Ballet and Creative Dance

Course with Tereza Matos

“Ballet always provided stability in my life. I would like to pass this and other dance experiences on.” Terza Matos has been teaching children, youths and adults at tanzhaus nrw since 2010 already. Her focus lies on learning the technique, because “it is the tool used to give expression to emotion and meaning in dance”. Tereza’s open nature makes it easy for dancers to take a plunge into the world of ballet. Her classes prepare the body for the complex ballet training, participants learning steps and choreographic sequences. Concentration and presence are also part of the training, and it is especially important that the participants have the opportunity to excel and grow.

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Tereza Matos

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Tereza Matos completed her studies in classical ballet and modern dance at Brazil’s Universidade Federal da Bahia. She was subsequently invited to journey to Germany by renowned Wuppertal choreographer Pina Bausch, later studying at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Here, she graduated as a classical ballet dance pedagogue in 2008. Tereza took part in several opera and musical theatre productions. She accumulated more than 35 years of stage experience in pieces like “Orpheus und Eurydice”, “Hair”, “Die Bassgeige” and as a guest dancer at Essen’s Grillo Theater, as well as in Dortmund and Aachen. Among her colleagues and role models are Jean Cébron and Susanne Linke, both seminal choreographers, in their works closely linked with the Folkwang University of the Arts.