BALLETTO TEATRO TORINO / MANFREDI PEREGO

ph. Roberto Poli

VIOLA SCAGLIONE

DIRECTOR OF BTT 

Viola was born in Turin and specialized at the ballet school of the Teatro di Torino. She then attended the ‘High On Dance’ in Washington D.C., London Contemporary School and Conservatoire de Boulogne in Paris. She went on to become part of the Balletto Teatro di Torino and trained with Nina Viroubova, Loris Gai and James Urbain who chose her for some solo roles. As a dancer she participated in operas and shows of the Teatro Regio di Torino. In 2002, she went back to the Balletto Teatro di Torino and in 2017 she was appointed Company Director.  As the artistic director of BTT, Viola has adopted an inclusive and open approach. She establishes a horizontal dialogue with the company dancers and artists involved in the different pieces by promoting group processes, which are strongly rooted in the combination between personal growth and artistic evolution processes. 

MANFREDI PEREGO

After his experience with the company he founded called MP.ideograms, with which he was awarded the premio Equilibrio for a solo called Grafiche del silenzio, Primitiva and Labile Pangea are some of the most recent pieces by him. He participated in the Equilibrio Festival, Vetrina della Giovane danza d’autore in Ravenna, cooperated with Scenario Pubblico and was awarded the prize GD’A Giovane Danza D’Autore dell’Emilia Romagna in 2017. He combines dance and martial arts, which he has been practicing since he was young. He has been a trainer at different Italian and foreign institutions, such as the Balletto di Roma, Balletto Teatro di Torino, Laban Trinity College and Austrian Youth Ballet. Since 2015, his artistic work is being supported by TIR Danza.