Il rischio e la libertà

Authors

• Nicoletta Giavotto

  She was born in 1938. During her high school years, she got to know classical ballet, attended the school directed by Ugo Dell'Ara and came into contact with the Nervi Festival. After graduating, she worked as a ballet dancer in Italy. After a scholarship to the London School of Economics and a summer at Rosella Hightower's school, she won a Fullbright scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music in New York. There she met Marta Hill, studied with Antony Tudor, and met and frequented the first generation of Graham and Limón dancers. On her return she settled in Rome, where she attended the Accademia Nazionale di Danza. She graduated as a private dancer in 1977 and worked as a substitute teacher in the 1980s and 1990s. From 1979 to 1990 she directed her own company Isadora Duncan and received a ministerial grant.