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Pedro Carneiro

Pedro Carneiro began his dance studies at the Gulbenkian Ballet school in Lisbon, which awarded him a scholarship to study at Stuttgart, Germany’s famous John Cranko school.

He has danced at the Stadttheater Hagen, the Oper Bonn in Germany, and the National Ballet in Lisbon.

Mr Carneiro graduated in methodology from the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg.

He was a classical dance and character dance teacher at the National Conservatory Dance School in Lisbon from 1996 to 2018. From 2003 to 2017, he combined his role as a teacher with that of director of the conservatory.

During his tenure, the school has undergone remarkable and recognised evolution and has acquired an international reputation.

From September 2020 to July 2021, he was Artistic Director of the Munich International Ballet School.

Since September 2021, he has been Artistic Director and CEO of the Mosa Ballet School in Liège, Belgium.

Mr Carneiro is a member of the jury of many international ballet competitions and gives masterclasses worldwide.

Lorelei Bari

Teacher of ballet and repertoire for more than 25 years, a graduate of the higher school of choreography in Bucharest.
She began her professional career as a classical ballet dancer at the National Opera of Bucharest.

At age 22, she obtained a contract as a soloist, ballet master and assistant choreographer at the Rijeka National Opera in Croatia.

From 1993 to 1998, she worked in Italy as a teacher and choreographer, and in 1999 she returned to Romania, where she opened her own ballet school. Over the years, she has worked as a teacher with students of all ages, professional and non-professional, many of whom have become professional ballet dancers and have been admitted to various high-level ballet academies.

Furthermore, she has given masterclasses in ballet and repertoire in Italy, Israel, France, Romania, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Brazil.

She is the artistic director of the Dance World Cup Competition, and in that capacity, she has judged students of all ages in several countries.
Since 2014, she has been the founder and artistic director of the Young Stars Ballet Competition.

Heidi Weiss

She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts diploma from the University of Arts in Philadelphia, USA, where she studied Graham, Horton, Humphrey/Limon, Taylor, ballet, jazz, African dance and tap dance. She received a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey School in New York.

Heidi Weiss has participated in several workshops, including teacher training, Butoh, contemporary training and ballet, anatomy, and the Forsythe system.
She has extensive performance experience with several groups and companies.

She has taught in schools such as the Iwanson International School of Contemporary Dance in Munich, the University of South Florida, the University of Folkwang in Essen, the Korea National University of the Arts, the Palucca Schule in Dresden, the Hungarian Dance Academy, the University of Arts in Philadelphia, etc.
Heidi Weiss has been a visiting teacher for the following companies: Rambert Company (London), Tula Cie of Limnaios, company training (Berlin, Germany), Wee dance company, Görlitz Stadttheater (Germany), DV8 (Berlin), Itzik Galleili (Grönigen, the Netherlands), Stadt Theater Gießen (Germany), Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (Germany), Sasha Waltz & Guests (Berlin), Tolada Dance Company (Berlin).

Séverine de Cussac

Séverine de Cussac trained at the Paris Opera School of Dance under the direction of Claude Bessy. At 17, she was hired as a Quadrille at the Opéra National de Paris, where she danced for seven years in the large classical repertoire, numerous choreographies by Rudolf Nureyev, and neo-classical works by George Balanchine, Jérome Robins, and Maurice Béjart, in addition to entries in the repertoire of contemporary creations by William Forsythe, Mats Ek, and Angelin Preljocaj. She was a finalist in the Varna competition and obtained the State Diploma of the Ministry of Culture for teaching classical dance.

She was then hired as a soloist at the National Opera of Dresden in Germany under the direction of Vladimir Derevianko.

Vladimir Derevianko’s direction. She performed in numerous roles in the ballets of John Neumeier, Uwe Scholz, John Cranko and played “Giselle”. She works with great choreographers such as Jirì Kyliàn, Mats Ek. Under the direction of Aaron Watkin she continued to work with William Forsythe and met David Dawson and Oad Naharin.

After a twenty-year career as a dancer, she became a classical dance teacher at the Dresden Palucca Hochschule für Tanz” in 2013. She teaches Classical Dance, Pointes and Variations of the Repertoire to students from 11 to 16 years old, as well as to students of the Superior Cycle. She also participates in the preparation of performances in collaboration with the “Semperoper Ballett” of Dresden.

She is also a mentor in the training of students in the Master of Pedagogy program. She

She participates in further training and didactic method sessions at her school and at seminars.

Ime Essien-Hassel

Ime Essien-Hassel was trained as a stage dancer and dance teacher at the École Française de Ballet (Bonn) and the New City Dance School (Stuttgart). She worked as a dancer and singer in various musicals, rock operas and in modern musical theater in Germany. Ime worked for the contemporary dance company Conny Janssen Danst…in Rotterdam (NL), Charleroi Danse/ Plan K in Belgium and with the dance company Giessen. There she worked first as a dancer, then as a rehearsal director and choreographic assistant. This was followed by a 7-year engagement as artistic rehearsal director (RD) with NorrDans in Härnösand (SE), as well as subsequent guest residencies with the Staatstheater Bielefeld (D), the Theater St. Gallen, as RD & ensemble coach with Skånes Dansteater in Malmö (SE) and most recently with Jasper van Luijk (NL).

Since 2000 and 2007 Ime Essien-Hassel has been studying and working with the communication approach Process Inquiry® and the movement inquiry through Dansergia®. This work forms the methodological basis for I.M.E. InnerMovementEvolution.

Since 2004 Ime Essien-Hassel has been working internationally as a dance teacher and movement coach, in Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Italy & Spain. She teaches and works in contemporary dance companies, colleges of dance and open dance studios. I.M.E. InnerMovementEvolution has been part of the curriculum of the ArtEZ Bachelor of Dance since 2005 with the courses “Essence Work” and “Process Inquiry® in Dance” and since 2017 also as a guest of the ArtEZ BA Dance in Education in Arnhem/ Netherlands.