Giuseppe Picone

Who is Giuseppe Picone?

Giuseppe Picone is an Italian ballet dancer.

Giuseppe Picone was born in Naples and trained at the Ballet School of Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli and at twelve years old was chosen by Beppe Menegatti to dance the role of the young Nijinsky in the World Première of the ballet "Nijinsky" with Carla Fracci and Vladimir Vassiliev.

He also trained at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza of Roma and won both competitions of Rieti and Positano.

Under the invitation of Pierre Lacotte at sixteen years old, he joined Ballet National de Nancy as a soloist, and danced in the leading roles of Petruska, La Sonnambula, Paquita, L' Ombre. In 1993 he joined the English National Ballet in London as demi-soloist, where he danced until 1997, and then, at age 21, he was the first male Italian dancer to enter the American Ballet Theatre in New York as a soloist, with his debut in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella.

With Nina Ananiashvili danced the world première of Le Corsaire earning a nomination for the prestigious International Prize Benois pour la Dance. He was invited in Japan at “Nina Ananiashvili and Friends” and at the Gala' "Stars of Ballet 2006".