He was born in Viareggio, Tuscany, on 24/5/1941. He studied classical dance with Mario Porcile and Ugo dell'Ara in Genoa (1954-57). In 1957, he went to Milan, where he continued his studies at La Scala's Academy. He debuted there as a soloist in 1959, in the works Il palazzo di cristallo and Fantasmi al Grand Hotel. From 1959 to 1966, he was the leading dancer at Maurice Bejart's Ballets of the 20th Century, in Brussels. In 1967-68, he was hired as the leading dancer at the Paris Opera, where he danced in the ballet The Nutcracker. In 1969, he settled in Lyon, where he founded and directed for seven years the Lyon Opera Ballet. There, he choreographed, among others, the works Symphony No. 7 by Beethoven, Pulsazione and Alexander Nevsky. In 1977, he returned to Italy and founded the dance companies Alterballeto and Compagnia Danza Prospettiva. From 1983 to 1986, he was artistic director of the Teatro Massimo ballet in Palermo, where he choreographed stagings of Carmina Burana, Verdi's Requiem and Mahler's The Song of the Earth [Das Lied von der Erde]. From 1987 to 1989, he worked as a choreographer at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, at the Operas of Lyon and Geneva, and at La Monnaie theater in Brussels; he also collaborated with the Italian national television (RAI). From 1990 to 1994, he founded and directed the company Nuovo Balletto in Rome. He collaborated with the GNO in 1974-75, choreographing the ballet interludes in the production of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice, which was staged again in 1976-77.