Among the guests of very trueOf Sunday 28 Aprilthere is also Alessandra Celentanothe inflexible dance teacher of the talent show Friendswho has just written his autobiography, Call me Teacherfull of memories, anecdotes and unpublished stories.
An opportunity for Silvia Toffanin to be told something more about her guest’s life, starting with a memory that dates back tochildhood and it is already revealing of the character of the future teacher: “My mother used to dress me up at home and put my undershirt under my leotard, but that’s never done, so as soon as I got to school I’d take it off, she’d look at me and scold me, but I couldn’t help but be the lesson was perfect.”
At just 13 years old then, to chase the dream of dance, he goes alone studying in Hungary and of that experience he remembers: “At the beginning it was very hard, both on a physical level because we were already in the room at 7.30 in the morning, until the evening without stopping. And then because there was the separation from the family, but the desire to learn was stronger in me and to live this very important experience even if that distance made me suffer.”
We often saw her criticize the physique of talent dancers of which she is a fundamental presence, but this is an experience through which she herself went first because, Alessandra Celentano tells Silvia Toffanin, after the development she found herself being “too high“, and was for this reason, on the verge of leaving dance: “I had to face reality, in almost all the auditions they were looking for dancers who were a maximum of 1.60cm tall, I was taller and I thought that since I was good, I would have surpassed them anyway, but it wasn’t like that, so when I say things it’s because I’ve been there. What made me give up on the idea of leaving dance was my father, who at first wasn’t convinced about my career and then, having understood, pushed me not to give up. And I was lucky to have had this support “.
The attention and discomfort she felt at a certain point in her relationship with her body also led her to suffer from food disorders: “I was 14-15 years old, the period of development in which you realize that your body changes, even on a technical level things change, and there was always the thought of having a body suited to this type of work, which didn’t It’s an aesthetic question, but a purely practical one, linked to work. Once upon a time there was much less attention on food education. In fact, when I talk to kids, I never talk about diets, but about knowing how to eat I had these problems, but I got out of it because I understood that it was the wrong thing to do, also because I had seen other situations of this type, and so I rolled up my sleeves and reacted.”
In Alessandra Celentano’s autobiography there is obviously also space to talk about hers ex-husband, Angelo. They married as adults, she was 40 and he was 34, today they are separated and he has become the father of a little girl with his new partner and today they still see each other, and she feels like an aunt to her ex’s daughter, but to Silvia Toffanin says that that union, under different conditions, could have lasted a long time and that the breaking of that bond made her suffer a lot. “It could have gone differently, we both know that, but we had so many external things that went against us, that unfortunately that’s how it went. separation was a great pain“.
