Gaetano Posterino
Dance Director, Choreographer, Ballet Master
Gaetano Posterino comes from Italy and lives and works as a freelance dance director, choreographer and ballet master in Munich, among other places. He completed his dance training with scholarship at the National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto. After a first engagement with the Balletto di Toscana Florence, he danced for a variety of well-known companies as a soloist in Italy (e.g. Ballet L'Ensemble de Micha van Hoecke), Argentina (Teatro San Martin), the USA (San Francisco Ballet), Great Britain (English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet), Switzerland (Lucerne Ballet) as well as first soloist in the Peter Schaufuss Ballet (Denmark) and for many years at the Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden.
He discovered his talent for choreography early on. Parallel to his dance career, he has thus created a diverse number of international choreographic works for ballet, dance theater, film and opera since 1995. Gaetano Posterino choreographed for many years for the Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden as house choreographer, for the Internationale Tanztheater Reutlingen as artistic director and main choreographer as well as for the Augsburg Ballet as house choreographer.
Numerous engagements as guest choreographer have taken him to the Theater Gießen, the Theater Hagen, the Mainfranken-Theater Würzburg, the Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf, the Aarhus Dance Festival in Denmark, the Ballet Istanbul, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Bilbao Dance Festival in Spain, the International May Festival Wiesbaden, the Ballet de Santiago de Chile, the Pittsburgh Ballet, the Semperoper Dresden and the Teatro Massimo di Palermo. Since 2002 he has also been leading his own Posterino Dance Company as artistic director and choreographer.
Both his dance performances and his choreographic works have been awarded a total of 11 international prizes. His more than 60 works have been performed on more than 50 stages in 16 countries.
contact:
Gaetano Posterino
Nymphenburger Str. 10
80335 Munich
0049 (0)176 80442035
www.gaetanoposterino.net/kontakt
0049 (0)176 80442035
