LUCA VEGGETTI

Luca Veggetti was born in Bologna, Italy and trained at La Scala in Milan. After a career as a dancer ( London Festival Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Chicago ), Luca Veggetti started, in 1990, an on-going collaboration with stage director and designer Pier Luigi Pizzi as choreographer and assistant working in Europe's most important theatres and with prestigious musical ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, I Solisti Veneti, Les Musiciens du Louvre or Capriccio Stravagante.

He has choreographed and designed numerous works, notably: Sarabande (Bach) at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, Semiramis (Gluck) for the Compagnia di Danza Teatro di Torino, Psychè ( Franck ) for the Santander festival, La Chanson de Melisande (Faurè) for the Ballet of the Nice Opera, Metamorfosis (17th cent. Music) for the Madrid en Danza festival, Nascita di Orfeo (Ferrero) for the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Tersicore (Handel) for the National Ballet of Cuba at the International Ballet Festival in Havana, the Novosibirsk ballet and the Ballet Plus in Ekaterinburg, Don Juan (Gluck) for the Novosibirsk Ballet, L'Envol d'Icare (Markevitch) and Marsia (Dallapiccola) for the Compagnia di Danza Teatro di Torino, Metamorphose (Purcell/Britten) for Ballet Plus at the Pushkin Theater in Moscow, Prelude à l'apres-midi d'un faune (Debussy) for Maximiliano Guerra, Wozzeck, Lulu, La Morte ed altri (Berg) for Carla Fracci and the Ballet of the Rome Opera, Turandot (Busoni) for the Ballet of the Rome Opera, Hed and Sequenza XIV (in silence) at the Miami International Ballet Festival, Fandango ( Soler ) and Hed for camera (in silence) at the Theatre de St. Quentin en Yvelines, Paris, Vis Motrix (Kodaly) and Glyphes (Takemitsu) for the Ballet d'Europe in Marseille, A dream  with the FontanaMix ensemble in Bologna, Subject forgotten (Hosokawa) for the NCI in Los Angeles, Hanjo (staging of the Toshio Hosokawa's opera) at the Schlelswig-Holstein Festival in Hamburg, Silence/Text (Aralla) for the Morriss Festival in East Hampton, NY with NYCB dancers, "O" (Bussotti) for the reopening of the Fontainebleau Theater with Paris Opera dancers, On the edge of silence ( Hosokawa ) for Cincinnati Ballet, and Makrokosmos (Crumb) at the Exitime Festival in Bologna.

He was the first Italian choreographer in the 20^th century. to be invited, in 1999, to work with the Kirov Ballet at the Maryinsky in St. Petersburg. In 2000 he was the artistic director of a dance event in the ancient theatre of Epidaurus in Greece where he created  the world premiere Emmeleia with Julia Makhalina of the Kirov Ballet. In 2002 he created at the Teatro Carignano in Turin Ermafrodito, a dance event centered on the world premiere, in a choreographic version, of Ermafrodito per chitarra by Sylvano Bussotti. In 2004 he was invited by Peter Martins to participate at two sessions of the New York Choreographic Institute creating November steps (Takemitsu) with students from the School of American Ballet and Duo (Hosokawa) with dancers from New York City Ballet. November steps was also performed in a gala event at the Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. He is pursuing a collaboration with contemporary music ensembles such as FontanaMix and musikFabrik Koeln as well as with composers Paolo Aralla, Toshio Hosokawa, Sylvano Bussotti and Gerhard Staebler. He created a new work for Cincinnati Ballet, to a set of pieces on Toshio Hosokawa's music, in 2006 at the Guggenheim Museum in NY as part of the series "Work and Process ."