Ms. Sobanska-Höltz was born in Warsaw in 1958. After graduating from ballet school in 1977, she was engaged at the Warsaw Opera House, while simultaneously studying ballet pedagogy at the Music Academy. After participating in several national and international ballet competitions, she was appointed principal dancer at the Warsaw Opera House in 1979. In 1982, she joined the ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 1994, she studied Benesh Movement Notation in London and in 1995, she took over the position of choreologist at the DOB ballet. Since 2004, she has been choreologist and ballet mistress at the Berlin State Ballet. In 25 years of working as a choreologist, she has notated numerous ballets by choreographers such as Patrice Bart, Peter Schaufuss, Jiri Kilian, Ray Barra, William Forsythe, and others. She has been retired since 2021.
