Giovanni Visone

Giovanni trained in Florence, at the school and the junior company of Balletto di Toscana. In the 2015/16 season he moved to Germany, first to the Delattre Dance Company Mainz, then to the Staatsballett Hannover for six years. He remained in the ensemble after Marco Goecke succeeded Jörg Mannes und danced in pieces by Jiří Kylián, Andonis Foniadakis, Medhi Walerski, Nadav Zelner and Hans van Manen. His engagement in Stuttgart from the 2022/23 must have been meant to be. After all, many of the choreographers he worked with in Hanover create for Gauthier Dance, first of all Marco Goecke. Giovanni has also been very successful as a choreographer himself, winning prizes at the SOLOCOREOGRAFICO Frankfurt 2020 festival and the International Competition for Choreography Hanover 2022. In Stuttgart, Giovanni regularly shines as a superb dancer-performer, most recently in a leading role in Akram Khan's sensational dance drama Turning of Bones. As a demonic tribal elder, he presents his daughter with an impossible choice...