Elisabetta Minutoli
About
Elisabetta Minutoli is from Rome Italy a ballet and contemporary dance teacher at Peridance Center in NY and free lance Choreographer.She is a GYROTONIC ® pre trainer and GYROKINESIS ® trainer and discovered GYROTONIC ® in 2005 at White Cloud Studio in Rome to improve her dance skills thanks to GYROKINESIS ® MT Marika Vannuzzi who transmitted her love and passion for this method, together with Marika she also collaborated artistically taking part in the 2008 Gyrodance choreography.From that moment a new journey began to discover a new body and a new movement that improved both dance and everyday life.In 2014 she became a mother and thanks to GYROTONIC ® workout she come back on stage just three months after giving birth.Elisabetta become a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS ® trainer under Master Trainers Pietro Gagliardi ,Elisabetta Carnevale,Leda Franklin and Lucrezia Caricola.She became certified on the specialized equipment and applications : Jumping Streching board, Archway and Application for dancer format with MT Miriam Barbosa, Gyrotoner with MT Billy Macagnoine and Exploration into the extremes format with MT Abel Horvath.She worked in Italy at “Studio 8” in Sora and at White Cloud Academy in Rome and currenty at Body Evolutions studio in NY.
Minutoli has been associate artistic director of Botega Dance Company and Vivo Ballet Dance Company and Vivo Ballet DanceCenter.As a choreographer, she has been commissioned between Europe and the USA for videoclip, film, orchestra, theatre productions, and by many artists. She has screened her work in over 20 festivals both nationally and internationally.As a Dancer, she worked permanently in Botega Dance Company. and Vivo Ballet company from 2008 to 2020.
Over the years she has had the pleasure of collaborating with some American choreographers including Annabella Lenzu, Elisa Monte, Molissa Fenley and Nathan Trice.In Italy she has worked with Luc Bouy, Gloria Pomardi, Marika Vannuzzi, Mvula Sungani, Franco Miseria and Luca Tommassini. Her heterogeneity also allowed her to work in the musical "The Rocky Horror picture Show", “Datemi tre Caravelle" with Alessandro Preziosi and Niki Nicholai and in the musical "Lady Oscar" by Andrea Palotto.Minutoli founded and has been the Associate Artistic Director of Vivo Professional Training Center in Rome in 2015, and as an educator for more than 20years, she has been teaching in a lot of institutions, including universities, professional dance studios, companies, festivals, in the USA, Brazil, Bulgaria, Portugal and Italy.She is one of the Artistic advisor board for Idaco Dance Festival New Yorkshe has also been a judge in many competitions in Italy, Croatia and Bulgaria.
Currently she is teaching Contemporary dance and ballet at Steps on Broadway and Peridance in New York.