PROFILE
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Italian choreographer Davide Bombana was born in Milano where he studied ballet at the Ballet School of La Scala and was successfully graduated in 1977. He made his debut in the same year in the title role of M.Béjart "Firebird" with "La Scala Ballet" where from corps de ballet he was promoted to soloist and then principal. He performed as principal dancer in ballets by M.Béjart, G.Tetley, R.Nureyev, J.Robbins, G.Balanchine and L.Falco. He won the <<Positano Price>> and the <<Bordighera Price>>. He was participating at the International Dance Competition in Jackson Mississippi where he wins the bronze medal. On an American tour with Teatro alla Scala he dances a the Met and is acclaimed by the New York critics.
He pursued his career as a principal dancer further in Pennsylvania Ballet (Philadelphia), Scottish Ballet (Glasgow) and London Festival Ballet (London) where he dances important roles of the classical and neo-classical repertoire. Coming back as guest in La Scala for Crankos "Romeo and Julia" and R.Petits "Proust".
From 1986 to 1991 he worked as a principal dancer with the Bayerische Staatsballett Munich interpreting principal roles in ballets by J.Neumeier, F.Ashton, J.Cranko, D.Bintley and P.Wright. From 1991 to 1998 he works with the same company as ballet master in collaboration with choreographers such as: Kilian, Van Manen, Preljocaj, Martins and Tharp. As a choreographer he presents in Munich his first projects "Sonata" and "Parabel" in the annual "Young Choreographers" performance. Later he creates for the same company "Quatour pour la fin du temps", "Okanagon", "Woyzeck Fragmente" inspired by Büchner, "Schönberg opus 4" and the two full lengths ballets "Luigi Nono Project" and "Ein Traumspiel" inspired by Strindberg.
In 1998 Davide Bombana was appointed director of the company Maggio Danza in Florence where he restaged "Woyzeck Fragmente" and "Schönberg op.4" and created the full lengths ballet "Teorema" inspired by Pasolini for the 62nd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
In the last years Mr.Bombana has been creating or reproducing with several international companies as a guest choreographer ballets such as: "Aus der Ferne" for Ballet du Rhin France and Queensland Ballet Australia, the full length ballet "Penthesilea" for Maggio Danza Florence Italy, "Woyzeck Fragmente" and "Beyond Skin" for Ballet du Rhin France and Zaragoza Ballet Spain, the full lengths ballet "Lolita" for Grand Ballet de Geneva Switzerland, "La Séptième Lune" for Paris Opera France, "Kunst der Fuge" for Ballet du Rhin France, "Tenebrae" for Badisches Theater Karlsruhe Germany, "Cinderella" for Aalto Theater Essen Germany, "Carmen" for Ballet de Capitole de Toulouse France, Ballett Thüringen Gera, Germany and National Ballet of Canada, Toronto, "Century Rolls" for Bayerisches Staatsballett Munich Germany as opening of the annual ballet week and presented on tour in Taipei Taiwan, "Harpsichord Concerto" for the New York Choreographic Institute New York with dancers of the New York City Ballet, "In C-Sharp Minor" for New English Contemporary Ballet Nottingham England, “In The Air Clear And Unseen” for Ballet Augsburg, Germany and “Le Sacre du Printemps” for Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Germany.
To mention is his collaboration with prestigious ballet academies for which he created: "Petite Suite en Noir" for the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and then restaged at the John Cranko School Stuttgart Germany, the restaging of "Harpsichord Concert" for the Academy of the Bolshoi in Moscow, "Camera Oscura" for the School of American Ballet New York and the full length ballet "IPNOS" for the Academy of Teatro alla Scala di Milano Italy.
Famous artists such as: Rosalie, Giulio Paolini, rosalie, Bernard Michel, Michael Simon, Stephen Galloway, Yoshiki Hishinuma and Dorin Gal contributed to the realization of his ballets.
Among his future projects are the restaging of "Carmen" in an full-length version for the Ballet der Wiener Staatsoper und Volksoper in Vienna, Austria in November 2009 and the restaging of the original version for Toulouse in May 2010, a collaboration with the Academy of the Bolshoi in Moscow in winter 2010 and a full length ballet creation “Faust” for Ballet Thüringen Gera, Germany in May 2010.
AWARDS
PREMIO DANZA E DANZA 2004
Bolzano, Italy, April 2004
Best Italian Choreographer Abroad for "LOLITA" with Grand-Théâtre de Genève (Suisse), "SEPTIÉME LUNE" with Opera National De Paris (France) and "KUNST DER FUGE" with Ballet du Rhin (France)
BENOIS DE LA DANSE 1998
Moscow, Russia, April 1998
Best Choreographie 1997 for ?EIN TRAUMSPIEL" with Bayerisches Staatsballett (Germany)
BAVARIAN THEATRE AWARD 1997,
Munich, Germany, March 1997
Best Ballet Production of german speaking countries "LUIGI-NONO-PROJEKT" with Bayerisches Staatsballett (Germany)
STERN DES JAHRES, AZ MUNICH 1996
Munich, Germany, July 1996
Best Dance Performance 1996 ?LUIGI-NONO-PROJEKT" with Bayerisches Staatsballett (Germany)
ROSE DES JAHRES, TZ MUNICH 1995
Munich, Germany, July 1995
Best Dance Performance 1995 "WOYZECK-FRAGMENTE" with Bayerisches Staatsballett (Germany)
