We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Lucia Colosio . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Lucia below.

Lucia , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

Mine is an innate predestination. After seeing the Bolshoi Theater’s Swan Lake on TV at the age of 3, I immediately started dancing in the ballet hall.
I remember that people first saw my long blonde hair enter the room, then my dance bag, then me.
So small and tiny, but already determined and fully aware of wanting to make Dance the work and Essence of my life.
I am lucky to madly love my work as a dancer, and my art, Dance.
Being a professional dancer is a real lifestyle.
You have to be dedicated to work, with a large dose of perseverance, determination and humility, in tackling the most beautiful job in the world, in my humble opinion, but also without any doubt, the most difficult.
You never stop learning, improving and perfecting yourself, and this is precisely the beauty of working as a professional dancer.
And being an Artist is a real mission as I experience it, towards raising awareness of the human soul.
The more the years pass, the more I fall in Love, with all this.

Lucia , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I am a professional classical and neoclassical dancer with a career for 12 years now in Europe, USA and China. I believe that the greatest strength is given by the fire of passion and love that I have for my work, and this leads me, for example, to wake up every morning at 5 am to start my daily workout before facing a day of work in the hall of ballet, which normally includes the classical ballet class and rehearsals of productions to then be staged.
I don’t believe in competition between colleagues, but only in competing with myself.
I think every artist shines in their own way, and I take the best from the best dancers, and look at them with great admiration, and inspiration.
For me therefore neither malice, nor strange competitions, nor revenge make sense, in Dance, as in Life.
Speaking of this, I always commit myself in my own small way to maintaining myself first and foremost as a polite, kind and respectful Woman and Person, since I believe that if you are not human first and foremost, how can you be an artist?
For me, being an artist means giving yourself, in total transparency.
It’s about telling yourself, to reach people’s hearts.
It’s getting excited, getting excited.
I dance not to get VIP name or anything else, but I dance because it is my maximum expression of life, and it is the “thing” that makes me feel better in the world.
The theaters stage, and the ballet room are my forever first Home.
I have lived alone since I was 9 years old, far from home, from family, but with a big dream in my pocket to make reality.
And if there’s one thing I’m proud of, it’s that I’ve always worked hard for every goal, with arduous work and honesty, and without anyone’s help.
This has made me grow into a very strong and determined woman, and in these last few years, I am committed to always being grateful to Life and to my body, for the superhuman efforts we make it do every time.
I am grateful for everything that my teachers, especially Russian ones, taught me, and for the dancer who raised me.
I am grateful to the directors, maitres, and choreographers that I have met and I am meeting in my professional career, since each of them gives me so much, teaches me so much on a technical and artistic skills, as well as enriching my cultural background.
I am so Grateful to my family support first of everything,which, with many financial sacrifices, allowed me to study in prestigious academies, (once I passed the audition).

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

Yes. I am a very ambitious woman. Always with our feet on the ground, but always aiming high. Raising awareness of the human soul through the art of dance, in Emotional level.
I really wish to go back to work in theatre, because I would like my life as a freelance dancer which began about 2 years ago to come to an end.
The freelance period was wonderful, and it made me grow and rediscover a lot.
Full of trips around the world (every month, and sometimes even every week), dancer jobs and contracts in theaters, TV, and events and in fashion. Regarding the fact that I found myself faced with many different artistic projects, with collaborations with painters, big musicians like Hauser (2 Cellos) and big singer like Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo, and actors and writers.
For putting myself to the test in events where I had to switch styles from a classical dancer to a more acrobatic dancer or in heels, in 3 2 1.
Here, the first experiences as casting director of artists, event planner and assistant choreographer.
For having started my journey as a choreographer from and with the Gucci brand backstage, a working collaboration characterized by quality and truly beautiful and interesting creativity.
For having acted as a photomodel and dancer for brands such as Philipp Plein, Luisa Beccaria, etc
For teaching as a freelance teacher for so many talented students, from 11 years until now.
I love teaching the new generations, I always hope to be able to give them, in my own small way, what I bring in my technical, artistic and cultural baggage, always with an open Heart.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Unfortunately, especially in Italy, we artists, and especially we classical dancers, are discredited. In Italy, for example, we have among the most prestigious artistic and cultural heritage in the world, and we do not valorise it.
The State does not value it.
We don’t have the necessary subsidies to obtain a decent salary and living conditions to make us live “only” from our work, for example, and this is very serious.
For many years I found myself working 3 jobs a day, because with the salary of a professional dancer, I couldn’t make ends meet.
So little would be enough to help us, economically speaking.
How many situations of great creative projects, truncated by the lack of economic possibility to transform a project from abstract to concrete, due to lack of money.
But, how can you live without Art?
Just think of a day without listening to music for example, it wouldn’t have the same quality and emotion.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Lucycoli
• Facebook: Lucia Colosio
• Linkedin: Lucia Colosio
• Youtube: Lucia Colosio and Hauser

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