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FRANCESCA SELVA
 Francesca Selva completed her formative training at the National Dance Academy in Rome and at the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, under the guidance of Ljuba Dobrievich. She then moved to France, where she perfected her technique by studying at length in Paris with Raymond Franchetti, Solange Golovine, Gilbert Mayer, Andrei Glegolsky, Rudy Bryans, at Cannes with Rosella Hightower, José Ferran, Patricia Neary and in Montecarlo, with Marika Besobrasova. She was finalist at the prestigious international competition Prix de Lausanne. In 1977 she was selected by Roland Petit and began working with the company Ballet de Marseille, dancing in numerous productions including La Dame de Pique with Michail Baryshnikov and Notre Dame de Paris, Cyrano de Bergerac and Coppelia with Denys Ganio. In 1981 she joined the company of the "Opéra du Nord" in Lille as prima ballerina, then as soloist she was asked to join the dance company directed by Boris Tonin Nikisch, with whom she started a fruitful artistic collaboration. The ballet Sinfonia Fantastica was created for her, with music by Berlioz and Stéphane Fournial as partner. She has worked in Europe (Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland), the Unites States and Mexico. She then returned to Italy and took part in numerous performances and television programs such as "Maratona d'estate" and "Domenica in". From 1986 to 1990 she continued the artistic collaboration, both as ballerina and assistant choreographer, with Boris Tonin Nikisch in the Compagnia Balletto Europeo S. A. B. She took part in numerous tours produced by the International Ballet Centrum of M. Tietz in Germany, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, working with Sylvie Guillem and Rudolph Nureyev. With the same company she was hosted as prima ballerina, teacher and choreographer in 1990 and 1991 at Guadalajara (Mexico). In Mexico she took part in a tour organised by Enrique Aguet. She returned to Italy in 1992. After having been ballerina, teacher and choreographer in various Italian schools, she produced and distributed the video "Image Affective", which was derived from the dance performance with live music and her own original choreography held at the Roman amphitheatre in Roselle, and was aired on Vittoria Ottolenghi’s television program Maratona d'estate-RAI. She has collaborated with numerous artists and contemporary composers of international renown. She has also been involved in the formation of new talents and the promotion of young professionals in the national and international dance scene. She has organised exhibitions, shows and video installations for the promotion of dance in the Siena area. |
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