David Moroni – 2024 Inductee
DCD Hall of fame Inductee
David Moroni, C.M.
A performer of acclaim in both Canada and abroad, David Moroni is also founder of Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Division. He has dedicated the majority of his life’s work to the education of dancers, and his dance legacy encompasses his work behind the scenes where he taught, coached and nurtured generations of dance artists at the Winnipeg school. Born in Ottawa, David studied with Nesta Toumine, director of the Classical Ballet Company of Ottawa. It was also in Toumine’s studio where he began teaching. He later joined her company, soon to perform leading roles in the ballet classics.
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In 1964 he joined the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, becoming a principal dancer and touring internationally. The RWB School Professional Division was founded by Moroni in 1970. He served as coach to his former students Evelyn Hart and the late David Peregrine when they won medals at the World Ballet Concours in Japan in 1980, then winning the historic four medals in Varna, Bulgaria. His performance legacy lives on in film having performed the lead role of The Stranger in Rose Latulippe, choreographed by Brian Macdonald. In 1990, David was appointed to the Order of Canada, and in 1991 was awarded the Order of the Buffalo Hunt by the Province of Manitoba. In June 2014, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Winnipeg, recognized for his contribution to the development of dance in Canada. Now in his eighties, he continues to guest teach at dance schools in the Maritimes where he makes his home.
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David Moroni teaching students of the RWB school / Winnipeg Free Press / Photo by Gerry Cairns
