Riccardo Riccardi

Ex-principal dancer at the Teatro di San Carlo (Naples). He worked in the theatres of Bologna, Venice, and Carla Fracci’s company with V. Vasilyev, E. Maximova, R. Nureyev, R. Petit, N. Glushak, T. Brown and others.


In 1994, he graduated (with honors) from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, with pedagogical diploma.


He taught at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, in Rome.


In 1994, he became the Director of the Dansemble Ballet School (Naples).


In 1994, he organized courses for teachers in Italy training in A.Ya. Vaganova’s methods and employed teachers from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.


He translated (together with I. Golyandin) V.S. Kostrovitskaya’s and A.A. Pisarev’s book The Classical Ballet School into Italian.


He has been cooperating with Danzainfiera international dance fair since 2011.