Massimo Moricone Choreographer

Trained/Educated

Commenced his training in Rome at the Centro Sperimentale di Danza Contemporanea, and then later at Mudra, the Bejart School in Brussels, and the Centre Internationale de la Danse in Cannes.

Companies/Organisations

Appeared with many companies throughout his native Italy, dancing the ballets of leading choreographers, including Alvin Ailey, Amedeo Amodio, Felix Blaska, George Balanchine, Janine Charrat, Derek Deane, Heinz Spoerli and Vittorio Biagi.

Appeared in Franco Zeffirelli's production of La Traviata
Was director of choreography for the film version of Monteverdi's Orfeo, directed by Claude Goretta
For Moravia's Gli Indifferenti, directed by Mauro Bolognini

Previous Work

1983
- Founded his own company, Teatro Koros, for whom he created many original works for tours of Italy, France, Belgium, Greece, Cuba, India, Mexico, Spain and Japan
1984
- Won first prize at the International Choreographic Competition at Nyon in Switzerland
- Serge Lifar conferred upon him the Prix de L'Universite de la Danse de Paris
1994
- Produced Progetto Contemporaneo for La Scala 1997
- Returned to the Rome Opera to direct Progetto Contemporaneo
2001
- Asked by Carolyn Carlson to be one of the choreographers to present a new creation at La Biennale di Venezia
2002 – 2005
- Co-director of Laboratory engines multimedia space in Rome
2004 onwards
- Created two dance pieces and three videos, as part of a larger project dedicated to Japan and titled from#01 to 11
His last creation skin-fatman/littlebastard was premiered at The Tokyo Dance Triennale 2006

Other awards include:

A grant to complete the International Dance Course for professional choreographers and composers at the University of Surrey, Guildford. 1990 – 1992
Assistant Director to Elisabetta Terabust of the ballet company of the Rome Opera, and the School of the Rome Opera

Choreographed ballets for many Italian companies including: Balletto di Toscana, Balleto dell'Arena di Verona, Balletto di Venezia, Balletto del Teatro di San Carlo, Aterballetto, MaggioDanza, La Scala and the Opera di Roma. Worked as Guest Choreographer with Scottish Ballet, Malmo State Theatre, Deutsche Oper Berlin and for the Ballet Naçional de Cuba. Choreographed works for dancers such as Elisabetta Terabust, Josè Manuel Carreno, Vladimir Derevianko, Carlos Acosta, Lynne Charles, Raymondo Rebeck, and Tamako Akiyama.

With Northern Ballet Theatre:
- Romeo & Juliet, 1991
- A Christmas Carol, 1992
- Jekyll & Hyde, 2001

He is currently working as freelance choreographer and teacher both in Europe and Japan.

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