JANA KUROVA TEACHER Founder of the United Ballet Artists Artistic Director of the Summer Ballet Program & JK Master Ballet School Former Principal Dancer of the Czech National Ballet Teacher, Ballet Mistress and Choreographer BALLET CLASS / POINT WORK & MEN´S TECHNIQUE / VARIATIONS & PAS DE DEUX

Former Prima Ballerina of the National Theatre in Prague, Teacher, Ballet Mistress and Choreographer, winner of numerous domestic and international awards, jury member at international ballet competitions in Lausanne, Luxembourg, Varna, Istanbul, Jackson and Shanghai. Founder and Artistic Director of the United Ballet Artists (JK Master Ballet School, Ballet Masterclasses with Jana Kurova, and Summer Ballet Program).

She graduated in 1980 from the State Conservatory in Prague in the title role of Giselle at the National Theatre in Prague. She studied at the Academic Choreographic School in Moscow and attended the famous David Howard Ballet Studio in New York. She gained countless achievements at prestigious international competitions around the world, performed with great success on Broadway in the prestigious All Star Gala, which was held under the patronage of famous artists such as Rudolf Nureyev, Leonard Bernstein, Lucciano Pavarotti, Elizabeth Taylor, Zubin Mehta and many others. Worked as a guest professor at The Korean National University of Arts in Seoul, South Korea and led seminars at American universities: Yale University, Dartmouth College and Purdue University. In 1995 was inducted into the American "Hall of Fame". Member of the expert advisory board during the first year of the Monaco Dance Awards.

Tadatsugu Sasaki, Fernando Bujones		Rudolf Nurejev		španÄ›lská královna Sofie		Vladimir Malachov		Ivan Vasiljev

GREGOR HATALA TEACHER Founder & President of the Vienna International Ballet Experience – VIBE Former Principal Dancer of the Vienna State Opera Ballet BALLET CLASS VARIATIONS & PAS DE DEUX

Gregor Hatala born in Vienna, His father, Milan Hatala, himself a ballet master of the Vienna State Opera for almost 30 years, became his major teacher, while his mother, Christine Hatala, directs the families´ own private ballet school.
In 1990, Gregor Hatala became the youngest member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet and was promoted principal dancer in 2000. The season of 1994/95 he danced with Boston Ballet and was a permanent principal guest artist with the Hungarian and Slovakian National Theatres from 1999 to 2004.
Starting from 2003 to 2008 he organized of the „Gala di Danza“ within the „Festival dei Due Mondi“ in Spoleto, Italy. From 2009 until 2019 he was chairman of the „Association Vienna State Opera Ballet” for which he organized ballet performances & company tours. From 2011 to 2017 Gregor Hatala was President of the Austrian Dance Council and organized the "Ballet Days" festival in Vienna for 4 years. In 2013 he became teacher at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität and in 2014 Guest Balletmaster at the Slovakian National Theatre and Hungarian National Ballet. After 25 years of professional dancing, Gregor Hatala, gave his farewell performance at the Vienna State Opera as prince Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan´s "Mayerling" in December 2014.
In 2015, he founded VIBE – Vienna International Ballet Experience, the first international dance competition for dancers with and without disabilities, held in Austria, Korea and Australia.
In 2018, he was awarded the “Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst 1.Klasse“ by the president of the Republic of Austria.
regor Hatala has choreographed for the Vienna Volksoper, the Spoleto Festival, the Istanbul Music Festival, as well as the „Midsummernights Concert 2011 & 2012“ of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with Valery Gergiev & Gustavo Dudamel respectively.
For many years he has been a guest teacher in various companies and ballet academies and jury member in dance competitions around the world.

Foto | Photo:   © Wr.Staatsballett-Zeininge

PETRA SKRÝPALOVÁ TEACHER Teacher in the INDANCE Dance School in Prague Graduate with Janacek Conservatory in Ostrava CONTEMPORARY DANCE

 

Petra Skýpalová graduated with Janacek Conservatory in Ostrava, Czech Repblic. At present she is a student of the HAMU (The Academy of performing Arts in Prague – Music and Dance Faculty). She studied also sports gymnastics, aerobics, ballet, modern and contemporary dance. Petra is a Guest Artist in the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre and Karlin Music Theatre. She cooperated with Natasha Novotna and Lenka Vágnerová on Summer Lab 2018. She also attended many workshops with Czech and foreign artists. She is currently a lecturer at the INDANCE Dance School in Prague and since 2020 she has been co-operating with Jana Kůrová on the Summer Ballet Program in Prague.

 

MARIA PRIFTI TEACHER Founder of the Orthosomy®Method Graduate at the Royal Academy of Dance in London Orthosomy®Method