Alex Martelli

The Italian-Dutch dancer Alex Martelli trained from 2012 to 2022 at the Accademia Antonella Bartolacci and the European School of Ballet (ESB), where he studied choreographies by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Maurice Béjart, August Bournonville, John Cranko, David Dawson, Alexander Ekman, Jiří Kylián and Goyo Montero, among others. 

During the 2024/25 season, he was a member of the Youth Company of the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera, with which he danced the roles of Peter in Martin Schläpfer’s Peter and the Wolf and Prince Désiré and the Bluebird in Christiana Stefanou’s My First Sleeping Beauty. With the Vienna State Ballet, he performed as a guard in Christopher Wheeldon's The Winterʼs Tale and the friend of the fairy miettes qui tombent in Martin Schläpfer's The Sleeping Beauty. At the matinee of the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera he danced in Martin Schläpfer’s pas de deux Quartz.

From the 2025/26 season, Alex Martelli will be a member of the corps de ballet of the Vienna State Ballet.

His awards include the 3rd prize in the 'Senior Classical Men' category at the 2021 YAGP in Italy and the 1st prize in the 'Classical Senior' category at the 2022 International Talent Award.