Dancers

Dancers

Dancers

Choreographer, Dancer and Dance Pedagogue
Carlos Sampaio

Carlos Sampaio was born in 1968 in Brazil. He got his first dance education in Sao Paulo and continued in 1995 in Germany at Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen. Under the direction of Prof. Lutz Förster, Sampaio started working as a young choreographer during his study. In 2008 he also completed his studies in dance in education.

Dancer & Docent

Elena Aldi was born in Mantova (Italy) and studied ballet, comtemporary and modern dance in a professional centre close to Mantova with Marcella Volcan, Luigi Celani and Daniela Borghini.

Dancer

Fátima Gomes was born in Barinas, Venezuela in 1979. She studied contemporary dance at the dance institute of the University of Caracas and graduated in 2002.

Dancer

Magdalena Öttl was born in 1994 in Augsburg, Germany and started her artistic education in an early state. Next to her intensive education in classical music on the violin in Augsburg and Munich, she went through various opportunities of taking part in theatre and opera productions.

Dancer, Choreographer und Yoga teacher

Maria Lucia Agon Ramirez was born in Colombia in 1980. During High School in her home town Bucaramanga Maria Lucia gained first experiences with dance performances. Immediately after graduating from High School in 1998 she started as a member of the dance company “Ballet Experimental Contemporaneo BEC” and gained her first professional experiences.

Dancer

Marlena Meier was born in Quickborn (Germany) in 1992. She studied dance pedagogy at the Lola Rogge Schule in Hamburg from 2010 to 2013. Afterwards she moved to Cologne to study contemporary dance at the Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz). She completed the school in 2017 with her Bachelor of Dance and started to work with TANZMOTO DANCE COMPANY the same year.

Dancer, Choreographer and Dance Pedagogue

Norbert Steinwarz, born in Germany, studied dance and choreography at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen where he got his degree in 1991.

Tänzerin

Paula Kuhn was born in 1997 in Essen. Early on she started taking ballet lessons and found her passion for dance. 2013 she started contemporary dance at the TANZMOTO Studio Space.

Dancer, Docent

Sarah Maria Maus was born  in Germany (1992). She started dancing at the age of three. Alongside the ballet program of the Royal Academy of Dance, she also took classes in modern dance and hip hop. When she was fourteen, she left her home to continue her dance education at Tanzgymnasium Essen-Werden (dance high school of Essen-Werden) where she completed her A-Level.

Dancer

Stella Felicitas was born near Münster in February 1993. During her high school time she danced in the ballett schools "Heidi Sievert" and "Rebeltanz" in Münster. She developed her passion for Hip Hop in the "Hip Hop Academy" close to her hometown.  Singing, playing transverse flute and piano were always a part of her daily life. Moreover, she is a big fan of musical.

Dancer, Docent

Tyshea Lashaune Suggs was born in May 1992 in Fulda, Germany. She started dancing at the age of three. Alongside her passion for dance, she discovered her passion for music and started taking lessons in piano, clarinet and singing. In 2006 she left her Hometown to intensify her training at Tanzgymnasium Essen-Werden – dance high school of Essen-Werden.

Dancer

Victor Alfonso Zapata Cardenas was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1988.

In 2010 he graduated in dance at the Folkwang University in Essen. At the same time he started the master programme „Interpretation“.