Agnese Di Clemente

Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Born in Verona, she began dancing at the age of 4 in a dance school of her city.

In June 2007 she positioned first in the selections to enter the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where she graduated in 2015. In the same year she joined the Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company where she also played soloist and principal roles such as: Clara in the Nutcracker by Nacho Duato, the three precious stones and The blue bird in Sleeping Beauty by Alexei Ratmansky, the Dance of the cygnets and the pas de trois in Swan Lake always by Alexei Ratmansky, Cupid and two Kitri's friends in Don Quixote by Rudolf Nureyev, one of the two solo couples in Glen Tetley’s Sacre du printemps, the main couple of the fourth movement in George Balanchine's Symphony in C, the pas de deux Prelude in Mauro Bigonzetti’s Progetto Handel, she played many times the role of Olga in John Cranko's Onegin, Olympia in John Neumeier's Dame aux Camelias, the Odalisques pas de trois in Anna-Marie Holmes' Le Corsaire by Marius Petipa and Konstantin Sergeyev.

In Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty she played the Canary Fairy, Aurora's friends and once again The blue bird.

She also participated in A. Preljocaj’s creation for the theatre, Winterreise.

She took part in W. Mc Gregor's ballet Woolf Works playing two solo roles in I Now, I Then and Becomings and she interpreted the four Dryads and a solo Naiad in Manuel Legris' creation, Sylvia.

Recently, in Hans van Manen's Hammerklavier, she performed one of three solo couples.

On the occasion of the theatres’ reopening after the first lockdown, she participated in the creation Do a duet by Mauro Bigonzetti and played the role of the First Odalisque in Manuel Legris’ version of Il corsaro.

Recently, she danced in John Neumeier's Spring and Fall duo, Concerto DSCH by Alexei Ratmansky, Movements to Stravinsky by Andreas Lukas and The Vertiginous by William Forsythe

At the end of the Season she is nominated Soloist of the Teatro alla Scala.

She also collaborates with Roberto Bolle in his broadcast on RAI 1, Danza con me; in 2019 she is among the dancers of the Bolle Tour at the Politeama Rossetti of Trieste.

At the same time, she takes part in the company’s tour in France, China, Japan, America and Australia