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EgriBiancoDanza directed by Susanna Egri and Raphael Bianco was established in Turin in 1999. EgriBiancoDanza embodies some of the distinctive characters and values of the Fondazione Egri per la Danza: curiosity, roots and innovation, research and sharing. Values that are required of all the artists of the Company.
EgriBiancoDanza: 2 artistic directors, 1 permanent choreographer, 2 assistants, 8 permanent dancers, 90 shows a year, more than 7000 spectators.
Board of directors
Susanna EGRI
Founder
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.
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.
Raphael BIANCO
Director
Born in Bombay. Since the age of 12 he has studied ballet and contemporary dance in Turin with Susanna Egri, joining her company in 1988. In 1991 he graduated with full marks at the “University of Dance” MA in Choreography. His international carreer as a dancer started in 1992 to 1994 at Norwegian National Contemporary Dance Company “NYE Carte Blanche” in Bergen (choreographies by Rui Horta, IC Johanssen, Solvi Edvardsen, Arne Fogerholt). Later he collaborated with Micha Van Hoecke and his Ensemble (1994-1995), later in France at the Ballet du Nord (1995-1999), working with choreographers such as JC Gallotta, C. Brumachon, Niels Christe and dancing as a soloist in many productions of the choreographer and director Maryse Delente. He has always wanted to develop his choreographic skills, by. creating choreographies for the company “I Balletti di Susanna Egri”, for various Gala showcases, International Festivals.
In 1999 he came back in Turin and funded with Susanna Egri EgriBiancoDanza Company, becoming resident choreographer. He has created most of the Company repertoire going from theatre performances until site-specific works, touring in Italy and abroad in Festivals as Infiorata in Genzano Italy, Budapest Spring Festival Hungary, TorinoDanza Festival Italy, Ohrid International Dance Festival Macedonia, International Dance Festival Fintdanz Chile, E45 Naples Fringe Festival Italy, Vignale Monferrato Festival Italy, Aura dance festival Lithuania, Tanz Bielefeld- Germany....
In more than 30 years of activity, he has received several awards as dancer (es. Rieti Premio Positano, finalist at Concours International de Paris) and as choreographer (es. in Italy Roma in Danza 2013, Solo Coreografoco, Le Voci dell'anima, in Poland Nijinsky Award).
In 2002 he has named the dance season of Fondazione Egri IPUNTIDANZA, since then part of his work as director is also managing his team of collaborators in order to create new focus and projects around the company development and also expanding the Fondazione Egri goals. Craeting new dance seasons, encouraging creation of young artisti, international exchanges, giving chance to tour to other Italian dance companies, increasing project of audience engagement, in order to create sinergies between cites in Piemonte region around dance field.
Born in Bombay. Since the age of 12 he has studied ballet and contemporary dance in Turin with Susanna Egri, joining her company in 1988. In 1991 he graduated with full marks at the “University of Dance” MA in Choreography. His international carreer as a dancer started in 1992 to 1994 at Norwegian National Contemporary Dance Company “NYE Carte Blanche” in Bergen (choreographies by Rui Horta, IC Johanssen, Solvi Edvardsen, Arne Fogerholt). Later he collaborated with Micha Van Hoecke and his Ensemble (1994-1995), later in France at the Ballet du Nord (1995-1999), working with choreographers such as JC Gallotta, C. Brumachon, Niels Christe and dancing as a soloist in many productions of the choreographer and director Maryse Delente. He has always wanted to develop his choreographic skills, by. creating choreographies for the company “I Balletti di Susanna Egri”, for various Gala showcases, International Festivals.
In 1999 he came back in Turin and funded with Susanna Egri EgriBiancoDanza Company, becoming resident choreographer. He has created most of the Company repertoire going from theatre performances until site-specific works, touring in Italy and abroad in Festivals as Infiorata in Genzano Italy, Budapest Spring Festival Hungary, TorinoDanza Festival Italy, Ohrid International Dance Festival Macedonia, International Dance Festival Fintdanz Chile, E45 Naples Fringe Festival Italy, Vignale Monferrato Festival Italy, Aura dance festival Lithuania, Tanz Bielefeld- Germany....
In more than 30 years of activity, he has received several awards as dancer (es. Rieti Premio Positano, finalist at Concours International de Paris) and as choreographer (es. in Italy Roma in Danza 2013, Solo Coreografoco, Le Voci dell'anima, in Poland Nijinsky Award).
In 2002 he has named the dance season of Fondazione Egri IPUNTIDANZA, since then part of his work as director is also managing his team of collaborators in order to create new focus and projects around the company development and also expanding the Fondazione Egri goals. Craeting new dance seasons, encouraging creation of young artisti, international exchanges, giving chance to tour to other Italian dance companies, increasing project of audience engagement, in order to create sinergies between cites in Piemonte region around dance field.
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