Ilir Shaqiri's love for ballet is inherited by his parents, both renowned ballet dancers of the Opera and Ballet Theater. invited to the TV show "Rudina" on TV Klan, Shaqiri told how he started his career, his family, and his love for Albania.
The jump started at an early age: " Ballet school started at age 10. I did not want to start the ballet school anymore, as all the boys wanted to get involved with football, but my parents gave me a lot of delay because they wanted me to live what they did not want to live in the painful time of communism. I was a very convincing child. It started with a lot of pain, because you have to be exercised, the body needs to be opened. When I started I was very difficult because the standard was too wild, the conditions were very poor. It spent 8 years between hours and hours of sacrifice. After the 5th year, I started to like it, because you have won many things, you have gained autonomy and the desire to demonstrate. Ballet school entered 20 people and every three months were the exams if they did not pass to take and leave and start another school. When we reached the age of 18, only three-grade classes ended . "
Illyria has lived for many years in Italy and has developed his career in the neighboring country. The ballerina has sparked in Albania, but his career is in Italy, where he has created his family and his life. He has about 35 years in the Albanian scene and the Italian where he has given emotions. He has been a dancer in popular Italian programs such as "Good Domenioca", "Amici", and "La Corrida". Illyrian is a name affirmed in contemporary and modern ballet, which with its style and talent is one of the most successful ballet in the world. Illyria also showed one of the toughest moments that he spent while he was at the Ballet Theater in Skopje, Macedonia, as no one spoke to him and he felt ill.
"The 7 months of my life and my career in Macedonia have been very difficult, because they were all Macedonians, and no one was saying good morning or good-day or you were. After 7 months I was forced to start learning the language in order to communicate. They then started to be looser and talk to me. The first words they said was a coffee? It seemed as though the walls were talking to me and I was very shocked. An Albanian called Besimi spoke to me. From shame nobody inside knew that Besimi was with Albanian mother and Yugoslav father. He told me, only to tell you that I am an Albanian . "
Between the story of the career, the renowned Albanian ballerina did not hesitate to speak and to his family, how he was known to his wife, the Italian Emeuela and the arrival of their only daughter. " With Emmanuel we are known in a TV show. It started very friendly and then we retired to Rome, we cohabited and then married. My marriage has been very intense and short in the first few days, as I was in three programs at the same time. Emily's daughter is 13 years old and I am very proud.
During the show, there were also no messages of congratulations given by Ilir's wife, daughter, as well as his two parents, where the dancers' emotions were visible, as there were no tears as well.
