ANTONELLA MANDANICI

Antonella Mandanici

She started her studies in Brescia (IT) at the school “Forza e Costanza” but, soon after, she moved to Milan in order to further develop her professional skills and to work with Carmen Ragghianti, a former dancer from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.

While participating in 1982 to the production of “Sinhue” in Milan, Antonella studied and worked at the Kaiserslautern Theatre, Germany, with choreographers as Litvinov, Trayanova, Nuñez, Cauley.

Between 1981 and 1982 she worked in dance and fitness centers in Milan, Novara, Lodi, Bergamo, and Pavia. In 1986 she founded the school Art Studio Danza, in Salò, and, in 1989 she graduated in teaching from the National Dance Academy of Rome. Later on, she also gained the qualification as Pilates trainer.

She continued her work as a professional dancer in many productions choreographed by M° Carlos Palacios and in performances choreographed by herself at the theater Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera.

In summer 1996 she participated as choreographer and dancer to the dance theater performance “Open Air”, part of the festival Bresciaperta.

Since 1994 Antonella has been the artistic director of the International Summer School of Lake Garda. After many years in which the festival took place in different towns on the lake (Salò, Maderno, San Felice, Manerba) since a few years ago, it established in Manerba del Garda, a small town where dancers can study, relax and have fun all in one place.

During the years, the festival has received as guests many internationally renowned teachers and choreographers. Among the others: Gabriella Cohen, Bella Ratcinskaja, Clarissa Mucci, Mauro Astolfi, Janin Loringett, Ekoue, Carlos Palacios, Eugenio De Mello, Carmen Ragghianti, Virgilio Pitzalis, Mara Fusco, Kiko Guarabyra, Daniel Tinazzi, Margarita Trayanova, Serge Alzetta, Geneviéve Blanchard, Alex D’Orsay, Melania Molfesi, Frederic Olivieri, Loreta Alexandrescu, Damiano Bisozzi, Carlos Gacio, Jonb, Myrna Kamara, Larissa Lezhnina, Clara Pasinetti, Marco Pelle, Rene’ De Cardenas, Ilenia Logorelli, Roberto Fascilla, Vladimir Derevianko, Paolo Londi, Jan Breoeckx, Tadeus Matacz, Matilde Demarchi, Paola Vismara, Marco Batti, Caterina Felicioni, Susanna Beltrami, Carl Portal, Stephen Delattre Alessandra Pasquali, Marek Rozycki, Jeanyves Esquerre, Martin Meng, Lawrence Rodhes, Roberta Ferrara, Kim Lawence, Alessandra Pasquali, Elena De Laurentiis, Jaroslav Slavický, Lukas Slavicky, Francesca Matrundola, Marco Laudani, Birgit Keil, Carlos Valcárcel, Vladimir Klos, Vladimir Derevianko, Amanda Bennett, Brunella Viau, Paul Chantry, Rae Piper, Alessio Vanzini, Milena Di Nardo, György Szakály, Fethon Miozzi, Christian Schoen, Alexandre Stepkine. For many years, Antonella has worked to individually prepare each student to be admitted to European ballet schools. She also organizes auditions in Italy for foreign academies and professional companies, competitions and performances. She has been invited as a jury member to many national and international competitions.

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