Alessandra Tognoloni was born in Gubbio, Italy. She received her first ballet training from 1992 until 1999 at a private ballet school in her home town. In 1999 she went to the Municipal Ballet School in Florence for one year, afterwards she was trained at the Scuola del Teatro dell’Opera in Rome for another year. In 2001 she attended the John Cranko Schule in Stuttgart where she graduated in 2003. In addition to that she trained at the Broadway Dance Center, New York, for three weeks. In 2000 she attended a summer course at the English National Ballet in London and in 2002 she participated in an exchange programme of the John Cranko-School with the National Ballet of Canada.
She has already been taking part successfully in several competitions. In 1998 she won the first prize an the Praga Dance Festival. She won the second prize at the International Dance Week in Perugia, Italy (1999), as well as at the Polyakon Competition in Florence (2002).
At the beginning of the season 2003/04 Alessandra Tognoloni joined the Stuttgart Ballet as an apprentice. In the following season she was taken into the Corps de ballet. In 2008/09 she was promoted to Demi-Soloist.
In July 2012 Alessandra Tognoloni has been awarded the Premio ApuliArte as “best Italian artist abroad”.
REPERTOIRE
Solo Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet - Bravo Charlie (Marco Goecke)
- Brouillards (John Cranko): Pas de deux “Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses”
- Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins): Role in Blue
- Forgotten Land (Jiří Kylián): Couple in Grey
- Giselle (production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina): First Wili
- Initials R.B.M.E. (John Cranko)
- Jeu de Cartes (John Cranko)
- Krabat (Demis Volpi): Herr Gevatter
- Las Hermanas (Sir Kenneth MacMillan): Amelia
- Le Sacre du Printemps (Glen Tetley)
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck): The Gouverness
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck): The Master of ceremonies
- Lifecasting (Douglas Lee)
- Mobile (Tomm Ruud)
- Orphée et Euridice (Staging, Choreography: Christian Spuck)
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko): Gypsy
- Slice to Sharp (Jorma Elo)
- Ssss... (Edward Clug)
- Swan Lake (John Cranko): Pas de six
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa): Beauty Fairy, Sapphire
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko): Pas de six
- The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (William Forsythe)
Specially created Roles- Dancer in the Dark (Marco Goecke/Louis Stiens)
- Hamlet (Kevin O’Day): Woman of the Court
- Judith (Louis Stiens)
- Krabat (Demis Volpi)
- Leviathan (Douglas Lee)
- Miniatures (Douglas Lee)
- Orlando (Marco Goecke): one of the allegories
- veil (Sabrina Matthews)
- Yantra (Wayne McGregor)
Specially created Roles at Noverre-Society: Young Choreographers- 3 Grad (Brent Parolin)
- EXIT (Igor Kirov)
- Fragrance (Emil Faski)
- Hope Mountain (Evan McKie)
- Step Addition (Sébastien Galtier)
Corps de ballet Roles with the Stuttgart Ballet- A Streetcar named Desire (John Neumeier)
- Carmen (John Cranko, new production: Reid Anderson and Georgette Tsinguirides)
- das siebte blau (Christian Spuck)
- Don Quijote (Maximiliano Guerra)
- Frank Bridge Variations (Hans van Manen)
- Gaîté parisienne (Maurice Béjart)
- Giselle (Production: Reid Anderson, Valentina Savina)
- Goecke at the Chamber: The Nutcracker (Marco Goecke)
- I fratelli – The Brothers (Mauro Bigonzetti): Prostitute
- Kazimir’s Colours (Mauro Bigonzetti)
- La fille mal gardée (Sir Frederick Ashton)
- La Sylphide (Peter Schaufuss after August Bournonville)
- Le sacre du printemps (Glen Tetley)
- Leonce and Lena (Christian Spuck)
- Lulu. A Monstre Tragedy (Christian Spuck)
- Onegin (John Cranko)
- RED in 3. (Jorma Elo)
- Requiem (Kenneth MacMillan)
- Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko)
- Seventh Symphony (Uwe Scholz)
- Symphony in C (George Balanchine)
- The Cage (Jerome Robbins)
- The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine)
- The Lady of the Camellias (John Neumeier)
- The Sandman (Christian Spuck)
- The Sleeping Beauty (Márcia Haydée after Marius Petipa)
- The Song of the Earth (Kenneth MacMillan)
- The Taming of the Shrew (John Cranko)
- Theme and Variations (George Balanchine): Corps de ballet, Demi-Solo