Laura Cazzaniga

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Laura Cazzaniga (born March 31, 1970 in Cassano d'Adda ) is an Italian ballet dancer .

Career

Cazzaniga completed her training in classical dance in Bergamo and at the Académie de Danse Princesse Grace in Monte Carlo and, from 1988, at the Hamburg Ballet School . She names Marika Besobrasova and Truman Finney as her most important teachers. Laura Cazzaniga speaks Italian, English, German and French.

She was named soloist in 1993, and John Neumeier named her principal soloist in 1998 while the ensemble performed in New York City . Since the 2008/09 season she has been working as a ballet master for the Hamburg Ballet company. Guest appearances have taken Cazzaniga to Cesena , Vicenza , Legnago , Munich and Moscow .

Creations and solos

Neumeier created numerous creations for her in his ballet choreographies:

  • Cinderella's mother and princess from another country in A Cinderella Story
  • The sea in Odyssey
  • Geruth in Hamlet (new version)
  • Pas de deux Scheherazade III (Easter concert 1999, Munich)
  • Star of the revue in Die Möwe
  • Laura in Preludes CV
  • Aschenbach's assistant, his mother and Tadzio's mother in Death in Venice
  • Organ in Parzival - Episodes and Echo
  • Silver Fairy in Sleeping Beauty (Mats Ek)

as well as solos in:

  • Messiah
  • Time after Time from "Bartók Pictures"
  • Winter trip
  • Nocturnes from " Songs of the Night "

repertoire

Cazzaniga's dance repertoire includes the following roles:

  • Likainion in Daphnis and Chloë
  • Olympia and Prudence in The Lady of the Camellias
  • Penelope in Odyssey
  • Diana in Sylvia
  • Cinderella's mother and a stepsister in
  • A Cinderella story
  • Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Dulcinea in Don Quixote
  • Bianca in Othello
  • Bäsle and Die Musik in Fenster zu MOZART
  • The good fairy and the queen in Sleeping Beauty
  • Louise, Consul Mrs. Stahlbaum, "La Fille du Pharaon" and "Esmeralda and the Fools" in "The Nutcracker"
  • Countess Capulet in Romeo and Juliet
  • Olivia in VIVALDI or What you want
  • The Queen Mother in illusions - like Swan Lake
  • Tamara Karsawina in Nijinsky
  • Myrtha in Giselle
  • Ygerne in Arthurian legend
  • Carrion in Peer Gynt
  • Irina Nikolajewna Arkadina in The Seagull
  • Celia in As You Like It
  • Gamsatti and Hindu dance in La Bayadère (Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa)

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personal data
SURNAME Cazzaniga, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ballet dancer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Cassano d'Adda