BIOGRAPHY

Mara Terzi begins as a ballet dancer.
In the year 1984 she obtains a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and moves to the Opera of Warsaw where she stays two years and gets a diploma in 1986 under the guidance of Isabella Glowacka.

Although she has a typical ballet training, the intensity and the expressive force of Flamenco are what enchants Mara bringing her to Spain to specialize. She goes into the subject of Flamenco thoroughly and refines her technique in Andalusia, where she learns the original Gipsy styles and revises them in the light of the experience lived in Poland thus creating a unique and original style risen from the fusion of the colour and sensuality of the Flamenco of the beginning and the choreographic perfection and refinement of classical and modern dance. After standing out during her studies as a soloist, Mara Terzi completes her formation close to important names of the international Flamenco such as Antonio Canales, Javier De La Torre y Carmen Cortez.

In the first ‘90s she is engaged as soloist in Juan Luis De Paula’s “Bolero y Flamenco” and, after choosing the rhythm and the passion of Andalusia as distinctive elements of her style, she decides to found her own company, the “Mara Terzi Company”- consisting of about twenty dancers- and with it she performs in the most important theatres in Milan such as the Smeraldo Theatre (“Carmen Gitana” in 1990), the Carcano Theatre (“Risvegli” in 1991) and the Lyric Theatre (“Eco dell’Alma” in 1992), subsequently embarking on a long tour through Italy with “Concerto Flamenco” between 1994 and 1995.

The warhorse of the Company is “Carmen”, literary character that inspired the most different versions of performances, that Mara Terzi interprets in a very original tone by means of the fusion of the style and ardour of Flamenco and the choreographic construction of modern ballet. And thanks to the combination of Mérimée’s literary rigour with her great love for Spain Mara Terzi gives to her performance a tangible sign of a new and enchanting style that is able to fascinate completely the audience, aiming to the symbiosis between the classical music and the original presence of guitars, accordions and percussion instruments.



“Carmen” celebrates a moment of glorious achievement of Mara Terzi Company, not only in Italy but also abroad, particularly in Japan, where the company performs at the prestigious Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (temple of the Japanese theatre) obtaining such an unexpected success that they have to repeat the performances more and more times during the first tour in 1999 (originally consisting of ten dates only) and to add a second tour of 15 dates in 2001. Apart from being a high- level dancer and choreographer in the theatre, Mara Terzi extends her experience also in the cinema- where she is called on the set of Konchalovskij’s “The house of matti” (with the rock star Brian Adams)- and in TV undertaking as author for Fabbri Editori a recording of a successful collection of videos about different dances called “Let’s dance”, launched both in Italy and in Europe and that has sold more than 2.000.000 copies from its first edition up to now.
One of the most recent Mara Terzi’s undertakings is the Company’s participation in the Riva del Garda “Musicalrivalfestival” inauguration with the show “Carmen”- elaborated on the music of G. Bizet- accompanied by a 70- member orchestra under the conduction of Isaac Karabtchevsky, the same orchestra that will accompany the dancers in “Bolero” that will close the festival on the 4th of August 2002.
Mara Terzi at the moment is living and working in Milan where she runs two dance schools and personally teaches to a great number of students giving them the opportunity to enter the professional world.