Guest ballet masters and dancers
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Rodolfo Castellanos
Artistic director
Former dancer of the National Ballet of Cuba, he has shared stages with stars like Julio Bocca, Marcia Haydee, Vladimir Vasiliev, Alicia Alonso and Paolo Bartolucci among others. He has been guest ballet master at the Elmhurst Ballet School of Birmingham and the English National Ballet School, and he worked as a ballet master at the Royal Ballet School.
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Miquel G. Font
Artistic coordinator
Danced in companies like Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Dominic Walsh Dance Theater / Houston Ballet or Tanzcompagnie Oldeburgworking with M. Béjart, M. Bourne, S. Eyal or J. Killiàn. Later on, international choreographer for entities as Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Miami City Ballet or Jeune Ballet d’Aquitaine and artistic director of Habemus Corpus.
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José Carlos Martinez
Guest Ballet Master
Director of the National Dance Company from 2011 to 2019, Star Dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet and 1999 National Dance Prize. In 1987 he won the Prix de Lausanne and in 1992 the Gold Medal in the Varna International Competition, being the first and only Spanish to achieve this distinction.
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Anael Martin
Guest Ballet Master
Anael Martin has worked under the artistic direction of Alicia and Fernando Alonso in the Cuban National Ballet, company where she remained for twenty-five years, reaching the ranks of First Soloist, Professor and Repetiteur.
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Maria Torrents
Ballarí Convidat
Trained as a dancer at the IT Dansa Theater Institute. She is a member of Habemus Corpus, led by Miquel G. Font since 2020.
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Nabar Martínez
Guest dancer
Trained at the Professional Conservatory of Dance of Riba-Roja del Turia and dancer at the Malandain Ballet.
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Gianluca Battaglia
Guest Ballet Master
Since 2017 he is a Master of Ballet and Assistant of direction of the Victor Ullate Ballet. He also works as a Master of Ballet at the Ballet Moravo in the Chech Republic. He is a guest master in european companies and judge at international and national contests. At the moment he is master of scene of the show Fordlandia, of Lucía Lacarra y Matthew Golding.
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Ione Miren Aguirre
Guest ballet master
She enters the School of Dance at the Paris National Opera and three years ofter that she gets into the Cannes Rosella Hightower Superior Dance School. In 2005, she enrolls the Ballet Biarritz Junior and a year later she becomes a dancer of the Malandain Ballet Biarritz.
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Ilia Jivoy
Guest ballet master
He received the “The Hope of Russia” award and he is considered one of the best young choreographers of the Mariinsky Theatre of Saint Petersburg. The ballet Four Seasons (2017) is his first production to be included in the Mariinsky Theatre repertoire, with which he has toured the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Britain.
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Azari Plisetsky
Guest ballet master
Ex-soloist dancer at the Bolshoi of Moscow, he started as Valentina Lopujiná and Olga Lepeshinskaya’s partner. Then he was Alicia Alonso’s principal partenaire for eight years at the National Ballet of Cuba. As a ballet master he worked at Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XXe Siècle and in 1981 he was designated ballet master at the Mariinsky Theatre.
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GUILLERMINA COLL
Guest Ballet Master
Trained in classical and Spanish dance with the maestro Joan Magrinyà and at Institut del Teatre Barcelona, Coll becomes the first dancer of Ballet del Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, solo dancer of the Royal Ballet of Wallonia (Belgium) and the Royal Ballet of Flanders (Belgium). She has worked with choreographers such as George Skibine, José Parésm, Maurice Béjart and Jiri Kylián, amongst others. In 1987 she received the National Dance Award and in 2015 the National Culture Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Dmitri Rudachenko
Guest ballet master
Artistic Director of St. Petersburg Festival Ballet since 2011. Dmitry studied at the Choreographic school in Alma-Ata. 1992-1998 he studied at the Vaganova Ballet Academy. After, he was accepted into the troupe of the Mussorgsky Ballet and Opera Theatre (Mikhailovsky Theatre of opera and ballet). 1998-2008 he was the leading soloist of Mikhailovsky Theatre of opera and ballet.
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Débora Martínez Cano
Guest dancer and master
On September 2015 she enrolled the Compañía Nacional de Danza, under the artistic direction of José Carlos Martínez. In 2019, she began to dance as a soloist dancer under the artistic direction of Joaquín De Luz.
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Víctor Jimenez
Guest master
Since July 2008 Víctor Jiménez has been the artistic director of LaMov, a private dance company based in Zaragoza. For her he has choreographed The Troubadour, What the body does not remember, Divine clowns, Forget-forgot-forgotten, Futile, Momenta, Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Terrenal, Tempus fugit and El Lago.
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Gemma Pujol
Pianist
Honorary awarded in the Professional Degree for Piano skills at Conservatory of Terrassa in 2012. Four years later, she completed the Final Degree in the specialty of classical piano interpretation at the Conservatory of Liceu in Barcelona under the teachings of the renowned pianist Josep Maria Colom. Since 2019 she has been studying jazz piano at the Taller de Músics in Barcelona.