Fabio Grossi | |
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| Born | Fabio Grossi 1 October 1977 Rome, Italy |
| Occupations | Ballet dancer, Ballet teacher. |
| Years active | 1997-2008 (performing), 2008-2016 (teaching). |
| Spouse | Tiziana Lauri |
| Awards | Gold medal Rieti/Spoleto competition, Moscow diploma, Premio Positano, Premio Anita Bucchi. |
Fabio Grossi (born 1 October 1977, in Rome) is a retired Italian dancer and ballet teacher.
He trained at the Accademia nazionale di danza in Rome, where he graduated with full marks. [1]
He studied all over Europe with many international teachers including Marika Besobrasova, Rosella Hightower, Patricia Carey, Wilhelm Burmann, Philip Beamish, Raymond Franchetti.
At age 19, Grossi was a First Prize Winner at the Rieti Dance Competition in Italy [2] [3] and the only Italian to be a Finalist and a Diploma Winner at the 1997 Moscow International Ballet Competition in Russia, which was directed by Yuri Grigorovich. [4]
On 11 October 1997 he made his debut as a Soloist with Aterballetto (Italy). Then he successively joined:
From 2003 to 2007, he has been one of the leading dancers of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma performing as partner of Italian Ballerina Carla Fracci. [5]
On 11 May 2008 he danced his farewell performance as a Guest Artist of the Arena di Verona, with the role of Albrecht in Giselle at the Teatro Filarmonico. [6] [7]
As a Principal Dancer, Grossi's repertoire included most of the classical and neoclassical roles of the ballet tradition [8] such as Giselle , Swan Lake , [9] The Sleeping Beauty , The Nutcracker , Raymonda , Mikhail Fokine's Les Sylphides and Petrushka , Léonide Massine's Pulcinella .
He also performed lead parts in ballets by George Balanchine (The Four Temperaments, La Chatte, The Ball), Jiri Kylian (Sinfonietta), William Forsythe (Steptext, Approximate Sonata), Uwe Scholz (Bach-Kreationen), Ohad Naharin (Axioma 7), Robert North (Troy Game), Amedeo Amodio (Afternoon of a Faune), Marie-Claude Pietragalla (Sakountala, Ni Dieu ni Maitre).
At the Rome Opera House, numerous contemporary new works (by Luciano Cannito, Paul Chalmer, Millicent Hodson, [10] Luca Veggetti and others) have been made on him.
Mauro Bigonzetti created Comoedia-Inferno and the solo Wakti especially for him. [11]
He won the Léonide Massine Ballet Award in 1997 and in 2007, [12] and the Anita Bucchi Dance Award as the Best Male Dancer of the Year (season 2006/07) [13] with the following motivation:
"Young artist with unequalled personality and charism. His performances are the out-come of a very hard work of research, synthesis and introspection, completed by a vigorous and mature technique." [14]
Described as "a major star in the making", [15] he has been regarded by critics and audience as one of the most talented Italian dancers of the moment [16] and as one of the best the Rome Opera Ballet has lately had among its ranks. [17]
In 2014 the Accademia Nazionale di Danza honoured him with an evening at the Teatro Ruskaja. [18] [19]
From 2008 to 2016 Grossi taught ballet, working at the Arena di Verona as a ballet master and at the National Academy of Dance in Rome as guest teacher, choreographer and Pas de Deux instructor.
On 23 June 2014 he came back on stage after a six years-long absence [20] as a "distinguished and amusing" [21] Doctor Coppelius in the Rome Academy's traditional production of Coppélia, [22] and he got rave responses from the audience. [23]
Since 2016 he is not involved in the ballet world anymore.