Vito Iacobellis

VITO IACOBELLIS won a scholarship for the Academy of “TeatroNuovo” of Turin, where he trained on the professional dancers course and started his working experience with the “TeatroNuovo di Torino” resident company.

He graduate at the “Centre International de Dance Rossella Hightower” and danced with the “Jeune Ballet de Cannes” company, directed by R.Hightower.

In 1991 he join the Universal Ballet Company in South Korea invited him as guest dancer where he became first soloist.

He danced as soloist with Tulsa Ballet, directed by Marcello Angelini,

Principle dancer with Alberta Ballet with the direction of MikkoNissinen and Memphis Ballet, assisting as well the work of mallet master and trainer with the corps de ballet and soloist.

Vito has toured with more then 700 performances in Europe, Japan, Asia, North America and USA.

During his career, Vito has worked with many  important artistic directors, ballet masters and choreographers including; P.Bortoluzzi, B.Stevenson, R.North, R.Tobias, V.Nebrada, J.Canfield, V.Canniparoli, O.Vinogradov, N.Duato, A.Amodio, B.Telloli, D.Job, V.Dokoudovsky,M.Angelini,  M.Nissinen, B.Steivel, R.Hightower, A.Dellas, J.Buttler,J.Jeon, M.Smuin, J.P.Comelin,P.Taylor,  A.Demille.

He was also engaged as ballet master and private tutor at the Kirov Academy in Seoul  when living in Korea and at the City ballet in Tennessee and as a private coach in Ballet House and Sunwa University in Korea.

Currently, Vito teaches and directs in several different dance schools  where he lives in Italy and is Artistic Director and principle choreographer for the Jakovits Ballet Company.

His most important choreographic work for the Jakovits  Ballet: Portrait,Follia di un anima stravagante,Sulle note di Bach, Amadeus Mozart, Il Corpo e l’Anima, L’AlberoMillenario, CarminaBurana,Omage pour Edith Piaf, Rapsodia in Blue, Death and the Maiden, Farinelli “IL CASTRATO”, Don Quixotte.

With the Italian CSEN he coordinates the classical ballet in Puglia and courses for new teachers.

Coordinator and ballet master for professional classes in Bari at Ensemble Ballet School.