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Teacher after 2008
Sandra Asensi
Sandra Asensi
Ballet teacher at the Victor Ullate Conservatory in Madrid. She danced at Hamburg Ballet, the Lyon opera ballet.
Nigel Burley
Nigel Burley
He danced at Australian Ballet Company, The Royal Ballet in London, with Sylvie Guillem, Darcey Bussell, Miyako Yoshida.

Adrian Burnett
Adrian Burnett
Freelance choreographer and teacher invited from all over the world. He
danced at the Australian Ballet and the Basel Ballet and resident
choreographer at Australian Ballet from 203 to 2006.
Francesca Caroti
Francesca Caroti
Francesca Caroti started her ballett studies in Florence at the "Centro Studio Danza" under the direction of Cristina Bozzolini and Lilia Bertelli. She started her career in Italy with the "Aterballetto" under the direction of Amedeo Amodio. After that, she worked in Belgium with Jan Fabre, for several productions. In 1994 she started to work with William Forsythe for the "Ballet Frankfurt" and following at "The Forsythe Company" unitl 2008. In 2008, she became Ballet master for the "Ballet Mainz", and she worked in parallel as a freelancer for different companies and schools. Since 2011, sheLs working as the assistant of Jacopo Godani.

Daniel Chait
Daniel Chait
Danced with Washington Ballet, American Ballet Theater as soloist. International guest artist, danced with Forsythe company and more.
Tim Couchman
Tim Couchman
Ballet Master with Dresden Semperoper Ballet. He danced at Boris Eifmann Company, the Zurich Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Need Company.

Joey Csiki
Joey Csiki
Attila gJOEYh began his dance training at the Canadian Dance Company in Toronto to subsequently join the National Ballet of Canada Academy. Upon receiving a scholarship to the School of American Ballet , Attila moved to New York City and danced under the direction of Peter Martins. Attila also trained with the Joffrey Ballet School upon graduation. Attila has danced with companies such as the Du Capital ballet of Toulouse France as a soloist, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Twyla Tharpe Dance, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, and Rasta Thomas' Bad Boys of Dance and Igal Perryfs Peridance Contemporary Ensemble. In 2008 Attila joined the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company as a principal dancer. Throughout his career, Attila has developed his skills as a choreographer setting work for companies all over the world. In 2006, Attila was invited to Guatemala by President Alvaro Arzu to collaborate with international artists. Fusion, a production he both choreographed and directed. Most recently Attila is choreographing the Schubert Opera of gSchone Mullerinh which will be performed at Lincoln Centerfs Alice Tully Hall in 2013. Attila has completed residencies at The Julliard School and other leading Universities/conservatories in the USA where he teaches Lar Lubovitch repertory classes and his own master classes. In Japan Attila has performed with the Japan Ballet Association, Star Dancers Ballet, Beatnik Dance Studio, Drama City of Osaka and he has danced choreography by Ueshima Yukio, Youya, Ogawa Ayako, Kawasaki Etusko and Kanamori Jo. Attila was also an instructor for Aoyama Dancing Square, Architanz Dance Studio, Beatnik Studio and Wing Studio. Attila can be seen in commercials by GAP, Apple, Nissan and AU Cellular Phones Japan. Currently Attila is filming a television series based on the reality of a dancers life in New York City. This television series features collaboration of dance legends Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rasta Thomas, Twyla Tharpe and Benjamin Millipied.
Michel Faigaux
Michel Faigaux
Danced with Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Canada National Ballet etc. Freelance dance, guest teaching internationally.

Olivier Foures
Olivier Foures
Guest ballet teacher and Violinist. He danced at Roland Petit Company, Leipzig Ballet and in the Vienna state opera and Nacho Duato Company.
Thomas Gallus
Thomas Gallus
Thomas Gallus was born in Antibes in 1979, and started his dance training at the age of 10 at the conservatoire de Nice. At the age of 12 he was accepted into the Ecole national superior de dance in Marseille under the direction of Roland Petit where he continued his training with Monsieur Raymond Franchetti and other important teachers such as Dominique Khalfouni and Michael Denard.
During his training he won the silver medal at the Mediterranean international classical ballet competition.
Roland Petit created the solo «Iberia» for him and also another solo in his «Roland Petit fait son cinema». Mr. Gallus also performed as a soloist in the ballets «An American in Paris» and «Les Variations chromatiques.»

In 1998 Mr. Gallus joined the Ballet of the LfOpera National de Bordeaux where he quickly danced solo roles in «Purcell Pieces» by Nils Christie, «Jardin aux Lilas» and «Continuo» by Anthony Tudor and «Napoli» by Bournonville.
In 2000 Mr. Gallus then joined the Ballet de lfOpera de Paris, where as well as dancing in all the classical and contemporary repertoire, he was also coached by Manuel Legris and Monique Loudiere.
In 2004 Mr. Gallus joined the ballet of La Scala Milan where he danced in new works by A. Prejlocaj and J. kylian. J. Godani chose him to be a soloist in his new ballet «Contro Potere» and he was also chosen by Wayne MacGregor to create a soloist role in «Dido and Aneas», a collaboration between the Opera and Ballet at La Scala.
Mr. Gallus has danced in international galas including tours with «Laurent Hilaire and friends» and in Dubai on tour with Kader Belarbi where he has danced with Myriam ould-Braham (Etoile of lfOpera National de Paris) «Le Corsaire pas de deux» from Marius Petipa and «Flower Festival» pas de deux by August Bournonville. He also has performed «La Sylphide» by August Bournonville, Fokinefs «Daphnis and Chloe», «Giselle» Act 2 pas de deux and «Destine», a creation by Istvan Martin for the gala in memory of Jeanine Monin amongst others.
Mr. Gallus was invited to Alberta Ballet in Canada as a guest soloist by the Director/Choreographer Jean Grand Maitre, where he performed principal roles in «The Nutcracker» The Prince, «Midsummer Nights Dream» by Christopher Wheeldon, «Fiddle and the Drum» by Jean Grand Maitre and «Alice in Wonderland».
From December 2008 Mr. Gallus was a soloist dancer with the Ballet de lfOpera de Nice, where he danced the roles of the Poet in «Les Syphides», Balanchinefs «Allegro Brillante», Bejartfs «Cantate 51», Canittofs « Viva Verdi and Marco Polo» and Mancinifs «La Campanella».
Since September 2010 Mr. Gallus is a soloist dancer with Ballet de lfOpera de Lyon, where he has danced in «Giselle» by Mats Ek, «Cinderella» by Maguy Marin, «Tabula Rasa» by Ohad Naharin, «the second detail and Limbs theorem» by William Forsythe, «This part of darkness» by Benjamin Millepied, «One of a kind» by J.Kylian (solo man) amongst others.

Mr. Gallus received his Diploma DfEtat to be dance pedagogue in 2009 in Paris, and currently is the personal trainer for the international Etoile Robert Tewsley, a personal coach for the eConcours de lfOpera de Paris. Furthermore he guest teaches for the dancers of the eBallet de LfOpera de Lyonf, along with numerous festivals, including most recently the eSummer dance Festivalf in Nice. Mr. Gallus uses his profound experience from the Ballet de lfOpera de Paris to teach a class based on the purity and elegance of the French style, paying particular attention to the port de bras and clarity of leg and footwork for which the French Etoiles are renowned.

Pedro Goucha Gomes
Pedro Goucha Gomes
Pedro Goucha Gomes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1972. At the age of 9, he started his dance studies at the school of the National Ballet of Portugal, and at 15 was invited by the Rumanian teacher Sergiu Stefanchi to resume his dance and academic studies at the National Ballet School in Toronto, Canada, where he studied for 3 years with a scholarship from the Portuguese Cultural Ministry. Upon completing his studies Pedro returned to Europe to join the Stuttgart Ballet under the directionship of Marcia Haydee. The rich and eclectic repertoire of this company introduced him to a vast repertory of Classical, Neo-classical and Contemporary works. In 1996, he was invited by Richard Cragun to join the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he danced as a soloist and started choreographing at this company's choreographic workshops. In 1999 Pedro joined the Compania Nacional de Danza in Madrid, under the directorship of Nacho Duato, where he danced as a Principal Dancer. In 2002 he was invited to join the DeAnima Ballet in Rio de Janeiro where, while dancing and rehearsing the company, he also taught a group of children from a local "favela" and finally in 2003 Pedro joined the Netherlands Dance Theatre-I, where he worked with choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Crystal Pite and Meryl Tankard (amongst others). For two years he was also partially responsible for the organization of this company's choreographic workshops. Since 2006, Pedro has choreographed extensively for the Korzo Production House in The Hague (The Netherlands), as well as participated both as dancer and choreographer in Carlos Saura's movie 'Fados' He has also taught as a guest teacher in companies such as Gothenburg Ballet (Sweden), NDT-II and Scapino Ballet (The Netherlands), Compania Nacional de Danza (Spain) and the Cedar Lake Ballet in New York (amongst others). In 2007 he choreographed 'Zullia' for the Portuguese Contemporary Ballet Company and was subsequently appointed its artistic director, position that he held until the end of the year. In the last couple of years Pedro has been collaborating with artists of other artistic mediums. In 2008, together with the Dutch writer Bianca Boer, he was invited by the CaDance Festival in co-production with the Crossing Border Festival to choreograph Butterfly Hips. In 2009 he choreographed with the visual artists Hee-Seung Choi Inside the Outside and with Yoko Seyama and Lyndsey Housden made Drosera Capensis for the Holland Dance Festival. Pedro also participated as a performer/choreographer in Nika Neelova (visual artist) and Billy Bultheel (sound artist) in their end of the year project Carpet IV, in which Pedro danced on a 20.000 eggshells weaved carpet. Pedro is currently living between The Hague and Lisbon, and complements his freelance choreographic, teacher and dance works with academic studies of History of Art at the Open University.
Laura Graham
Laura Graham
Danced with Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet etc. Accredited@Gyrotonic(R)teacher. Currently Ballet Mistress of Dresden Ballet.

Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon was the first American graduate of the ''Bolshoi Ballet Academy''.He was a Principal Dancer for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Vienna StateOpera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet, Hungarian State Opera Ballet, Kremlin Palace Ballet Theatre, with commendations from President Bush and President Clinton, and has performed for President and Mrs. Gorbachev.
In 2006 he Co-Founded the Greenwich Ballet Academy where he also served as Chairman of Faculty and Academy Director, and in 2008 he was awarded OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER AWARD in Youth America Grand Prix, also he became Resident Choreographer for Americafs Configuration Dance Theatre, awarded Artvoice Best Dance Company in 2008, 2009, and 2010. In November of 2010 he took on the position of Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet School Antwerp.
Young Soon Hue
Young Soon Hue
Choreographer, balletmaster and teacher. She was born in South Korea and began her ballet studies began at the Little angels Art School in Seoul,Korea. She went on to study at the Academie de Danse Classique de Princesse Grace in Monte-Carlo, Monaco under the direction of Marika Besobrasova. Her professional ballet career began with Frankfurt Ballet in Germany, under the direction of Egon Madson and William Forsythe, followed by an engagement with Zurich Ballet in Switzerland under the direction of Uwe Scholz. Heinz Spoerli then invited her to be a soloist with Basel Ballet in Switzerland. She made the move to Deutsche Oper am Rhein Duseldorf/ Duisburg (under the direction of Youri Vamos) initially as a soloist and subsequently as a ballet-mistress. She has danced numerous principle and solo roles from internationally renowned choreographers such as Mats Ek, Youri Vamos, Nils Christie, William Forsythe, Hans van Manen, Heinz Sporli, Uwe Scholz, Nacho Duato, John Cranko, George Balanchin, Judith Jamison and Paul Taylor. Her career as an international choreographer began with "Elle Chante" which she created on the Deutsche Oper am Rhein D?seldorf in Germany in 2001.Since then she has created 27 more pieces. She has worked as a free-lance choreographer with many ballet and dance companies in USA, Australia, Europe, Turkey and Korea. And her works have been presented at many different international Galas and Festivals. In 2006, she was awarded "Choreographer of the Year" with her work "Backstage" from the "MOM"Dance Magazine in Korea. In 2009 she was awarded "Dance critiic prize of 2009"as a best choreography with 2 of her works "This is your life" and " Wave of Emotions" in Korea . In 2010 she was awarded Dance critic prize "The best 6 choreography" with her work "El susurro del Tiempo" In 2010 and 2011 she was an Artistic director of The Korea World dance stars Festival and opening Gala of Seoul International ballet Festival. She is also working as a guest ballet master to teach classes for many companies, school and universities in Europe and Korea. And since 16 years ago she is also a ballet teacher at the ballet school which belongs to the Duseldorf ballet company in Germany for the children age of 7 till 16 years old. She is living in Duselodrf ,Germany.

Kenny Larson
Kenny Larson
Currently he is based in New York and work as a freelance ballet teacher. He danced as Principal dancer with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.

Ilja Louwen
Ilja Louwen
International guest artist, performing worldwide. Danced with Scapino Ballet,Zurich Ballett, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, various galas etc.
Nicolas Philippe Maire
Nicolas Philippe Maire
Danced with Compania Nacional de Danza etc. Finalist and Winner of 3 prizes at the Prix de Lausanne in 1994. Finalist and Winner of 3 prizes at the Prix de Lausanne in 1994

Mark McClain
Mark McClain
Ballet master, choreographer in National Ballet of Portugal, Nordhausen Ballet and the Leipzig Ballet. He danced as principal at Zurich Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet.
Tamas Geza Moricz
Tamas Geza Moricz
Danced with Jan Fabre Compamy, Ballet Frankfurt etc. Taught at The Place (London), P.A.R.T.S, The Forsythe Improvisational Methodologies.

Leo Mujic
Leo Mujic
International guest artist, performing worldwide. Choreographed for Stadts Ballet Berlin, Slovenian festival in Ljubljana.
Sandor Nemethy
Sandor Nemethy
Leading Ballet master and vice Ballet director at Staatsoper Wien. He danced at Bolshoi Theater Moscow, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, etc.

Yuri Ng
Yuri Ng
Danced with National Ballet of Canada etc. 1998, awarded Prix d'Auteur at 6th Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis.
Giovanni di Palma
Giovanni di Palma
First soloist at the Leipzig Ballet. He danced at Ballet Dresden and moved the Leipzig Ballet in 2000

Livio Panieri
Livio Panieri
Danced with Stuttgart Ballet, Compania Nacional de Danza etc. Guest teacher and workshop teacher in Spain. Other interest: yoga, Gyrotonic

Marco Perin
Marco Perin
Guest teacher and Ballet Master at numerous companies in all over the world. He danced at Scala Ballet Company, Australian Ballet, Scottish Ballet, etc. as a principal dancer.
Igal Perry
Igal Perry
Artistic Director of Peridance Center in New York. Estabilshed Peridance Ensemble, working international ly as a teacher, choreographer and director.

Minh Pham
Minh Pham
Danced with Ballet du Capitole, performed the principal roles In classical repertoire also 20th centuryfs most celebrated choreographers.
Guy Poggioli
Guy Poggioli
Ballet teacher and choreoprapher in Paris. He graduated Paris Opera Ballet School and danced at Ballet du XXe Siècle, La Scala Theater, etc

Kevin Pugh
Kevin Pugh
Danced with National Ballet of Canada etc. Teacher and director of Toronto's Dance Teq. Guest teaching internationally
Antony Rizzi
Antony Rizzi
1985-2005 Antony was principal Dancer , Choreographic Assistant and Artistic Advisor at the Frankfurt Ballet. He was invited by Bruce Marks at the Boston Ballet to teach company class. He has taught intensively at The Frankfurt Ballet, Munich Dance Theater, Bayerisch Staatsballet Munich ( Munich Ballet), Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Kiel, Nacho Duatos company in Madrid, Pina Bausch Wuppertal Tanztheater, Star Dancers Ballet in Tokyo, La Scala Ballet in London to name a few

Robert Tewsley
Robert Tewsley
Robert was born in England. After graduating The Royal Ballet School in London in 1990, he joined to The National Ballet of Canada and The Stuttgart Ballet as a principal dancer. In 2002, he joined to The Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet as a principal dancer, he performed works of Gorge Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Sir Kenneth Macmillan and some other choreographers. He left those companies in 2004, and started dancing as an International Guest Principal Dancer. He performed principal roles with amongst others, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Australian Ballet, New National Theatre Tokyo, La Scala Milan and Teatro dellfOpera Rome. In 2002, Robert was chosen for one of gDancers of the yearh by gDance Europeh magazine. He is also teaching as a guest teacher with Alberta Ballet in Canada and Prague Summer School. Currently, he finished Diploma in German and BA Hons in European Studies in Open University in London. Also he got Diploma of Advanced Studies in Arts Administration.
Thierry Sette
Thierry Sette
Faculty at the Academie de Danse Princesse Grace de Monaco. He danced at Stuttgart Ballet as a soloist.

Pascal Touzeau
Pascal Touzeau
l'Opera de Bordeaux, Ballett Bonn and Ballett Wiesbaden, Pascal Touzeau became Soloist at the Frankfurt Ballet in 1992 till 2001, under the direction of William Forsythe. Between 2003 and 2005, Pascal Touzeau was Director at the Ballet Carmen Roche in Madrid From 2005 to 2006, he became Ballet Director at Ballet Madrid. Since August 2009, Pascal Touzeau is the Artistic Director and Main Choreographer for ballettmainz.
Alessio Silvestrin
Alessio Silvestrin
Danced with Bejart Ballet Lausanne,Ballet de l'Opera de Lyon, Ballet Frankfurt. Choreographer and Composer, currently resident in Japan.

Wolfgang Stollwitzer
Wolfgang Stollwitzer
Danced with Stuttgart Ballet as principal dancer. Certified RAD teacher. Currently freelance dance teacher
Erica Trivett
Erica Trivett
Danced with Ballet du Grand TheLa`tre de Gene`ve, Gulbenkian Ballet Companie Thor, Royal Danish Opera etc. Certified Feldenkrais practitioner.

Carlos Valcarcel
Carlos Valcarcel
Danced with Stuttgart Ballet. Qualified RAD teacher. Currently faculty of Washington School of Ballet. He was appointed School Director of the School of Ballet Arizona in 2011.
Jens Weber
Jens Weber
Soloist at the Ballets de Monte-Carlo. He danced at Deutsche Staatsoper Ballet in Berlin, Zurich Ballet, Queensland Ballet of Australia.

Lesli Wiesner
Lesli Wiesner
Danced with Los Angeles Ballet as a principal dancer etc. After 1990, performed in various musicals. Currently faculty of Zurich Tanz Theater Schule.
Kiyoko Kimura
Kiyoko Kimura
She was a principal dancer at Leipzig Ballet and had a high reputation as gthe Muses of Mr. Uwe Scholzh from all over the world. Currently she is freelance and dancing and teaching based in Japan.

Kanako Sakamoto
Kanako Sakamoto
Danced with Stuttgart Ballet, Canada National Ballet. Joined National Ballet of Portugal in 2006

Yannick Sempey
Yannick Sempey
Yannick danced with Basel Ballet, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Dusseldorf, Zurich Ballet,Semper Oper Dresden. He is now freelance ballet teacher and work mostly with The Forsythe Company, Nederlands Dans Theater, Cullberg Ballet, National Norwegian Ballet, National Ballet in Marseille, Goteborg Ballet, Ballet Mainz.