He was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1993. At the age of 16, he began attending ballet classes and performances at the Academy in his home town. The lessons were taught by Carmen Ramos Romero, which inspired him to become a professional dancer. At the age of 18, he began studying at the conservatory Carmen Amaya Conservatory in Madrid. After graduating from Carmen Amaya, he moved to Italy for further studies. There he also began his apprenticeship in Balletto di Siena in Tuscany. He then moved to Balletto del Sud, Lecce, Apulia to gain his first professional experience. There he had the opportunity to dance Don José in a full-length ballet “Carmen” by Freddy Franzutti. His dance repertoire has included performances of: “Romeo and Juliet”, “Vivaldi’s Four Seasons”, “Carmina Burana”, “The Sleeping Beauty”, “Swan Lake” and in “Seherezada” with prima ballerina Carla Fracci.
Sherly Belliard (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) started her dancing education at the National School of Dance in Santo Domingo. In 2013 won the gold medal at the competition “Stars of the 21st Century” in Panama, receiving as well a scholarship for the Summer Intensive Program at the Royal Ballet School and another scholarship to continue her dance education at the State Ballet School of Berlin, where she graduated with a Bachelor in Arts.
For 9 years she was a dance teacher at the State School of Theatre in Wrocław. She successfully works as a choreographer. She has created dance choreographies for festivals, competitions, performances, short solo presentations and stage movement in theatre performances. She also conducts dance workshops (specialty: classical and point dance technique, ballet repertoire but also jazz, character dances, Polish folk dances). Guest performances: Netherlands – Het Klein Theatre (Eindhoven), Denmark – City Ballet (Odense), Germany – Summer Opera and Ballet Festivals (Xanten, Revensburg, Ingolstadt). Best dancer in Poland 2009 – Jan Kiepura Theatre Music Award. A year later she was awarded the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture “Gloria Artis” by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland. She currently works as an artistic director at Split Dance School (Tervuren, Belgium), judges at dance competitions and collaborates as a ballet master at several dance schools in Brussels (Belgium).
Elvis Val works as a guest ballet teacher for Staatsballett Berlin, Ballet de l ́Opera de Lyon, Alonso King Lines Ballet, Béjart Ballet, Basel Ballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Aterballetto, Staatstheater Gärtnerplatz, Ballet Theater Dessau, Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company,Thüringer Staatsballett, Ballet de Lorraine, Ballet Opera Graz, Nationaltheater Manheim, Saarländisches Staatstheater, Ballet X Schwerin, Leipzig Ballet, among others. In 2018 he was awarded the Dance Pedagogy title (Vaganova) at “Tanzloft” (Berlin) with Honors. Choreographies: “Aimless” Theater Dörzbach (2016) “Vinus and Adonis” / “Dido and Aeneas” Staatstheater Oldenburg (2019) Currently, Elvis Val works as Director rehearsal at Poznan Opera Ballet.
Since then, she has presented her workshop miniatures every year: in 2011 Theme of Fear, in 2012 LAB V (also presented on TVP during the Polish Eurovision final for Young Dancers), in 2013 COLLARS, in 2014 Arctic. In June 2013 she co-produced the premiere of 3xP Panda, Pandamonium, Pandarecki, realised as part of an educational project together with Zbigniew Czapski-Kłoda. In the same year, she prepared a performance for children to the music of Witold Lutosławski, Fairy Tales I Will Tell You, at Szczecin Castle Opera… She also choreographed and led workshops as part of the educational partnership project between the National Opera and Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Cognition through Dance. Anna Hop graduated from the State Ballet School in Warsaw in 2009 with a diploma in professional classical and contemporary dance. In 2014 she completed her Master’s degree in Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Warsaw. She has been a dancer with the Polish National Ballet since 2009.
Paula comes from Wrocław and took her first dance steps here. At the age of 5, she started learning at a private ballet school at the Capitol Foundation in Wrocław. When she decided to dedicate her future to dance, she continued her education at the L. Różycki State Ballet School in Bytom.
After graduating from school she was engaged at the Silesian Opera in Bytom. Currently, she is an ensemble dancer at the Wrocław Opera. Paula has successfully participated in many international and national dance competitions.
Pablo Martínez Méndez 27 years old from Santander, Spain. He started dancing at the age of 7 and graduated from the Real conservatorio de danza Mariemma in Madrid.
I started my dance career in Valencia Dancing forward dancing main roles as Prince Desireé in sleeping beauty and then I join Ballet Nice Mediterranee in France dancing main parts in Don Quixote. In 2017 I joined the Opera Wroclawska dancing plenty of corp ballet, demisolist and solist roles in both classical and contemporary repertoire. My passion it’s teaching and sharing my knowledge and experience with my students.
He was a ballet soloist with the Wrocław Opera. He graduated from the O. Sławska-Lipczyńska Ballet High School in Poznań. Awarded at the 9th National Ballet Competition in Gdansk. In 2003 he was engaged to the ballet company of Wrocław Opera.
In 2008, he was promoted to soloist. On the Wrocław stage he created, among others. parts: Rotbart in Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, the Mouse King and the Grandfather in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, the Son in the Ball of Life (an evening of choreography by soloists of the Wrocław Opera Ballet), the Robber and the Shoemaker in Pavlovsky’s Puss in Boots. He in Münchheimer’s The Devil’s Follies, Moniuszko, Augustine, Alfonso and Velasquez in Augustine’s The Saragossa Manuscript, Icarus in Synapsis with music by Krauze, Kilar, Sikorski and Górecki. He has taught classical dance technique at the Non-Public Ballet School in Katowice. He also taught at the UKS Kopernik Sports Club in Wrocław, the Akrosport Wrocław club and the Piruet Dance and Ballet School (Wrocław, Oława).
She graduated with honours from the High School of Ballet in Poznan. As a student she was a finalist and winner of ballet competitions in Poland, she also took part in competitions and Master Classes abroad. Throughout her education she performed in the ballet and opera repertoire of the Grand Theatre in Poznan. Immediately after graduation, she started working in the ballet company of the Grand Theatre in Poznań, where she danced in ballets such as: “Serenade” choreographed by George Balanchine, “Swan Lake” choreographed by Kenneth Greve, “Romeo and Juliet” choreographed by Emil Wesołowski.
Since 2017, she has been associated with Warsaw Ballet and the Neoclassica Ballet Centre, where she began teaching adult ballet classes. Her experience in searching for the best methods to progress in classical dance led her to a regular practice of yoga, Pilates and stretching, as well as the Ballet Placement method, created by Eric Conrad, an American educator and choreographer. She currently teaches stretching, Ballet Body and ballet classes for adults in Warsaw.
As of 2023, Shannon is a 4Pointe certified teacher.
Having many influences in my classical training (from Paris Opera to Balanchine) I pull from them all to
create a class that I believe prepares the dancer for whatever they need, while keeping them strong and
healthy. Challenging the brain is just important as challenging the body, so while the atmosphere is calm,
one must also be alert. I strive to inspire the dancers to work hard while enjoying themselves and feeling
confident to push their limits.
As a dancer, what is important to me?
Finding my own way through the choreography and using the vocabulary of ballet to find freedom, to
push the boundaries. I love how in dance, every time you do something, it is different. Nothing can ever
be repeated exactly the same way and that’s beautiful. I love rehearsing and being so exhausted and
having those breakthrough moments. I also love the community of dancers.
As part of her doctoral dissertation, she created the dance performance “Nitka,” inspired by Martha Graham’s technique and the idea of body work by Rena Mirecka. She currently collaborates with dramatic theatres, developing stage movement for performances and teaching subjects related to stage movement, analysis of stage forms, and dance techniques at the Cultural Animation Study in Kalisz and the Institute of Choreography and Dance Techniques at the Academy of Music in Łódź. She creates performances and animation activities, regularly collaborating with Dr. hab. Magda Grzybowska (Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław), creating installations and spatial-movement situations as well as performances that combine movement, objects, and sound. In 2023, she received the Cultural Scholarship of the President of the City of Kalisz, which resulted in a dance theatre performance created in collaboration with Kalisz theatre actress Małgorzata Kałędkiewicz, titled “Mother’s Hands.”
Graduate of the Comprehensive Ballet School in Bytom and the Stuttgart Dance Academy (John Cranko Schule). She started her professional life at the Vienna State Opera where she developed her skills for several years dancing both traditional (Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker etc.) and contemporary repertoire. She spent the following years dancing in St. Petersburg at the Academic Theatre of Boris Eifman as a soloist and in the company of the Polish National Ballet in Warsaw (Grand Theatre-National Opera).
In 2018, she joined the ballet company of Wrocław Opera. She fulfils herself not only by dancing on stage, but also by sharing her passion for dance and her experience: with children, young people and adults during various workshops and classes related to classical dance technique and barre au sol.
Born in Yamaguchi in Japan. She has graduated with honors from the Moscow State Academy of Choreography in 2016
teacher, honored cultural worker of Russian Federation Elena Vatulya. She is a Demi soloist in the Opera Wroclawska in Poland. Her awards in the international competition are as follows:
• 2019 International Dance Competition “Citta di Spoleto” (First place)
• 2016 International Yuri Grigorovich Competition “Young ballet of the world (first place and
special prize from “Ballet” magazine for the best performance of character dance)
• 2015 International ballet competition Japan grand prix (third place)
Repertoire
• Nutcracker(Clara), Giselle (Giselle , Peasant-Pas de deux), Satanella-Pas de deux, Flame of
Paris-Pas de deux, Le Corsaire-Pas de deux, Paquita-Pas de trois, Don Quixote (Cupid,
Kitri’s friends), etc…
Marine Sanchez Egasse was born in 1990 near Lyon, France. She graduated from the Regional Conservatory of Lyon in Classical and Contemporary Dance Technique, as well as in Dance History, Functional Analysis of the Body in Danced Movement, and Musical Analysis.
She began her career in 2009 in the Dantzaz Konpainia company for young dancers in San Sebastian, Spain, then the Ballet de la Generalitat Valenciana, also in Spain, from 2011 to 2015. In June 2015, she was hired for 9 seasons by the Osnabück Theatre Dance Company in Germany under the direction of Mauro de Candia and then Marguerite Donlon.
Until today, she has been able to perform choreographies of prestigious choreographers such as her last two directors but also Itzik Galili, Ohad Naharin, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau, Stephan Thoss, Edward Clug, Thierry Malandain, Rainer Behr, Liliana Barros among others.
In parallel with her career as a dancer, she also had the opportunity to restage a choreography by Marguerite Donlon for the Osnabrück dance company as well as assist Mauro de Candia during a creation in 2024. Certified since 2024, she also teaches yoga practice, offers ballet and contemporary classes to professionals and amateurs, sharing her energy, her experience and the joy of movement.
I was born in Saitama, Japan in 2002. I started ballet when i was 6years old in my hometown. At the age of 14 I got scholarship from competition and started study at State Ballet school of Berlin for 5 years. While attending the school, i had the many opportunity to dance with Staatsballet Berlin as a Corp de ballet.
Shadows in La Bayadere, Snowflakes in Nutcracker, Shylphiden in La Shylphid.
After graduation, in 2021 joined Opera wroclawska as Corp de ballet. Season of 2023/24 I got promoted to be Soloist.
My solo roles include:
REGINA ARENAS began her dance journey at the age of 5 in Argentina, culminating in her certification as a ballet and flamenco teacher from the Institute Elina Molina Estrella in 2012. Since then, she has passionately shared her wealth of expertise with aspiring students, continuously expanding her skills as both a performer and educator.
From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a freelance dancer, participating in productions such as La Bayadère with the Ballet Company of the Teatro Argentino de La Plata, and performing in Giselle during Paloma Herrera’s farewell tour. In 2017, she was awarded a scholarship for the New York Intensive Summer Program, where she performed as a soloist in Paquita and in a contemporary piece.
Her commitment to the stage includes nine consecutive years at Argentina’s most iconic cultural event, the Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia, and four years as a ballet and contemporary dancer with the Ballet de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. In 2021, she joined the Professional Contemporary Program with the Imperfect Dancers Company in Pisa, Italy.
Between 2022 and 2024, Regina was a member of an independent ballet company based in Germany, where she continued to perform and refine her artistry through classical productions.
In 2023, she became an official Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) Tutor, representing the method throughout Europe and the UK. Since then, she has delivered certification workshops in over 12 countries, in cities such as London, Paris, and Barcelona. Her PBT certification (Levels 2 and 3), combined with CPD credits from the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and a Pilates Mat certification (Powerhouse International, 2018), shape her unique teaching approach—one that blends scientific principles with artistic expression to help dancers of all ages improve their technique and confidence.
Now based in Berlin, Regina continues to teach internationally, offering workshops and classes that reflect her deep commitment to healthy and thoughtful dance training.
A qualified Pilates and Gyrotonic instructor, she is constantly looking for more effective ways to train future and current dancers. She combines her experience, knowledge and charisma to teach and train more dancers and coaches. She is the author of the Train Like Dancers programme. On a daily basis she works with professional dancers and dance groups across the country. In her original TLD programme, in addition to motor training, there are modules on the dancer’s nutrition and consciousness and psyche, related to the way she perceives the dancer’s body. She currently works in Warsaw, where she has two training and coaching studios. We won’t list all the training and qualifications Beata has to her credit, because we don’t have that much space. It is really worth signing up for training, especially if you are planning a longer adventure with dance. We sincerely recommend it with all our hearts
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In October 2016, he came to Wrocław and joined the company of Wrocław Opera. Among the roles he danced, the following deserve special mention: Carmen's father in "Femme Fatale: el Amor Brujo", the solo part in Mozart's "Requiem", Escamilla "Femme Fatale: Carmen suite" by Jacek Tyski. Principal solo part in "Eupholia" by Jacek Pszybylowicz, principal solo part in "Le Sacre du Printemps" by Uri Igvi and Johan Greben. Hillarion in Zofia Rudnicka's 'Giselle'; lead couple in Emil Wesolowski's 'Piano Concerto in F minor'. In 2018, Wrocław Opera launched a project to promote ballet learning among adults. Daniel taught ballet classes designed for adult amateurs taking their first steps in classical dance technique. Since then, he has been constantly expanding his knowledge and skills as a teacher. Currently, in addition to beginner classes, he also teaches advanced groups and conducts lessons for a ballet company at the Wrocław Opera House.
