Rosanna
Seravalli was born in Florence, Italy where she started ballet
classes at the school of Darie Collin. Shortly after her arrival in
the U.S. she joined the Joffrey Ballet then moved to America Ballet
Theatre, where she spent the next eleven years, attaining the rank
of Soloist. After leaving ABT, Ms. Seravalli joined the Conservatory
of Dance Faculty at Purchase College. In 1984, she was invited to
Taipei, Taiwan to work with the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, National
Institute of the Arts and to teach at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing
Arts, In addition, she has staged works and taught classes for Ballet
Philippines, Ballet Municipal de Santiago and in her home country
of Italy. She received a SUNY Research Foundation Grant to develop
methods of adapting Russian classical training for American Dancers
and in 1995 was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Chile which
allowed her to return to Ballet Municipal de Santiago. She has traveled
throughout Chile and neighboring countries giving seminars and master
classes. Ms. Seravalli has worked with the Guangdong Modern Company
in Guangzhou, China and most recently she was invited to teach at
the University of Melbourne's Victoria School of the Arts and in Brisbane
at the School of the Arts. Ms. Seravalli is currently a tenured Professor
of Dance in the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College.
Rosanna
Seravalli was born in Florence, Italy where she started ballet
classes at the school of Darie Collin. Shortly after her arrival in
the U.S. she joined the Joffrey Ballet then moved to America Ballet
Theatre, where she spent the next eleven years, attaining the rank
of Soloist. After leaving ABT, Ms. Seravalli joined the Conservatory
of Dance Faculty at Purchase College. In 1984, she was invited to
Taipei, Taiwan to work with the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, National
Institute of the Arts and to teach at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing
Arts, In addition, she has staged works and taught classes for Ballet
Philippines, Ballet Municipal de Santiago and in her home country
of Italy. She received a SUNY Research Foundation Grant to develop
methods of adapting Russian classical training for American Dancers
and in 1995 was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Chile which
allowed her to return to Ballet Municipal de Santiago. She has traveled
throughout Chile and neighboring countries giving seminars and master
classes. Ms. Seravalli has worked with the Guangdong Modern Company
in Guangzhou, China and most recently she was invited to teach at
the University of Melbourne's Victoria School of the Arts and in Brisbane
at the School of the Arts. Ms. Seravalli is currently a tenured Professor
of Dance in the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College.