Still I Dance - Rising Together

Alessio Carbone is an Italian dancer, formerly a principal dancer with the Paris Opera, and now Artistic Director of the Venice Ballet, a company founded as a breeding ground for new ideas and talent, with the goal of giving a voice to the new generation of classical and neoclassical dance. Following in his parents’ footsteps, Alessio Carbone made his debut in the world of dance in Venice alongside his parents and continued his training at the Teatro alla Scala school in Milan, where he graduated in 1996. After one year as a professional with the La Scala company, he joined the Paris Opera, where he was promoted to principal dancer in 2002. He danced with the Paris Opera throughout his career and was a guest artist with the world’s most prestigious companies. In 2015, while still an active dancer, he developed a passion for organizing dance performances, an activity to which he now devotes all his time.

Still I Rise is a nonprofit organization founded in 2018 that provides a high-quality education to refugee and vulnerable children around the world. Through its Emergency Schools and International Schools, it offers a revolutionary educational approach aimed at helping to end the global education crisis. It is the first nonprofit in the world to offer the prestigious International Baccalaureate program free of charge to children in vulnerable situations. Still I Rise is headquartered in Italy and operates in Syria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, and Yemen, with upcoming openings in South Sudan, India, and Italy.