Amadeo Amodio

Amedeo Amodio born 1940 is an Italian choreographer and former ballet dancer Born in Milan in 1940 Amodio trained at the ballet school of the Teatro alla Scala whose ranks he joined immediately While there he performed in productions by Léonide Massine Il cappello a tre punte Capriccio spagnolo Fantasmi al Grand Hotel George Balanchine Sinfonia in Do I quattro temperamenti and Petit Le quattro stagioni Le jeune homme et la mort La chambre Le loup At the age of 22 he left the company of the Teatro alla Scala to begin his career as a choreographer and freelancing dancer which led him to pivotal collaborations with Hermes Pan who chose him as lead in the Italian TV production Studio Uno and with Aurel Milloss at the Teatro dellOpera di Roma He frequently returned to the Teatro alla Scala where he performed with Carla Fracci in productions of Il gabbiano and Pelléas et Mélisande In 1973 he was featured with Fracci in a documentary that was screened on the RAI television network in Italy Excerpts from Prokofievs Romeo Juliet Offenbachs Cancan and Tchaikovskys Sleeping Beauty were shown In 1975 Amodio signed his version of the Aprèsmidi dun phaune for the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi which was then offered in reprise at the Teatro alla Scala with Luciana Savignano and scenes by Giacomo Manzù In the same year and for this latter company he also created Ricercare a nove movimenti After appearing in two movies by Liliana Cavani The Night Porter Il portiere di notte in 1974 and Beyond Good and Evil Al di là del bene e del male in 1977 he founded Aterballetto in 1979 company where he would direct until 1996 At Aterballetto his work was considered experimental and said to be promoting new forms that were widely perceived as the first examples of a national Italian form of choreography Description above from the Wikipedia article Amedeo Amodio licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia