About
The New Professional Company 'Nuovo Balletto di Toscana', now managed by the new cultural association 'Balletto di Toscana', represents a constant significant presence in the chronicle and history of Italian dance since 1970. Always animated by commitment, skills and passion of its animator, first with the 'Contemporary Dance Collective', then with the experience of the professional Ballet Company of Tuscany, for fifteen years, from 1985 to 2000, which became the protagonist of absolute excellence on the international scene, finally with the operation of the 'Junior BdT' own youth training, in the last ten years capable of winning the programming on the stages of many, prestigious Italian Theaters, the Nuovo BdT is now a production structure with a rigorous professional system, supported by the MIBACT, the Tuscany Region and the Municipality of Florence, with an average artistic proportion with 12/14 dancers, in line and with the most significant and qualified experiences of professional companies.
Aimed at a constant improvement and the acquisition of a full technical and artistic suitability in the languages of both classical dance and contemporary dance, favoring a selection of young professionals with guaranteed and complete training acquired in the Professional Courses of the BdT School, the new Company will builds an experience that can then project their placement in the labor market of the most qualified public and private bodies, of ballet and dance production and programming, also on the European and international scene.
The current artistic program, also thanks to a team of well-known Collaborators and Authors, alongside Cristina Bozzolini, recalls a constant and coherent cultural line with the affirmation of the primacy of contemporary choreography, with a plurality of expressive languages. In past years the authors of great prestige have been Fabrizio Monteverde, Mauro Bigonzetti, Virgilio Sieni, Cristina Rizzo, and subsequently Eugenio Scigliano, Arianna Benedetti, Davide Bombana, Nicola Galli, Diego Tortelli.
Last but certainly the most important of the events, is the invitation received and the relationship established with the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, first with the programming of the production of BdT "Sleeping Beauty" choreographic creation in a contemporary key by Diego Tortelli in the last Opera and ballet season, for four performances with a great success of critics and audiences, subsequently formulating a collaboration project in dance and ballet events for the next 2019/2020 season again and above all realizing the choreographies in the Opera, producing, as the reference company of the Teatro del Maggio, the new creation of an important ballet in the evening.
New Bdt collaborations also extend to other prestigious Italian theaters such as La Fenice in Venice and Teatro Regio di Parma and many others.
Finally, it is very important to win a new 'residence' relationship at the Teatrodante 'Carlo Monni' in Campi Bisenzio, for the artistic direction of Andrea Bruno Savelli, an optimal space for dance where the company can carry out its constant research work and programming as well as a showcase for the Company's new productions in the Metropolitan City area of Florence.
Today the Company is engaged in a co-production with the Filharmonie Youth Orchestra in a new creation "Ma Mére l'Oye" on music by Maurice Ravel which will debut in April 2019; continues his tourneè with the shows "Sleeping Beauty" by Diego Tortelli on music by Tchaikovsky and the new production "Pulcinella" by Arianna Benedetti, on music by Igor Stravinsky; in May 2019 he will be the protagonist of the choreographies in the opera "Aida" by G. Verdi, in the revival of the famous edition directed by Mauro Bolognini and the choreography by Giovanni Di Cicco, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.