Fabio Grossi (born 1 October 1977, Rome) is an Italian dancer and ballet teacher.
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He trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza in Rome, where he graduated with full marks.[1]
He also studied with Marika Besobrasova in Monte-Carlo, Rosella Hightower in Cannes, Wilhelm Burmann in Geneva and Milan, Philip Beamish in London and Milan, Raymond Franchetti in Marseilles - among others.
At age 19, Grossi was a First Prize Winner at the Rieti Dance Competition in Italy and the only Italian to be a Finalist and a Diploma Winner at the 1997 Moscow International Ballet Competition in Russia, which was directed by Yuri Grigorovich.[2]
On October 11, 1997 he made his debut with Aterballetto (Italy). Then he successively joined:
From 2003 to 2007, he has been one of the leading dancers of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma performing as partner of Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.[3]
As a Principal Dancer, Grossi's repertoire included most of the major classical, neoclassical and romantic roles of the ballet tradition [4] such as Giselle, Swan Lake,[5] The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Mikhail Fokine's Les Sylphides and Petrushka, Léonide Massine's Pulcinella and George Balanchine's re-created pieces La Chatte and The Ball.
At the Rome Opera House, numerous principal roles in neoclassical and contemporary new works (by Luciano Cannito, Paul Chalmer, Millicent Hodson,[6] Luca Veggetti and others) have been made on him.
He also performed lead roles in ballets by George Balanchine (The Four Temperaments), Jiri Kylian (Sinfonietta), William Forsythe (Steptext, Approximate Sonata), Uwe Scholz (Bach-Kreationen), Ohad Naharin (Axioma 7), Robert North (Troy Game), Amedeo Amodio (Afternoon of a Faune), Marie-Claude Pietragalla (Sakountala, Ni Dieu ni Maitre), Mauro Bigonzetti (Comoedia, Wakti - both created for him) and many others.[7]
He won the Léonide Massine Ballet Award in Positano twice, as an Emerging Talent in 1997 and as an Established Artist in 2007,[8] and the Anita Bucchi Dance Award as the Best Male Dancer of the Year (season 2006/07) [9] with the following motivation:
"Young artist with unequalled personality and charism. His performances are the out-come of a very hard work of research, synthesis and introspection, completed by a vigorous and mature technique." [10]
Described as "a major star in the making",[11] Fabio Grossi has been regarded by critics and audience as one of the most talented Italian dancers of the moment [12] and as one of the best the Rome Opera Ballet has lately had among its ranks.[13]
On May 11, 2008 he danced his farewell performance as a Guest Artist of the Arena di Verona, with the role of Albrecht in Giselle at the Teatro Filarmonico.[14] Then he worked there as a Ballet Master.[15]
Fabio Grossi lives in Rome devoting himself to ballet teaching,[16][17][18][19][20] with the following purposes:
"The teaching method, availing itself of an extremely wide artistic experience and of an unremitting individual technical research, proposes an invitation to dance as harmonious movement and free self-expression. By using the auspicate fusion of a prevailingly French-inspired base, marked by soft simplicity and coordination, with a typically Western rhythmical variety, the ballet class is conceived as a search of purity through the combination of body, mind and heart; with the ultimate aim of recovering an inner joy which is both self-nourishment and sharing with the others".[21]
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