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Deda Cristina Colonna graduated in ballet from Istituto Musicale Brera di Novara and Ecole Supérieure d’Etudes Chorégraphiques in Paris. She holds a degree in dance from the Sorbonne, where she specialized in Baroque Dance and Italian/French Renaissance Dance. She graduated from the Acting School of Teatro Stabile di Genova and she worked as a soloist and guest choreographer with The New York Baroque Dance Company. She acted in various productions ranging from Shakespeare to Cechov and Genet, in Italy, France and Germany.

Cultural association that organises classes and performances.

Il Balletto Estense
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Krimhilde Zepf

Barbara Sparti is a dance historian specialized in 15th-17th century Italian dance.

She founded and directed the company Gruppo di Danza Rinascimentale (1975 -1988) which performed in concerts, festivals, exhibitions and conferences throughout Italy and Europe, from Spoleto to Como, Berlin to Moscow, Barcelona to London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.

She has choreographed operas and plays by Caccini, Cavalieri, Gagliano, Monteverdi, Goldoni and Ruzzante, for stage and TV.

Bedford Early Dance and Music organises historical dance workshops and social events in and around Bedford.