As scandal photos are published of Alessandra Ferri’s photographer husband, she considers a return to dance

It has been five years since Aless­andra Ferri left the stage, but she hasn’t stopped dan­cing. Speak­ing to the Italian dance magazine Danza & Danza she said that every morn­ing she still pre­pares her bag for dance class adding, intriguingly,

I do class every day, I keep myself in form. I could dance tomor­row even­ing. In the future, who knows!

And when the journ­al­ist Ser­gio Trombetta asks if she’s plan­ning on a comeback, she replies,

We’ll see. I’m think­ing about it.

Ferri would cer­tainly go against the trend if she really did return to pro­fes­sional dance at the age of 49. Dar­cey Bus­sell has just made her Olympic-sized ‘mini-comeback’, but at 43. There are few Alon­sos, Frac­cis and Fon­teyns nowadays.

So why would she want to? For the applause?

No. Cer­tainly the applause has always been won­der­ful, the recog­ni­tion that you’ve done some­thing well, but what I really miss is the act­ing exper­i­ence, being on stage, and the inter­ac­tion with the music, a source of great emo­tion for me.

I listen to music often and feel enorm­ous feel­ings that I’m not able to express — this I miss.

The pub­lic­a­tion of Aless­andra Ferri’s remarks coin­cides with that of pho­tos of her hus­band, pho­to­grapher Fab­rizio Ferri, with an unknown woman, frol­ick­ing on a boat near the couple’s sum­mer home in Pantelleria.

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