{"id":3847,"date":"2026-05-26T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/?page_id=3847"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T12:34:51","slug":"martina-forioso","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/martina-forioso\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina FORIOSO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Born in Turin, Martina began dancing at the age of six at the Dance Steps<\/strong> school in Trofarello, under the direction of Cristina Trinchero. In 2000, she was awarded a scholarship to join the prestigious English National Ballet School<\/strong> in London, then directed by Kathryne Wade. There, she completed a two-year professional training programme under Francine Richard, Antony Dowson, and Jean Pascal Cabardos, graduating with both a dance diploma and a certification in \u201cBenesh Movement Notation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her professional debut took place with the European Ballet<\/strong> in London, directed by Stanislav Tchassov, in the production of \u201cCinderella\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2003, at just 18 years old, Martina joined the Scottish Ballet<\/strong> under the artistic direction of Ashley Page. From her earliest seasons, she performed leading roles in several of the director\u2019s contemporary works, including Cheating, Lying, Stealing<\/em>, Soft Underbelly<\/em>, and Fearful Symmetries<\/em>, as well as in major classical productions such as Cinderella<\/em>, The Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, The Nutcracker<\/em>, and Alice<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Promoted to the rank of Coryph\u00e9e<\/strong> in 2006, she continued to expand her repertoire, performing soloist roles in works by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, Krzysztof Pastor, and Kenneth MacMillan. During her nearly decade-long career with the Scottish Ballet, many roles were created especially for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2009, the British choreographer Richard Alston created Carmen<\/em> for the company and entrusted her with the principal role. In the same year, for her performance, she was nominated for the National Dance Awards<\/strong> (Critics\u2019 Circle) in London in the category \u201cBest Classical Performance in the United Kingdom,\u201d and was subsequently promoted to Soloist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, the year in which she was appointed to the prestigious rank of Principal Dancer<\/strong>, she left the Scottish Ballet to join Aterballetto<\/strong> under the direction of Cristina Bozzolini and resident choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, her contemporary repertoire has expanded to include works by Bigonzetti, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n, Hofesh Shechter, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Andonis Foniadakis, Ji\u0159\u00ed Pokorn\u00fd, Giuseppe Spota, Diego Tortelli, Michele Di Stefano, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nata a Torino, Martina inizia a danzare all’et\u00e0 di sei anni presso la scuola Dance Steps di Trofarello, sotto la direzione di Cristina Trinchero. Nel 2000 ottiene una borsa di studio per fare il suo ingresso nella prestigiosa English National Ballet School di Londra, allora diretta da Kathryne Wade. Qui completa un programma di formazione professionale biennale sotto la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24993385,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_about_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_gallery_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_contact_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_events_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_video_page":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_portfolio_piece":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3847","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PfrwoN-103","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24993385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4002,"href":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3847\/revisions\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apuliadancexperience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}