Our Team
highly trained ballet and dance teachers
Lia Rosenthal – Owner & Management
Lia Rosenthal studied stage dance at the Iwanson School for Contemporary Dance in Munich and also studied dance therapy/applied dance psychology at the medical faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, graduating with a degree in dance therapy. This was followed by basic training in Integrative Dance Education at the German Institute for Dance Education, commercial training at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Dusseldorf and numerous other regular further training courses in the field of dance. Lia Rosenthal has been working as a dance teacher since 2006. Among other things, she has gained many years of experience with socially disadvantaged children. She has also been active internationally in dance education, including at the Pineapple Dance Studio in London.
Gabriela Santos
Gabriela Santos holds a BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City and taught at the Ballet Academy East. She worked as a dance teacher, choreographer and dancer in Baltimore. At the Rosenthal Ballet she is responsible for the International Classes.
Irene Vaqueiro Lorenzo
Irene Vaqueiro trained at the Madrid Ballet School and has been studying dance education in Dresden since 2018. She has had engagements as a dancer in Spain, at the English National Ballet and at the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg.
Csaba Kvasz
Csaba Kvasz completed his training at the Budapest Ballet Academy and subsequently worked as a certified teacher at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Since 2000 he has been internationally active as a guest teacher in Salzburg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam (Scapino), Maastricht, Athens, New York and Japan.
Yulia Tikka
Yulia Tikka is from St. Peterburg and started ballet at the age of 10. After graduating from the Vaganova Academy and completing her ballet studies, she had the opportunity to participate in international competitions.
Michael Foster
Michael Foster studied ballet at the Houston Ballet Academy and subsequently worked as a dancer at various theatres, including the Texas Ballet Theatre, in Hanover and Düsseldorf. Since 2018 he has been studying ballet education in Dresden.
Dani Siggel
Dani Siggel has a degree in social pedagogy with a focus on media pedagogy as well as further training in the Russian Vaganova methodology and children’s dance. Since 1995 she has been working as a dance teacher in the areas of early dance education and classical ballet.
Sofia Klein
She enjoyed her dance training at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and later at the Escuela de Ballet Carmina Ocaña y Pablo Savoye in Madrid. In 2014, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the Conservatory Superior de Danza María de Ávila in Madrid. Since 2020, she has been studying dance pedagogy in the master’s program at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
Iris Kourdoumpa
Iris is native from Greece, she trained in classical ballet as well as ballet pedagogy at the Superior Professional Dance Academy. Since 2006, she has worked as a ballet teacher in numerous Greek ballet schools and danced some of the most important roles of the classical repertoire.
Franziska Cao
Business Managment
Franziska Cao is shop manager for “Fashion for Ballet”. She is also responsible for ensuring that our office team is able to carry out its tasks optimally. She is the interface between the collegium and the owner, has a comprehensive overview and manages appointments, personnel and organisational issues, daily events and general communication.
Zhouyi Jiang
Office
Zhouyi Jiang is completing a master’s degree as a concert pianist at the Anton Rubinstein Academy in Düsseldorf and at the same time advises clients of the Rosenthal Ballet in Düsseldorf Carlstadt as an office worker in German, English and Chinese. She is also responsible for the musical consulting of the ballet tutorials.