Andrea Marini

Andrea Marini started his professional training at the Rome Opera House Dance School in 2014, where he graduated in July 2019 under the direction of Laura Comi, former Étoile of the Rome Opera House. During his time at American Repertory Ballet, he danced: several leading roles of The Nutcracker; Puck for Ethan Stiefel’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream; Albrecht in Ethan Stiefel and Johan Kobborg’s Giselle; as well as Siegfried in Swan Lake Act II and Prince Desiré in Sleeping Beauty Act III. Marini joined American Repertory Ballet in 2019 as a member of ARB2, promoted to Apprentice the following year and eventually joined the main company in 2021. Recent credits include: Ryoko Tanaka’s Hindsight; Claire Davison’s Bewitched and Time Within A Time; Arthur Mitchell’s Holberg Suite; Amy Seiwert’s Sight Line; Meredith Rainey’s Intrare Forma; and Stephanie Martinez’s The Time That Runs Away. As an international guest artist, he has performed for the Gala della Danza near Milan in The Nutcracker; for the Pennsylvania Regional Ballet in The Nutcracker and in Don Quixote; for Princeton Ballet School in Le Corsaire and Don Quixote; Cavalier for Nutcracker of Middle Georgia; for the Margot Fonteyn Academy in The Sleeping Beauty; as well as guest teacher for the Pennsylvania Regional Ballet Summer Intensive 2024. He has worked with renowned teachers and choreographers around the world including Pablo Moret, Ofelia Gonzalez, Mauro Bigonzetti, Ethan Stiefel, Gillian Murphy, Mauro Astolfi, Trey McIntyre, Amy Seiwert, Stephanie Martinez, Ian Hussey, Chris Bloom, and others.