Ruben Celiberti,Gardel,Dance,Tango,Argentina,Entertainer  
 
 
Curriculum Vitae

2008 - Italy, Summer Festival Tour, "Ruben Celiberti's Amazing Tango Show" with orchestra and corps de ballet.  Buenos Aires, "Ruben Celiberti in Concert" - four week sold-out engagement.

2007 - New York, Julia Miles Theatre, "Splendid Serendipity" sponsored by Olive Films.  Buenos Aires, Teatro Colosseo, critically acclaimed performance of "Passione".  Buenos Aires, La Casona Del Teatro, "Italia Mia" - 12-week extended run.

2006 - Argentina, thirty performances of "Esplendida" - a new production featuring music, song, and ballet.  Television Appearance, "Badia '06" showcasing Ruben Celiberti in song, music, and dance. 

2005 – New York, City University of New York Theater, "Splendid Serendipity".  Italy, Balletto di Milano - choreographer and principle dancer for “1900: da Gershwin a Ravel” and “Amor de Tango – Bolero” featuring a provacative bolero coreographed by Mr. Celiberti expressly for ballerina Grazia Galante.  Toured Italy and Switzerland with these two original productions.
  
2004 – Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Borges, "Celiberti in G major".  New York, City University of New York Theater, “Pasiones”.
  
2003 – New York, Madison Square Garden, lead showman for the "Latin USA Film Festival".  Summer concert tour “Amor de Tango” in Italy.  Featured artist in top cultural program for French television France 2.  Lead singer and dancer in TV special “From Rome to Buenos Aires” for Italian network RAI International.
  
2002 – Star and choreographer of “Piazzolla, Tangos, Pasiones”, performed in more than 25 Italian cities. Television and stage appearances with ballerina Carla Fracci.  Co-star with Ute Lemper in Kurt Weill’s “Seven Deadly Sins” at Sicily’s Teatro Massimo.  Represented Israel in a television ballet for RAI International, dancing to the Israeli national anthem.  Principal dancer in world premier of “The Paradox Unveiled” by Cristina Muti at the Ravenna Festival.
  
2001 – Performed in “Notte Mediterranea” on Italian television RAI Uno.  Principal dancer in “La Derniere Dance” and “Pelegrinage” with the Micha Van Hoeche Dance Ensemble.
  
2000 – Danced in the musicals “Extasis” and “Widmung” (Argentina).  Principal dancer in Festival Settembre (Italy), Gigi Proietti artistic director.  TV appearances in “Magnificat”, “Dove ti porta il cuore” and “Italiani” on RAI Uno.
  
1999 – Winner of the Teatro Colon Dance Award (Buenos Aires) under the auspices of UNESCO.
  
1998 – Debuted in his production “Pasiones” (Buenos Aires).
  
1997 – Winner of the Trinidad Guevara Award (Buenos Aires) as Best Choreographer.  Guest artist with the Moscow Circus.
  
1996 – Toured throughout Latin America in “Borges, Piazzolla y Miscelaneas”, earning the Critics Award (A.C.E.) as Best Performer.  Star and choreographer of “A Pure Talent” (South America).
  
1995 – Danced in “Odissea Blue” for Belgian choreographer Micha Van Hoeche, and for Julio Bocca in “La Cassano en el Maipo” (Buenos Aires).
  
1994 – Lead role in the musical comedy “An American in Paris” with Raffaele Paganini and Rossana Casale.
  
1992 – Star and choreographer of “Amor y tango”.  Co-star with Lina Sastri in the theatrical drama “Dama delle Camelie”, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi.
  
1991 – Awarded the Premio Leonide Massine for Dance (Positano).  Principal dancer in the TV series “Speciale RAI Uno”.  Star of “El Baul”, produced by the Academia Filarmonica Romana (Rome).
  
1990 – Awarded the Premio Gino Tani for Dance (Rome).  Represented Argentina for the Italian television network RAI on the occasion of the World Cup.
  
1989 – Choreographer Vittorio Biagi created for him the ballets” “Grazie Fred”, “Catulli Carmina” and “All’italiana”.  Principal dancer in “The Merry Widow” at the Arena of Verona.  Performed in “Dream” at the Festival Cervantino (Mexico), directed by Lindsay Kemp.
  
1988 – Showman in the RAI television series “Buona Fortuna”.
  
1985 – Danced with Zizi Jeanmaire, Dominique Kalfounie, Patrick Dupont, Deny Ganio in the Balletto Nazionale di Marsiglia, directed by Roland Petit.
  
1984 – Entered the dance company of Atilio Labis.  Winner of the Serge Lifar Competition (Paris) and the Gold Medal of the Premio Internazionale di Hulgate (France).
  
1983 – Perfection studies in Paris with Serge Peretti, Ivone Goubé, Sulamith Messerer, Azari Plisetzky and Jacqueline Finaert.
  
1980 – Accepted into the Instituto del Teatro Colòn (Buenos Aires) as a student of dance, piano, and voice under the direction of maestros Otto Weberg, Ricardo Rivas, Fredy Romero.

 
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