Mirella Simoncini (Green Report)
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Mirella Simoncini is a ballet dancer, jouranlist and dance teacher.
Simoncini was born in The Hague, the Netherlands where she received her first ballet traning at the private school of her mother: Mabel Alter (former-dancer at the Nederlands Dans Theatre ). At age 12 she was invited by balletmaster Ivan Kramar to join the vocational dance department of the Nederlands Dans Theatre. She later studied in Brussels with Piotr Nardelli and at the Royal Ballet School in Antwerp.
She had a chance for a temporary career in radio and television. An injury made her decide to stop dancing full-time. She did not dance for quite a few years and developed an interest in journalism. Her first job was with the Dutch radio as a voice for 3FM DJ Frits Spits and the programme De Avondspits. She became DJ for Radio 538 with the Green Report. Switched to the public channel as she got her own show at 3FM (Bad Grrrl) for the Dutch broadcasting foundation Nederlandse Programma Stichting. She remained working for public broadcast companies for a while, with several radio and TV programmes including PARADISOlife live from Paradiso (Amsterdam), listen to an interview by Mirella Simoncini with Candy Dulfer here: NPS Output She made radio documentaries for Radio 5 (Netherlands) (RVU, NPS) to find her way back to the professional dance/ballet scene, as she was making documentaries about dance and working for the Holland Dance Festival doing interviews in front of a live audience.
After leaving the radio and television scene, she became a balletteacher, a.o. for Danstraining Brabant, which is initiated by Productiehuis Brabant and organises daily professional dance classes. She also became the director of a well known private balletschool in The Hague.
Since 2002 she is the artistic director for Summerschool Den Haag with guestteachers from, among others, the Nederlands Dans Theatre (Brigitte Martin, Natalia Horecna), the Dutch National Ballet (Jane Lord), Scapino Ballet Rotterdam (Keith-Derrick Randolph), Dance Works Rotterdam and Galili Dance (Philipp Stummer)
As a rehearsal director and teacher she has been committed to the Inspiration Project. working with young dancers from different vocational dance schools. She produced the first Project in 2005 with students from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Nationale Ballet Academie Amsterdam and Codarts/Dance Aademy in Rotterdam. The project received support by KORZO and the Nederlands Dans Theatre who offered rehearsal space. By the end of 2005, she was invited by the RVD to produce a performance for the Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family. Simoncini creeated a special version of the Coppelia Spanish solo performed by dancer Charlotte v/d Reek (choreography by: Simoncini after Marius Petipa. The performance was broadcasted live by the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting.
