Rosario
Guerra Dancer

Italian Rosario Guerra received his training in classical and contemporary dance at the Spazio Danza School directed by Annalisa Cernese. He then got in the Scuola del Balletto di Toscana in Florence, under the direction of Cristina Bozzolini, and became straightaway member of the Junior Balletto di Toscana. After a meticulous pre-professional training, he began his solo career in 2009 at the Balletto Teatro di Torino, under the direction of Loredana Furno. He then joined Gauthier Dance Company in Stuttgart, where he performed choreographies by Eric Gauthier, Alejandro Cerrudo, Jiří Kylián, Mauro Bigonzetti, Paul Lightfoot & Sol León, Christian Spuck, Jirí Bubenícek, Itzik Galili, Marco Goecke, Cayetano Soto, Ohad Naharin and Hofesh Schechter. 2019 until 2024, he was a member at the Staatsballett Hannover (Artistic Director: Marco Goecke). Since 2011, Rosario Guerra has regularly received awards and prizes, including the Danza&Danza Award for Best Italian Dancer Abroad, several nominations in the Tanz yearbook and Dance for you magazine for Best Male Dancer of the Year and Newcomer of the Month. He was nominated for DER FAUST 2018 for Marco Goecke's solo ‹Infant Spirit›. In July 2021, he won the Premio Napoli in Danza as best Italian dancer abroad of the year, and in September 2025 he received the PREMIO NAZIONALE SFERA D'ORO PER LA DANZA 2025 from the Associazione La Sfera Danza in Padua. Since August 2025, Rosario Guerra has been engaged at the Basel Ballet under the artistic direction of Marco Goecke.