LA SYLPHIDE SUMMER INTENSIVE 2022
4 – 23 July
Each year at La Sylphide Summer Intensive School, world-renowned teachers and choreographers provide students with unforgettable experiences that help them come into direct contact with the world of international dance and learn (or improve) in different dance styles.
In 2021, we will organize 3 weeks of professional dance with the invited elite teachers.
We will have 3 age groups as follows:
- Age 1: 8 – 11 years
- Age 2: 12 – 13 years
- Age 3: 14 – 16 years
The intensive program for three weeks includes:
For Age 1 (special program created this year for children):
- Ballet, Modern Dance, Repertoire, Acro Dance, Contemporary Dance, Character Dance, Flamenco
For Age 2 and 3
- Barre au floor, Ballet, Repertoire, Pointe, Character Dance, Contemporary Dance, Flamenco, Pilates
You can benefit from the whole period or you can enroll in the partial programs First term (4 – 13 July 2021) or Second term (14 – 23 July).
There is also the possibility of private lessons with La Sylphide Ballet School teachers and guest teachers.
Summer school REGISTRATION
Registrations for La Sylphide Summer Intensive 2022 are now closed.
Thank you for being with us this summer
Guest Teachers
Ekaterina Shavliashvili – Georgia
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia.
1981 – 1989 – Studied at the Tbilisi V. Chabukiani State Choreographic School (under the tutorship T. Vikhodtseva and V. Chabukiani)
1987 – Became a laureate of the Caucasian Young Ballet Artists’ Contest.
1989 – 2009 – Was enrolled in the Ballet Company of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theater
2007 – 2014 – pedagogical work at the Tbilisi V. Chabukiani State School of Ballet Art. (classical ballet)
2010 to present – assistant of artistic director (Nina Ananiashvili) and guest choreographer’s assistant at Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theater.
2007 – one month qualification course at Danish Royal Ballet School
2008 – 2009 – guest teacher (floor bare and stage movement) at the Royal Danish Opera Academy
2009 – Assistant to choreographer Frank Anderssen in staging “from Siberia to Moscow’’, Tbilisi, Georgia
2010 – Assistant to choreographer Alexey Fadeechev in staging of ”Nutcracker’’ Tbilisi, Georgia
2011 – Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili in staging of “Chopiniana‘’ for Beijing Dance Academy and for State Ballet of Georgia
2012 – Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili in staging of “Nutcracker’’ for Beijing Dance Academy
Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili in staging of “Don Quixot’’ for Lisbon National Conservatory Dance School
Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili and Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,Raimonda’’ for State Ballet of Georgia
2013 – Assistant of Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,Don Quixote’’ for San Charlos Theather, Naples
Assistant Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,La fille male garde’’ for State Ballet of Georgia
2014 – Assistant of Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,Le Corasaire’’ for San Charlos Theather, Naples (Italy)
Assistant of Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,Don Quixote’’ for Welki theater in Warsaw (Poland)
Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili and Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,Don Quixote’’ for Hong Kong Ballet
Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili in staging ,,Laurensia” for Bolshoi teather of Belarussia (Minsk)
2015 – Assistant of Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,Don Quixote’’ for Royal Ballet of Flanders (Antwerpen Belgium)
2016 – Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili in staging ,,Gorda’’ for Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theater (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Assistant of Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,Swan Lake” ,,Jizelle’’ for Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theater (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili in staging ,,Bayader” (Shadow) for Beijing Dance Academy and ,,Don Quixot’’ for Lisbon National Conservatory Dance School
Guest teacher to Ufa Ballet school (Russia ) and ,,La Sylphide ballet school” (Buharest, Romania)
2017 – Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili in staging ,,Tsuna and Tsrutsuna’’ for Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theater ( Tbilisi, Georgia)
Assistant of Nina Ananiashvili in staging ,,Laurensia’’ for Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theater (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Assistant of Alexey Fadeechev in staging ,,Sleeping Beauty’’ for Tbilisi State Opera and Ballet Theater (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Kahli Lewis – United Kingdom
Choreographer, Dance Teacher (Contemporary, Jazz, Ballet, Musical Theatre, Tap, ISTD examinations), Director, Assessor and Adjudicator
- Kahli Lewis Dance Company 2018 – Present
Owner and Principal
Pre-vocational and part time training in Fleet, Hampshire. - Ballet & Contemporary Tutor
Bird College of Performing Arts, Sidcup, Kent September 2016 – Present
Responsible for teaching ballet and contemporary for the full-time courses, devise and teach assessment work and choreograph for shows. - Artist Director
Contemporary Dance UK London January 2014 – Present
Artistic Director, responsible for setting artistic vision for the company and managing all aspects of the ballet and contemporary courses. She devise and teach course content and manage all auditions and assessments. In this role, I work closely with musical accompanists and organise guest tutors and themed workshops. She also direct and choreograph company shows. - Choreographer
Beauville Arts, France
She has choreographed and directed around 18 shows in France. Shows include: Annie, We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia, Matilda, Fame, Bugsy, Blues Brothers, Oliver, Lion King, Moulin Rouge, Joseph, Wicked and Hamilton. - Artistic Director and Joint Principal
Renton Dance Studio, Farnborough. September 2010 – October 2018
Teaching and preparing students for ISTD Tap and Modern exams. Choreographing and directing for festivals and productions. Supervising, mentoring and coaching the junior teachers and overseeing their work. - Ballet & Contemporary Tutor
Central School of Ballet, London. September 2010 – July 2015
Teacher for classical ballet and ballet coaching classes. She also teach Graham and Release contemporary tutor to both the main school and the Prep Associates. - Senior Ballet Tutor and Contemporary Dance Tutor
The Urdang Academy, London. May 2010 – December 2014
Senior Classical Ballet tutor to first and second year boys and all years girls. Responsible for Classical assessments and auditions. She also taught as a Jazz, Contemporary teacher and choreographer to all year groups. and responsible for the 2nd year dancers stream performance project and show. - Senior Dance Tutor & Key Tutor
Guildford School of Acting, Guildford. January 2005 – May 2014
Senior dance teacher and key pastoral tutor, specialising in boys work as well as teaching jazz, ballet, contemporary, tap & double work to all students and year groups. Her responsibilities included choreographing assessment classes, moderating classes and content, choreographing for school shows and taking the dance section of the auditions for new entrants as well as being an audition panel member for all disciplines. She has been involved in the ʻAfrica Outreach Projectʼ and the ʻAim Higherʼ project team providing professional training for Surrey University. When the Head of Dance went away on a one year sabbatical, she and another colleague covered the Head of Dance position and prepared for an Ofsted visit, organised timetables, cover teachers, assessments and auditions in her absence. - Dance Adjudicator
Dance World Cup – Worldwide – 2017 – Present
She has judged for the DWC in South Africa, Sitges (DWC Finals) and Burgos in Spain for the 2019 heats. She has also been invited to Judge for the World Dance Challenge in Portugal.
Paloma Gomez – Spania
Coregraf / Fondator si Director Artistic Paloma Gómez Flamenco & Spanish Dance Company
From the age of three she starts a life devoted to dance in all its forms and studies at several renowned schools as the National Spanish Ballet School and Maria de Ávila Dance School in Madrid.
Through her extensive formative years, she is taught by outstanding masters of dance including: Lola de Avila (Classical Ballet), José Antonio (current director of the National Ballet of Spain) with whom she will later share the stage as lead dancer, Azary Plisetsky (Classical Ballet), Jorge Esquivel (Classical Ballet), Victoria Eugenia “Beti” (Classical Spanish Dance), Paco Romero (Classical Spanish Dance and Flamenco), Goyo Montero (Jazz Dance), Carl París (Modern and Contemporary Dance), Pedro Azorín (Spanish Folklore) and Paco Fernandez (Flamenco).
She´s graduate with the highest qualification for the Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance “Mariemma” at Madrid in Classical Spanish Dance, Escuela Bolera and Flamenco speciality.
At the age of 17 she becomes a member of the National Ballet of Spain where she will stay.
Always as lead dancer, she will later partake, amongst others, in companies such as ‘José Antonio and the Spanish Ballets’ under direction of José Antonio and the ‘New Ballet of Spain’ under direction of Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodríguez, where she’s also costume designer of some of this company productions and assistant artistic director. With them she will dance in some of the most prestigious theatres around the world. In 2000 she founds her own dance company and directs two shows: ‘De Lunares’ and ‘De Tapas’ touring at national and international level both as dancer, director and choreographer.
Later, and in all the above roles, she has twice represented Spain in the Caracas International Dance Stars Festival (Venezuela). She has also choreographed the musical ‘Carmen 2006′ for the International Taiwan Artists Association, one of the most influential arts production companies in Asia, with A-mei as Carmen and Ado as José. The production was first performed at the Taipei Arena (Taiwan) before 8,000 spectators, followed by an Asian tour in 2007.
She has been a guest artist for the Ensemble Español’s annual American Spanish Dance & Music Festival in Chicago during 13 seasons since 2007. She has choreographed some works on the company. A contemporary Flamenco drama titled Encuentros (Encounters) and an old style Spanish Dance choreography (Bolera School) “Boleras”
She is invited by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School (Canada) to give a conference on Spanish dance history. The Professional Dance Conservatory of Granada, the Professional Dance Conservatory of Córdoba, the Professional Dance Conservatory of Málaga and the Higher Dance Conservatory of Valencia invite her as a lecturer on the subject of stylised Spanish dance during the cultural weeks of 2008, 2009 and 2010. Also she distributes flamenco master classes in Israel (Amishav Community Center de Petach Tikva and Jerusalem) and Australia (Studio Flamenco School in Adelaide, Danza Viva in Perth, Casa del Compás in Perth, The Flamenco Centre in Canberra, Laura Uhe Flamenco in Melbourne and Pasion Flamenco Dance School in Sydney).
She was guest star artist by the Alicia Alonso Institut of Dance at the Juan Carlos I University in Madrid, dancing at the gala concert tribute to Alicia Alonso in the 20th Anniversary of the institut creation, celebrating at the Teatro de la Zarzuela of Madrid, with the attendance of Her Magesty the spanish queen Doña Sofía.
Main character in the shortmovie “Umbrales” under direction of Luis Lorente. Its world premier was at the International Latin Film Festival of Chicago in 2012, at the Cervantes Institut in the same city.
She was invited as guest artist at St. Louis Spring Dance Festival in 2011. During this year she created some new choreographies, “Alhambra” for the Professional Conservatory of Dance of Granada whose premier was into the International Music and Dance Festival of Granada and “Boleras” for the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater of Chicago, whose premier took place at the International Spanish Dance Festival of Chicago 2012.
Her last production for her own company Paloma Gómez Flamenco & Spanish Dance is “Rotas/ Broken” which premier was on May 2014 at Teatro Marquina in Madrid during two weeks, which it was a big success. “Rotas” had its international premier at Northeastern Illinois University Auditorium of Chicago on November 2014.
She had the premier of the film “Broken, dancing real life” based on her last show “Rotas” under direction by Luis Lorente, at 2016 Latin Film Festival of Chicago, where she is one of the main characters in the film.
During 2015 and 2019 she keeps teaching and performing as guest artist around US, Australia, Singapur, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Spain. In 2020 she created Paloma Gomez International Spanish Dance Academy- PGISDA, where besides the presencial classes she focused in the online classes of Flamenco and Spanish Dance overseas, helping to her students to keep receiving a continuous training along the year.
Krista Sandu – Romania
Absolventă a Liceului de Coregrafie Floria Capsali din Bucuresti și a Universității Naționale de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică I.L.Caragiale, București unde și-a dat Masteratul în Arta Coregrafica, Dna Krista Sandu este un coregraf și un profesor prolific, care a promovat și creat nenumărate spectacole, atât pentru tinerii elevi, cât și pentru dansatori profesioniști pe multe dintre scenele Romaniei.
Din 2018 până în prezent este profesor de Dans Contemporan, Repertoriu individual și repertoriu de ansamblu la Liceul de Coregrafie Floria Capsali din Bucuresti.
De-a lungul carierei a colaborat cu numeroase teatre din Romania, creând coregrafia și mișcarea scenică pentru: „Colivia cu Nebune” de Jean Poiret în direcția scenică Victor Ioan Frunză – Teatrul Metropolis, „Portocala mecanică” în regia Matei Lucaci-Grunberg -Centrul Cultural LUMINA, „Șoimul” în regia lui Bogdan Gagu – Teatrul Indart, spectacolul muzical „Dor de Anda” în regia Geanina Hergheligiu – Teatrul de Revistă „Constantin Tănase”, „Tango” de Slawomir Mrozek în regia Laurei Vlad – Teatrul Bulandra, etc
A colaborat cu diverse instituții de stat și private din Romania, predând workshopuri de Dans Contemporan și Repertoriu individual Contemporan
La Sylphide Teachers
Classical ballet and repertoire
Lorelei Bari
Ana Caraianopol
Delia Hantiu
Mihaela Tiganus Vasilovici
Character dance
Raluca Ciocoiu
Contemporary dance
Alina Iacov
Permanent Associates La Sylphide
Pilates Instructor
Doina Iosif
Modern Dance and Acro
Diana Deac
Summer school 2021
Guest teachers:
Nanette Gloushak – ballet and pointe
Jean Philippe Dury – ballet, pointe and repertoire
Alexander Mishutin – ballet, pointe and repertoire
La Sylphide teachers:
Ana Caraianopol – classical ballet and repertoire
Anca Mândrescu – character dance and dance history
Mihaela Vasilovici – neoclassical and repertoire
Summer school 2020
Guest teachers:
Steffi Scherzer – ballet and pointe
Tatiana Solomianko – ballet, pointe and repertoire
Dollie Henry – jazz
Denis Medvedev – ballet and repertoire
Chris Penfold – musical jazz
Alexander Mishutin – ballet, pointe and repertoire
Massimo Perugini – contemporary dance
Kahli Lewis – choregrapher, dance professor (contemporary, jazz, ballet, musical theatre, tap, ISTD exams), director, evaluator and adjudicator.
La Sylphide teachers:
Ana Caraianopol – classical ballet and repertoire
Anca Mândrescu – character dance and dance history
Mihaela Vasilovici – neoclassical and repertoire
Summer school 2019
Guest teachers:
Nanette Gloushak – ballet and repertoire Balanchine style
Chris Penfold – musical jazz
Colin Sinclair – Forshyte technique and contemporary dance
La Sylphide teachers:
Ana Caraianopol – classical ballet and repertoire
Anca Mândrescu – character dance and dance history
Mihaela Vasilovici – neoclassical and repertoire
Summer school 2018
Guest teachers:
Alexander Mishutin – Bolshoi theater – ballet, repertoire
Ekaterina Shavliashvili – National Opera Theatre Georgia – ballet, repertoire
Yankalle Filtser – Batcheva company, Israel – modern, contemporary
Alina Iacov – UNATC București – modern, contemporary
Profesori La Sylphide:
Ana Caraianopol – classical ballet and repertoire
Anca Mândrescu – character dance and dance history
Delia Hanţiu – classical ballet
Mihaela Vasilovici – neoclassical and repertoire
Summer school 2017
Guest teachers:
Irina Zhelonkina – trainer Vaganova Ballet Academy St. Petersburg
Alexander Mishutin – graduate of Bolshoi Ballet Academy, international ballet și character dance pedagog
Monica Petrica – first soloist of the Bucharest National Opera, master in ballet-yoga
Profesori La Sylphide:
Ana Caraianopol – classical ballet and repertoire
Anca Mândrescu – character dance and dance history
Delia Hanţiu – classical ballet
Lorelei Visinescu Bari – classical dance and repertoire
Summer school 2016
Guest teachers:
Veronika Ivanova – trainer Vaganova Ballet Academy St. Petersburg
Ekaterina Shavliashvili – National Opera Theatre Georgia – ballet, repertoire
Profesori La Sylphide:
Ana Caraianopol – classical ballet and repertoire
Anca Mândrescu – character dance and dance history
Delia Hanţiu – classical ballet
Lorelei Visinescu Bari – classical dance and repertoire
Summer school 2015
Summer school 2014
La Sylphide teachers:
Ana Caraianopol – classical ballet and repertoire
Anca Mândrescu – character dance and dance history
Delia Hanţiu – classical ballet
Lorelei Visinescu Bari – classical dance and repertoire