Damiano Pettenella

BORN
In Verona. Italian

EDUCATION
Scuola di Ballo dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala
Diploma for Advanced Training Dance Education in John Cranko School, Stuttgart

ENGAGEMENTS
Teatro alla Scala Milan, as dancer 2000-2002
Stuttgart Ballet, as Soloist 2002-2015 and as Guest Ballet Master 2012-2015, 2017
Ballett im Revier, as Ballet Master 2018-2019
Ballett am Rhein, as Head Ballet Master 2020-2024
Hamburg Ballet, as Head Ballet Master from August 2024

CREATIONS
Rosny in "..., la peau blanche..." (Christian Spuck)
Police Minister Argenson in "Das Fräulein von S." (Christian Spuck)
Professor Spalanzani in "The Sandman" (Christian Spuck)
Nicholas Greene in "Orlando" (Marco Goecke)

and solos in

Sweet Sweet Sweet (Marco Goecke)
Igor Poems (Kevin O'Day)
Il Concertone (Mauro Bigonzetti)
Alben (Marco Goecke)
Dummy Run (Douglas Lee)
Melodious gimmick to keep the boys in line (Marc Spadling)
Nautilus (Wayne McGregor)
Orphée et Euridice (Christian Spuck)
Viciouswishes (Marco Goecke)

REPERTORY IN MILAN
A Prince in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Rudolf Nurejev)

and solos in

Excelsior (Luigi Manzotti)
Amarcord (Luciano Cannito)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Roland Petit)

REPERTORY IN STUTTGART
Othello and Jago in "Othello" (John Neumeier)
Harold Mitchell and Kiefaber in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (John Neumeier)
Monsieur Duval in "Lady of the Camellias" (John Neumeier)
José-Antonio in "Don Quixote" (Maximiliano Guerra)
Carabosse, Prince of the South in "The Sleeping Beauty" (Marcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
Simone in "I fratelli – The Brothers" (Mauro Bigonzetti)
Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet" (John Cranko)
Gremin in "Onegin" (John Cranko)
Urlicht (William Forsythe)
Rotbart, Prince's Friend, Spanish Dance in "Swan Lake" (John Cranko)

Hortensio in "The Taming of the Shrew" (John Cranko)
A Friend in "Gaîté parisienne "(Maurice Béjart)
Hilarion in "Giselle" (Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
Claudius in "Hamlet" (Kevin O’Day)
Drosselmeier in "The Nutcracker" (Marco Goecke)
Brighella in "Pierrot lunaire" (Glen Tetley)
Pas de trois in "Voluntaries" (Glen Tetley)
Solo in B. in "Initials R.B.M.E." (John Cranko)
King Peter in "Leonce and Lena" (Christian Spuck)
Rodrigo, Jack the Ripper in "Lulu - A Tragedy of Monsters" (Christian Spuck)
Vision in "Poème de l’Extase" (John Cranko)
Roy in "Présence "( John Cranko)
The Host in "The Lady and the Fool" (John Cranko)
First Intruder in "The Cage" (Jerome Robbins)

and solos in


Fratres (John Neumeier)
Brouillards (John Cranko)
Grosse Fuge (Hans van Manen)
Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián)
Le Sacre du printemps (Glen Tetley)
Corps (Hans van Manen)
Das siebte blau (Christian Spuck)
No more play (Jiří Kylián)
Yantra (Wayne McGregor)
The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan)
Jeu de Cartes (John Cranko)
Kleines Requiem (Hans van Manen)
Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan)
Return to a strange Land (Jiří Kylián)
Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
Symphony in C (George Balanchine)
Die vier Temperamente (George Balanchine)

REHEARSAL DIRECTOR OF BALLETS BY:
Demis Volpi, Bridget Breiner, Twyla Tyarp, Roland Petit, George Balanchine, Hans Van Mannen, John Neumeier, Jerome Robbins, Flemming Flindt, Katarzyna Kozielska, Marco Goecke

GUESTING AS BALLET MASTER
Teatro Massimo Palermo

HE STAGED
Ballets by Demis Volpi:
Finnish National Ballet
Opéra National de Lyon
Accademia Teatro alla Scala

Ballets by Bridget Breiner:
Innsbruck Ballett
Ballett in Revier

Light Design by Katarzyna Kozielska:
Stuttgart Ballet
Czech National Ballet