Activities and Projects
The Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation has awarded scholarships and grants in the following areas:
Ballet and Modern Dance
- Training at internationally recognised academies
- Participation in competitions, dance workshops, and summer programmes
- Choreographies and contributions, dance projects, and performances
- Organisation of auditions in collaboration with international academies for stage dance
- Apprenticeships in a ballet company for dancers who complete their studies with accolades
- Organisation of artists’ own performances
Performances
- 15 Years, Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, 5 July 2005 –
Rigiblick Theatre, Zürich - 18 Years, Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, 21 September 2008 –
Rigiblick Theatre, Zürich - 25 Years, Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation, 8 June 2015 –
Rigiblick Theatre, Zürich
Dance and Movement Theatre
- Swiss Professional Ballet School (SBBS)
- Prix de Lausanne
- Bern Ballet
- Ballet National de Marseille Roland Petit
- “Contemporary Dance Zurich” company
- “Nomades” company
- “Looping” company
- “Linga” company
- “Krassen Krastev” company
- “Metzger/Zimmermann/de Perrot” company
- “Prototype-Status” company, Jasmine Morand
- “Yondering Exchange” exchange programme, The National Ballet School Canada / Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier
- Königsfelder Festspiele 2004
- Choreographer Mi Jung
- Tiziana Arnaboldi dance theatre
- Les Ballets Russes, Toni Candeloro
- Scuola Paolo Grassi, Lucinda Childs, Milan
- Youth America Grand Prix 2006, New York
- ZAL dance concert, André Despond and Andrea Herdeg
- Künstlerhaus MousonTurm, Frankfurt am Main
- Lucerne Theatre Dance Ensemble
- Zürich Dance Academy/Zurich University of the Arts
- Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Verscio, Ticino, Switzerland
Dance Theatre
- Scuola D’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi, Milan
Music
- Concerts in San Martino, Ticino, Switzerland Mattia Zappa/Massimiliano Mainolfi duo
- International New Symphony Orchestra (INSO)
- CIDE benefit gala
- Compact disks (CDs) of artists including:
Duo Zappa/Mainolfi, Maristella Patuzzi, Fortunat Frölich, André Desponds, NAÏVE rock band
- Basel Music Academy
- Berne University of the Arts
- Zurich University of the Arts
- The Soweto Project
Film
- European Film Actor School (EFAS)
- HN Hermann Nitsch
- The Making of a Dream
- papa&dada
Retraining / Advanced Training
- Swiss International Advanced Training Course in Choreography
- Dance WEB Europe: Impuls Tanz Wien
- “Pilates” training
Symposia of the International Organization for the Transition of Professional Dancers (IOTPD)
1995, Lausanne
The Dancer in Transition: Facing the limits, the realities and solutions
1998, The Hague & Toronto
The Dancer of the XXI Century - Education for Transition in a Changing World
2004, Monaco
Career Transition and the Professional Dancer, International Findings / New Perspectives
Publications
- “Ein Leben für den Tanz” – Jean Deroc
- “Der Tänzer und sein Körper” – Dr Joseph Huwyler
Museums
- Swiss Dance Archive / Archive suisse de la danse
- MART - museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto