Claudia Celi specialized in Early Dance with Barbara Sparti, Francine Lancelot, Shirley Wynne, Angene Feves, Cecilia Grácio Moura. She teaches Dance History and Historical Dances at Accademia Nazionale di Danza (AND); she also teaches at Università di Roma "La Sapienza". Formerly a member of Barbara Sparti’s Gruppo di Danza Rinascimentale di Roma and dance partner of Andrea Francalanci, she danced and choreographed for early dance companies in theatre, TV and movie productions. She co-directs the Associazione Il Teatro della Memoria. Editor for Chorégraphie and Cairon, she published research essays, in particular on Italian Ottocento ballet, and contributed entries to International Encyclopedia of Dance and Dictionnaire Larousse de la Danse. Formerly Deputy Director of AND and member of the Working Group of the Ministry for Education, University and Research for the drafting of new didactic charters of Higher Artistic Education Institutions, presently she is Coordinator of Dance History teachers in Choreutic High Schools.
PAOLO DI SEGNI Born in Switzerland in 1960, Maestro Di Segni started his musical education following the Jaques-Dalcroze method. He specialized in historical dance under the guidance of well-known teachers such as Barbara Sparti, Francine Lancelott, and Sherley Winne.
Maestro Di Segni researches and reconstructs nineteenth-century ballroom dances, presenting them both as shows and overtures at balls, or by serving as Maître de Cérémonie. He regularly directs nineteenth-century balls in Rome (Palazzo Barberini, Palazzo Taverna, Hotel Quirinale, Borgo di Tragliata, and Accademia Nazionale di Danza).
He has taken part in numerous tours in Italy and abroad, with such Renaissance and Baroque dance ensembles as Il Gruppo di Danza Rinascimentale, La Cortesia del Ballo, and La Follia.
He has often been on programmes for Telemontecarlo and RAI DUE, while teaching at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera school and in Catania at Balletto di Sicilia. He has a long standing collaboration with the ‘Il Teatro della Memoria’ association.
He has taught courses in Naples for the ‘Dimensione Polifonica’, developing and directing shows and events on the Renaissance and the nineteenth century for the municipality and the Province of Naples, and the Campania Region. He has worked with the Orchestra of the Teatro del Petruzzelli in Bari, conducted by Janosh Acs.
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Early Music & Dance Workshop
24th edition Rome (Italy) July 30 – August 3
info at this link https://wp.me/p1zlJy-fse
Organized by Il Teatro della Memoria
Artistic direction: Claudia Celi and Andrea Toschi
16th-17th century dancing: Claudia Celi
17th-18 century dancing: Ilaria Sainato
19th century social dances: Paolo Di Segni
English Country Dances from Playford: Lucio Testi
Classical Dance for Adults – Pilates: Serena Soave
Renaissance and Baroque Singing: Rosanna Rossoni
Recorder: Marco Rosa Salva
Renaissance Lute, Theorbo & Baroque Guitar: Francesco Tomasi
Cembalo Accompaniment:Paolo Tagliapietra
Singing and instrument classes will be held at Teatro “Lo Spazio” (via Locri 42, close to subway station San Giovanni). Dance classes will be at Centro Samila in motus (via Costantino Beltrami 25 – close to subway station Piramide and train station Ostiense).
The usual students’ concert, performed together with the teachers of the Summer Workshop and guest artists, will be held at Teatro “Lo Spazio” as a presentation to the public of the courses organized by Il Teatro della Memoria in 2025.
"Early bird" reduced registration fee available until June 30 at this link. Feel free to contact us for any info you need.
See you in Rome next Summer
Workshop
A class is a session of an hour or two