Our Team
Highly qualified and highly motivated
At last! "It" is moving again! This year, too, we are particularly looking forward to the new season. We all agree: dance and movement live on location and involving all the senses has never been as refreshing and motivating as it is right now in these challenging times.
Our philosophy: The most important thing is—and always will be—the joy of movement, of discovery, of experimentation, and of self-expression. Dance is devotion, poetry, passion, and a journey of seeking and finding.
Giada Villano
Giada Villano is a professional dancer who trained at the Modulo Academy in Milan, where she
studied all urban dance styles, including hip-hop, commercial, house, popping, and hee...
Chiara Schnidrig
Contemporary, ballet, modern, and jazz were all part of the pre-professional dance training that Chiara completed alongside her studies at the Kollegium Brig Sports School.
Sinc...
Judith Bärenfaller Zurwerra
Judith is a dancer and co-founder of ARTICHOC and directs the dance studio of the same name. She works as a dance educator, choreographer, project manager, and cultural manager bot...
Lynn Kleine
In the summer of 2023, Lynn completed her professional dance training in Bern. In addition to daily ballet classes, she delved into modern dance techniques such as Graham and Horto...
Melanie Ammann
Melanie Ammann began her dance career at the Cantonal Conservatory of Music and Dance in Martigny, and later at the University of the Arts in Cologne, where she trained in ballet, ...
Antonia Cugliandro Hüttner
Antonia was first introduced to yoga while studying design in Hamburg. Shortly thereafter, she took an Iyengar yoga class with Irene Goerke, and ever since, she has been captivated...
Rahel Eggel
Rahel discovered Pilates through dance, which she has been practicing in her free time for years. Fascinated by the conscious and controlled movements, she began taking more Pilate...
Yanieri Martinez
Yanieri is from Havana, where she has been dancing since she was a child. Her professionalism, charismatic presence, and infectious cheerfulness have been enchanting us for years. ...
Alicia Lopez
Alicia Lopez is originally from Madrid and describes herself as a “Hispano-Bernese.” She has been teaching flamenco dance with great passion for over 20 years. She trained under re...
Lydia Kalbermatter
Lydia received her classical dance training at various ballet schools in Germany and abroad; she is currently completing her training as a ballet teacher at the Royal Academy of Da...
Argentine Tango
Camille Marie Yannantuono & Valentino Sorpresi are the founders of sorpresi-tango and the owners of the dance studio LA PERLA, Cueva de Tango.
Since June 2013, their school has sp...