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Viola Scaglione

2002 - in house

Artistic Director

Viola Scaglione was born in Torino, Italy. She studied at the School of the Balletto Teatro di Torino with Pasi Niminem, Jaqueline De Min, March de Bouais, Deborah Weaver among others. Her academic training continues in Washington DC (USA) at High On Dance School under direction of Morren Basta. In London, she studied at the London Contemporary School and later at the Conservatoire de Boulogne in Paris guided by Rouxandra Racovitza. Viola joins Balletto Teatro di Torino as soloist performing works of Nina Viroubova, Loris Gai, James Urbain. She is first role in Loris Petrillo’s “Romeo e Giulietta , Jose Limon’s “There is the time”, Fabrizio Monteverde’s “Mirra”, Karole Armitage’s “Casanova” and she plays the principal female role in the “Mandarino Meraviglioso” created by Gigi Caciuleanau. After this time in Torino, Viola moves to Madrid where she join La Piel Company directed by Jose Reches. Meanwhile, she collaborates as dancer for Teatro Regio of Torino. From 2002, Viola is back in Balletto Teatro di Torino.

2002 Viola rejoined BTT as leading dancer and in 2017 she got appointed Company Director of BTT.

2019 she took over the artistic and didactic co-direction of the Youth Company together with Raphael Bianco-EgriBiancoDanza and the Scottish Ballet from Glasgow. The Youth Company is inserted in the wider context of the project “Young Board – Residenze Trampolino”, conceived by Piemonte dal Vivo for Lavanderia a Vapore, Collegno – Regional Centre for Dance.

Currently Viola, together with the companies Zerogrammi and Egribiancodanza, is one of the artistic coordinators for the project “Sacre du Printemps”, which was conceived from an idea by the Belgium choreographer Alain Platel/Les Ballet C de la B and promoted by Lavanderia a Vapore – Casa Europea della Danza with the support of Piemonte dal Vivo and TorinoDanza Festival.

Regarding her work as artistic director of BTT Viola adopts an open and inclusive approach in horizontal dialogue with the dancers of the company and the artist involved in the various productions, thus stimulating group processes that are deeply rooted in the fusion of personal growth and artistic evolution paths.