Tiziana Lauri is a retired Italian ballet dancer.
Early life and education Daughter of noted dancersA. Colotta, Tiziana Lauri, rivelazione d'una protagonista - L'AVVENIRE (7 January 1987). Guido LauriGuido Lauri: "La danza per me è una preghiera, una missione... dobbiamo essere sacerdoti di questa passione!", V. Clemente's interview IL GIORNALE DELLA DANZA (2 February 2011).Guido Lauri, Ballet Archive and Anna Maria Paganini,Anna Maria Paganini, Ballet Archive she followed in her parents's footstepsH. Koegler & A. Testa, Dizionario Gremese della danza e del balletto 2011 ( 'Lauri, Guido' pag. 306 ). (although against their will) by training with Attilia Radice at the Rome Opera House. She entered the Rome Opera Ballet school at age 13, without having taken any previous dance classes.V. Ottolenghi, Triste esame per dieci fatine con coroncina - PAESE SERA (31 July 1977).G. Tani, Il passo d'addio al Teatro dell'Opera - IL MESSAGGERO (31 July 1977).
Dancing career After less than three years at the Rome Opera Ballet school, she joined the Rome Opera Ballet company, becoming a soloist at the age of 18.
A very versatile, gifted and impetuously talented artist,Parigi 'o cara, V. Ottolenghi interviews T. Lauri - BALLETTO OGGI n°11 (December 1982 - January 1983).S. Allder, L'appetito vien danzando - L'UMANITA' (24 July 1984).V. Ottolenghi, Il nostro "fantastico" Raffaele Paganini - BALLETTO OGGI n°38 (November 1986).A. Testa, Fracci, girotondo romano - DANZA&DANZA (January/February 2002). She danced a wide range of Ballerina rolesG. Tani, Danza. Le ultime repliche del "Don Chisciotte" a Caracalla. Nuovi cast, nuovi successi - IL MESSAGGERO (17 July 1985).A. Testa, Raymonda - BALLETTO OGGI n°21 (September-October 1984).A. Testa, Povera Raymonda, senza sentimenti - LA REPUBBLICA (22 July 1984).G. Tani, "Coppelia" in scena a Villa Celimontana - IL MESSAGGERO (19 August 1984).V. Ottolenghi, Coppelia - BALLETTO OGGI n°37 (October 1986). from Kitri in Don Quixote to Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.Carla Fracci rievoca amori e tragedie della leggendaria Isadora Duncan - IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA (22 January 2003)."Pronto, chi balla?" Tiziana Lauri: che bello chiacchierare col mio corpo, interview by A. Martiniello - IL MESSAGGERO (21 August 1986).
She worked with a variety of personalitiesV. Ottolenghi, Se Roma piange... - BALLETTO OGGI n°12 (February–March 1983).Rudolf Nureyev's Marco Spada - DANCE MAGAZINE (September 1981). such as Rudolf Nureyev, André Prokovsky, Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Patrick Dupond and many others.
TV career Lauri often appeared on Italian televisionQuell'antico amore, TV mini-series (1982). as a performer but also as a brilliant anchorwoman and interviewer.
Awards Lauri was a recipient of the Gold medal at Carlo Blasis 1981 competition in Turin and of various prizes (Apollon Musagète 1986, Golden Perseus 1987, Michelangelo's David 1988, Talenti dello Spettacolo Internazionale 1989, and Berlin's Golden Bear and Cup 1990).
Family In 1987, American review Dance Magazine wrote about her unusual kinship with several artists: four cousins were her colleagues, and two paternal aunts, a paternal uncle and a maternal aunt and uncle were all Rome Opera Ballet dancers of the older generation. Her genealogical tree also includes grandfather Eliseo Paganini, a world-champion athlete, and famed opera singer Giulio Neri, her uncle.
Sources
WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD, Sixth Edition 1982/83 U.S.A. DANCE MAGAZINE, "Rome Opera Ballet's talented première danseuse", April 1987. CHI E' DELLA DANZA IN ITALIA, L'Arabesque editrice (1992). TIZIANA LAURI: "Noi tutti dobbiamo imparare a corporizzare lo spirito e a spiritualizzare il corpo" - interview, 23/09/11 giornale della danza.com. TIZIANA LAURI: Archivio Storico e Audio-Visuale del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Capitale (partial list).
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