Artistic director and coach of national and international dancers, with extensive experience supporting performers in joining classical and contemporary ballet companies. Organizer of prestigious events, including the YAGP Brussels 2013 and VKIBC Brussels 2015 semifinals, as well as intensive international summer programs since 2015. Since 2009, my students have won grand-prizes, first prizes, and other awards in top-level international competitions, including the Prix de Lausanne, Varna International Ballet Competition, YAGP, VKIBC, Ballet International, Chausson d’Or, and many others.

Founder and artistic director of Brussels International Ballet since 2005, my mission is to enable young dancers to explore and develop their full artistic potential, providing high-level professional ballet training and preparing students for entry into leading international classical and contemporary ballet companies. I have worked as a classical ballet teacher and choreographer, creating the choreography for the show “The Next Dimension” (Praga-Khan) and organizing tours in Belgium in theaters such as AB Brussels, Arenberg Antwerpen, Stadsschouwburg Mechelen, Brugge, Leuven, Hasselt, Kortrijk, and Gent.

In 2003, I was invited as Ballet Master at Boston Studio, USA. I have collaborated as choreographer and ballet master in international schools in Boston, Brussels, and Rio de Janeiro, creating choreographies and solos for professional dancers, teaching classical ballet, and conducting research on human behavior as inspiration for new works, including the choreography “Dark Evenings” (Anderson Santana). I also studied the Maria Fay method in New York and created works for professional academies in the United States, Belgium, and Brazil.

As a professional dancer, I was part of the Ballet Royal de Wallonie and the Ballet Van Vlaanderen in Brussels, performing principal roles in works such as Don Quichotte (Noureyev), La Sylphide (Flindt), Napoli Divertissement (Bournonville), and numerous contemporary choreographies by Taylor, Kylian, Balanchine, Flindt, Tudor, and others. I toured Europe with the Broadway Musical Company (Scala Theatre, Base, Switzerland), performing West Side Story (J. Robbins) and Jésus-Christ Superstar (Lewis Robinson), and worked as a soloist in the main municipal theaters of Rio de Janeiro and Campinas, Brazil, performing classical repertoire such as Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quichotte, and Swan Lake.

My training includes studies at the Ballet School of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro (1976–1984) under Edmundo Carijo, Tatiana Leskova, Aldo Lotuft, and Moema Correa, and a training period at the American Ballet School, New York, with Vladimir Semenov (1983–1984).

I have served on international juries since 2014 in competitions such as Young Stars Ballet Competition, Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition, Europa in Danza, Ballet Danse International, Open Art Argentina, Roma Dance Contest, and Gran Premio della Danza, and I have participated as both competitor and teacher in major competitions including Varna International Ballet Competition, YAGP, Ekaterina Maximova Arabesque, Chausson d’Or, Tanzolymp, and the Moscow International Ballet Competition. Since 2012, I have conducted masterclasses and international workshops in cities including Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Genoa, and Brussels, training dancers to professional standards. My professional references include Aurora Bosch, Larissa Saveliev, Radenko Pavlovich, Christine Krepel, and Charles Jude.