Masters
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Alba Nadal
Artistic director, Master and dancer
Alba Nadal was born in Zaragoza and brought up in Catalonia, first with Olga Roig in Manresa and later on, at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. She travelled to Madrid at the young age of twelve to continue with Victor Ullate, and finished her formation at the Royal Ballet in London. Since 2004 until 2019 she danced with the Royal Danish Ballet and now she is soloist at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe under the leadership of Bridget Breiner.
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Rodolfo Castellanos
Artistic director, master and choreographer
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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Williams Castro
Master and choreographer
Dancer, teacher and choreographer, specialist in classical and contemporary dance, trained at the Cuban School of Ballet and with extensive professional experience in major dance companies such as the National Ballet of Cuba, Victor Ullate Ballet and the National Ballet of Uruguay (SODRE), among others.
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Ilya Jivoy
Choreographer and dancer
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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Cristina Benavent
Master
Ballet has been part of her life since she was 4 years old and she discovered her passion for teaching more than 15 years ago. As a teacher, she has taught at Víctor Ullate Dance Centre as a classical dance and repertoire teacher, at Nazarenco Russian Ballet School and has been a guest teacher at various schools in Catalonia and Madrid.
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Anael Martin
Guest 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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Jamal Callender
Guest master and coreographer
Professor and choreographer from New York, Jamal Callender goes neixer to the Estats Units and goes creixer to Barbados. After finishing his seventh dance training at the Escola d’Ailey and the Juilliard School, he will dance with the Atlanta Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Hispánico, National Theater Mannheim and Konzert Theater Bern. He is the guardian of the Princess Grace award.
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Lucie Barthélémy
Guest master
Born in September 13th, 1986, Lucie Barthélemy is a professional dancer with more than 16 years of experience in big companies and graduated as a classical dance teacher. She trained as a dancer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris between 2000 and 2005. Since then she has participated in…
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Sébastien Mari
Mestre convidat
International ballet teacher, artistic director, assistant director and teacher since 2012, he began his career as a professional dancer in 1989. He has worked in numerous prestigious companies such as the Jeune Ballet de France, the Nederlands Dans Theater, the National Dance Company, Ballet Gulbenkian, BallettMainz, Ballet de Genève, Ballet du Rhin, Moscow Ballet, Leipziger Ballett, Basel Ballett, Tanz Mannheim , Introdans or Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.
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Sandra Salietti
Regular master
Sandra Salietti entered the Barcelona Professional Conservatory in 2002 and it was not until 2009 that she began her professional artistic career as a dancer. Salietti has worked in companies such as: Aterballetto (2020-2023), Tanz Luzerner Theater by Kathleen McNurney (2017-2020), Gartnerplatz Theater by Karl Alfred Schneider (2012-2017), Ballet National de Marseille by Frederic Flemand (2010-2012), Dancer in Cannes Jeune Ballet by Paola Cantalupo (2009-2010). During her professional career she also has been nominated and awarded.
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Hervé Costa
Guest master
Hervé Costa is a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and an accredited teacher of the Feldenkrais Method. He trained as a professional dancer at the École de Danse supérieure de Cannes Rosella Hightower and at Rudra Bejart, the dance and performing arts school founded by Maurice Béjart in Lausanne. His professional career developed in different European…
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Iván Delgado del Río
Guest master in previous courses
Born in Seville in 1989, begins his dance studies at the age of 6 with the Group of Dance San Idelfonso, where he prepares to join the Seville Professional Conservatory of Dance. In 2006, after having participated in the National Contest of Dance Ciudad de Castellón, he won a scolarship in the London Studio Center,…
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Igor Bacovich
Guest master in previous courses
He began his artistic training at the Academia Nazionale di Danza in Rome in 1998 and, later, he moved to Rotterdam to enter CODARTS, a school where he deepened his studies on physicality. A training that has led him to dance with renowned figures from the world of dance such as Bruno Listopard, Nanine Linning…
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Iratxe Ansa
Guest master in previous courses
As a choreographer, Iratxe Ansa has created pieces for the Opera de Lyon Ballet, Lines Ballet Junior Company and other pieces created specifically for galas.
Since 2014 she has been working with Igor Bacovich in the Metamorphosis International Residency project, on which they have made the documentary film Metamorphosis International Residency-San Sebastián 2016.
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Miquel G. Font
Guest teacher in previous courses and coreographer
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.