Adria Ferrali's biografy

Born in Florence (Italy), Adria started her studies in dance and piano at an early age in her native town.
She graduated in major humanities in 1984 and completed one year studies in Theater History at the University of Literature and Philosophy of Florence.

In 1987, after a workshop at the state theater with Yuriko Kikuchi, she was offered a full scholarship to study at the Martha Graham School of contemporary dance in New York.

In 1989 Adria joined the Martha Graham Ensemble as a principal dancer until 1992 (red girl in Diversion of Angels, Marie in El Penitente and the lead woman in Acts of Light). Same year, she was invited to join the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Since 1989, Adria has been a member of the Pearl Lang Dance Theater and the european representative of Miss. Lang artistic and tecnical tutoring system.
During her performing carreer Adria has danced under the instruction of famous teachers and choreographers Martha Graham, Pearl Lang, Yuriko Kikuchi, Bertram Ross for modern dance, Madame Darvash for Ballet, Matt Mattox for Jazz.

In 1993 Adria was assistent to Yuriko Kikuchi for the Dutch National Ballet. She was guest teacher for the “Toladà Dance Company” in Berlin and for “Mind the Gap” and the “Maia Lex Dance Theater” in Cologne.
Adria has taught and demonstrated classes in the Graham tecnique in many colleges and University in the United States, like the Marymount Manhattan College and Pace University in New York and the University Of Texas.
Adria is also a faculty member for two dance accademies in Berlin and still travels there for choreography work and intensive courses.

In 2000 Adria has completed her one evening dance drama based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth “The dark tower”. The work was presented at the theater Talia in Göteborg (Sweden) with great success.
Lis Hellström from Göteborg Posten writes that ”it’s an historical night of dance”.
In the same year she has was invited as a guest teacher at the school of the Royal Danish Ballet and has been invited back as a guest choreographer for the year 2003-2004.
Adria is a faculty member at “Dansewerkstaedet Copenhagen” in Denmark and at the “Ballettakademien Göteborg” in Sweden.

In the year 2002 she was guest teacher at the University of Stockholm for both the Dance and pedagogic Department.

Adria was a guest artist at the National Opera of Ukraina for the international Nijinsky Festival (2002-2003) and received the Nijinsky Price in 2003 by the local autorities and the italian ambassador as best dancer and best choreographer.

Her project on Hamlet has toured Germany with the European Youth Ballet in the spring of 2002 and premiered as a full one act ballet in July 2003 at the eminent Festival “La Versiliana” in Marina di Pietrasanta, Italy: “Hamletus Stirps Virilis”

The School of the Royal Danish Theater has also staged her choreography at the Royal Theater (Copenhagen) in March 2003 and celebrated her Nijinsky Price with a public announce on stage.