{"id":54029,"date":"2021-12-15T11:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=54029"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:28:58","slug":"special-moments-alessandra-ferri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/special-moments-alessandra-ferri\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL MOMENTS: ALESSANDRA FERRI"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll start with the \u2018age\u2019 subject, because I know it\u2019s going to come up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m 58, going on 59! I\u2019m actually rather amused by the idea because obviously I never expected it, to be dancing at this age. It\u2019s not that I look to the future, I never really have, but every day it\u2019s like a lovely surprise that I can still do it and still enjoy it. I\u2019m not afraid of saying my age – in fact I think it should be said. We should all stop worrying about it. I think a lot of it is in our heads. We have been brought up to think about age but times have changed. Why should we put ourselves in compartments, thinking when I\u2019m thirty I can do this, when I\u2019m forty I can do that – it\u2019s up to you what you want to do. It\u2019s up to us to free ourselves from that kind of mind-conditioning. Embracing age means embracing the age you are. For me it means understanding that I cannot be the girl that I was when I was twenty, thirty or forty. My body cannot do certain things anymore and I don\u2019t want to compete with myself. I think that\u2019s the important thing. Years do go forward and we do change – it\u2019s about embracing where you are at the fullest. I\u2019ve worked hard all my life, and now I\u2019m working with my body at 58. I cannot do a lot of things, I cannot jump – but I\u2019m aware of where I\u2019m up to, and one should not be afraid. In class, I see all these beautiful young dancers but if I started to compete with that, I would be frustrated. I enjoy being back on stage. In L\u2019Heure exquise<\/em> I play an old ballerina and it\u2019s a great role. I couldn\u2019t have done it before. I never thought I would sing on stage, and there I am trying to sing! It\u2019s a dream role. B\u00e9jart did an amazing thing because he was able to translate Happy Days<\/em> into a dance piece in a very clever way. I still feel I\u2019m doing [Samuel] Beckett but in a different language.<\/p>\n

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With Gil Romain in ‘Les Chaises’ Photo by Kiyonori Hasegawa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first thing you did when you came out of retirement was a piece you created on yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, I did The Piano Upstairs<\/em> for the Spoleto Festival. It was also a play. I wasn\u2019t talking myself but I was on stage with an actor. It was the story of the end of a marriage. It was a strange case of – is this life imitating art or art imitating life – because as I was working on it, my own marriage came to an end.\u00a0 It was very personal. I never thought I was going to choreograph and I didn\u2019t really want to because I don\u2019t feel I am a choreographer but it was so personal, it would have felt strange to go and ask someone to choreograph. I thought, let me just try and see what happens….<\/p>\n

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