Renata Bardazzi

High arched feet ballerina Renata Alves Barreto Bardazzi Gonçalves, known as Renata Bardazzi, has been a professional dancer since 2005. She was born in Mogi das Cruzes, in the interior of São Paulo, and started her dance studies at a small local school, Regina Ballet, at the age of 5. In 1999, aged 14, she started taking classes at Studio Marcia Belarmino, located in Suzano, also in the interior of São Paulo. At this school, she began to participate in festivals and contests. At the age of 15, she received the award for children's soloist from Promodança (a project carried out by Mauricio de Oliveira, in which the dancer has the opportunity to perform on several stages in his capital, representing his city). At the age of 17, after participating in the International Dance Seminar in Brasília, Renata received an invitation to spend a year at the Palluca Schule dance university, located in the city of Dresden, Germany.

In 2005, already in Brazil, Renata gave birth to Matteo Lucci. In the same year, she received an invitation from Hulda Bittencourt to join the cast of Cisne Negro Cia de Dança. She remained in the group until 2008 and had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Itzik Galili, Patrick Delcroix, Denise Namura, among others. In 2008, she joined the cast of São Paulo Companhia de Dança. In this company, she danced works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Jirí Kylián, Alessio Silvestrin, Henrique Rodovalho, Bronislava Nijinska, among others. In December 2011, she received an invitation to join the cast of Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, her current work.

“Renata has in her curriculum a vast experience with classic and contemporary Ballet, her method is very interesting and, certainly, will captivate students with great joy, art and also, a high caloric expenditure, due to the repeated movements that dance offers."