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VITTORIO DI ROCCO

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VITTORIO DI ROCCO : Dance
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He studied in Cannes at he Rosella Hightower’s international dance center where he graduated in 1990.
In 1991 he joined the Pamela Plaire’s company in Limoges,France as a soloist dancer.
That same year he won the first interpretation price at the Wolinnine competition in Paris.
In 1992 he joined the Limoges theater under the direction of Alain Wata.
In 1993 he woked in Bordeaux and in Nancy with Vladimir Skourattof and Jerome Savary.
From 1993 to 1997 he worked in Germany at the Erfurt theater under the direction of Jurgen Heiss.
At this period of his career he started to choreograph.
In 1997 he joined the Nice Opera House, France for 7 seasons under the direction of Marc Ribaud, where he danced a large repertoire: Nils Christe, Richard Wherlock, John Cranko, Youri Vamos, Myriam Naisy, Robert North, Mauricio Wainrot, Maurice Bejart, Hans Van Manen.
He created ’’ Issue de secours ’’ for this Opera House in collaboration with the young musician Samson Gazagnes.
In June 2005 he created ’’ Open source ’’ his first ballet made and performed in Italy for the Balletto 90 under the direction of Paola Catalini in Rome.
In Italy he is teaching at the I.A.L.S. and at the A.I.D. in Rome. He gave some master classes for the Rome Opera School under the direction of Paola Jorio and for the Campus Cinecitta under the direction of Maurizio Costanzo.
He is the resident choreographer for the Nice Opera Ballet and the Cannes Jeune Ballet under the direction of Monique Loudieres.