Blenti Latifi
Dancer
He was born in Tirana. He studied at the State Dance Academy in Tirana and in 1988 he became a member of the the Ballet of the Albanian State Opera. Since 1991 he has worked with various Greek dance groups (Roes, Nafsika, Haris Mandafounis). In 1994, he joined the GNO Ballet and danced in productions such as Raimondo (Zelensky/Glazunov), Roméo et Juliette (Van Dantzig/Prokofiev), Don Quixote (De Πιαν/Minkus), The Snow Queen (Barra/Glazunov), Canto General (Barra/Theodorakis), etc. In the period 1996-98 he worked with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Canada dancing solist roles and participating in international tours. He is a member of the GNO Ballet since 1999 and in 2003 was promoted to Demi-soloist. He dances in most productions, such as: Everyone Waltz [Alles Walzer] (Zanella/Johann Strauss-Mahler), Giselle (Mukhamedov/Adam), Symphony of dance (Mukhamedov/Beethoven), Sleeping Beauty (Zelensky-Petipa/Tchaikovsky), Zorba (Massine/Theodorakis), Swan Lake (Zanella/Tchaikovsky), Journey to eternity (Zanella/Karaindrou), Romeo and Juliet (Zanella/Prokofiev), Chopin in love (Boquin/Chopin), etc.