MAD International Dance Competition

Mrs. Dorella needs no introduction, we report only some of the main elements of her artistic history.
She entered the La Scala school at the age of 8, under the direction of Esmée Bulnes, she graduated in 1969. Within the corps de ballet of the Teatro alla Scala she is a soloist in 1972, prima ballerina in 1977, starting from 1986 étoile. Later she is artistic director of the Milan Ballet. On television, she participated in the 1981-1982 edition of Fantastico and in the big fictional films on Italia 1 in 2005 and Non stop dreaming in 2009 and 2011.
Among the most significant interpretations of her we remember La strada by Mario Pistoni to music by Nino Rota. She oriella Dorella she says she fell in love with the character of Gelsomina seeing the interpretation of Fiorella Cova, prima ballerina of La Scala and wife of Pistoni.
Other roles in the classical and contemporary repertoire played by Oriella Dorella are Giselle, Coppelia, The Nutcracker, Miss Julie by Birgit Cullberg, John Cranko’s The Taming of the Shrew, Kenneth McMillan’s L’Histoire de Manon, Onegin, Afternoon of a Faun by Jerome Robbins , Adam and Eve, Daphnis et Chloé by George Skibin, The Blue Angel by Roland Petit, Proust ou Les intermittences du coeur.

Classically trained dancer, she trained under the guidance of famous masters such as Victor Litvinov, Valentina Massini and Gabriel Popescu, arriving to carry out a career as a dancer in various Italian theaters. In 1992 he graduated as a teacher at the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala and founded together with the Principal Dancer of the Teatro alla Scala, Biagio Tambone and other colleagues, the A.I.D.A. Association, with the support of the then Director of the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala, Anna Maria Prina. In 1995 she coordinates the writing of the book Course of Classical Dance, published by De Vecchi.

In 2000 he obtained the Diploma of Professeur and Maitre de Ballet at the Teatro alla Scala and in the same year he became President of A.I.D.A., which since 2006 sees as Honorary President the Director of the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala, Frédéric Olivieri. Parallel to her teaching activity, she is in charge of the creation and production of some classical ballets, of which she signs the choreography. In 2008 she founded the AIDA lei academic classical dance training center, of which she is still the Artistic and Didactic Director.
Since 2009 she has been Professor of Classical Academic Practice, in the A.I.D.A. in collaboration with Accademia Teatro alla Scala.

He was born in Milan in 1984 and lived in Naples where he studied classical and contemporary dance. He specializes in Florence and Budapest.
He has worked as a professional dancer in various Italian and European companies.
In 2012 he founded the Kinesis CDC based in Florence.
Winner of the competition DANZ’E ’- DANZ’E’ OFF in Rovereto, with the creation of a show for the
Festival Oriente Occidente.
Selected for the platform of young choreographers in Almada Portugal. Selected for the European project “The craft of art” by Fabbrica Europa.
Choreographer for Balletto del sud by Fredy Franzutti
Selected for the Choreographic Dance European project of the National Dance Foundation,
Aterballetto and the Teatro Regio di Parma Foundation.
His productions for Kinesis CDC are and have been on tour in important National Festivals and International.
Since 2016 he has specialized in the creation of cultural projects that have seen the support of: Tuscany Region, CR Firenze Foundation, Municipality of Florence and Montevarchi (AR), Publiacqua, MIC Ministry of Culture, Florence Dance Festival.

She is the director and choreographer of the company DéjàDonné, a dance production organization supported by the MIC, Ministry of Cultural Heritage. She trained at the Teatro alla Scala and participated from an early age in theater productions working as a soloist for Paolo Bortoluzzi in “Il Principe Felice “, With Carla Fracci and Rudolf Nureyev in” The Nutcracker “; she specializes at the Académie Princesse Graçe in Monte Carlo and then approaches contemporary dance by studying with the main release technique masters. Since 2007 she has been a dancer and assistant of the international CIA DéjàDonné. He danced in the Olympic Contemporary Ballet and took part in seasons of the Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Arena di Verona, Rossini Opera Festival, Carlo Felice di Genova, Opera di Bilbao, Opera di Roma, Comunale di Firenze, Bunkakhan in Tokyo , Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. She holds courses and seminars: Catholic University of Mi-teacher of contemporary dance and physical theater in the Master “Pedagogical actions and interactions through storytelling and theatrical education” for the Faculty of Education; she leads masterclasses at the International Dance Theaters Festival in Lublin; at the SEAD – Salzburg; Videodance workshop with the filmmaker Gilles Toutevoix at the International Dançaem foco Festival – Rio de Janeiro; she is guest lecturer at the Duncan Center Conservatory in Prague. Since 2017 she has worked alongside the director Jacopo Spirei as assistant director, movement coach and choreographer in some opera productions including Nabucco at the Teatro Sociale in Como, Rinaldo, for OperaLombardia and Ballo in Maschera at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

Founder and Director of Micro Mosso, an association that deals with Contemporary Art. You are a historian of contemporary art. Her research focuses on the new national and international art scene of the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century, arriving at contemporary expressions. You have collaborated with various Italian and foreign companies in the sector including Saatchi Gallery (London) and more recently LOOM Gallery (Milan).

She has worked as a set photographer for various companies and theatre and dance festivals for more than 30 years.

In 1997 she published the photobook “Giorni di Tango”. She got in touch with the most interesting musical and choreographic experiences related to Argentinean tango and, respectively in 2000 and 2005, she worked with the writer Michela Fregona on the books “Anime Altrove – luoghi e genti del tango argentino in Italia” and “Tangomalìa”.  

She started her collaboration with Carla Fracci – which lasted for more than 12 years – in 1996 with the show “Omaggio a Nijinsky” directed by Beppe Menegatti. This collaboration brought to the creation of the book and photographic exhibition “Carla Fracci immagini”. The exhibition has been held in prestigious venues in Italy and abroad. Last August the Italian Cultural Institute brought the exhibition in Mexico City. In 2006 she started her work as a set photographer with the director Carlo Mazzacurati for the movies “La Giusta Distanza” and “La Passione”. With the publication of “Dramma sacro – Omaggio al Mantegna” she has started a new chapter of research and experimentation on the male body.

In 2010  “Buenos Aires cafè” – a travel journal co-written by Lucia Baldini and Michela Fregona based on images and words – was published by the publishing house Postcart in Rome. Buenos Aires cafè won the “Marco Bastianelli 2010” award as the best photobook of the year.

In 2012 the same publishing house published the photo essay “Luci sulla Ribalta”, which focuses on the work of set photographers through dialogues with actors, directors, choreographers and musicians and talks about her work of more than 25 years as a photographer.

Since 2014 she has been working with actors and theatre companies as an assistant director and co-author of theatrical scripts.

In 2020 she contributed to create GAIA la Nuova Umanità, the artistic project that investigates the relation between man and nature through photographic and video research.

For fifteen years she has held workshops and seminars on set photography and identity through self-representation.

Her works are part of Italian and foreign public and private collections.

Her exhibitions have been held in Italy and abroad in galleries and institutional venues.

www.luciabaldini.it

He studied at Centro di Formazione A.I.D.A. and Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Afterwards he was admitted at the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden (Germany) where he worked with the SemperOper Ballet company. He graduated in 2013.

Ha danced for: Balletto di Milano, Croatian National Theater (Split), Wrocław Opera, Balletto del Sud, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (NYC), New York Theatre Ballet (NYC), Ajkun Ballet Theatre (NYC), South Bohemian Ballet (Czech Rep.).

Currently he is a ballet master and has been a teacher in U.S.A., Poland and Italy since 2015. 

Jouror – Contemporary Dance

Jouror- Visual and scenic impact, artistry