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.

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

Eliana Sachpatzidou born in 1991, is of Russian, Greek and German origin.

She took her first ballet lessons at the age of 3 by her mother Alexandra Schatton.

At the age of 9 and following the tradition of her mother's family, which have been ballet dancers for 4 generations, she started the full-time studies at the TaZ dance academy Zurich with Steffi Scherzer and at the ballet school for the Zurich Opera House with Doris Catana,

She was a finalist in the Solothurn international ballet competition and danced after graduating in 2010 at various theaters, such as at the National Theatre in Zagreb and the Zurich Opera House, as well as a soloist with the Russian National Ballet.

Since 2014 is she teaching as a ballet teacher in Europe and is an exam preparator for the Russian ballet exams - RBA "Russian Ballet Association" in Switzerland.

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