Mirella Simoncini (Green Report)
Mirella Simoncini, originally a ballet dancer. She had a chance for a temporary career in radio and television. An injury made her decide to stop dancing full-time. She did not dance for quite a few years and developed an interest in journalism. Her first job with the radio was as a voice for Radio 3 DJ Frits Spits. She became DJ for 538 with the Green Report. Switched to the public channel as she got her own show at 3 FM (Bad Grrrl). Remained working for public broadcast companies for a while, with several radio and TV programmes including PARADISOlife. And made radio documentaries (RVU, NPS) to find her way back to the professional dance/ballet scene, as she was making documentaries about dance and working for the Holland Dance Festival doing interviews in front of a live audience.
After leaving the radio and television scene, she became a balletteacher and the director of a well known private balletschool in The Hague Since 2000 she is also ballet teacher and artistic director for Summerschool Den Haag with guestteachers from, among others, the Nederlands Dans Theatre (Brigitte Martin, Natalia Horecna), the Dutch National Ballet (Jane Lord), Scapino Ballet Rotterdam (Keith-Derrick Randolph) and Galili Dance (Philipp Stummer)
With the Inspiration Project 2005, she worked with 3 young dancers from different vocational dance schools: the Royal Conservatoire Den Haag, the Rotterdamse Dansacdemie and the Nationale Balletacademie Amsterdam. The project received support by KORZO and the Nederlands Dans Theatre who offered rehearsal space. By the end of 2005, she was invited by the RVD to produce a performance for the Dutch Queen BeatrIX and her family. Simoncini creeated a special version of the Coppelia Spanish solo performed by dancer Charlotte v/d Reek (choreography by: Simoncini after Marius Petipa. The performance was broadcasted live by the NOS.
Simoncini was born in The Hague, NL where she received her first ballet traning at the private school of her mother: Mabel Alter (former-dancer at the Nederlands Dans Theatre). At age 12 she was invited by balletmaster Ivan Kramar to join the vocational dance Department Of the Nederlands Dans Theatre. She later studied in Brussels with Piotr Nardelli and at the Royal Ballet School in Antwerp.