The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of President Giorgia Meloni, awarded the "Bacchelli annuity" , intended for deserving artists, to four eminent personalities from the world of culture, art, music and entertainment.
Among them also two Sardinians. They are Roberto Baiocchi and Elio Fidia Pulli.
The first, dancer, choreographer, was born in Bonorva in 1964 and lives between Italy and France. He danced in some of the most important European theatres, he created the column On tiptoe, which aired within Unomattina Estate. But he has also dedicated himself to teaching dance and choreographic composition, in the most prestigious schools, academies and state institutes. He has also contributed to training projects recognized by the European Community and to the activities of the Ministry of Education.
Among his performances that alongside Rosella Hightower of the ballet "Swan Lake", created in 1985 under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli.
In recent years, he has written volumes on dance published by Giunti, including Ballerina, with a preface by Carla Fracci, who died in 2021. Elio Fidia Pulli, 89, is instead a painter, sculptor and ceramist originally from Sassari . In 2021 he received an honorary master's degree in Letters, Modern Philology and Cultural Industry at the University of Sassari, the city where he began his career in 1929 and where he set up his first art workshop, frequented by many artists .
The other two artists who have been awarded the annuity are Graziella Scotese, born in 1946, who in the 1980s created the mural Encuentro de culturas on the Mexico City metro line, she too is a daughter of artists; and the musician from Livorno Giuseppe Scarpettini, known as Pino, founder in 1965 of the historic group of Trolls and later author of several Rai television broadcasts, as well as writer, screenwriter and film producer.
(Unioneonline/lf)
