SUSANNA EGRI

Dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, Susanna Egri is one of the most unique personalities of Italian dance field. Since 1946 ,Prima ballerina and choreographer in several prestigious theaters and festivals (Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Comunale di Firenze, Opera di Roma, Regio di Torino, Spoleto, Nervi, etc.), her name is linked to the beginnings of television in Italy, for to which she pioneered the choreographic creation for the video medium, winning an Italia TV Award (1963) with her ballet Cavalleria Rusticana. An international choreographer, many of her creations have entered the repertoire of foreign companies (as Cullberg Ballet, Gulbenkian Foundation,) and just as many are the foreign tours of her company “I Balletti di Susanna Egri”. Member of juries in international competitions, Egri is often invited to hold seminars in Italy and abroad. In 1984 she was the first Italian choreographer called to China to give master classes and set up a ballet for a major Chinese company. Also in the context of the opera Susanna Egri has made important productions of particular prominence her choreography for the AIDA at the Arena di Verona, always restaged since eighteen years, with performances in Vienna , in Tokyo , in Caesarea (1993) and in Dortmund . Of great importance is the pedagogical activity in her dance school in Turin, in which many professional dancers active in Italy and abroad at the highest levels have been trained, and the institution of the University of Dance for the training of choreographers. As institutional carrer she has been involved in many project that have rethought the dance fiel internationnaly: as Former President of the Italian National Council of Dance – CNID ,Former Vice – President of Conseil International dela Danse – UNESCO ,Member of the Executive Council of the Dance Section of ELIA – European League of Institutes of the Arts . In 1998 she founded the Fondazione Egri per la danza (she is the President), a dance Foundation to bring in the future her values in dance field, Roots and Innovation. One year later she funded EgriBiancoDanza Company with Raphael Bianco, restaging some of her dance works but encouraging him to build a new repertoire. Since 2012 she has let the artistic direction to Rapahel, beeing always present has artistic advisor and happy has founder, to see her Company and Foundation developping projects to the future.

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