Posterino & Company

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Gaetano Posterino is Italian (Cosenza, CS) and a dance director, choreographer and ballet master. He completed his dance education at the National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto. After a first engagement at the Balletto di Toscana Florence he danced for a variety of companies as soloist in Italy (e.g. Ballet L'Ensemble de Micha van Hoecke), Argentina (Teatro San Martin), the United States (San Francisco Ballet), the UK (English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet), Switzerland (Lucerne Ballet ) and as first soloist at Peter Schaufuss Ballet (Denmark) and for many years as first soloist at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden.

At an early stage he discovered his talent for choreography. Parallel to his dance career since 1995 he created a large number of most versatile, international choreographic works for ballet, dance theatre and opera. Gaetano Posterino choreographed among others many years for Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden as house-choreographer, International Dance Theater Reutlingen as artistic director and principal choreographer and Augsburg Ballet as house-choreographer. Engagements as guest choreographer lead him to Theatre Giessen, Theatre Hagen, Mainfranken Theatre Wuerzburg, Tanzhaus NRW in Dusseldorf, Aarhus Dance Festival in Denmark, Ballet Istanbul, Metropolitan Opera New York, Bilbao Dance Festival in Spain, International May Festival Wiesbaden, Ballet de Santiago de Chile, Pittsburgh Ballet, Semperoper Dresden and Teatro Massimo di Palermo.

In 2002 Gaetano Posterino founded his own dance company in Wiesbaden. He is heading the company as Artistic Director and Choreographer.At first he created the core of its repertoire with the Wiesbaden Ballet. Since then the company presents contemporary choreografic creations on a regular base. For the productions Gaetano Posterino is engaging dancers on a project base.

The objective of the company is to combine Gaetano's choreographic creativity with the abilities of extraordinary dancers and incorporate their different cultural backgrounds resulting in unique dance pieces on stage. The company is engaging dancers on an international scale aiming to present the audience creative works aside the mainstream in Germany and abroad.