Enrico Musmeci

Special Guest Teacher - Ballet, Contemporary

Enrico Musmeci completed his education in classical and modern dance at the Centre de Dance International Rosella Hightower in Cannes, France. His first engagements were Opéra de Nice ,Opéra d’Avignon, Ballet de France-Paris. Further engaged with the Teatro Regio in Turin and with BTF Nancy, Opernhaus Zürich directed by Uwe Scholz. Stadttheater Luzern, where he remained for two seasons as dancer and choreographer. Since 1994 Enrico Musmeci has been working free-lance and created his own full-length works.

At the present time Enrico is a Ballet, Contemporary and Contact-Improvisation freelance teacher-coach as well as director and choreographer of the MoDem PRO, Scenario Pubblico, Catania.

Guy De Bock

Special Guest Teacher - Ballet, contemporary, Pas de deux and assistent choreographer

Guy, who was born in Belgium, studied dance with Piotr Nardelli, Andrei Ziemsky and Paolo Bortoluzzi in Brussels, at the "Ballet of Flanders" school as an external student and at Lotje Hertogs in Antwerp. He graduated from the Rossella Hightower School in Cannes, France. In Belgium, he graduated in Sports as well as in Contemporary and Jazz Dance. He debuted with the dance group "Ballet de Wallonie" in Belgium and later danced with various pieces, including on the municipal stage in Augsburg, as a soloist in the Chemnitzer Oper in Germany and as a soloist in the Euroballett in Luxembourg.

He took part in the European tour with Rudolf Nureyev, as one of the first dancers of the "Paris Opera" and the "Sofia Opera". Later he worked at the municipal theater in Florence with the company of Mischa van Hoecke. In Italy and France, he had the great opportunity to take part in various TV shows.

During his career, he performed as a soloist in both classical and contemporary choreographies. In the course of time, he had the possibility to create choreographies for various theaters in Germany, Belgium and France. At the AID "Italy Dance Association" he has been invited several times as a guest to be a pro and a referee.

In 2008 as well as in 2010 he worked again with the company of Mischa van Hoecke together. From 2007-2014 he was a guest lecturer at the "Terry Fox Dance Academy" in Chicago, USA. In 2016 and 2017 he was a guest lecturer and a jury member at the VIBE USA in Missoula, USA.

We are very pleased to welcome Guy to our team as a special guest teacher.

Luciano di Natale

Guest teacher - Contemporary

After dancing in Sicily, Rome, Genoa and in France, he danced among others. in choreographies by Larrio Ekson, David Parson, Stijn Celis, Nils Christe. He also appeared in television productions in Italy, Switzerland and the film. From 1999 to 2001 Luciano was a dancer in the Ballettensemble of the Stadttheater Bern, for which he also created choreographies. There he also choreographed for operatic and dramatic productions, e.g. Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and "Shockheaded Peter" by Couch / McDermott / Jacques. At the Theater Baden-Baden, Luciano has already created the choreographies for three musicals: some like it hot; Lucky Stiff and High Society. Luciano works as a freelance choreographer, dancer and dance teacher all over Europe, especially in Germany, Italy, Poland, Austria and Switzerland. Since 2004 he is artistic director of the "Dance in Motion School" in San Remo. He currently teaches at the Tanzakademie Zürich.
We are very pleased to welcome Luciano to our team as a guest teacher.

Roberta Martins

Guest teacher - Ballet

Roberta graduated from the ballet school of the opera Leipzig where she danced as a member of the Leipzig Ballet under the direction of Uwe Scholz during the studies. Her awards and prizes include a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dance Winter Course, and a further scholarship to the Rudra Béjart Ballet School at the Prix de Lausanne. Roberta danced at various theaters as a soloist - at the German State Theater of Rostock, at the Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, at the Badenische Staatstheater Karlsruhe, in Heinz Spoerli's Zurich Ballet, at the National Ballet of Portugal, and in Christian Spuck's Ballet Zurich. Her repertoire includes a very wide range of roles and ballets from renowned choreographers including Uwe Scholz, Heinz Spoerli, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, Pierre Wyss, Itchko Lazaroff, Gonzalo Galquera, Giorgio Manchin, etc. She currently teaches at Tanzwerk101 and the Tanzakademie Zürich.
We are very pleased to welcome Roberta to our team as a guest teacher.

Eliana Sachpatzidou

guest teacher - ballet

Was born 1991 in Konstanz, is Greek, Russian and German origin. She received her first ballet lessons from her mother Alexandra Schatton. At the age of 9, she began her three-year classical basic education at the Tanzakademie in Zurich, which was followed by a three-year classical preparatory course. After completing her middle school, she started her studies of the tradition of her maternal family, where she is the fourth generation dancer, full-time study at the Tanzakademie Zurich with Steffi Scherzer and at the ballet school for the opera house with Doris Catana. After graduating in 2010, she danced with various productions from 2014 until 2014, including Soloist with the Russian National Ballet in "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker", at the State Theater in Zagrebin "Swan Lake", as well as in Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" with Anna Netrebko at the Zurich Opera House. In 2008 Eliana was a finalist in the international ballet competition Solothurn and was later a dancer at the Zurich Opera House. In 2014 she was already working with the Stadttheater Konstanz and could be seen in the Greek German production of Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tzinikoris in "Utopia in Progress". Since 2015 she teaches in various dance schools as a ballet teacher.