Benedetta Dalai

Set Designer
Location: Bologna, Italy

Documents

document file
Cavalleria Rusticana-foto di scena

Other

My Contact Number:
0039 3477306505

Credits

Year	Job Title Project Type	Project Name Director / Company	Location
2013	teacher Event	Stage Design Academy of Fine Arts	Reggio di Calabria (Italy)
2012	Assistant stage designer Theatre	Cavalleria Rusticana Italo Grassi	Teatro Carlo Fenice, Genova, Italy
2012	Assistant stage designer Theatre	Falstaff Italo Grassi	Tokyo, Seoul, Genova.
2012	Stage Designer Assistant/Technical Director/Local romoter for events Theatre	Coopspettacolo Coopspettacolo	Bologna, Italy
2011	Stage Designer Assistant-Stage Manager Theatre	La Fede Nei Tradimenti Accademia Musicale Chigiana	Teatro Dei Rozzi, Siena, Italy
2011	Assistant stage designer Event	Simon Boccanegra Italo Grassi	Korea Opera Theatre, Seoul.
2011	Stage designer assistant/Technical Director Theatre	La Bellezza ravveduta Denis Krief for Sagra Musicale Malatestiana and Estate Chigiana.	Rimini, Siena (Italy)
2010	Technical Director/Health and Safety Manager Theatre	Teatro delle Celebrazioni Teatro delle Celebrazioni	Bologna (Italy)
2008	Local promoter Event	Riccardo Cocciante Riccardo Cocciante	Bologna (Italy)
2008	Location manager Event	Imperium Fura dels Baus	Bologna (Italy)
2007	Production Manager Assistant Film	ADV Wintervideo	Milano
2006	Carpenter/Head Carpenter's assistant Theatre	Opera Teatro Comunale di Bologna	Bologna (Italy)
2001	Head properties assistant Theatre	Opera Teatro Regio	Parma
2000	Props woman/carpenter Theatre	Opera Teatro alla Scala	Milano
2000	Head properties Theatre	Rosenkavalier Festival dei due Mondi	Spoleto (Italy)
1998	Head properties Theatre	Turandot-Barbiere di Siviglia Aventicum festival	Avenches (Switzerland)

Education

Year	Qualification	Where
1993	Scene Design	Academy of Fine Arts of Milan (Brera), Italy
1987	Interior and Industry Design	Istituto Statale d'Arte, Monza (MB), Milano, Italy

Equipment

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I can use:

About me

I always dreamed to work in theatre since my early youth; for this reason I studied as Interiors Designer first and Stage Designer later. I started to work on stage as props woman and carpenter (one of the first woman-carpenter of Teatro alla Scala!) in the main theatres of my Country. Afterwards I began to work as Head Technician, Stage Manager, Stage Designer and Stage Designer Assistant (free lance), especially for Opera productions in Italy and abroad. Now I am teaching Stage Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Reggio Calabria (Italy).
Additional skills:
-Well knowledge of history of art.
- English and French well spoken (also technical language). Italian mother tongue.
- Good knowlwdge of following PC softwares: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe inDesign, Autocad 2010, ProE Wildfire .4 3D, Office.
- Driving licence.
- Music score reading.
- Good knowledge of lighting, costume, enginereeng.
Industry awards:
I never won any award, but I'm quite proud of my publications (text and drawings) about stage and set technique: http://www.audinoeditore.it/

ABC DELLA SCENOTECNICA, (ABC of stage technique) Dino Audino Editore, Roma, Italy, 2006.
ABC DEL SET, (ABC of film set) Dino Audino Editore, Roma , Italy 2007.
MANUALE PRATICO DI SCENOGRAFIA VOLUME I, (The stage design handbook. Vol I) Dino Audino Editore, Roma, Italy 2009.
MANUALE PRATICO DI SCENOGRAFIA VOLUME II, (The stage design handbook, Vol II) Dino Audino Editore, Roma, Italy, 2010.
Referees:
M Denis Krief removed Director and stage Designer.
M Italo Grassi removed Stage Designer

Additional information:
- I like to work in team.
- Resilience.
- Aptitude for organisation.
- Intersts: reading, Theatre, Music, Video Art and ancien painting, gardening and cooking.

Skills

Job Titles	Production Assistant (PA), Stage Manager, Production Manager, Production Coordinator, Hair Stylist, Wardrobe / Wardrobe Support, Props Master, Prop Maker, Props Buyer, Props Assistant / Support, Set Artist / Designer, Events Management / Support, Theatre Technician
Years in industry	6+ years
Work Permits	Canada, EU