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Antonia Franceschi
Ballet
Biography:
Antonia Franceschi is a Time Out Award Winner for
Outstanding Acheivement in Dance. As a young dancer
she attended The High School Of Performing Arts for
Drama when during her Junior year was selected for
the film Grease and shortly thereafter for character
Hilary van Dorine in the film ‘Fame’. She was then
selected by George Balanchine and was fortunate to
dance with Makarova and Company as a soloist, and be
partnered by Sir Anthony Dowell in Bach Sonata by
Bejart before joining The New York City Ballet.
She's
had works created for her by George Balanchine,
Jerome Robbins, Peter Martins, Lar Lubovitch, Mark
Baldwin, Wayne McGregor, Michael Clarke, Karol
Armitage, Arlene Phillips, among others. In London,
she produced Four Programs of The New York Ballet
Stars which performed at The Queen Elizabeth and
Royal Festival Halls and and toured to The Harrogate
and Sintra Festivals.Antonia has choreographed for
both British and American companies, and has
recently
formed her own Neo-classical company 'AFD Just
Dance.' She was a judge on the BBC's Young Dancer
competition. Recently she was invited by Boris
Charmatz to dance in Musee De La Dance at The Tate
Modern and Sophia in Spain. She adores teaching The
Royal Ballet Rambert Richard Alston Random DV8 New
York Theatre Ballet and Alvin Ailey and Juilliard
among
many other companies. Antonia created and
performed the lead role in the dance play “Up From
The Waste” at London’s Soho Theatre to critical
acclaim. She is featured in several dance films for
British TV including ‘Ponte Blank’,’Frankenstein’,
and
‘Ecco’, and The Merchant Ivory Film, ‘The Golden
Bowl’.
She received a Grant for POP8 for The Lion and
Unicorn Theatre where she collaborated with Mark
Baldwin Zoe Martlew and Ballet Black, and
collaborated
with Tal Rosner on the film “There”. She was
interviewed for the book Balanchine Then and Now
and has been a guest on Woman's Hour Radio 4. Her
next ballet Say May Name premiers this April 2017
for
Barnard College at The Miller Theater. In October
2016
Antonia received a grant to create a Ballet inspired
by
the legacy of St Marks Church and chose to
collaborate
with renown composer, director, writer, Claire Van
Kampen for The New York Theater Ballet, she
premiered “She Holds Out Her Hand”. It was performed
with New York theater Ballet at Live Arts in March
2017.
Class Description:
Antonia's ballet class works in placement, precision, speed, and musicality, passing on knowledge from her brilliant teachers Craske, Balanchine, Maggie Black, Suki Shorer, Stanley Williams, David Howard, Tina Bernal and Julio Horvath and Hilary Cartwright. Her class suits all forms of dance, especially modern, as it is meant to set you up for the day whatever your medium of dance is. Its lines are uncluttered to allow clarity in ones work and free the dancer for any style while keeping them strong and healthy as well as improving.
Advanced Ballet with Antonia Franceschi from Caitlin Trainor on Vimeo.
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