Nathalie Gaubert-Calabro

Coordinator at the E.N.D.M., National Dance School of Marseille

• Ballet teacher – Neoclassical – Repertoire – Barre à terre –
• Trainer for professionals – Soloist, Pas de deux from the repertoire.
• Ballet teacher at the CODARTS, Lyceum and University of the Arts in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Nathalie Gaubert-Calabro is a well-known and highly experienced ballet teacher, a former professional ballet dancer with international experience. She has been teaching ballet classes for almost 30 years. For 23 years, she has been a lecturer and international ballet teacher at the Codarts in Rotterdam, giving masterclasses and serving as a jury member at competitions in Italy, France, the Netherlands, and even Singapore.
She was trained by Marika Bresobrasova in the Monte-Carlo-Vaganova method and has danced and studied in several French cities – Toulouse, Bordeaux, Marseille, and Paris, to name a few. During her long career, she has also choreographed for television, theater performances, and festivals (Imagine 96).
She furthered her training with renowned teachers such as those at the Opéra de Paris. As founder and artistic director of the "Aix en Provence Dance Academy," she achieved numerous successes for 12 years and taught Vaganova and French methods, pas de deux, terminology, methodology, repertoire, and floor barre for many years. Her students have been accepted into the world's leading professional ballet academies and companies.
Nathalie is a personal artistic coach and repetiteur for high-level students and professional dancers in Europe and Asia, such as Martina Arduino, prima ballerina at La Scala de Milano, and soloist with the Tulsa Ballet Company in the USA, or Moravské Olomouc, to name just a few. Nathalie taught for 23 years at the renowned Codarts University of Arts and the Royal Dance Academy Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
She has taught ballet at the Lyceum, the Bachelor of Dance program, and the Bachelor of Docent Dance program. She was also the sole project director of the French audition competition "Codarts. France," the ballet master class, and a member of the on-site jury. She is a well-known ballet mistress and guest teacher for dance companies. Her teaching emphasizes placement, correct alignment, elegance, musicality, external rotation, and physical education, paying particular attention to port de bras and footwork.
Through feedback from her students, she is able to encourage precise muscle use that evokes artistic feelings while, above all, considering their well-being.

Zuzana Zahradnikova, born in the Czech Republic, received her training at the Prague Dance Conservatory from 1991 to 1999. In September 1999, she joined the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich under the direction of Ivan Liška. During this time, she danced an extensive repertoire in the corps de ballet and from the 2007/2008 season also as a soloist, not only in classical ballets such as La Bayadère, Swan Lake, Raymonda, Le Corsaire and Giselle, but also in works by John Neumeier, John Cranko, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Mats Ek, Pina Bausch, Nacho Duato and Richard Siegal.

She has been working as a freelancer since September 2016 and collaborates with various artists such as F. Prioville, T.O.Roth and Richard Siegal. As a guest artist in Richard Siegal's Ballet of Difference, she danced in the pieces UNITXT, BoD, METRIC DOZEN, MODEL (for the Ruhrtriennale 2015) and NEW OCEAN

Zuzana Zahradníková

Jiří Pokorný

His most important roles in the classical repertoire include the Prince and the Fool in Swan Lake, Albert in Giselle, the Prince and the Fool in Cinderella, the Bluebird and the Prince in Sleeping Beauty, the Prince in The Nutcracker, Basil in Don Quixote and, from the neoclassical repertoire, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Lenski in Onegin, for example. He has also made a name for himself with his performances in the modern ballets Mowgli (title role of Mowgli), Carmen (Don José), Tchaikovsky (The Prince) and others. Jiří Pokorný is the recipient of several awards. He received 3rd prize at the National Ballet Competition in 1990, the Czech Literature Fund Prize for the role of Johannes Friedemann in 1993, the Philip Morris Ballet Flower Award for the best dancer in classical dance in the Czech Republic in 1994, the Thalia Prize for the role of Jesenin in the ballet Isadora Duncan - The Story of a Famous Dancer (1998), the Thalia Prize for the role of Norman Bates in the ballet double bill Little Mr. Friedemann / Psycho (2000). Since 2003, he has directed the ballet of the J. K. Tyl Theater in Pilsen, where he has succeeded in building up a ballet company of the highest quality over the years. As well as regularly choreographing operas and musicals, he has also created a number of full-length ballets, most recently Cinderella and Spartacus.

Maxim Chashchegorov

Born in Russia, he completed his dance training at the St. Petersburg Ballet Academy and was accepted into the corps de ballet of the Mariinsky Ballet immediately after graduating. After a first guest performance as Blue Bird in spring 2007, he joined the Bavarian State Ballet as a semi-soloist in the 2007/2008 season. He was a soloist from the 2009/2010 season to the 2015/2016 season. He returned to the stage of the Nationaltheater as a guest in the 2016/2017 season.

Gaetano Posterino is originally from Italy and lives in Munich as a freelance dance director, choreographer, and teacher. He completed his dance training with a scholarship at the National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto. After an initial engagement with the Balletto di Toscana in Florence, he danced as a soloist for various renowned companies in Italy (e.g., Ballet L'Ensemble de Micha van Hoecke), Argentina (Teatro San Martin), the USA (San Francisco Ballet), Great Britain (English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet), Switzerland (Lucerne Ballet, Ventura Dance Company, The Orma Dance Theatre), as well as being a principal dancer with the Peter Schaufuss Ballet (Denmark), and for many years as a principal dancer with the Hessian State Ballet in Wiesbaden.

He discovered his choreographic talent at an early age. Parallel to his dance career, he has created a diverse range of international choreographic works since 1995. His over 70 works include full-length narrative ballets, dance theater pieces, pas de deux and solos, as well as operas and films.
Gaetano Posterino choreographed for many years as resident choreographer for the Hessian State Ballet Wiesbaden, as artistic director and chief choreographer for the International Dance Theater Reutlingen, and as resident choreographer for the ballet of the Augsburg State Theater.
Numerous engagements as a guest choreographer have taken him to Ballet Istanbul, the Ballet de Santiago de Chile, the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Lucerne Ballet, the German Dance Company, the Semperoper Dresden, the Landestheater Neustrelitz, the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the Theater Hagen, and the Mainfranken-Theater Würzburg, among others. Since 2002, he has also led his own Posterino Dance Company as artistic director and choreographer.
Gaetano Posterino has presented several of his creations at international festivals, including the Aarhus Dance Festival, the Bilbao Dance Festival, the First Dance Festival Fürstenfeldbruck, the International May Festival Wiesbaden, the Lisboa Dance Festival, the Marató de l'Espectacle Barcelona, ​​the Manifestation d'Art Contemporain Paris, TanzArt Ost West Gießen, the Bielefeld Dance Festival, and the International Festival Kultur vom Rande Reutlingen, as well as galas such as the Gala Stars XXI Century Metropolitan Opera New York, the Gala of Stars XXI Century G.B.C. Montreal, the Gala Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, and the Gala Theater Hagen. Both his dance performances and his choreographic works have been recognized with 14 international awards. His work is supported by state and municipal institutions, companies, and foundations and has received outstanding reviews in major newspapers and trade publications.
Gaetano Posterino also uses his art to support social projects. His goals include supporting fundraising activities and the inclusion and promotion of people with intellectual or physical disabilities in artistic creation through inclusive performances. He is also passionate about developing young talent; he is involved in relevant choreographic projects and competitions and gives young dancers a chance to perform in his company's productions.

Gaetano Posterino