About Me:

I started Ballet at the age of 11 then after the traditional 8 Academic years I became a Professional Ballet Dancer.

My aim as a child wasn't really the one to become the great star of dance or look flashy while performing but rather trying to become good teacher instead.

I danced professionally in different ballet companies

in Egypt Alexandria at the Sayed Darwish Opera House,

in Italy at the Teatro San Carlo of Naples, Teatro Reggio of Turin, Arena of Verona  then in  Johannesburg and Pretoria at the the State Theatre of Pretoria with the prestigious South African Ballet Company: Pact Ballet then in France for the Ballet du Nord in the town of Roubaix and Lille, but finally I soon understood that I couldn't really reach my goals in performing the great roles, so I preferred to stay in the Corps de Ballet ranks as I realized and acknowledged my technical limits, in the various decades I also experienced several injuries not due to ballet training but more as sudden life accidents which obliged me to refrain from performing, but I still could do my own training and give a start to teaching.

I started then Teaching in Agadir Morocco, while my mother was the Artistic Director, I was responsible of all the Ballet Classes and Examinations of the different Classes. Every year, the Ballet Academy was performing at the Theatre de Verdure with about 80 students, but in total we had about 150 students.

Now after many decades my teaching is a new mixing of Ballet technique, Yoga technique, and Floor Barre: 

I created a special program which acts more as a mental and physical healing therapy.

Today it would be called a "healing rehabilitation".

That works on all age, and all individuals.

As a Ballet Teacher and Postural Gym Trainer I try to pass on what my teachers have taught me while mixing a tiny bit of my own experience.

I often give class via Zoom or as Guest Teacher when some Ballet schools invite me.

Why choosing Ballet International?

What really does Ballet International?

I always had in mind to give the opportunity to the world of dance a possibility to be united, even if around the world there are a multitude of Ballet Companies, Ballet Academies.

Each one of them are doing amazing works.

However, ballet productions have evolved, ballet technique and style as well, and also ballet dancers physical strength, muscles and body structure have changed due to the ballet training type of classes.

from the old traditional Vaganova Method, Cecchetti Method, each one may have different styles and different concepts, but finally the body language remain one.

The world of dance is one family, we might speak different languages but ballet has ONE code language that only dancers use: DANCE.

Ballet International wishes then to act as a main platform in which people, audience, and dance artists may exchange ideas.

You will discover in the MENU the Interviews that are made for the purpose to highlight the artist who highlights memories and his experience but also giving the opportunity to be in touch.

Interviews are made in Italian, in French and English languages.

We often hear of great names of the world of dance but we don't really know who this artist is, how he reached his experience, what were or are the difficulties that he lived on stage, during performances. or just talk about how he had injuries on stage or during class. Different topics of course but all make part of one family and one culture.

Don't hesitate to leave a comment in case you might want to do an interview and describe your dance career.

In Ballet International the only topic is and always will be: Ballet, no other topics are permitted, same applies during interviews.

For what reason I created this special Postural Gym program:

The main reply focus the illness of my father, in 2006 he discovered to have a cancer he had to do several surgeries but due to his age he remained a full decade using a wheelchair.

I was constantly helping  and taking care of him 24 hours.

But after the surgery he was half paralyzed and couldn't move or feel his legs.

I finally took my courage and decided to undertake his rehabilitation every morning for 20 minutes while holding his feet and legs I was moving and lifting his legs in little circular easy movements or as we say in ballet:

Rond de Jambes or Dévelopé.

All these little movements and considering his age the training took  about 8 months of constant work.

When he was feeling well the training was repeated also in the afternoon.

He never wanted to give up. One day he had to return to hospital from a general check up, and the Doctor who previously made the surgery saw my father and said:

What have you done? it is a real miracle now that you can walk again and stand on your two feet again, the Doctor asked: Who was your physiotherapist?

My  father just pointed his finger on me.

The hospital proposed me to work for them, but I refused, as my world focused more the world of dance.

I had to wait until my father passed away in 2016 and a few days after his funeral I started my own personal training at home.

Ballet teaching is the base of all, however let me add my personal say:

Young dancers today in our modern world, are very strong in their ballet work and technique, but in my humble opinion they all need to learn and add in heir work some more important ingredients as creativity and expression in their dancing.

Ballet has evolved and will still keep evolving for the next centuries, considering that time flows for each one of us, it is then important to pass on the legacy of Ballet giving always the best of ourselves.

 

My Ballet Teachers:

Some Certificates:

Photos:

My Ballet Teachers:

Ada Pisani Pribilois

Irina Hudova

Isabella Glowacka

Audrey King

Joso Borcìc

Carmen Panader Winkler

Lorna Haupt

Ashley Killar

Edgardo Hartley

André Prokovsky

Jaime Pinto Riveros

Ugo Dell'Ara

Other Relevant Ballet Teachers:

Nestor Mondino

George Houbiers

Jillian Joubert

Kostantin Damianov

Nicola Middlemist

Bruce Simpson

Ronald Emblen

Mihai Ciortea

Vladimir Pankov

Countries in which I have been travelling for dance work:

Egypt – Morocco – Italy – France – South Africa while my father Claude Pribilois (French) was pursuing his Diplomat career next the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

I have been studying ballet with my mother Ada Pisani Pribilois (Italian) until the age of 18 then started my professional dance career in South Africa with Pact Ballet (Performing Art Council of Transvaal) and participated in the Young Choreographer Competition winning 2nd price nominee for 3 Classical Pas De Deux.

For these pas deux I had the chance to use the two first Senior Soloist Ballerinas of Pact Ballet:

Maxine Denys, and Beverley Bagg plus two Soloist male dancers: Gary Doherty and Stephen Melvin.

I have danced in many Classic Ballet of Repertoire with Pact Ballet, in Italy Arena of Verona, Teatro San Carlo, Teatro Regio of Turin, and France in Lille and Roubaix and Bordeaux.

Have always danced as member of Corps de Ballet in some occasion in character roles.

I started teaching ballet in 1985 in Morocco Agadir and this for 7 years head of Ballet with 150 ballet students our ballet Academy then I moved to Italy working in various places and this has opened a new input page and now I keep teaching as guest teacher when occasion arise.

Our school was under the patronage and sponsorship of the King of Morocco and Youth Sport Department and every year an annual gala was given to the "Theatre de Verdure" of Agadir.

My teaching is more Vaganova with a mix of RAD as working with many teachers from UK and Russia I gained experience in the past while dancing with various Ballet Companies.

With computer technology, I have created many photographic slide videos representing ballet highlighting the world of dance and promoting the beauty of the art of dance, those video can be seen on Vimeo, You Tube and Dailymotion websites and the title is: Dance Logo Part One or Part Two and includes at least 85 percent of the South African ballet dancers with whom I have been working with in the past.

From 2006 up to 2016 had been a full interval decade with few dance teaching activities.

As I had to take care of my parents illness and loss. Started again teaching in 2017

In the year 2021 on Youtube I created Ballet International and channel, the aim is to motivate young people and audience in general to respect and love the real essence of the Performing Arts, many are the interviews on Youtube with great artists, and this to bring alight their own stories, their own experiences, the up and downs of a ballet dancer’s life and career..

 

Jean Pierre Alexandre Pribilois

Mobile / Whatsapp: ++39/346 385 4661

Private email: jpp812@yandex.com

Ballet International: balletinternational1@gmail.com

Ballet Teacher - Postural Gym Trainer

Member of CID UNESCO