Ami Shulman
Ami Shulman has worn many hats in the realms of the Performing Arts. As a movement artist, she is a performer; choreographer; rehearsal director; educator; Feldenkrais Practitioner and writer.
Ami has taught throughout Europe, Canada and the USA including for the Netherlands Dans Theater; the Goteborgs Operans Danskompani; the Venice Biennale; Cirque Du Soleil; Juilliard School; BANFF Centre for the Arts; National Theatre School of Canada; CODARTS; b12; Hollins University; Jacob’s Pillow amongst many others and she is an Artistic Associate of the Springboard Project Montreal/New York.
Ami choreographed for the National Theatre of London, UK; the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC and has co-created works with the Cirque Du Soleil; the National Ballet of Canada and Ballet British Columbia. Ami was an associate choreographer to Maxine Doyle of Punchdrunk; has staged the works of Johannes Wieland internationally and has been a Rehearsal Director at the GoteborgOperans Danskompani in Sweden.
Ami has an invested interest in the healing arts, she is a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and is trained in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. She has presented her work at conferences internationally and has written articles on enactive cognition and the phenomenology of movement, having her work published in the Feldenkrais Journal and in Dance magazine. She co-authored for the anthology Back to the Dance Itself with Dr Hillel Braude.
Olivier Vercoutère
Ballet Academy, HMTM / Bayerisches Junior Ballett MĂĽnchen
Olivier Vercoutère graduated at the John Cranko School and was engaged as a member of the Stuttgart Ballet, the Ballet Company of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and as soloist of the Bavarian State Ballet. He completed a degree in dance pedagogy at the university of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Since September 2013, Olivier Vercoutère is Professor for Classical Dance at the HMTM in Munich and rehearsal director/ballet master of the Bavarian Junior Ballet Munich. Olivier is regularly invited as a guest teacher in academies and summer courses and as a jury member in various competitions.
Klassisches Training
In einer positiven und unterstützenden Arbeitsatmosphäre werden die angehenden Tänzer*innen ermutigt, ihre technischen und künstlerischen Fähigkeiten weiterzuentwickeln. Besonderes Augenmerk wird auf die korrekte Ausrichtung des Körpers und die harmonische Ausführung der Bewegung gelegt.
Isabelle Severs
Isabelle Severs (M.A. Dance Pedagogy / Dipl. Stage Dancer) has been a lecturer for classical dance, pointe, repertoire and PBT® at the HMTM Ballet Academy since September 2015. She completed her training as a professional ballet dancer at the John Cranko School. After her first experiences with the Stuttgart Ballet, she was engaged by the Bavarian State Ballet. This was followed by 3 seasons at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin before she returned to Munich in 1999. She has worked with numerous choreographers and has danced both classical and neoclassical works as well as contemporary pieces.
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 DĂĽsseldorf 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 SaarbrĂĽcken 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.
Susanne Triebel
Susanne Triebel is coordinator of the internationally oriented MA Contemporary Dance Education (MA CoDE) and lecturer at BAtanz at HMDK Frankfurt. Before completing her MA in Contemporary Dance Education in 2009, she danced for several years at city and state theaters and in the freelance scene. Since 2012, she has supervised teaching projects and teaching rehearsals in MA CoDE. In the expert commission Body and Movement she is responsible for content of the offers of THE ARTIST’S BODY and advocates for the implementation of movement in artistic education. She was on the curatorial team of the 8th Biennale Tanzausbildung Stuttgart in 2022.
JOHN CRANKO SCHULE Stuttgart
Founded by choreographer John Cranko in 1971, the school became one of the first internationally esteemed centres for young dancers under the leadership of Anne Woolliams. One of the most renowned ballet schools in the world, the John Cranko School is affiliated with the Stuttgart Ballet and has been under the direction of Tadeusz Matacz since 1999. Its principal focus is on the classical Vaganova technique and on studying classical variations, while further subjects, including Modern, Improvisation and Spanish Dance, round off the training. Notable choreographers are regularly brought in to create their own works in cooperation with the school. From the age of ten, students from all over the world can stay at the boarding school and attend a state school. Training at the academy takes two years and ends with a state-approved qualification as a dancer.
ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN TANZ DER HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND TANZ Köln
The Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz / Centre for Contemporary Dance in Cologne sees its direction as fundamentally interdisciplinary and would like to set clear impulses for artistic and practice-oriented research. The concept of the study programs (BA, MA and PhD) are based on an innovative interaction between the three disciplines dance, dance studies and communication of dance.
STAATLICHE BALLETT- UND ARTISTIKSCHULE Berlin
“Preserve tradition, dare to do new things.” (Gregor Seyffert)
The Staatliche Ballett- und Artistikschule Berlin offers a unique outstanding stage dance education. Selected top talents from all parts of the world are prepared to have an international career. They master the style and virtuosity of classic/romantic ballet as well as the most innovative and expressive new creations of contemporary dance. With their evening-length performances on opera stages in Berlin and other cities, the school has gained a distinctive reputation as the largest and simultaneously youngest ballet company in Germany.
