RESUME
OF
ALESSANDRA BEDIN

Date of birth …………………………………………………….: March 4th, 1982
Address ……………………………………………………..…… : Montebelluna (TV) - c.a.p. 31044
Telephone ……………………………………………………..… : cell.: 349.7769667
Telefax …………………………………………………………...…: 0423.248918
E-mail address ……………………………………………..…….: alessandra@alessandrabedin.net
Web site ……………………………………………………...… : www.alessandrabedin.net
Civil status …………………………………………………….….: married
Nationality……………………………………………………..…….: Italian

OCCUPATION UNTIL YEAR 2008

A) Ballet teacher, propaedeutic and jazz dance teacher with:
1)”Soave Dance Studio”, Soave (VR)
2)”Danza è”, Claudia Durante’s dance school, Bavaria di Nervesa della Battaglia(TV)
3)”Le Fontanelle” dance school, for Ekoue Codjovi and Claire Lusardi, Cerea (VR)
4)”Discanto” dance school, Sommacampagna (VR)
5)”Arabesque” dance school, Montebelluna (TV)

B) Ballet dancer

EXPERIENCE

1)Year 2007

• Becomes member of juries in competitions and examinations
• Learns about ‘Techno Dance’ for the evangelisation with Gabriella Morabito (Naples) in Florence
• Learns about how to worship God and warfare with the Banners with David Stanfield (Australia) in Florence
• Dances in different conventions and concerts to the glory of God in Florence, Milan, Rome, Trapani, Abano Terme and Treviso
• She is invited as teacher and dancer in Moscow (Russia) for the First International Christian Dance Conference organized by Lidia Gaidouk, teacher ICDF (International Christian Dance Fellowship)

2)Year 2006

• Teaches in Medium Schools in Rome and gains three prizes in the “Olimpiadi della Danza”
• Studies the 4th academic year of ballet class with Sonia Nifosi
• Dances in the 1st International Christian Dance Conference in Florence
• Works the whole summer in Rovereto as dancer

3)Year 2005

• Diploma to teach 2nd and 3rd academic year for classical dance
• Participation as dancer of contemporary in the international prize “Pegaso d’Oro” to Sonia Nifosi (Rome, April 19th)
• “Bluebird” and “Carmen” pas de deux from the repertoire with Stefan Banica (Maribor, Slovenia)
• “Stage” of classical dance given, first level
• Masterclass with Oleg Grachov to study “Le Corsaire” and “Black Swan” pas de deux with Stefan Banica

4)Year 2004

▪Teaching with: “Choral Dance Conservatory”, Grottaferrata (Roma)
Subject taught: Music for people graduating in ‘Teaching of Propaedeutics to the
ballet’
▪Ballet dancer with:
·“Mozart Festival”, at MART (Contemporary & Modern Art Museum), Rovereto (Trento,
Italy)
Show title: ‘Comete’ (Comets). Characters mimed and danced:
-Mozart
-Pulcinella (Punchinello)
-L’uccellino (The Little Bird)
·“Khorakhanè”, Luciano Firi’s ballet company, Venezia
Solo performances
·“Gruppomagnetika”, Sonia Nifosi’s ballet company, Frascati (Roma)
Solo performances
·“Danzaviva”, Maria Grazia Torbol’s ballet company, Rovereto (TR)
Solo performances in shows with:
- Cagliari’s “Piccolo Auditorium” theatre
- Cagliari‘s Archiepiscopal Auditorium
for father Morittu’s “Mondo X” and Franco Oliveiro

5)Year 2003

▪Ballet performances with:
·“Gruppomagnetika”, Sonia Nifosi’s ballet company,
Italian representative at the 6th Ballet International Festival of Cyprus
during the tour:‘Volo fra pensieri di luce’ (Flight Among Thoughts of Light)
·“Ensemble Atmosphère”, of music masters Carlo Pellizzari and Stefano Morelli;
choreographers: Alessandra Bedin and Luciano Firi
Show title: ‘Danzando al Caffè Concerto’ (Dancing at the Café Concert)
·“Danzaviva”, Maria Grazia Torbol’s ballet company,
Ballet and mime performances during the shows at:
- Bensheim (Germany)
- ‘La Cartiera’ theatre (Rovereto)
- MART (Contemporary & Modern Art Museum)
·Pas de deux ‘special guest’ with Enkel Zhuti, ‘primo ballerino’ of Tirana’s
Opera (Albania), in ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Le Corsaire’ during the
‘8th Ethnic and World Music International Festival’ of Valdagno (Vicenza)

6)Year 2002

▪Ballet dancer with:
·“Gruppomagnetika”, Sonia Nifosi’s ballet company,
Show title: ‘Cappello, cappotto e ombrello’ (Hat, Coat and Umbrella)
·“Danzaviva”, Maria Grazia Torbol’s ballet company,
Shows played in Rovereto and Trento by request of Enkel Zhuti (Tirana
Opera’s primo ballerino)

7)Year 2001

▪Performances in several ballet roles with the following companies:
·“Ensemble” of choreographer Micha van Hoecke, on his request, together with
Luciana Savignano, Gheorghe Iancu, Marco Pierin, Maria Grazia Falcon, Ruben
Celiberti.
Other performances in the following productions:
- ‘La dernière danse?’ (The Last Dance)
- ‘Pèlerinage’ (Pilgrimage)
- ‘Peter and the Wolf’
·“Danzaviva” of Maria Grazia Torbol.

8)Year 2000

▪Soloist with: “Gruppomagnetika” Sonia Nifosi’s ballet company,
Solo performances during the tour: ‘Quem quaeritis?’ in the theatres of Lecce, Nola,
Brindisi, Terracina, Matera, Francavilla

9)Years 1997-2000

▪1997: Debut as ‘prima ballerina’ with the ballet company “Teatro Liberi Muratori” at
the ‘G. Maffioli’ theatre of Caerano di S. Marco (Treviso, Italy), during the
dance-theatre show of ’La notte degli angeli’ (The Angels’s Night), together
with choreographer Giovanni Cilluffo
• 1998: “La Sylphide” in the Palais of Festivals (Cannes)
▪1999: Main ballet role during the show of the “Ecole Supérieure de Danse de
Cannes” at Cannes ‘Festival Palace’
▪2000: Several courses and auditions attended with highly positive evaluations
with choreographers Mario Piazza, Giorgio Rossi, Daniel Tinazzi, Micha van
Hoecke

STUDIES

A)DIPLOMAS

1) ‘Baccalauréat’ released by Nice (France) Lycée Technique in 2000 with the
degree of ‘BIEN’
2) ‘Ballet dancer diploma’ released by Rosella Hightower’s ‘Ecole Supérieure de
Danse׳, Cannes (France) in 2000

B)SCHOOL HISTORY

▪1986: Beginner student with “Tersicore Ballet School”, Montebelluna (TV)

▪1988: Student at “Arabesque Ballet School”, Montebelluna (TV)

▪1994:

·Third prize out of 52 contenders at the ‘National Junior Contest’ of Grassina (FI)
·Top marks in the ‘4th Cecchetti’ exam
·Ballet studies with “Il Balletto” school, Castelfranco Veneto (TV).
·Several ballet shows performed in the theatres of Turin, Udine, Mestre (VE),
Treviso, Abano Terme (PD), Castelfranco Veneto (TV)
·Top marks in the ‘5th R.A.D.’ exam

▪1995:

·Studies at “Professional Ballet School” of Montebelluna (TV)

·Study of ballet and contemporary and modern jazz dance with masters:
-Paolo Brugnoli -Heryda May -Pauline King -Anna Maria Prina
-Prudence Bowen -Bella Racinskaja -Nicoletta Jacopini
-Susanna Plaino -Giovanni Cilluffo –Claudio Ronda -Clarissa Mucci
-Carlo Sfolgori -Gabriella Tipaldi –Fabrizio Monteverde –Margherita Smirnova
-Roberto Baiocchi -Gigi Caciuleanu -Christopher Huggins –Mauro Astolfi
-Matteo Bittante -Ricardo Melendez -Gabriella Cohen

▪1997: Positive results in the auditions at:

-“Carcano’s Theatre European Ballet School”, Milan
-“Hungarian Dance Academy”, Budapest
-“Ecole Supérieure de Danse Rosella Hightower”, Cannes

▪2002:
-Asana and ballet course with Rita Poelvoorde
-Classic and repertory course with Franco De Vita (Alvin Ailey) and Raymond
-Lukens (American Ballet Theatre)
-Accomplishing course with Pina Jarhousso, Marina van Hoecke and Micaela
Barasciutti

▪2003:
-Music course at the DAMS Arts Faculty of Bologna with successful exams
-“Passo d’Addio” with “Don Quichotte” 1st act Kitri’s variation (final mark 58/60)
in the Teatro Olimpico, Rome

▪2004:
·Diploma of ‘Pre-academic ballet course teacher’; final mark 52/60 at Sonia
Nifosi’s “Choreutic Conservatory”
·Diploma of ‘First academic course teacher’ at Sonia Nifosi’s “Choreutic
Conservatory”
·Ballet course in Perugia with Christopher Huggins (Alvin Ailey) and Cati Jean
(teacher in Paris and Los Angeles)
·‘International Ballet Masterclasses’ attended in Prague with teachers:
-Daria Klimentova (English National Ballet)
-Otto Bubenicek (Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier)
-Francine Richard (Opéra de Paris)
-Christopher Hampson (international choreographer)
-Mark Baldwin (Rambert Dance Company)
-Brenda Edwards (Martha Graham Dance Company)
-Tamara Rojo (Royal Ballet)
-Greg Horsman (Australian Ballet, Kirov, Royal Danish Ballet, Houston Ballet,
Boston Ballet, English National Ballet)
-Vaclav Janecek (Playwright, Ph.Dr.)
-Jonathan Still (musicologist)
-Ian Comer (English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Rambert, Atlanta
Ballet, NYCB, ABT, White Oak D.P.)

HOBBIES

Guitar playing, singing, painting, book reading, dance costumes creation, show
critiques writing.

LANGUAGES

French: fluent
English: fluent
Romanian

FOR INFORMATION REFER TO

Sonia Nifosi, choreographer and director of “Choreutic Consevatory”, Grottaferrata
(Roma); tel: 0039.06.94288011, web site: www.sonianifosi.it

Mauro Thomas Annibale, director of “Soave Dance Studio”, Soave (VR), Italy; mobile phone:
0039.347.9171901

Enkel Zhuti, primo ballerino of Tirana’s Opera; Rovereto, tel: 0039.0464.423981

Carlo Vedovato, Cologna Veneta (VR), Italy, theatre director; mobile phone: 0039.349.3746002

Giuliana Merotto, Montebelluna (TV), Italy, director of the monthly magazine “Marca Aperta”; mobile phone: 0039.348.5702059