“Milano Dance Competition” is a cultural message destined to intervene in areas of great sensitivity and resonance for the younger generations, in particular in the support the expression of their creative talent, allowing them to enhance individual experiences and skills, including in the field of innovation, to make healthy choices in favor of greater awareness of the world of art and culture, developing interdisciplinary projects related to physical theater based on virtuosity and performance, putting all this at the service of a purpose that is “in step” with the times.
The online mode provides the opportunity to participate in all schools and all students from every corner of the world, at a symbolic cost of registration (to pay the actual organization expenses) so as to unite the dance in a single large planetary embrace, without no distinction.
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Milano Dance Competition, a continuous point of reference for dancers and choreographers, but also a creative laboratory
The “Milano Dance Competition” International Competition was born in 2017 from a project promoted and organized by the RossoLab Association, in the persons of Mirella Rosso, Michele Olivieri and Milena Rosso for Emmetre Eventi, which sets the main objective of the event.
The first editions took place at the historic Milanese club “Zelig”, born in 1986 and famous for having launched numerous artists, giving life to the highly successful TV show of the same name, “Milano Dance Competition” proved to be a workshop of future talents and the particular intimacy of the venue allowed each edition to experience close-up emotions.
Among its judges, the Competition has always counted prestigious names in classical and contemporary dance, without neglecting other styles and disciplines. The various prizes up for grabs in the first editions also provided the opportunity for the best choreographer to participate in the choreographic review # 140 Danza d’Autore in Milan: a thematic network and aggregator created to support and disseminate the international choreographic offer.
Many famous names go on stage alongside the winners of the Competition for experimental evenings in the dance field with the sole purpose of enhancing the dancers and in particular the choreographers, allowing them to express their creative and aesthetic vision, as well as to provide the incisive possibility of developing ideas and projects to spread the choreographic offer, demonstrating on the one hand how the nature of the “Milano Dance Competition” continues to be varied, open, sensitive to change, renewal and experimentation, and from on the other hand, above all by certifying how much their intentions continue to be at a high level.
For “Emmetre Eventi” this competition is not only a continuous point of reference for new dancers and choreographers, but also a sort of “creative laboratory” aimed at developing practices, contamination of languages and synergies within the international panorama, thus becoming a platform and a stepping stone. In 2021, given the impossibility of performing in presence, the organization decided to continue to carry out the competition using the online mode, allowing many students, schools, directors and choreographers to compare themselves from each of their Nation without having to incur additional travel costs beyond compliance with health protocols. The idea was successful with hundreds of students who sent videos from France, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Romania, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Russia, United States of America, and of course more from Italy bringing the world of dance closer to the city of Milan in one big breath.
“Milano Dance Competition” has put together choreographies ranged from classical and neoclassical dance to modern and contemporary through dance character, urban and other fascinating languages
Over the years, important names have been seated on the jury at the “Milano Dance Competition”, who together with their experiences they have been able to decree the prizes with objectivity and professionalism, without ever losing the support given to the real vitality of art!
Amoung them we can list only a few of the most famous, like: the étoile Oriella Dorella of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Sara Renda of the Opéra of Bordeaux, Damiano Artale of Aterballetto, Erika Silgoner Artistic Director / Choreographer at the Ēsklän company, Natalia Vallebona of the Collettive Artistique at Poetic Punkers in Brussels, Rosario Guerra Dancer at the Staatsoper Hannover, Marco Biella graduated from the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg, moved to the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theater and now to the Miami Ballet City, Francesco Piccinin Soloist at Estonian National Ballet, Francesco Gammino international choreographer, Carlos Kamizele dancer-teacher and choreographer of international fame, Gisella Zilembo General Manager MAB prize, Michela Barasciutti director of the Veneziaindanza Festival and of the Tocnadanza company, the international étoile Letizia Giuliani, Vinicio Mainini principal dancer in hit TV shows and dan cer at Louis Falco Dance Company, Giovanni Cusin Dancer at Wiener Staatsballett, Greta Dato soloist at Hessisches Staatsballett, Cristiano Principato Soloist at Rahvusooper Estonia, Alessandro Riga principal dancer at Compañía Nacional de Danza Madrid, Lorenzo Misuri dancer Ballet Capitole Toulouse / Hrvatsko narodno kazalište u Zagrebu Croatian National Theater and Ballet de Catalunya, Mirella Rosso graduated teacher at the Teatro alla Scala Academy and television choreographer, Michele Olivieri critic and historian of dance and ballet registered in the National Register and Aja Jung, Director of the Belgrade Dance Festival and National Dance Foundation.
Despite the crisis and the restrictions on culture imposed by a climate of austerity, the “Milano Dance Competition” has put together in the last editions a program of considerable interest for the proposals that have ranged from classical and neoclassical dance to modern and contemporary through dance character, urban and other fascinating languages (historical dances, oriental dances, pole dance, videodance) without ever neglecting feelings and poetics (all dance styles have always been accepted in the mix style category). Numerous motivated, gritty and energetic young dancers proposed an ensemble full of solos, twos and group pieces taken from the most famous ballets in the repertoire, as well as steps, figures and movements alternating with the fluidity and plasticity of modern disciplines.
The best students, who have distinguished themselves for their ability and technique, virtually reached the podium with a specific goal forged to growth, also receiving special awards and prestigious scholarships. The result was an explosive mixture of growing expressiveness and personality, confirming the objective of the event which has always been the key to its success, together with the vocation to offer a significant moment of encounter-confrontation between choreographers, teachers, dancers, students and enthusiasts, who were able to express themselves underlining the different experiences, cultures and stylistic dictionaries from which to draw inspiration to offer a real moment of aggregation.
The Competition born in Milan has been transformed into a cultural message
The Competition born in Milan, a city that has given so much to dance and world ballet, has been transformed thanks to the “Milano Dance Competition” into a cultural message destined to intervene in areas of great sensitivity and resonance for the younger generations, in particular in the support the expression of their creative talent, allowing them to enhance individual experiences and skills, including in the field of innovation, to make healthy choices in favor of greater awareness of the world of art and culture, developing interdisciplinary projects related to physical theater based on virtuosity and performance, putting all this at the service of a purpose that is “in step” with the times.
The online mode provides the opportunity to participate in all schools and all students from every corner of the world, at a symbolic cost of registration (to pay the actual organization expenses) so as to unite the dance in a single large planetary embrace, without no distinction.
The videos can be shot in the dance room but also taken from recordings made during shows, essays, or various performances. For any information you can write to rossolab.eventi@gmail.com The 2022 edition will be staged, again in the online version by sending the videos, with the winners announced on 30 October 2022 (registration deadline and video submission on 23 October 2022).
The jury will once again include big names on the international scene, such as the choreographer and artistic director Mauro De Candia, the dancer and choreographer Vincenzo Veneruso, the principal dancers Petra Conti and Eris Nehza, the choreographer and teacher Oliviero Bifulco (already a well-known face to the transmission Amici di Maria De Filippi) in addition to the two artistic directors Michele Olivieri and Mirella Rosso. We are waiting for you as always numerous, “no temporal or spatial distance can weaken the passion for dance and of those who believe in its value, both professionally and amateur”.
