Endi Bahaj
Dance
Endi Bahaj
Italy/Albania
I was born in Trento from an Albanian couple who emigrated in the early 1990s.
I started studying dance at the Giovanna Menegari dance school.
Already during the first few weeks the teacher finds something in me that will lead her to have a vision of dance that goes beyond an after-school program.
At 13 she urged me to participate in various auditions in Europe and I decided to follow her directions with little expectations.
It went well for me as I passed the audition for the Teatro alla Scala Academy Ballet School where I began my studies for a professional career.
During those years, I took part in all the productions and tours of the Teatro alla Scala Academy Ballet School, dancing in the following ballets: Milan – Variation for Four – (water)chor. by A. Dolin reprised by M.Gielgud and J. Yuesha; Ferrara – Paquita (PDD Lucien) chor. by M.Petipa; Genova – Cinderella (Prince) chor. by Frederic Olivieri; Galà Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy) – Theme and Variations chor. by G. Balanchine (rehearsed by P.Neary) Un Ballo, chor.by J. Kylian (rehearsed by Y. Dubreuil/S.Esseboom) Soloist variation in Presentazione; Lublin, Poland, Cinderella (cavalier) chor. by Frederic Olivieri; Pavia, Cinderella (cavalier) chor. by Frederic Olivieri; Theme and Variations chor. by G. Balanchine; La Stravaganza chor. by A. Preljocaj (rehearsed by C. Desmet) Soloist variation in Presentazione; The Nutcracker (Sugar Plum fairy pas de deux/Spanish Dance/Trepak/Soldier); Teatro alla Scala company collaboration Sleeping Beauty (defilée) chor. by A. Ratmansky; The Nutcracker (Child/Trepak).
At 18 years old, before my graduation, I got a contract following an audition for the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala in which I worked for up to 4 years, until the virus outbreak.
In these years I had the fortune to dance in all the ballets staged in the theatre and abroad:
La Scala, Kammerballett (Soloist) chor. by H. Van Manen; La Scala, Sylvia chor. by M. Legris (Principal and corps du ballet); La Scala, Symphony in C, (demi soloist) chor. by G. Balanchine; Bolero chor. by M. Bejart; La Scala, Onegin (corp de ballet) chor. by J. Cranko; La Scala, Sleeping Beauty (corps de ballet) chor. R. Nureyev; La Scala, Woolf Works by W. McGregor (soloist and corps de ballet); La Scala, L’ Histoire de Manon (corps du ballet) chor. by K. Mac Millan; La Scala, Winterreise (soloist) new creation of Angelin Preljocaj; China/Australia, Don Quixote chor. by R. Nureyev, Giselle (Corps de Ballet) chor. by Y. Chauvirée; La Scala, Don Quixote (matador, fandango, gipsy) chor. by R. Nureyev; La Scala, Le Corsaire (8 corsairs, corps du ballet) chor. by A.M. Holmes; La Scala, Trittico, Mahler 10 (soloist and corps du ballet) Bolero; La Scala, Goldberg Variations, (corps du ballet) chor. by H. Spoerli; La Scala, blue ball, country, champs elysee, golden ball (corps du ballet) in La dame aux Camelias chor. by J. Neumeier; La Scala, “hunter” in Swan Lake chor. by A. Ratmansky.
In october 2020, I took part in the opening of Whoolbridge gallery in Biella with a performance by Yuval Avital coordinated by Stefania Ballone.
In november I participated in Joe Wright’s film, dancing the choreographies of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
