LUCIANA VOLTOLINI
Her extensive repertoire includes;
Pino Alosa: »Paquita« (Solo); Mark Morris: »Gong« (Solo); Twyla Tharp: »In the Upper Room« (Solo); Jiři Kylián: »Falling Angels« (Solo); Marius Petipa: »Sleeping Beauty« (Crystal Fairy); Florence Clerc: »La Bayadère« (Shades, Pas de djambé, Grand Pas); George Balanchine: »Ballo de la Regina«, »Theme & Variations«, »Symphony in C«, »A Midsummer Night's Dream« (Helena), »Coppélia« (Prayer) and »The Four Temperaments« (Second Theme); Jerome Robbins: »Antique Epigraphs« (Saland); Alexei Ratmansky and Mikko Nissinen: »The Nutcracker« (Sister, Arabian pas de deux); Kevin McKenzie and Derek Deane: »Swan Lake« (Spanish Princess); Marius Petipa, Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli: »Giselle« (Bathilde); Sir Kenneth MacMillan: »Romeo and Juliet« (Harlot)
Luciana Voltolini was six years old when she started ballet. In Joinville in Brazil, her birthplace, she danced at the Bolshoi Theater School from 2000 to 2004 . At 19 she received a scholarship to the Boston Ballet, where she stayed for a total of seven years. In 2011 she moved to New York for four and a half years, and has been with the Staatsballett Berlin since August 2015 .
Her repertoire in Staatsballett Berlin includes; Jiři Kylián: »Petite Mort« (»Duato | Kylián | Naharin«); Patrice Bart: »Swan Lake« (Spanish dance) and »Giselle« (friends of Giselle); John Cranko: »Romeo and Juliet« (Carnival); George Balanchine: »Jewels« (»Diamonds« demi-solo, »Emeralds« pas de trois); Nacho Duato: »Sleeping Beauty« (Candide, Saphir), »The Nutcracker« (French dance), »Herrumbre«, »White Darkness« (»Duato | Kylián«) and »Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Empitness«; Benjamin Millepied: »Daphnis et Chloé« (Quartet, »Maillot | Millepied«); Vìctor Ullate: »Don Quixote« (Kitri's friends); Yuri Burlaka/Vasily Medvedev: »Der Nussknacker« (Prinzessin, Schwester des Prinzen); Alexei Ratmansky: »La Bayadère« (Grand Pas d'action); August Bournonville: »La Sylphide« (title role, Sylphide); Marcia Haydée: »Sleeping Beauty« (Fee der Schönheit, Sapphire); Patrice Bart Swan Lake ( pas de trois, princesses, little swans) ; Christian Spuck Mesa da Requiem.
Luciana is a certified stott pilates instructer (mat and reformer) and has extensive experience in guiding dancers towards a stronger ballet body.