Massimo Gerardi

Massimo Gerardi (* 1966 in Italy ) is an Italian ballet dancer , choreographer and teacher for ballet , dance and choreography .

Life

Career as a dancer

Gerardi completed a professional dance training (from 1980), first in Udine at the dance school of Paola Galliussi Ceron, then later in Reggio Emilia ; With a scholarship he came to the renowned Italian ballet company ATERballetto , where his teachers included Olga Evreinoff, Mari Kajiwara, Bronwen Curry, Ronald Brown and Floris Alexander. After graduating from high school (1985) and completing his dance training, he initially had piece contracts as a ballet dancer with the ballet ensemble of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and with the ballet company of the former prima ballerina Carla Fracci (1985–1986).

At the age of 21 Gerardi went to Germany . Here he initially received a permanent engagement as a ballet dancer at the Stadttheater Augsburg (1987–1989) as an ensemble dancer with solo engagement. Between 1989 and 1991 he had guest contracts as a dancer at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , at the ATERballetto and the Balletto di Venezia , where he appeared in choreographies by Amedeo Amodio , Giuseppe Carbone , Birgit Cullberg and Jeffrey Cauley , among others .

Gerardi was then engaged as a solo dancer at the Nuremberg Opera House (1992–1997), the Dortmund Theater (1998–1999) and the Linz State Theater (1999–2000). At the Nuremberg Ballet he worked with the ballet directors and chief choreographers David Sutherland and Jean Renshaw (from 1994); he later worked again with Renshaw in Dortmund. During these years he danced in choreographies by William Forsythe , Amanda Miller, David Bingham, Rui Horta, Antonio Gomes, Jenny Coogan, Rick Kam, Gregor Zöllig, Jacopo Godani, Mei Hong Li, Mark Dendy, Robert Poole and Martin Stiefermann.

Career as a choreographer

From the end of the 1990s, in collaboration with members of the companies in which he danced, he developed various choreographies of his own, with which he won prizes, for example in 1998 at the Florence Choreographic Competition in Florence , in 1999 at the Choreography Competition in Hanover and at the Choreography Competition in Treviso . In 2000 he received a grant from the Kunststiftung NRW for choreography with internships (2000–2001) at the Nederlands Dans Theater with Hans van Manen , the Icelandic Ballet (with Jorma Uotinen ), the Gothenburg Ballets (with Jacopo Godani) and Richard Wherlock at the Komische Oper Berlin .

From 2001 to 2005 he was engaged as a choreographer and trainer for ballet and dance at the State Theater Oldenburg ; There he created various of his own choreographies and worked as an assistant for pieces by the choreographers Martin Stiefermann, Gregor Zöllig, Marianela Boan and Kevin O'Day. Between 2005 and 2009 Gerardi designed his own choreographies, with full-length pieces and shorter pieces, at the Kiel Theater (2007, dance piece Dances for the Masses with music by Depeche Mode ), at the State Theater Oldenburg, at the Theater Vorpommern and in France at the Théâtre de Saint -Quentin-en-Yvelines .

Gerardi created guest choreographies in 2010 at the Odeon Theater ( Teatrul Odeon ) in Bucharest , with the dance piece Depeche // Dance , and in the 2010/2011 season with the ballet of the Gießen Theater ; There he developed the choreography for the dance piece Puppet Dances with music by Léo Delibes .

Teaching

Since 2003 he has headed the dance division of the independent dance and theater collective movingtheatre.de in Cologne together with the Italian choreographer Emanuele Soavi (* 1973) . In 2006 (for the choreography Pop Eye ) and 2009 (for the choreography Site specific ) he received the Cologne Dance Theater Prize for his choreographies with movingtheatre.de . With the dance company movingtheatre.de he also took part in various dance festivals: Bolzano Danza, Mittelfest in Cividale del Friuli , Festival Shakespeare in Mataró , Festival eXplore in Bucharest, Pacemaker Festival Aachen, Tanzwoche Dresden, Festival Stummer Schrei in Stumm , Internationales Tanzfestival Kassel, Children's Dance Festival Kiel and Dance Festival Karlsruhe.

From 2009 to 2011 Gerardi was a lecturer in contemporary dance at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne; he was also visiting professor at the State Academy for Choreography in Bucharest and at the State Academy for Dance in Arnhem . Since September 2012 he has been a lecturer in contemporary dance at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden .

Web links

• Massimo Gerardi - Internet presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Massimo Gerardi  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Vita at the cult! Ur partner agency , accessed on June 12, 2012
2. ↑ The brave little dance village in: Frankfurter Rundschau from April 23, 2009
3. ↑ ^{a b} Massimo Gerardi Vita Festival SidebySide , accessed on December 31, 2010
4. ^ ^{A b} Massimo Gerardi International Summer Ballet Workshop 2010
5. ↑ ^{a b} Massimo Gerardi biography at Kulturserver NRW
6. ↑ Depeche Mode-inspired dance show in Bucharest ( Memento from June 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) in: Romanian Times from March 12, 2010
7. ^ Coppélia, rape; Performance review. Retrieved October 5, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Sexy moments or tormenting scenes of violence? Retrieved October 5, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Massimo Gerardi  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (biography)
10. ↑ The winners of the Cologne Dance and Theater Awards ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 31, 2010 
11. ↑ Teachers: Massimo Gerardi Official website of the University of Music and Dance Cologne, accessed on December 31, 2010
12. ^ Massimo Gerardi biography Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden