International OrcheDance Competition

09/11/2017

AVVISO IMPORTANTE!
Per problemi non dovuti dall organizzazione, il concorso sarà posticipato al 2018, in data ancora da definire.
Ringrazio tutti per l attenzione prestata.

21/09/2017

AVVISO IMPORTANTE!!!!!!!!!
Per motivi non dipesi dall'organizzazione, il concorso Orchedance avra' luogo al Teatro Augusteo di Salerno i giorni 10-11-12 Novembre 2017. Per informazioni contattare il 347 0597505.

20/09/2017

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16/05/2017

PAOLA JORIO
Coreografa, insegnante, autrice e consulente di programmi televisivi sulla danza, Paola Jorio è oggi direttrice della Scuola del Balletto di Roma.
Inizia gli studi di danza presso il Balletto di Roma con i maestri Franca Bartolomei e Walter Zappolini ed è in questa stessa compagnia che, tra il 1956 e il 1965, avvia la propria carriera di danzatrice professionista partecipando agli spettacoli di repertorio classico.
Si perfeziona a Parigi all’École Supérieure d’Études Chorégraphiques dove, nel 1964, consegue il diploma di “Professeur de Danse Académique”. Sempre a Parigi frequenta l’Académie Volinine e il corso di repertorio classico con Madame Madaleine Lafon, oltre ai corsi di perfezionamento con Madame Vyroubova, Monsieur Trailine, Madame Trofimova, Monsieur Zovski e Madame Nora. Negli anni ’70 e ’80 segue i corsi di aggiornamento teorici e tecnici presso l’Accademia Nazionale di Danza.
Dal 1972 al 1992 è direttrice didattica della scuola del Balletto di Roma, la stessa in cui anni prima aveva iniziato la propria attività di ballerina, insegnante e coreografa.
Nel 1977, in seguito ai premi coreografici e su richiesta della direttrice Giuliana Penzi, è docente di tecnica accademica presso l’Accademia Nazionale di Danza. Vi rimane fino al 1993, anno in cui viene invitata da Elisabetta Terabust alla Scuola di danza del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in qualità di direttore vicario. Nel 2000 è nominata direttrice della Scuola di danza del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma e mantiene il proprio ruolo fino al 2011.
In questi anni, Paola Jorio si adopera attivamente per la promozione della danza tra i giovani e per la crescita dell’interesse verso il balletto ideando spettacoli per le scuole e recandosi nelle sedi scolastiche di Roma e del Lazio per dimostrazioni didattico-artistiche appositamente create con gli allievi della Scuola del Teatro dell’Opera. Per tale attività riceve, nel settembre 2011, a Positano, il “Premio all’Alta Formazione” dedicato a Luca Vespoli.
Ottiene numerosi altri riconoscimenti.
Svolge la propria attività coreografica anche nel cinema per l’episodio diretto da Federico Fellini nel film Tre passi nel delirio (1968). Lavora inoltre come autrice e consulente per la televisione in “D…come Danza” Rai3 (1992), “Itinerario danza” per scuola educazione, Rai3 (1991), “uno e due…” per GBR (1971), “Oggi parliamo di…danza”, Rai3, “Ricordi della Scala” per il Delia Scala Show(1969), “Ritmo e Movimento” per Telescuola.
Dal 2012, su invito del maestro Walter Zappolini, direttore artistico attuale della Compagnia del Balletto di Roma e per oltre 15 anni alla guida della Scuola di danza del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Paola Jorio è direttrice artistica della nuova Scuola del Balletto di Roma.
Choreographer, teacher, author of some television programs for dance, Paola Jorio is now the director of the Ballet School in Rome.
She began her dance studies at the Ballet of Rome with the masters Franca Bartolomei and Walter Zappolini and at the same company, between 1956 and 1965, she began her career as a professional dancer participating in performances of classical repertoire to the grotto of Villa Giulia in Rome, at the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, Teatro Moderno in Cagliari, and Teatro Massimo of Catania and in various Italian cities.
She get her specialization in Paris at the École Supérieure d'Études Chorégraphiques where, in 1964, she obtained a diploma of "Professeur de Danse Académique". In Paris she attended the Académie Volinine and the classical repertoire course with Madame Madeleine Lafon, in addition to master classes with Madame Vyroubova, Trailine Monsieur, Madame Trofimova, Zovski Monsieur and Madame Nora. In the '70s and' 80s following the theoretical and technical training courses at the National Academy of Dance.
From 1972 to 1992 she works as a director of the Ballet School of Rome, the same School where years before she began her activities as a dancer, teacher and choreographer.
Participate with their students in many national competitions and received important awards such as the prestigious "Golden Terpsichore", City of Lucca (1966-1968) and the prizes for choreography (1970-1971) with Jeux d'enfants G jobs . Bizet, Italian Rhymes, Carillonse the Italian by F. Mendelssohn.
In 2000 she became director of the Dance School of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome until 2011.
In recent years, Paola Jorio is actively seeking to promote dance among young people and for the growing interest towards designing ballet performances for schools and going into school locations in Rome and Lazio for educational and artistic demonstrations designed specifically with the students of the Opera School. For this activity receives, in September 2011, in Positano, the "Prize to the High Education" dedicated to Luca Vespoli.
She received numerous other awards,
Paola Jorio is the new artistic director of the Ballet School of Rome .

03/05/2017

Nato a Barcellona ha iniziato la sua formazione presso la scuola di danza sp****la Maria de Avila / Zaragoza; dopo aver ottenuto la borsa di studio presso l'Escuela Nacional Cubana de Ballet entra a far parte della Compagnia del Balletto Nazionale di Cuba sotto la direzione di Alicia Alonso. Nel 1998 è stato ballerino dello Scottish Ballet, prima di trasferirsi nel 2001 al National Ballet Theatre Mannheim e nel 2003 al Balletto del Teatro di Stato di Karlsruhe. Dal 2002 partecipa a vari gala in tutto il mondo; Nel 2006 ha interpretato il ruolo di Desire (Prince) nel balletto La bella addormentata di Darrell Tolone al Teatro dell'Opera di Graz; Nel 2007 ha ballato il Dr. Coppelius in Coppelia di Jochen Ulrich al Teatro di Stato di Linz. È fondatore e direttore del Festival Internacional de Dansa d'Esparreguera a Barcellona.Dalla stagione 2.003/04 è Direttore alla compagnia di danza del Tirolerlandestheater Innsbruck. Per il suo pezzo di danza Frida Kahlo - Pasión por la vida, gli è stato conferito il premio teatro musicale austriaca, lo Schikaneder d'Oro per la migliore produzione di balletto della stagione 2011/12.Gli è stato inoltre assegnato il premio Tirolissimo, il premio della pubblicità tirolese, per Il libro fotografico sulla Società di Günther Egger e per il video promozionale della società Steinmayr & Co.

Born in Barcelona, He began his ballet education at the Spanish ballet school of Maria de Avila / Zaragoza; Then He get a scholarship for the Escuela Nacional Cubana de Ballet and he dances at the Cuban National Ballet under the direction of Alicia Alonso. In 1998, he was engaged to the Scottish Ballet before moving to the Ballet of the Nationaltheater Mannheim in 2003 and the Ballet of the Staatstheater Karlsruhe in 2003. Since 2002 He gets worldwide invitations for galas ; In 2006 he took over the role of Desire (Prince) in the ballet The Sleeping Beauty by Darrell Toulon at the Opernhaus Graz; In 2007 he danced Dr. Coppelius in Coppelia by Jochen Ulrich at the Landestheater in Linz. He is the founder and director of the Festival Internacional de Dansa d'Esparreguera in Barcelona.
Since the 2003-04 season, he has been part of the TLT's dance company. Since the 2009/10 season, he has been the director of the Tanzcompany at the Tirolerlandestheater Innsbruck and has presented many choreographies for ballets and musicals, and at the same time He has always been on the stage as a dancer like in My Lord, Othello and The Burning Village.
For his dance piece Frida Kahlo - Pasión por la vida, he was awarded the Austrian Music Theater Prize, the Golden Schikaneder for the best ballet production of the 2011/12 season. The photo book about Günther Egger's company and Steinmayr & Co's advertising video produced by the company were both awarded in the Tirolissimo, the Tyrolean advertising prize.

20/04/2017

UNA BREVE PRESENTAZIONE DELLE COREOGRAFIE PER LA SEZIONE CONTEMPORANEO

COREOGRAFIE GENTILMENTE OFFERTE AI CONCORRENTI DA RICARDO FERNANDO

A SHORT VIDEO PRESENTATION FOR THE CONTEMPORARY SECTION

CHOREOGRAPHIES KINDLY GIVEN TO THE CANDIDATES FROM RICARDO FERNANDO

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Choreographies by Ricardo Fernando for the International Dance Competition For more details about this unique dance competition visit www.orchedance.com

14/04/2017

Scaricate il regolamento qui e scoprite le musiche e coreografie del concorso.
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05/04/2017

Ricardo Fernando gave to the International Orchedance Competition the possibility to have a few of his choreographies.
The candidates from the Contemporary will have the opportunity to dance one of his pieces.
is the winner of the “Recognition Award of the German Dance Price 2015” (Anerkennungspreis der Deutscher Tanzpreis 2015) and received his award on the 28th of March 2015 in a Ballet Gala at the Aalto Theatre Essen.

In 1993, starts Ricardo Fernando his career as a Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer in the City of Bremerhaven, Germany, where he works 7 years long creating several full evening story ballets and many contemporary pieces, building up a great and hungry audience for Dance.Here he also created one of the first Benefit Aids-Tanz Gala doing the same later in Regensburg and Hagen. In 1998 he was invited to Direct the ballet in the City of Chemnitz where he stayed till 2000, being then director of two companies two years in the same time. In 2001 he got the same position in the City of Pforzheim, where He stayed one year moving then to Regensburg till 2003.
In the middle of Season 2003/04, start Ricardo Fernando his Artistic Direction at the theatre Hagen, he began with the premiere of the dance piece "Tango".Ricardo Fernando “Tango” evening, as well as, the "TangoMania",went again on the stage of the Hagen Theatre, with totally modified Ensemble and new choreographies in the season 2008/2009 and was acclaimed by the press and public.
Still in the same season, Ricardo Fernando set in April 2004 with Sergei Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet”, his first full evening story ballet for his new Company . "This premiere with Ricardo Fernando, gives hope for a beginning of a new a Ballet Renaissance in Hagen".
Other Stories Ballets will follow in the coming seasons, such as "The Nutcracker" in 2005/2006 and again with new staging and choreography in 2012/2013. Cinderella was seen in the 2005/2006 season and the 2006/2007 "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In the season 2007/2008 with a whole new interpretation, celebrate Ricardo Fernando with "Giselle", a great success and the critics wrote that the Hagen version of "Giselle" it is a very good example of “how to do ballet with a Small Company”. Also in the same season, there were two dance pieces to see it which have enthusiastically the audience, in “Rituale” Fernando has this time, two small story ballets with "Sacre" and "Les Noces", "The Firebird" follows in the season 2009/2010 and "the Sleeping Beauty (Reloaded) in 2011/2012. With" All you need is dance ", 2006/2007, achieve Ricardo Fernando and the ballet hagen International level and recognition, would be chosen, best dance piece in NRW in the criticism survey and “Bolero " the best version of Ravel´s music in the last years. Always looking after a new challenge , Ricardo Fernando created ballet evening with two, three, even four parts for the ballet hagen, "Moliere", "Dance in Motion", "Carmina Burana", "Five Waltzes", "Carmen/Yerma” "and in the season 2011/2012, the Theatre Hagen 100 year anniversary, the audience selected “Bachtanzt” as the best dance piece of the year.
With "Le Bal", "Estação- Esperança" and "Brabrabrasil" Ricardo Fernando has Conceived three special dance piece for Opus, Theatre Hagen second Stage. With the commitment of Ricardo Fernando, by inviting guest choreographers the ballet hagen gets not only new opportunities but a great appreciation outside Hagen, ballet as "Three Faces", "Nighthawks", “drei-mal-tanz”, "Shortcuts”,“Tanz-Trilogy " and “Terra Brasilis”, were celebrated by audience and press. With the series International AIDS Dance Gala, Hagen, became stage for the stars of the International dance scene. In "Ballroom dance project ", dance for children and young people or "closing the Gap " dance project for people with physical disability, "My friends My neighbor" dance project for children under 12 years old, Ricardo Fernando shows the social commitment of the Ballet Hagen, an important role for the city. with “Platzwechsel” and “Tanzlabor” Ricardo Fernando opens the possibility for Younger dancers of the company, itself, to try their first choreographies. Those Dance Pictures, documents the ballet renaissance in theatre Hagen, of the small but expressive dance company under the artistic direction of Ricardo Fernando.

Ricardo Fernando work as a guest choreographer in Germany, Japan, Brazil, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, Italy.
From the Season 2017/2018, Ricardo Fernando it will be the Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer of the Ballet Augsburg.

01/04/2017

Ramona de Saá began studying classical ballet after having received a scholarship at the age of eleven along with her sister, Margarita de Saá. She was a student with Fernando and Alicia Alonso, Magda González, Mary Skeaping, Ana Ivanova and Jose Parés at the Alicia Alonso Academy.
She was one of the first ballerinas of the National Ballet of Cuba. With the Cuban National Ballet Company de Saá toured Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, China, Korea, Mongolia and the former Soviet Union. An injury saw her retire as a ballerina in 1966, after 12 successful years as a dancer.
In 1962 she founded the National School of Arts directed by Fernando Alonso. In 1965 she was named directress of the National Ballet School and in 1977 was promoted as a National Adviser with the Arts Teaching Division, currently known as National Arts Schools Center, CNEART.
De Saá is an outstanding ballet mistress, one of the most renowned experts in dance teaching in today's world, she is internationally acknowledged as the designer of today's classical dance teaching system in Cuba. She is a professor with the Cuban National Ballet School, an assistant professor with the Higher Institute for the Arts and a methodologist at the National Arts School Center in Cuba, and the current Director of the Cuban National Ballet School.
She has been the professor and mentor of most of the main male dancers and ballerinas with the Cuban National Ballet company, including, among many others, former principal with American Ballet Theater- and Carlos Acosta –guest principal dancer with the Royal Ballet of the London based in Royal Opera House.
At present she is a promoter and organizer of national and international dance competitions and festivals for ballet students; she has also participated in international events as ballet mistress, jury member and professor in technical assistance programs in different countries.
She has received important awards and recognitions, including Cuba’s highest cultural distinction –the “Felix Varela” Order- granted by the Cuban Council of State; a Diploma from the Nina Novak Ballet, Caracas, Venezuela; the Citizen of Honor Title by the City of Torino, Italy; the Vignale Danza Award in Italy; the Jeonville Festival Best Mistress Award in Brazil; the Grand Prix as Best International Ballet Mistress at the Regio Danza Festival held in Calabria, Italy.
In 2006 Ramona de Sáa Bello received Cuba’s National Dance Award for her entire life’s work.

29/03/2017

Born in Bristol (GB). After studying at London’s prestigious Ballet Rambert School, he joined their company as a dancer. Wherlock was Ballet Director at Hagen Theatre in Germany from 1991 to 1996, then spending three seasons as director of the Lucerne Ballet before moving to Komische Oper Berlin as artistic director and choreographer of BerlinBallett. He has been director and head choreographer of Ballett Basel since the 2001/2002 season, and artistic director of the renowned festival «basel tanzt» from 2004 to 2009.
He worked as choreographer with, among others, the following companies: New English Contemporary Ballet, Tanzforum Köln, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Finnish Dance Theatre Helsinki, Ballett Staatstheater Braunschweig, Romanian National Ballet, The Icelandic Ballet, Ballet National de Nancy et de Lorraine, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet de l’Opéra de Nice, aalto ballett theater essen, Europa Danse (UNESCO), Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Singapore Dance Theatre, Ballett der Vereinigten Bühnen Graz, Introdans in Arnheim/Holland, Ballett des Badischen Staatstheaters Karlsruhe, Phoenix Dance Theatre Leeds and Ballet Contemporaneo del Teatro San Martín/Argentina. Wherlock also created a full-length ballet for Les Étoiles de l’Opéra National de Paris.
His film and TV work includes the choreography for Claude Lelouch’s cinema production «Hasards ou Coïncidences», presented in 1998 at the Venice Biennale and at the Montréal and Chicago festivals. In 2000, Wherlock received the Prix Italia for the award-winning dance film «Passengers», produced by the Swiss broadcasting company DRS, RM Associates and 3SAT. His most recent film success «One bullet left» – also produced by Swiss broadcasting company DRS – was awarded the Golden Rose of Montreux in 2003. In 1999 he was nominated for the international dance award «Benois de la Danse».
Richard Wherlock’s particular interest lies in supporting talented up-and-coming dancers. He serves on the juries of numerous international dance competitions.

27/03/2017

Renato Zanella was born in Verona. His father’s side of the family stems from an Italian industrial background whilst his mother’s family is artistically inclined and originates from the German speaking area in Southern Tyrol – his grandfather built violins in Bozen. Already as a teenager with a height of 1,86 meter, his first love was sports, primarily basketball. It was rather by chance that at age seventeen Renato came into contact with ballet. But since then he devoted his entire energy and passion to dance.
Zanella received his first training in Verona before moving on to Rosella Hightower’s famous “Centre de Danse International” in Cannes where he completed his studies. He got his first work contract right away in 1982 from Heinz Spoerli in Basel. There, unusually tall for a dancer with 1,86 meter, he become familiar with the works of Balanchine, Van Manen, Robert North, Ulysses Dove as well as Spoerli himself. In the course of the next three years he accumulated a wealth of background and experience which stood him in good stead when he moved on to the world famous ballet company of Stuttgart in 1985.
In Stuttgart, the chef de ballet, Marcia Haydée, gave Zanella not only the chance to work with great choreographers and appear in their works (such as John Cranko, Maurice Béjárt, Jiri Kylián, Mats Ek, John Neumeier, William Forsythe, Azary Plisetsky, Glen Tetley and Kenneth MacMillan) but also to realise his own creative ambitions: At age twenty-eight, in 1989, Zanella’s first own choreography for two dancers lasting for seven minutes called “Die andere Seite” (the other side) based on the music of Joachim Kühn’s “Dark” was staged.
In 1991 he created for Haydée and Richard Cragun a duo called “Stati d’animo” based on the music of Stravinsky’s “Duo concertant”.
Already in 1992 his first full length evening programme was presented (“Mann im Schatten” – Man in the Shade - to the music of Richard Farber). In the same year he also created “Voyage” for Vladimir Malakhov.
In 1993 he came up with another full length programme. This time for Marcia Haydée called “Mata Hari” using the music of Shostakovich. The same year, Haydée appointed him to the post of choreographer-in-residence for the Stuttgart ballet company. This ushered in a gradual change where his dancing career was reduced in favour of more time spent on choreography. At about this time his first choreographies for various operas were realised which have subsequently remained an important aspect of his work.
Zanella was appointed head of the ballet company of The Vienna’s State Opera in 1995, at age 34.During his ten-year term there Zanella has presented close to forty own choreographies ranging from short pieces to full length evening programmes. His Mozart ballet from 1998 “Wolfgang Amadée” has achieved particular acclaim. In 1999 Zanella paid homage to the local genius Johann Strauß by choosing his music for his own danced version of “Aschenbrödel” (Cinderella). Zanella has repeatedly used classical music in his works but is nevertheless also known for his close attachment to modern music. Yet, he has focused more and more on the great challenges of ballet literature such as Strawinsky’s “Sacre de printemps” (1996), Ravel’s “Bolero (1998), Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” (2000) and Khachaturian’s “Spartacus” (2002). His last choreography for the Vienna State Opera was Strawinsky’s “Renard” in 20During his ten years Zanella has transformed the Vienna Ballet Company into a self reliant ensemble capable of filling even the great roles by their own dancers and meeting the challenges of the greatest choreographers: works from Kylian to van Manen, from Forsythe to Neumeier were presented as were works from Balanchine, MacMillan or Ashton. Traditional choreographies by Petipa and many treatments by Nurejew were also seen. Yet, the lovers of ballet appreciated the fact that the main focus of Zanella’s work was always the modern and new.
During his years as head of the Vienna State Opera Ballet Company Zanella created numerous choreographies used during the traditional Vienna New Year’s Concert performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra every January first and televised to millions all over the world. (He did that again in 2010 and will be responsible for the one in 2017).
Zanella gave young choreographers from within his corps de ballet a chance of expressing themselves and paid close attention to the training of the next generation of ballet dancers that were nurtured carefully in a ballet school part of the State Opera.
His project called “off ballet special” won wide acclaim where he let handicapped and non-handicapped members of a cultural group called “I am ok” dance alongside dancers of the Vienna State Opera Ballet Company in moving choreographies.
Zanella hat mit den großen Tänzern seiner Zeit gearbeitet - Marcia Haydée, Carla Fracci, Anastasia Volotchkova, Simona Noja, Shoko Nakamura, Polina Semionova, Eleonora Abbagnato,Olga Esina Egon Madsen, Richard Cragun, Roberto Bolle, Alessio Carbone, Tamas Detrich, Benito Marcelino, Vladimir Malakhov, Tamas Solymosi, Manuel Legris, Nicolas Le Riche, Pascal Molat, Giuseppe Picone.
His choreographies for operas have become an increasingly important part of his creative output. Especially his creations for “Rienzi” (1997) and “Guillaume Tell”(1998) alongside David Pountney as director led to a co-operation that culminated in working for the Festival of Bregenz, and among others to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London, the Teatro San Carlos in Lisbon, the Marinski-Theater in St. Petersburg as well as the Hamburgische Staatsoper and the Opera House of ZuricZanella has also come up with the choreographies for opera productions staged by Hans Neuenfels, Götz Friedrich , Jürgen Flimm, Günter Krämer, Nicola Joel, Mario Pontiggia, Nicola Raab Franco Zeffirelli. Pierluigi Pizzi.
After leaving the Vienna State Opera Zanella expanded his wide-ranging international career. His choreographies are enacted by ballet companies not only in Europe but also in America and Asia.
In 2008 his choreography for John Adam’s Opera “The Flowering Tree” directed by Nicola Raab was widely acclaimed in Chicago.In 2009 Zanella branched out into a new field of artistic endeavour by staging operas. His first project “Cosi fan tutte” shown at the “Attersee Klassik-Festival” was a big success with the public and the critics. In 2010 “Carmen“ and in 2011 he staged "La Traviata" for the Festival of the Aegean. In 2012 "Faust" in 2013 „I Vespri Siciliani“ with the Greek National Opera. In 2014 The Marry Widow for the National Theater in Mannheim and in 2015 Cavalleria Rusticana for The Fondation Arena di Verona.
Renato Zanella was Director of the Greek National Opera Ballet from September 2011 till July 2015 and from September 2013 till December 2015 in the same position at the Fondazione Arena di Verona.
Since September 2016 he is after Johan Kobborg, Ballet Director at the Bucharest National Opera.
The Italian publication “Danza & Danza” awarded him 1995 the title of “best Italian choreographer abroad”. In 2000 he received the “Premio Internazionale Gino Tani” in Rome. 2001 he was given the “Jakob Prandtauer-Preis” in St. Pölten (Austria). The same year, “Danza & Danza” acknowledged his work at the Vienna State Opera with the distinction “Best artistic director” and in 2007 for the best Production in Italy with Peer Gynt in. In 2015 he became the Award Danza Capri International for his career. The Republic of Austria honoured him with the “Cross of Honour for the Sciences and Arts”2001 and in 2012 with the granting of the title "Professor".
Renato Zanella counts over 150 creations and defines himself and his work as a product born out of curiosity and the addiction to continuously experience new things, meet new personalities and talents and receive incessantly new inspirations for his work.

16/03/2017

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