, J.Y. Esquerre, J.C. Maillot), the Hamburg Ballet (direction of J. Neumeier), and the Vienna Opera Ballet (direction of R. Zanella).

Building on her professional experience as a classical dancer, Vanessa, over the years, developed experimental contemporary choreographic work, melding dance with contemporary theatre, visual and multimedia art. Her choreographies have been performed in Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Rwanda, Uganda,Tanzania, United States, Papua Nuova Guinea and Venezuela in collaboration with numerous theaters and staged for international festivals in Vienna, Linz, Venice (Bienniale Danza), Spoleto (Festival of Two Worlds), Prague, Rome (Rome Philharmonic and Auditorium, Park of Music), Kigali, and Dar es Salaam (visa2dance festival + Time 2 dance festival). New York (Reverb dance Festival, Dance Gallery Festival, Current Sessions), Lugano (Ticino in danza) just to name a few.

After working as artistic director of the Contemporaneamente Dance Group, in 2007 she established the Company FLUSSO Dance Project, of which she is currently artistic director and choreographer. In 2008 she contributed, as Artistic Advisor, to the creation, and then the organization (edition 2008 to date) of the Visa 2 Dance then Time2dance International contemporary dance festival, in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).

In 2010 Vanessa participated in CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLISIONS: a laboratory of research and experimentation for choreographers, directed by Ismael Ivo, part of the program of the BIENNALE DANZA in Venice. Vanessa has been also Artistic Associate of New York Live Arts in NYC (2015 - 2018)

From 2011 to 2017 lived in New York City. Her work has been presented in many festivals and platforms of the NYC dance scene and abroad. 

She is the founder, managing and Artistic Director of IDACO nyc - Italian Dance Connection (2015 -2019). Platform of Italian Contemporary Dance in NYC.

After living for 3 years in Port Moresby (2018 - 2021), Papua New Guinea she moved in August 2021 to Caracas where she continues with all her different contemporary dance projects in collaboration with the Teresa Carreno Danza Contemporanea and the Compania Nacional de Danza. 

In September 2022 Vanessa opened ETworks Studio, an Art Studio/Gallery in Rome dedicated to her father Ennio Tamburi, one of the major exponent of the Modern Art in Italy.