LARA BRANDI
Lara Brandi comes from Florence, Italy, and completed her professional dance training at the Hamlyn Dance School in her home city. She also spent two years at the renowned École-Atelier Rudra Béjart, where she had the opportunity to perform with the Bejart Ballet Lausanne.
After an engagement at the Maggio Danza di Firenze under the direction of Francesco Ventriglia, she came to Innsbruck in the 2013/14 season and was a member of the Tiroler Landestheater's TanzCompany until the 2022/23 season.
TRAINING AND BEGINNINGS
At the Landestheater, she has impressed audiences in numerous productions, including Stravinsky 3D, Peer Gynt, Mayerling, Midsummer Night's Dream, MacBeth, The Tempest, Terra Baixa, Romy Schneider and Madame Bovary (choreography: Enrique Gasa Valga). She has also performed in choreographies by contemporary choreographers such as Uwe Scholz, Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin and Mauro Bigonzetti.
She expressed her dancing skills in roles such as Chaplin in Charlie Chaplin, Anne Frank in Die Lautlose Welt der Anne Frank and Costance in Wolfgang Amadeus (choreography: Marie Stockhausen), Frida in Frida Kahlo-Nueva Passion (choreography: Enrique Gasa Valga). She has also appeared in operas such as Orphée et Eurydice and Maria de Buenos Aires as well as musicals such as Cabaret, West Side Story and Chicago.
In her last season at the Landestheater, she had the opportunity to present her piece Maledetto Modigliani to Tyrolean audiences for the first time as a choreographer and director.
From December 2023, she is the ballet master and dancer of the newly founded Limonada Enrique Gasa Valga Dance Company and has enjoyed great success with the productions Lágrimas Negras at Congress Innsbruck, The Great Gatsby in Munich and Montecarlo, Der Fall Wagner in Erl and Frida Kahlo in Munich in the leading role.