Alessia Lera

Alessia was born in Viareggio where she started studying ballet at Erna Bonk’s ballet school. (Royal Danish Ballet). At the age of seventeen, Alessia received a grant to study at the Munich Ballet Academy part of the Hochschule for Musik.

After the diploma, she got her first contract as a professional dancer at the Dutch National Ballet directed by Rudi Van Danting, in Amsterdam and danced in various productions such as Giselle, Swan Lake (soloist in the Italian Dance), Les Sylphides, Paquita, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Mid- Summer’s Night Dream, Mozart’s Requiem, Artifact (ch. William Forsythe) and Gross Land (ch. Maguy Marin). She also toured with the company in England and Japan.

Back in Italy, Alessia danced with Balletto di Toscana in Mediterranea and Blue Note (ch. Mauro Bigonzetti), Juliet and Romeo (ch. Fabrizio Monteverde) and in other works by well-known contemporary choreographers touring Germany, the United States and Brazil.

After Balletto di Toscana, Alessia joined Balletto Del Sud, directed By Fredy Franzutti and danced in many ballets such as: The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Leonardo’s project, La Traviata touring Italy extensively. She danced in the Opera Festival in Pesaro, directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi and for the Rai (National Italian Television). Alessia interpreted the role of Venus as Prima Ballerina in Adriana Lecouvrer at the Opera Theatre in Catania.

In Tuscany she worked as a soloist for the Lyric Dance Company and danced in the role of Tamara de Lempicka, Minotaur with Giuseppe Picone and in Callas.

In 2016 Alessia got her teaching diploma from the National Academy in Rome following a two- year intensive course (II level diploma). Since then she has been teaching at the State Dance School Liceo Coreutico) in Livorno and in other private dance schools in Tuscany.