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MAURO DE CANDIA

2022 - IN HOUSE

COREOGRAPHER

Choreographer and artistic director.

After completing professional training at Princess Grace Academy in Monte Carlo in August 2001, Mauro moved to Germany, where he danced for five seasons at Staatsballet Hannover under the direction of Stephan Thoss.

He choreographed for companies such as Introdans, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Washington Ballet, Augsburg Ballet, Maggio Danza, Staatsballet Berlin. He also received numerous commissions from festivals such as Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Venice Dance Biennale, Le Temps d’Aimer in Biarritz, Bolzano Danza, and Maracaibo International Festival. From August 2012 to July 2021, he was artistic director and main choreographer at Dance Company Theater Osnabrück.

His artistic and didactic work was praised by critics and received numerous awards, such as the Premio Positano Leonide Massine per la Danza. In 2015 and 2017, he was nominated “Choreographer of the year” by the online magazine Tanznetz.

In 1997 in Barletta, he founded Arte&BallettO, an association dedicated to supporting and promoting dance culture in all its forms from which a dance festival, a project in support of young talents and a dance company were born.