CICB Competition, Florence, Italy August 2017 Danzare Cecchetti ANCEC is delighted to be the host of the 2017 CICB 31st July - 6th August 2017. We are looking forward to welcoming dancers and teachers from all over the world to Italy, the country of Maestro Enrico Cecchetti’s birth and to Florence, ‘the cradle of the Renaissance’, for the Student Summer Program, Teachers Course and CICB Competition and Conference. In order to continue to the extraordinary quality established by previous hosts of the CICB competition we are in contact with major professional teaching establishments and companies throughout Europe to have a truly international team of adjudicators and faculty. The Directors of the following professional training establishments have confirmed their interest in being part of the jury: - ROYAL BALLET - ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET - J. CRANKO SCHOOL STUTTGART - LA SCALA DI MILANO - ACADEMIE DE DANSE MONTECARLO - TAZ ZURICH BALLET ACADEMY Together with Amanda Bennet the Director of the Prix de Lausanne Robert North will offer a competitor a period of study/work with his company The ‘Danzare Cecchetti’ Teachers Workshop and Student Summer Program will be held concurrently with classes including: Cecchetti syllabus, open ballet classes, pointe work, male technique, variations, repertoire and Body Code (a body conditioning system developed by Pino Carbone in Florence: https://bodycodesystem.wordpress.com/about/ ) In 1963 Florence was the city in which Brenda Hamlyn founded the first Cecchetti school linked with the I.S.T.D., the Scuola di Danza Hamlyn. Since then schools teaching the Cecchetti Method have spread throughout Italy and are training versatile dancers who can adapt to the demands of todays choreography. Students from these schools have been offered scholarships or are now dancing in companies and schools in France, Germany, Italy, Panama, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom & United States of America As we have more information we will be posting on the CICB website and Facebook page so keep your eyes and your calendars open for ITALY, August 2017! If you would like any further information please contact: Stefania Sansavini, Director, Ateneo Danza Email: [email protected] .