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BAtanz alumni successes
Aline Aubert received a contract with the Ballet de Lorraine.
Aimilios-Alexandros Karampatsakis at Teatrul Național de Operă și Balet, Oleg Danovski.
Valeria Schulz receives a contract at the Osnabrück Theater.
Ariadni Agnanti and Danique de Bont work in the new production of Hennermann's Horde
Eunbin Kim completed a one-year internship at Theater Pforzheim.
Antonia Selow completed a one-year internship at Staatstheater Saarbrücken.
Lucy May and Mirjam Motzke completed their one-year internships at the Hessian State Ballet.
The video "OCCASIONAL CONTRADICTION" by Mirjam Motzke was published on the Facebook page of the Gallus Theater and went viral. In the meantime, it has been viewed over 380,000 times.
Stefane Meseguer Alves received a permanent contract with the Saarland State Ballet starting in summer 2019 after his full-year internship in the 3rd year of his studies.
Bartlomiej Kowalczykreceived a contract with Georg Reischl at the Stadttheater Regensburg for the 2019/2020 season.
Konrad Plak completed an internship with the Frontier Danceland Company in Singapore in June 2019.
Mar Sanchez Cisneros and Jonathan Schmidt will intern with the Hessisches Staatsballett in the new season.
Sabrina Vongsuravatana and Florine Boland received an internship with Budapest Dance Theatre, Teresa Alcazar Diaz at Stadttheater Osnabrück with Mauro de Candia, Ismaël Belabid-Lenoire at Tanztheater Heidelberg / Ivan Perez and Sergio Indiveri at Company Nannine Linning. Felix Molinerodel Paso completed an internship with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
Laurin Thomas,Ida Kaufmann and Richard Oberscheven are the first 3 BAtanz graduates* invited as artists in residenceby Twain in Tuscania. Twain has been a dance production center recognized by the Italian Ministry of Culture since 2011 and a regional dance production center for the Lazio region since 2016.
Nami Miwa, Johanna Berger and Gal Fefferman were also involved in the premiere of Lullaby Experience by Pascale Dusapin at the 2019 Manifeste Festival in Paris, following the production at Frankfurt Lab.
Following the successful performances of Frankfurt's new platform ZUKUNFT TANZT at the Gallus Theater in May, additional choreographies by Laurin Thomas & Ida Kaufmann, Orla McCarthy, Nami Miwa, Magdalena Dzeco and Maria Kobzeva were shown at Frankfurt LAB in late June.
Alumnus Richard Oberscheven won the category Best Performer 2019 with his solo "As I would like" at the International Dance Festival SoloDuo NRW.
Maria Kobzeva received the audience award for best duet there for her choreography "correlate correspond coordinate", which was performed by Verena Kutschera and Tim Cecatka (MA CoDE). This duet was shown in new cast with Abril Lukac and Luciano Baptiste at Diana Vishneva's Context Festival in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Jorge Moro Argote receives a contract with the Hessian State Ballet.
Orla Mc Carthy receives a contract at Theater Heidelberg under Ivan Pérez
Nami Miwa received a piece contract with the Hessian State Ballet.
3 3rd year BAtanz students have been doing full year internships at theaters since fall 2017 - Fiona Kania in Chemnitz, Saskia de Vries in Osnabrück and Momoko Higuchi in Heidelberg.
Lena Paetsch received a contract for fall/winter with BTT (White Dance Theatre) of Izadora Weiss in Poland, with whom Nadia Simchen previously received a contract.
Christian Meusel received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
The Alix Steilberger Scholarships 2017, each endowed with 7500 €, went to Momoko Higuchi (Classical Dance) and Saskia de Vries (Contemporary Dance).
Maria Kobzewa received one of the two 2018 Alix Steilberger Scholarships endowed with 7500 €, the second was split and went equally to Maria Morillas Alonso (Classical Dance) and Ida Kaufmann (Contemporary Dance).
Ismaël Belabid-Lenoire and Konrad Plak received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.
The German scholarships for Maria Kobzeva, Lena Paetsch and Sergio Indiveri are extended for one year. For 17/18, Steven Höhn, Abril Lukac and Maria Morillas Alonso will also receive German scholarships.
3 students from the 3rd year BAtanz have been doing full-year internships at theaters since fall 2017 - Fiona Kania in Chemnitz, Saskia de Vries in Osnabrück and Momoko Higuchi in Heidelberg.
Christian Meusel receives a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.
The German scholarships for Maria Kobzeva, Lena Paetsch and Sergio Indiveri are extended by one year. For 17/18, Steven Höhn, Abril Lukac and Maria Morillas Alonso will additionally receive Germany Scholarships.
The 2017 Alix Steilberger Scholarships, each endowed with € 7500, went to Momoko Higuchi (Classical Dance) and Saskia de Vries (Contemporary Dance).