Sara Pennella
Opernhaus Zurich, Erfurt Theater・Contemporary dance
Sara Pennella was born in Stigliano (MT) in 1990. She began her dance studies at Loredana Calabrese’s Balletto Lucano school in Senise (PZ), and, after participating in the Pollino Danza Festival, she won a scholarship for the Ballet school of Tuscany in Florence (2007/2011) and joined the Junior company of the same.
In October 2012 she took a contract with the Oniin dance Company of Bologna with which she carried out tours in Italy and abroad. In the same year she joined the cast of the musical “My Fair Lady” by Massimo Romeo Piparo at the Sistina Theater for the Italian tour. In February 2015 she signed her first foreign contract for the Tanz & Kunst company directed by Brigitta Luisa Merki in Switzerland, with which she still collaborates today on various productions.
She also works for Monica Casadei’s Artemis Danza company from Parma and Claudio Ronda’s Fabula Saltica company from Rovigo. From 2016 to 2018 she joined the artistic cast of the Garden Club Toscana under the direction of Noemi Rossi, completing herself artistically with a vast musical repertoire. In 2017 she works at Gardaland and at the same time for the Dutch Samadhi Dance Company of Vraja Sundari Keilman, she also takes part in various Dinner Shows.
In 2018 she was cast in the opera musical Otello-L’ultimo Bacio directed by Wayne Fowkes and in the same year she became a member of the NoGraity dance company in Rome with which she carried out various tours in Italy and abroad . In 2019 she took part in two other productions together with the Swiss company Flamencos En Route and in the same year she embarked on a new and exciting experience as assistant / dancer of the illusionist magician Gaetano Triggiano with whom she participated in the show “Zauber, Zauber” at the Wintergarten of Berlin.
In 2020 she participates in the “LABYRITH” project in state schools in the Aargau region (Switzerland) as a teacher and choreographer.