Born in Rome, he graduated at the Opera’s School in Rome and entered directly in the city’s company.
In the season 1982-83, after 10 years of activity in Rome’s Opera, he joined Aterballetto, under the artistic direction of Amedeo Amodio, and performed all the choreographies of the company’s repertoire. The most significant collaborations of this period were the ones with Alvin Ailey, Glen Tetley, William Forsythe and Jennifer Muller. He also danced in many works by George Balanchine and Leonide Massine.
In 1990 he created his first work Sei in movimento set to music by J.S. Bach, which made its debut at the Teatro Sociale in Grassina.
In the season 1992-93 he left Aterballetto and became a free lance choreographer. In this period he began an intense collaboration with the Balletto di Toscana, a source, in those years, of many Italian choreographers.
Afterwards, the most important collaborations were with the following international companies: English National Ballet London, Ballet National Marseille, Stuttgarter Ballett, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper Dresden, Ballet Teatro Argentino, Balè da Cidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Ballet Gulbenkian Lisbon, New York City Ballet, State Ballet Ankara, Ballet du Capitole Toulouse. He also created ballets for many Italian companies including the Ballets of Teatro alla Scala Milan, Opera Rome, Arena Verona, Teatro San Carlo Naples.
For his creations he collaborated with many artists such as Claudio Parmiggiani, Fabrizio Plessi, Bruno Moretti, Elvis Costello, Danilo Grassi, Guglielmo Capone, Millar & Swandale, Roberto Tirelli, Fabrizio Montecchi, Nicola Lusuardi, Paride Bonetta, Helena Medeiros, Paolo Calafiore, Carlo Cerri, Beni Montresor, Massimo Castri, Lucia Socci.
In 1997 he became Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer of Compagnia Aterballetto under the chairmanship of Federico Grilli with whom he collaborated to build a new repertoire and a new company.
His most important works are: Songs, Persephassa, Furia Corporis, Comoedia Canti, Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, Cantata, Rossini Cards, Vespro, Les Noces, Psappha, WAM, Romeo and Juliet, and are represented in the major theaters in the world.
