Dance Arts
355 West Monticello St.
Brookhaven, Mississippi
Antonio Pio Fini is First Dancer for the Michael Mao Dance in New York, Special Judge for Milly Carlucci in the tv show Dancing on the Road and Dancing with the Stars on tv channel Rai 1. From 2018 he is Ambassador of Dance as a means of diplomacy for the ACD Agency For Cultural Diplomacy of Vienna (Diplomatic Cultural Agency). He danced for the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Staten Island Ballet, the Mare Nostrum Element and Erick Hawkins Dance of New York. He Choreographed for The New York Opera at Lincoln Center, for the National Ballet of Kosovo, Tirana Dance Festival. Since 2015 he is recognized by the United States of America as a permanent citizen for artistic merits.
Fini Dance is supported by the Marcobaleno association (which annually donates airline tickets for New York winners) and the Dancing Angel Foundation (which donates two 100% scholarships for two American dancers for the Villapiana festival). Among the productions and artistic directions of Antonio Fini we find: The Italian International Dance Award in New York, Speciale Fini Dance New York in DanzaInFiera (Florence), The Tirana dance Festival (Albania), Bulgarian International dance Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria) and TV Show the Audition on Amazon Prime. Antonio Fini and his productions talked about: New York Times, Huffington Post, Broadway World, Time Out New York, Dance Magazine, Dance Theater Magazine, Balletto 2000, Tutto Danza, La Repubblica, IN Forma, Star Bene Mondadori, Il Quotidiano, Gazzetta del Sud, O Globo (Brazil) and many others.
“My new work, Footfalls Echo, based on the second stanza of T.S. Eliot’s work Burnt Norton from The Four Quartets (and the second section of my thesis work Footfalls) has been officially selected for the Italy Dance Festival Gala concert. Dancers from MSA’s dance department have been selected to perform my new work,” says Tammy Stanford, MSA’s dance instructor.
MSA Event: Antonio Fini Performance (March 29, 2022)