Paolo bortoluzzi nureyev biography

Paolo Bortoluzzi, an Italian dancer and choreographer, died on Oct. 16 in a hospital in Brussels.

Italian ballet dancer Paolo Bortoluzzi died twenty years ago today: 15 October He died the same year as Rudolf Nureyev.

Paolo Bortoluzzi began his dance studies in his hometown of Genoa and was a student of Ugo Dell'Ara, Nora Kiss, Victor Gsovsky and Asaf Messerer in Milan.

Paolo Bortoluzzi, who sadly passed away months after Rudolf Nureyev,at exactly the same amazing & fabulous dancers.

As well as the incomparable Paolo Bortoluzzi, Rudolf Nureyev had several other partners such as the Frenchmen Jean Guizerix and Charles Jude (on the many.

Paolo Bortoluzzi began his dance studies in his hometown of Genoa and was a student of Ugo Dell'Ara, Nora Kiss, Victor Gsovsky and Asaf Messerer in Milan....

Paolo Bortoluzzi, a star to remember

Some photos mysteriously possess a prophetic aura.

Those depicting Paolo Bortoluzzi behind Rudolf Nureyev in Maurice Béjart's Le Chant du compagnon errant, likely in Bortoluzzi's Brussels debut, foreshadowed the relationship of the two great dancers with our collective memory.

In the poignant pas de deux that Béjart created for Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Nureyev was the Wandering Companion, Bortoluzzi his alter ego, fate, the fatal shadow that accompanies the young man on his earthly pilgrimage.

"The Companion is a wandering traveller," Béjart himself explained, "like those young apprentices of the Middle Ages who went from town to town in search of their Master's destiny; of a romantic student pursued by his destiny and suffering from - to use Mahler's words - 'that knife in the chest' that contains the struggle against self and loneliness.”

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