Vi arbetar med att hitta ett harmoniskt samspel i rörelserna och konstnärligt uttryck. Klasserna bygger på metoden att varva teknik och dansanthet. En stor del av balettrepertoaren på teatrarna härstammar från 1800-talet. Trots det utvecklas balettens starkt traditionella övningar och rörelsespråk ständigt och man tar även intryck av andra, nyare danstekniker. Balett är idag en viktig grundteknik och nästan ett måste för dig som vill utveckla din dansteknik i andra ämnen. Därför tränar de flesta kompanier med modern repertoar även balett dagligen. Alla lärare undervisar i sin individuella stil.
Undervisningen ackompanjeras av musiker.
Förkunskaper: Advanced - flera års förkunskaper på en mycket hög teknisk nivå. Kursen är för ungdomar från 16 år och vuxna.
Kursledare
Joakim Stephenson
Joakim is a freelance choreographer and teacher based in Stockholm, and has been a recurring teacher at Balettakademien since 2017, specializing in ballet, composition, and adult classes.
Joakim Stephenson was trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School (1983–1991) and joined the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1991, becoming a soloist in 2007. He was a member of Ballet Monte Carlo (2008–2009) and later guested with the Hong Kong Ballet after his retirement in 2016.
He co-created the Gotland International Dance Seminar in 2005 and has staged Alexander Ekman’s ballets for companies including the Joffrey Ballet and Stanislavsky Ballet. As an ABT Certified Teacher, Joakim has taught at Cincinnati Ballet, Istanbul State Ballet, Estonian National Ballet and Vanemuine Ballet among others.
Joakim’s choreography includes works for the Royal Swedish Opera, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, and various dance schools in Stockholm, Göteborg, Istanbul och Liège. Notable projects include choreographing Loreen’s "Statements" for Eurovision and creating a dance film for Princess Estelle’s Cultural Foundation. He has also choreographed works screened at international film festivals.
A certified Dance for Parkinson’s leader, Joakim leads classes for Dance for Parkinson’s, Dance for Health, and Dance for Cancer. He has lectured on the theme "Dance as an intervention to improve quality of life for people living with dementia”, latest at the IADAMS conference in 2024. Joakim has also completed advanced academic courses in dance and ballet education and courses in neuroscience, and dance health, latest Dance in Cancer Care Introductory Training in Liège November 2024.
Annika Höglind
Annika Höglind, ballet teacher and choreographer, was born in Lebanon to Swedish-Armenian parents. She started studying classical ballet at a young age, her teachers included Olga Tozyiakova, and Handel Edit. She graduated from the Hungarian Dance Academy in 2004 as a Pedagogue of Ballet. Since then she has taught ballet in Denmark, China, Japan, Russia, France, Lebanon and Sweden.
From 2007 to 2010, Annika studied choreography at the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory of Rimsky-Korsakov under Edvald Smirnov in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She was awarded a certificate as a ballet master and she won the “Grand Prix” at the 2010 AGON International Choreography Competition of Lopukhov in Saint- Petersburg. Her choreographies have been danced in Evening of Young Choreographers “Dance Without Borders” by State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Saint-Petersburg.
In 2012 she was one of nine choreographers picked to choreograph for Dance Platform at Ekaterinburg Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Ekaterinburg, Russia. She then moved to Ekaterinburg, teaching ballet at the Nutcracker Ballet Academy, and working as an assistant to ballet-masters and choreographers such Dinna Bjørn, Nikolaj Hübbe and Jonathan Watkins who came to work at Ekaterinburg Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre.
In 2014 she was awarded a Laureate Diploma from Young Festival of Contemporary Choreographies, in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She was also asked to stage her choreography “A Clown’s Funeral” for Vaganova Ballet Academy.
In 2020 her choreography was part of the Russian tv channel Kultura’s project “Bolshoi Ballet,” which starred rising stars of different ballet theatres in a competition. The dance was well-received by judges under the direction of the prima ballerina of the Mariinsky and people's artist of Russia Diana Vishneva, Farukh Ruzimatov, Aleksei Miroshnichenko, and Dennis Matvienko.
Since 2016 she has been living in Sweden with her husband and dog, and is currently teaching and choreographing at Balettakademien in Stockholm.
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