Francesco Ventriglia

He danced numerous soloist roles with the company, including that of the Toreador in Roland Petit's Carmen and Quasimodo in Notre Dame de Paris and also works by Petipa, Natalia Makarova, Rudolf Nureyev, George Balanchine, Ailey, Neumeier, Cranko, Preljocaj, Godani, Kylián and Béjart.

For Roberto Bolle, he created The Fight (Curia of the Roman Senate in the Imperial Forum); New Year's Concert (La Fenice, Venice, later televised); and The Myth of the Phoenix (Teatro Smeraldo, Milan).

The Heliopolis Company made its debut at the Venice Biennale in 2007, with a new piece "The Sea in Chains", an investigation of eroticism and physical disability with the original music of Emiliano Palmieri, which was nominated for the Golden Lion.

The following year he created a new work "Normale", which explored the concept of love and mental health: with these two titles Ventriglia curated a diptych as an investigation of differences present in modern society.

Also in 2007, he created A Midsummer Night's Dream and Jago, the honest poetry of deception, for the Arena di Verona, with étoile of the Opéra National de Paris, Eleonora Abbagnato and Alessandro Riga.

In 2010 Teatro alla Scala di Mlano, under the direction of Makar Vaziev, commissioned a new ballet by Ventriglia, on the first and the second movements of Symphony #7 Leningrad by Dimitri Shostakovic, "Immemoria".

[17][18] In 2018 Ventriglia was appointed adjunto a la dirección artística del Ballet Nacional Sodre, Uruguay, alongside artistic director Igor Yebra.