I started dance lessons at the age of three. My elder brother and sister were both taking various dance classes at our local dance school so as soon as I was old enough my parents gave me the chance to give it a try. I was a competitive child with a lot of energy and I loved to move. […]
I grew up in a small village near Pompeii. When I turned six, my mother started giving pottery classes in a drop-in centre for people with disabilities.
As I was too young to be left home alone, she encouraged me to join a dance class that was held in the same estate during her shift. It was love at first sight. Within a few months, I was performing in my room to a handpicked audience consisting of stuffed animals, dolls and robot toys. […]
My gift of dancing comes from the Ancients. The Lengger dance is an old Javanese ritual dance. As a symbol of fertility, male dancers dressed up as women. When the Lengger dance was born, men were considered more powerful and purer than women were – this fortunately has changed! […]
My name is Bita and I was born in Iran. In Tehran, I was active in different sports such as swimming, basketball, and squash. I was also training in visual arts such as painting (something I get from my mum who has a masters in Art History). […]
Both my parents are classical musicians. My sister is a bit older than me and as the typical young sibling I always wanted to imitate her. As far as I can remember, we always had been performing little shows in the living room, with or without music. So basically, I can say I have always been performing […]
I grew up in England, not far from London. I fell into dance completely by chance. The mother of my best friend had bought several ballet lessons for her and her brother, but her brother was ready to give up after the first class. Since the lessons had already been paid for, she offered my parents the remaining classes. […]
For me, classical dancing is strongly associated with family ties. Both my grandparents on my mother’s side were dancers, my grandmother was a Professor at the Conservatoire. […]
I am Jacopo and I come from Landriano, Lombardy. I am twenty-three and have been living in Moscow since October 2016. I first decided to be a dancer when I was five. […]
The introduction of ballet came to me from my mother. She always adored ballet and took it throughout her life. So when I was little, she used to place me in the corner of the ballet studio as she took class and I would calmly watch. Classical ballet has always been in my life but the first form of dance that really captured me was actually Scottish Highland Dancing. […]
Comme tant de petites filles, ma maman m’avait inscrite à un cours de danse avant que je puisse vraiment prendre cette décision de mon propre chef. J’avais quatre ans. Je me souviens du bonbon « Krema » attendu avec gourmandise à l’issue du cours si nous l’avions mérité. […]