Alessandra ferri ballerina biography

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    Alessandra Ferri

    Italian prima ballerina

    Alessandra FerriOMRI (born 6 May ) is an Italian prima ballerina. She danced with the Royal Ballet (–), American Ballet Theatre (–) and La Scala Theatre Ballet (–) and as an international guest artist, before temporally retiring on 10 August , aged 44, then returning in She was eventually granted the rank of prima ballerina assoluta.[1]

    Career

    Alessandra Ferri was born in Milan, Italy.

    Alessandra ferri ballerina biography

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    • She began studying ballet at the La Scala Theatre Ballet School,[2] later transferring to the upper school of the Royal Ballet School. She represented the Royal Ballet School in the Prix de Lausanne, winning a scholarship which enabled her to continue studying at the school.[3]

    Royal Ballet

    Ferri joined the Royal Ballet in , and in , for her first major role in the ballet Mayerling,[4] she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Ballet.

    In , she was n