Andrea Tallis Is a Professor of Classical Dance at __Zukt, HFMDK

Andrea Tallis is a professor of classical dance at __ZuKT, HFMDK.

She is born in Los Angeles in 1962.

Her early training and professional experiences were in Los Angeles, New York, and Frankfurt. They were with teachers and directors such as, Irina Kosmovska, John Clifford, Melissa Hayden, Alexandra Danilova, Stanley Williams, Natalia Makarova, Egon Madsen,Benjamin Harkarvy,and for many years (1983-1999) she worked with William Forsythe and The Frankfurt Ballet.

Andrea Tallis, born in Los Angeles in 1962, studied many styles of dance with specific early influences from Irina Kosmovska, John Clifford and Melissa Hayden, Stanley Holden and Benjamin Harkarvy. She continued her education through her teenage years, under scholarship, with the Pennsylvania Ballet School and the School of American Ballet in New York.

She worked as soloist with Makarova and Company and as principle dancer with the Los Angeles Ballet. She danced main roles in many pieces including Copelia (Balanchine), Romeo and Juliet (Cifford), Les Sylphide (Petipa), Scotch Symphony(Balanchine), Swan Lake(Balanchine), Flower Festival(Bournonville), Toreodore Pas (Flint), Nutcracker (Clifford), Cindrella (Clifford), Paquita (Makarova). Also she danced in Concerto Borocco, Seranade, ValseFantasie, Ramonda Variations, Pas de Dix and other pieces by George Balanchine.

She joined Ballet Frankfurt in 1983 under the direction of Egon Madsen and subsequently, from 1984-1999 worked for William Forsythe. She worked extensively on the development of creations and concepts, with William Forsythe during the years with Ballet Frankfurt. This work includes pieces such as Gange, Artifact, LDC, Love Songs, Say Bye Bye, Isabel’s Dance, Impressing the Czar, New Sleep, SOS, The Questioning of Robert Scott, The Vile Parody of Address, The Loss of Small Detail, Alien Action, EidosTelos, Invisible Film and others. She is now a reconstructor for William Forsythe’s pieces.

Andrea Tallis is a teacher of classical ballet technique, composition and improvisation as well as a choreographic assistant, ballet master and reconstructor. She was based as ballet master with the Gothenburg Ballet 1999 – 2002 and then until Oct 2009 has worked freelance.

She has been teaching classical ballet, reconstructing pieces, such as full length Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Romeo and Juliet, and others.

She has taught classical ballet and assisted creations for companies such as The Royal Danish Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theater, Gothenburg Ballet, Cullberg Ballet, The Royal Ballet of Flanders, Houston Ballet , The Portuguese National Ballet and The Vienna State Opera Ballet. During this period she has worked on pieces as a Ballet Master, by choreographers OhadNaharin, JiriKylian, SidiLarbeeCherkaoui, Jacopo Godani, Didi Feldman, Twyla Tharp, Martino Muller, Pascal Touzeau , Per Isberg, TeroSaranin, Tim Rushtin, Alicia Alonso and William Forsythe, and others.

Since 1999, she is the classical ballet professor at The University of Music and Performing Arts, Frankfurt am Main, Germany in the department of Contemporary and Classical Dance. She has been teaching for the MA Code a course in Forsythe Improvisation and Composition Technologies.