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The Foundation - About us

  Daniela Marcacci Ambrosoli - President

Michael Jürgens - General Secretary 

Daniela Marcacci Ambrosoli, the daughter of the German expressionist dancer Sonja Bragowa and the entrepreneur Pierino Ambrosoli, a native of Lombardy, was born in Ascona, a little fishing town in the south of Switzerland.

She attended school in Ascona and Locarno, where she earned the Federal Type B University Entrance Qualification Certificate. This was followed by a period of university study and work experience in the fields of psychology and medicine in Florence, Zurich and Geneva.

With the birth of her first two children and the premature death of her father, her life changed dramatically.

DMA trained in management and took over some of the firms created by her father, including Camping Delta and Amministrazione Immobiliare Ambrosoli in Locarno; in 1999, she created Travel & Culture Management SA in Zurich.

In 1977, her daughter Shari was born; from her earliest childhood she displayed a talent and passion for dance.

In 1990, Daniela Marcacci Ambrosoli founded the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation in Zurich; this foundation supports the training of young talents in the field of dance and music throughout the world.

In the following years, Daniela Marcacci Ambrosoli sat on the Boards of Directors of numerous international associations active in the fields of dance, music, and the humanitarian and social fields. Daniela Marcacci Ambrosoli, therefore, often took cultural and working trips abroad.

Daniela Marcacci Ambrosoli speaks and writes well in Italian and German as her mother tongue as well as French, English and Spanish.

After training as a Technical Merchant, further training in cultural management, journalism and in foreign languages Michael Jürgens became the General Secretary of the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation in 1998.

Professional ballet dancer, trainer, assistant to the choreographer and to the director, assistant to the ballet director are positions of his long lasting artistic career at different Swiss theatres and abroad.

Guest contracts as a freelance dancer at various theatres and independent stage projects, teaching as docent and coach of ballet courses in Switzerland and abroad, appearances in TV- Productions as well as numerous study trips in Europe, Japan, South America and the USA complete his career.

He received his training as a professional dancer at the Ballet School of the Hamburg Opera House John Neumeier and in Switzerland.

 

 
 
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