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Gianni Di Marco, a native of Venezuela, began his dance training in 1981 in the Professional Division of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in Canada. He has also studied with The National Ballet of Canada, the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and in Banff, Canada. He joined Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 1988, and was promoted to second soloist in 1990, and then to first soloist the following year. In 1994-1995 he danced with Les Grande Ballets Canadiens. He joined Boston Ballet in 1995, retiring in 2005. In 1997, Gianni took a year off to dance with Germany’s Oper Liepzig Ballet.
Providence, Rhode Island audiences have been delighted by his guest appearance with Festival Ballet Providence, as Gamache in Don Quixote, and as the King in The Princess and the Pea.
Gianni has choreographed a number of works for a variety of institutions throughout the region, including many Boston Ballet galas. Among them are Dance on the Top Floor, and Raw Dance, a fundraiser for the Boston Ballet’s Dancers’ Resource Fund. Mr. Di Marco’s short works Killing Time, Amphibious Love, and Gracias a La Vida have been performed for Festival Ballet Providence’s UP CLOSE, and HOPE series.
His previous commissions by Festival Ballet Providence include Scheherazade (2005), Azucar (2006) and El Amor Brujo (2007).
Di Marco was named Principal of Citydance in 2005, Boston Ballet’s Outreach program which affects over 3,000 Boston Public School children each year. He also teaches in the Adaptive Dance Program, created at Boston Ballet School for children with Down Syndrome. He shares his life with his wife Adrianna Suarez, and their two children.
