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John Lam
Lam's parents are Vietnamese refugees, who settled in Marin County city of San Rafael in California and received U.S. citizenship.
With the support of the Performing Stars of Marin, a community center for inner city youth, Lam starts dancing at age four. He studies at Marin Ballet School from 1988 to 2000. During his time, Lam worked also under the direction of Mikko Nissinen.
Two years after Nissinen left the Marin Ballet School, Cynthia Lucas, a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, directed Lam to study and receive professional training at Canada's National Ballet School in Toronto with financial support from the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation.
Fifteen years later, Nissinen observes Lam perform with the Canada National Ballet School and offers him a contract with the Boston Ballett.
João Pedro Menegussi
With a daily training routine of 9 hours, the Capixaba João Pedro Menegussi writes his story in the American ballet. "The American Ballet Theater is a renowned company in which there have been countless dance personalities. The company focuses on classical ballet," he says from New York.
João gets to know dance as a child. "I was five years old when my father took me to my sister's ballet class. I showed great interest and even asked if a man was dancing because there was no boy in the studio. That's how it all started," he remembers.
The Capixaba begins his dance studies at the Monica Tenore Dance School, in 2013 he comes to Switzerland to the vocational school Tanz Akademie Zurich, with a scholarship from the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, until he arrived in New York, at the American Ballet Theatre, one of the most important ballet companies in the world. João was successful in dance, overcame prejudices and was homesick.
João gets to know dance as a child. "I was five years old when my father took me to my sister's ballet class. I showed great interest and even asked if a man was dancing because there was no boy in the studio. That's how it all started," he remembers.
Sabine Timoteo
In 1992 Sabine wins the Prix de Lausanne, wich is donated by the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation.
In 1994 Sabine achieves her dance training at the Swiss Ballet Vocational School SBBS with a diploma as a professional dancer. She follows choreographer Heinz Spoerli to the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. After two months, she threw in the towel, tours the country with the radical Butoh dance Company Ariadone and slid rather reluctantly into her first feature film, "L'amour, l'argent, l'amour" by Philip Gröning, released in 2000. A film about the cold of love in which Timoteo plays a young prostitute.
Physically and mentally exhausted, she returns to Bern to complete a three-year apprenticeship as a cook at the Harmonie restaurant, where she gets her diploma with best notes. Nevertheless, the film remains her fate: Sabine is one of the busiest actresses in Switzerland today. Awards such as the Bronze Leopard at Locarno Film Festival as Best Actress, twice the Swiss Film Award, the Adolph Grimme Prize and a lot of critical praise. Sabine took also part of the documentary “The Making of a Dream” released in 2017 by Daniela Ambrosoli.
Antonella Martinelli
While a student at Canada's National Ballet School, Antonella is the recipient of the Peter Dwyer scholarship in 2005.
She appears in Veronica Tenant's 2005 short film, Love That Red.
Antonella's training at Canada's National Ballet School is made possible by the generous support of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation for several years.
For the season 2008-2009 she receives her first dancer’s contract at the National Ballet of Canada and performs in various ballets.
She dances in the ballets like “Nutcracker Suite”, “Symphony in C”, “Romeo and Juliet” and “Giselle”, as well as in the world premiere of Crystal Pite’s “Emergence” and in the company premiere of John Neumeier’s “The Seagull” and Davide Bombana’s “Carmen”.
Antonella and James O’Neill create together with the music band Walk off the Earth the music video Speeches in February 2013, director: Chris Stacey. Since June 2013 she is working with a modeling agency, B&M Models, which allows her to channel her artistry in a different way. She is booked by a few commercials, e. g. MC Donald's, Air Canada, Dentine.
Antonella is a well appreciated model and teaches, among others, at the CB Dance Academy serving the Richmond Hill community, Richmond Hill, Toronto/Canada.
In 2017, Antonella gives an insightful interview about the life as a ballet dancer with stunning photos of herself in a portrait project about members of the National Ballet Canada.
https://national.ballet.ca/Search?q=antonella+martinelli
Luciana Savignano
Ètoile of the Teatro alla Scala in Milano and Ballet du XXe siècle by Maurice Béjart, Applauded by international critics, Luciana Savignano was trained at the Dance School of Teatro alla Scala in Milano where she is admitted in 1953. After graduation in 1961, considered a promising element for the corps de ballet, in 1963 she is sent by Scala, along with four other girls, including Liliana Cosi, to Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow, to attend a master class. Upon her return she joins the corps de ballet of Teatro alla Scala. Her first important debut is in 1968 when Mario Pistoni choses her as the protagonist of his ballet The Wonderful Mandarin, to music by Béla Bartók.
In 1994 Maurice Béjart gives her a role in Jean Cocteau's La Voix humaine and at the same time she performs in the performances of Carmina Burana (Orff) and Stravinskyj's Orpheus ballet. Also important are the collaborations with choreographer Micha van Hoeck at Teatro alla Scala in Milan and at Ravenna Festival.
Since 1995 she collaborates with choreographer Susanna Beltrami with whom she founds in 1998 the Compagnia Pier Lombardo Danza (today: Compagnia Susanna Beltrami). From partnership with Beltrami is also produced the show "Ukiyo-E - the flow of a star" performed in several Italian theatres. In 2009 she is one of the judges at a talent show of Rai 2 Italian Academy 2 where she is also a modern theacer.
In the 2010-2011 season she dances the role of Queen Thalassa in the ballet Shéhérazade music by Rimsky-Korsakov with a choreography of Fredy Franzutti, of which she also dances The Last Words of Christ (Mercadante); in September 2012 she plays the role of Don Juan in the homonymous show by choreographer Massimo Moricone at Teatrino di Corte del Palazzo Reale (production of the San Carlo Theatre in Naples).
Luciana Savignano is also committed to social, as a free testimonial of the Confederate Italian associations for Parkinson's disease.
In 2006 journalist Valeria Crippa dedicates to Luciana the book "Anomaly of a Star" (2006): a testimony of the artistic life of the etoile; accompanied by photographs of her career. The book takes its inspiration from the interpretation of the "tarots" in relation to the personal and professional characteristics of the artist.( Published by Rizzoli)
In 2016 her biography is published: Luciana Savignano, l'eleganza interiore (Edizioni Gremese), analysis of the historical and artistic path of the dancer, written by dancer and writer Emanuele Burrafato (he also appears in this film), author who also writes a scientific essay on her for the magazine Biblioteca Teatrale (BT n. 30, 2021, Bulzoni Publisher).
Of 2019 is the book Private Conversations with Cristiano Cassani edited by Olga Karasso, Edizioni del Foglio Clandestino.
Savignano's latest photographic testimony by well known photographer Angelo Redaelli "Dedicated" book (Anthelios editions, 2021). Redaelli tells emotional pages about the artistic history of this great artist, Luciana Savignano. One of the major étoile of worldvide ballet.
THE MAKING OF A DREAM by Daniela Ambrosoli
Summary
'The Making of a Dream' is a cinematic essay on ballet and the stories of the dancers about themselves. The documentary filmmaker Daniela Ambrosoli deals with her lifelong passion for dance, music and theatre. It shows the lacking path of ambitious young dancers from the first childish step in an amateur dance school to the career as a principal dancer in one of the few very big ballet companies. The crew filmed in the leading ballet schools and companies in Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Milan and Rome, the USA, New York and Boston. For an insight into daily training, talk with famous protagonists such as the legendary dancer Luciana Savignano or the one-time Swiss leading dancer and today's actress Sabine Timoteo.
THE MAKING OF A DREAM
A film essay by Daniela Ambrosoli
About ballet and the stories of their protagonists about themselves.
The Making of a Dream' is not her first film, but her most personal. The filmmaker Daniela Ambrosoli has condensed her lifelong passion for dance into a film about the microcosm of young people who give everything to become ballet stars. The one-hour documentary film accompanies them from the first childish steps to the limelight and to the last curtain, which the aging body often forces earlier than many are dear.
On her research, Daniela Ambrosoli leads us to the most important dance academies in Europe and America. In New York, at the Boston Ballet, in Milan and Rome, she was shooting in the same way as in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and the Tanz Akademie of the Zurich Art University ZHdK.
We take part in the dreams of the youngest, some of whom already understand the ballet as their vocation with four or five years of age. For example, John Lam, the Vietnamese boat refugee who came to a nursery school in San Francisco for the first dance lesson, and today is brilliant at the Boston Ballet as a principal dancer. And there is Sabine Timoteo, who tells her what the dance meant to her, and why she had to go on a run on the screen after two years with Ballet of te Deutshe Oper am Rhein, with Heinz Spoerli, in Duesseldorf. And there is also the lucky person Luciana Savignano in Milan, the later Prima Ballerina at the Scala and Grand Dame in Maurice Béjart's Company: "When my father brought me to the Scala, the teacher raised my leg ... higher and higher, almost I had the right body, that made everything much easier.”
They all, the little eleven, as well as the stars of the speechless stage art, come to the floor at Daniela Ambrosoli and use their freedom of speech. They name their feelings and conquer the hearts with their stories, which can hardly be performed on a stage like this.
Seven to eight hours a day, the eleven train during their eight-year training period, almost as if ballet were a sport. The way to the art of the point work leads through press-ups, sweat and tears. What tears? Once on the stage they seem to forget instantly. John Lam: "My parents gave everything to get out of Vietnam. What I gave to become a dancer is very little in comparison."
Many, like Lam, come from the simplest family backgrounds from somewhere at the end of the world, but without the necessary money for one of the leading schools, no way leads to the company of a larger stage. As a viewer, we have an insight into a tense community of teenagers who build their own, deprived lives, away from their parents in one of the world's big cities. We take part in their great longing: their self-confidence, their hope and their homesickness after a childhood too soon lost - along with the desperation of one's own limitations: "I'm Nobody ...", one wrote on his locker: Nobody is perfect, so I am perfect."
"You look in the mirror and see what is in you that you can develop," says John Lam, adding, "I was very happy, I was a kind of star, but at what price." Sabine Timoteo tells of this other side of the coin: "I lived my dream and had to realize it was just a dream." - John Lam, who ultimately confirms the film's lead figure and light, "My life was dance, dance and dance. I danced because I wanted to be the best dancer in the world ... until I discovered there was a life after that Live with my husband John Ruggieri and our two kids here in Boston”
Daniela Ambrosoli, Swiss Italian, is associated with dance from birth. Her mother, the German Sonja Bragowa, danced in the twenties in Düsseldorf under the legendary choreographer Mary Wigman. Later Daniela accompanied her daughter through all steps of a ballet career: first as a small ice princess at the Losone’s ice rink ‘Siberia', then to the leading schools in Zurich, Hamburg and Toronto - until a back injury ended the dream prematurely. Daniela Ambrosoli has retained her passion for dance to this day. She founded and runs in Switzerland one of the world's few foundations to support the training of young dancers all over the world. The Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, Zürich 1990, is well known and acclaimed everywhere.
Cinematographic works: cinema documentary “HN-Hermann Nitsch” (2009), about the famous Austrian artist, Hermann Nitsch, founder of the Viennese Actionism, and his Orgien-Mysterien-Theater as well as collaborations for several documentary films for RSI (The Radiotelevisione della Svizzera italiana).
Markus Maeder
Swiss writer, journalist and publicist
Daniel Wentz http://www.wentzwords.com
Translation to English
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