LEDA LOJODICE
Choreographer
Leda Lojodice is the prestigious interpreter of the Mechanical Doll in Federico Fellini's film Casanova and choreographed the engagement party in Roberto Benigni’s film Life is beautiful.
Trained in the twin discipline of Academic and Contemporary dance, she danced the original role of the 'Femme Fatale' directed by the famous French filmmaker René Clair and choreographed by Aurel Millos.
She has danced various prima ballerina roles in the classical repertoire: Corsaro, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Pas de quatre of AntonDolin, Les Sylphides, and, also directed by BronislavaNijiska,played the main role in the ballet Les Biches andfor Serge Lifar she danced both Lisseion andinDafnis and Cloeandanalkjasdlfkjasdòlfkj Autumn in Ballabile in Verdi’s Vepres siciliennes, directed by Giuseppe Di Stefano and Maria Callas.
She has received the highest awards and accolades and flattering reviews. She danced as Prima Ballerina with International partners from the Opera di Parigi; in Italy and abroad she has been a guest of the leading lyrical theatres dancing the great parts in the operas of Verdi, Bizet, Gounod, Rossini, Massenet and Ponchielli.From 1984 to date she has choreographed the musical 'Divertissements' and some mime actions for Lyrical Theatre from the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and Teatro alla Scala in 2001, to the Rome Operaand abroad from Covent Garden and the New National Theatre in Tokyo to Real Madrid and Colon in Buenos Aires and Chile and Brazil collaborating with the Director Hugo de Ana and for Armida with Luca Ronconi. In Washington, she choreographedMassenet’s LeCid interpreted by Placido Domingo.
In 1995 she choreographed the mime movements for Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffman, in 2004 she created the choreographic movements for Norma and in 2005 for Bellini’s Sonnambula. In 2014 at the Teatro Regio di Torino she created the coreography for Vedova allegra and in peking she created the Triumph dances for Aida and in September 2015 she will be coreographer for Sansone e Dalila.
Leda Lojodice
At theTeatro Filarmonico di Verona she debuted in 1976 as Prima Ballerina in Verdi’s Traviata.
At the Arena di Verona she debuted as Prima Ballerina in Bizet’s Carmen in 1970 and in the performance Balletti staged at the Teatro Romano. She returned in 1974 for Saint-Saëns’ Sansone e Dalila. She debuted as choreographer in 2007 with Rossini’sIl Barbiere di Siviglia, revived in 2009 and 2011. In 2011 she choreographed Traviata, in the staging re-proposed for the Centennial Festival in 2013.
She returns for the 2015 Opera Festival for the revival of the Barbiere di Siviglia choreography.