Or Sagi
Birthplace: Kfar Aza, Israel
Training: Shahar Ha Negev Dance School
Joined Trockadero: April 2004
Other Companies: Israeli Opera, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, La Companiya de Dansa de Neo Classicaal de Catalunia (Barcelona)
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
MARIA PARANOVA. Her remarkable life story only now coming to light after 19 dark years in near hopeless conviction that she was Mamie Eisenhower, will never fully be told. The discovery of her true identity (at a Republican fundraiser in Chicago) brought her to the attention of the Trockadero where she is slowly recovering her technical powers.
ZAPOLI VALENKI, the recipient of this year’s Jean de Brienne Award, is particularly identified for his Rabelaisian ballet technique. A revolutionary in the art of partnering, he was the first to introduce crazy glue to stop supported pirouettes.