Italiano
Aims Maître de Ballet
(classical ballet)
Studies Born in Florence (Italy) in 1965, she began her studies at 8 years old at the Centro studi danza in Florence directed by Cristina Bozzolini and Lilia Bertelli where she studied also with Eugene Poliakov (Director of Maggio di Firenze and Paris Opera), Barbara Baer, Lilia Bertelli, and Cristina Bozzolini.
Professional
Experience As Dancer
She worked as a dancer in L’Ensemble, a company directed by Micha Van Hoecke, in Italy and abroad.
Micha Van Hoecke created on her strong personality some of his major choreographies and many roles that let her stunning technique come out.
She performed in some television programs dancing with the whole company and as a soloist.
As Maître de Ballet
From 1994 to 1998 she has been a ballet teacher to the company L’Ensemble, cooperating with Micha Van Hoecke for some shows.
From 1998 to 2004 she worked as Maître de Ballet and choreographers’ assistant for the company Aterballetto, directed by Mauro Bigonzetti.
During that time she has collaborated with many successful choreographers such as Mauro Bigonzetti (all of his works), Michele Abbondanza & Antonella Bertoni (Figli d’Adamo), Christian Spuck (Morphin Games), Jiri Kilian (Heart’s Labyrinth), Itzik Galili (Chamelon) and William Forsythe (Steptext)
In 1999 she was called as guest Maître de Ballet at the Arena di Verona theatre, where she was invited again in 2000 as a member of the jury for the yearly dance auditions.
In 2002 she was appointed Maître de Ballet and tutor at the Tuscany ballets, working at the same time for choreographies by Mauro Bigonzetti, Fabrizio Monteverde, Michele Pogliani and Eugenio Scigliano.
That same year she also worked for the Teatro Massimo in Palermo as the assistant of Mauro Bigonzetti in order to recreate a pas de deux from Furia Corporis, one of Bigonzetti’s creations.
Since 2005 she has been working as freelance Maître de Ballet and tutor. She recreated the Kazimir’s Colour pas de deux for Eleonora Abbagnato and Alessio Carbone.
She works as Maître de Ballet for the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Teatro, S. Carlo in Naples, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, the Dominic Dance Theatre in Houston, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Scala in Milan, the Leipzig Opern, the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and the Zurich Ballet, West Australian Ballet.