Simone Geiger
Simone Geiger teaches since 2010 at the ballet academy at the University of music and performing arts in Munich. Also here she studied 8 years of classical ballet. She worked as a demi soloist at the ballet at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and at the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. From 2000 till 2006 she was a member of the Nederlands Dans Theater in the Netherlands. Simone teaches classical ballet, pointework, repertoire (classical and contemporary), pilates and works as a choreographic assistant and balletmaster.
David Russo
David Russo is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. Trained at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, he was a solo dancer in Saarbrücken and Munich. He has been regularly choreographing pieces since 2004, organising transdisciplinary performances in the Munich independent scene and has been a lecturer at the HMTM Ballet Academy since 2010. In 2019, he founded the TanzQuelle initiative for Munich dance professionals. He is currently the 1st spokesperson for the Tanz AK|T training conference, he is a member of the ethics commission of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V. and has co-curated various dance events and symposia.
Bettina Wagner-Bergelt
Bettina Wagner-Bergelt studied German, Romance languages and literature as well as theater and film studies in Cologne and Berlin. She was co-director of the Bayerisches Staatsballett until 2016, then artistic director of the 100 Years of Bauhaus festival in Berlin and artistic director of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch from 2018 to the end of 2022. She received the French Order of Merit of Arts and Letters and numerous other awards for her educational projects, founded festivals and works in cultural policy for dance. Bettina Wagner-Bergelt is active in various advisory bodies, including for the KSB, the Palucca University, the Tel Aviv Dance Academy and cultural committees, as well as for refugee aid. Today she works for European projects and as a curator and author.
