Virginia Spallarossa

Studied classical ballet at Teatro alla Scala Milano and Académie Classique in Montecarlo. In 1994 she was introduced to contemporary and release techniques and involved with the Olympic Contemporary Ballet, on Wayne McGregor’s choreographies in London and New York. Her opera engagements as a dancer include: Teatro alla Scala Milan, Rome Opera, Maggio Fiorentino Florence, Bunkakhan Tokyo, Teatro Lirico Cagliari, Arena Verona, Carlo Felice Genoa, Opera Bilbao, Bayerische Staatballet Munich. In 2006 she cooperated on Dance Greenhouse project in  Sarajevo, a series of performing arts workshops for children from  orphanage  and  disadvantaged Sarajevo schools. In 2012 she founded an association Pandanz and directs the international multidisciplinary festival Pillole and Vuoti Urbani in Milan. She has been a long term collaborator with the international Déjà Donné company and took over took it’s artistic direction in 2015.