Classic Ballet UK

INTRODUCING CBUK

Classic Ballet UK is the branch of Let’s All Dance, creating and producing our larger, classical productions.

Choreographer and dancer, Fran Mangiacasale, now runs professional classes for CBUK which introduce dancers to the company’s style and ensures they have the required technique, strength and stamina for the touring productions.

CBUK incorporates Let’s All Dance’s aim to inspire, educate, entertain, and its policy to engage children and families from all backgrounds, and adds it’s rigour and discipline to raise the artistic standard of all it’s productions.

Fran bases his classes on the natural principles of movement. He places particular focus on the spiralling of the spine and use of the centre in order to release the dance and find freedom and excellence in the technique.

FRAN MANGIACASALE

Fran Mangiacasale is a contemporary and neoclassical dancer, choreographer and teacher based in London.
Born in Italy he trained in Genova with national and international teachers, and also danced with several local companies. In November 2002, he moved to London where he continued his professional development in Contemporary, Ballet (with Roger Tully) and Dance Mastery (with Master Konstantin Pavlidis, founder of the system).

Since moving to the UK Fran has danced with numerous companies including The Lindsay Kemp Company, National Dance Company of Wales, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Smallpetitlkein, YDance, Unstructured Light, The Royal Opera House and English National Opera.

Fran has also been assistant choreographer and dance captain for many opera productions in London, Spain, Germany and Portugal.
In 2013 Fran was assistant choreographer and guest soloist with the Azerbaijan State Academic Ballet in Shadow of Gobustain, choreographed by Maxine Braham. Fran is currently a dancer and choreographer with the London Ballet Company as well as working as a freelance choreographer and teacher for companies and organisations across the UK and Europe.