CLASS EXCERPTS of NICOLA GUERRA

Class excerpts from the famous italian dancer and teacher Nicola Guerra at Roma's Opera Royal Theatre Ballet School, 1932.
Nicola Guerra was born on May 2nd 1965 at Naples and died on February 5th 1942.
He studied with Aniello Ammaturo, one of the best students of italian Carlo Blasis, as well as french August Hus. It's said that Aniello would make him put weights during the dance exercises and also to hold the legs in the air for longer periods of time, to gain strength, stability and balance. According to Leopold Adice, this kind of teachings can be traced to Filipo Taglioni and originally to Carlo Blasis.
He was ballet maitre at the Budapest Ballet from 1902 to 1915, director of the Opera de París from 1918 to 1922 and then again from 1927 to 1929, and finally director at Roma's Opera Theatre in 1931 and 1932.
In 1929 in Paris, Nicola Guerra wrote a text delineating hsi method for teaching the first two years at the Opera.
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