Rossella Brescia, interviewed by -, retraced her career also made up of sacrifices and tears. Then, the meeting with Maria De Filippi.
Rossella Brescia she told herself in an interview with Anna Gandolfi for Corriere della Sera. The dream of becoming dancer was born when he saw Alessandra Ferri performing a pas de deux on television. So, after much insistence, she managed to convince her parents to enroll her in a private course dance. She was 9 years old. Step by step, she left Puglia and moved to Rome where she landed at the National Dance Academy.
The discomfort she felt with ballet dancers due to her being curvy
During the interview given to Corriere, Rossella Brescia recalled that when she studied classical dance, she happened to feel uncomfortable about her more curvy body compared to that of the other dancers. On television, however, that problem did not exist: “I studied ballet but I was a little too curvy. The others were diaphanous, very thin, I wasn’t like them. I felt uncomfortable. They didn’t make me worry about it. It was mostly my discomfort, but it was definitely there. For dancing on television, however, shapes were not a problem and so I started auditioning“. From there, the meeting with Maria De Filippi: “After Buona Domenica, Amici arrived. Maria De Filippi is one of the most exquisite people in the world of entertainment: I was just a dancer, she was the fulcrum of the program and yet she put herself on an equal footing, she is kind, easy-going“.
The sacrifices made and the tears shed
Rossella Brescia has wonderful memories linked to her dance teachers, who never failed to support her in her dream of pursuing a career as a dancer: “Of course, the road over the years has not always been easy: sacrifices were needed, there were periods when I cried in the shower every evening”. In hindsight, however, she is convinced that “severity and rigor“, have helped her to grow and improve professionally. Today she believes that there are still very good teachers, but perhaps less severe: “Being strict – in general – perhaps generates a bit of fear. With what we hear, teachers who are also attacked by parents, there is a different climate compared to then“.
