Professional Awards and Recognitions
Outstanding Dance Faculty of the Year (Boston Conservatory, 2012)
Acknowledgement for Artistic Accomplishment in Dance (BCA, 2004)
E. Virginia Williams Inspiration Award (2002)
Best Dance Partner (Helsinki Ballet Competition, 1991)
Arnold Spohr Scholarship recipient (1988)
Dancer and choreographer Gianni Di Marco, a native of Venezuela, began his dance training in 1981 in the Professional Division of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. Di Marco joined Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 1988, was promoted to second soloist in 1990, and first soloist the following year. He joined Boston Ballet in 1995, retiring in 2005. Di Marco has also danced with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Festival Ballet Providence and Germany’s Opera Leipzig Ballet.
Among numerous roles, he includes Romeo and Mercutio in Rudi van Dantzig’s Romeo and Juliet and pas des deux in Petipa’s Don Quixote, as well as works by Balanchine, Nacho Duato, J. Kylián, Hans van Manen, Cranko, Danny Pelzig, and others.
Di Marco has choreographed more than 50 original works, including multiple works for Boston Conservatory, La Rondine (2003) for the Boston Lyric Opera, and Orpheus (2012) for Boston Baroque. He has created works for Boston Ballet, including The Nutcracker (1996), Dance on the Top Floor (1998), Raw Dance(2002-2005), and various gala balls (1999-2016), as well as multiple works for Festival Ballet Providence, including Lady of the Camellias(2016), Scheherazade (2005), and El Amor Brujo (2009). He is Artistic Director of United Dance and regularly choreographs for City Ballet of Boston.
Di Marco has been teaching ballet and movement to children and adults since 2000, joining the Boston Conservatory in 2006 as an instructor in partnering and advanced ballet technique, where he is currently a professor of dance. He also teaches somatic and advanced partnering repertoire. In 2016, he started Step by Step!, a dance program for children with autism. In addition to Boston Conservatory, he has taught at Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education, Harvard University, University of South Carolina, and Walnut Hill School for the Arts. He was the principal of Citydance, a Boston Public Schools outreach program. In 2002, he founded Adaptive Dance with Michelina Cassella, a program for children with Down syndrome and autism, at Boston Ballet Center for Dance Education.
Di Marco is a graduate of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. He has studied with the National Ballet of Cuba and the National Ballet of Canada. He has completed Cecchetti certification (intermediate level), certification for Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis®, and certification for Burdenko water therapy.