Ugo Frediani

Coming from the middle of the Australian desert, Ugo Frediani began learning several dance styles at the age of 9 in the small town of Alice Springs, Australia. At the age of 16, he decided to pursue a ballet career and started full-time ballet training at the Alegria Ballet School in Sydney. In 2018, Ugo was accepted straight into the second year of the prestigious Elmhurst Ballet School, associated with Birmingham Royal Ballet in Birmingham, UK. In the two years spent at Elmhurst, he had the opportunity to work with many important people, such as Odette Hughes (associate director of Studio Wayne McGregor) and Chi Chao (former principal dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet, as well as star of the movie ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’). In 2020, Ugo was invited to perform in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker as one of the four ‘Winds.’ After his graduation from the Elmhurst ballet school in 2021, Ugo joined the Arles Youth Ballet Company in France under the direction of Norton Fantinel (former guest artist with numerous galas and ballet companies in the US, as well as former principal dancer with the Washington Ballet and Tulsa Ballet). In this time, he performed works with famous choreographers such as Craig Davidson in Convergence of Pathways, Norton Fantinel’s Le Casse-Noisette de Manon, and Julien Guerin’s Miniature. In 2022, Ugo Frediani was one of fourteen Arles Youth Ballet Company dancers chosen to represent France in the ‘International Ballet Festival of Miami’, before joining Sacramento Ballet in the fall of 2022.

Since joining Sacramento Ballet, Ugo has performed many roles, such as ‘Benno’ in Swan Lake, ‘Renfield’ in Michael Pink’s Dracula, and ‘Summer Cavaliers’ in Paul Vasterling’s Cinderella, as well as other works such as George Balanchine’s Agon, Val Caniparoli’s Ibsen’s House, Ma Cong’s Carry Me Anew, and Alejandro Cerrudo’s Extremely Close.