Jeanne Richter

Jeanne Richter, Teacher Tanzsterne

Jeanne has been in Vienna since January 2025 to study at the Broadway Academy of Musical Theatre.

She is originally from Cologne, where she has been taking dance lessons since the age of 3. In addition to modern jazz dance, she developed a passion for K-Pop, ballet, and street dance.

She has performed in numerous dance and theater performances, including the Cologne on Pop Festival in Cologne.

Since 2020, she has been teaching children and adults, introducing them to the joy of dance.

 

Daniela Luxbacher

Dani Luxbacher

Daniela Luxbacher

Dani Luxbacher, Acro teacher

Dani discovered her passion for movement at the age of five and began competitive gymnastics. At twelve, she turned to dance and has since then regularly competed successfully in competitions. She has also gained extensive experience and achieved success in cheerleading.

Dani is currently completing a dance education course to combine her passion for dance with in-depth professional knowledge. At the same time, she teaches children and young people acrobatics, ballet, contemporary dance, Just Dance, and jazz. It is particularly important to her to not only teach young dancers technique, but also to foster joy, expressiveness, and self-confidence. She passionately supports her students in their dance development.

Daniela Luxbacher

Marie Christine Huemer

Marie Christine Huemer, Teacher for Ballet, Modern & Jazz

Marie first experienced the stage at the age of 5 as the smallest bunny in the ballet “Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs.” Since then, she has participated in numerous ballet performances and dance evenings at the Papez Ballet School in St. Pölten.

She has been teaching ballet, modern, and jazz there since 2021 and has impressed with her choreography at numerous competitions.

She has also been a member of the TSV Black Diamonds since 2022. Her highlights include participating in the Gala Night of the World Dance Masters 2024 with a production number and being booked for several dance numbers for Douglas Austria.

Ektoras Georgiou, Musikalische Leitung Company

Ektoras Georgiou

Ektoras Georgiou, Musikalische Leitung Company

Ektoras Georgiou, Vocal Coach Broadway Company

Ektoras was born and raised in Cyprus, and completed his education in the United States. He attended Berklee College of Music on a scholarship, and he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music in Performance and a minor in musical theater.

He then attended Boston University, where he received his Master of Music in Voice Performance. During his studies in the USA, he got the opportunity to participate in the workshop process for two new musicals, and train with the Boston University Opera Institute.

He has been performing as a lyric baritone, and his career as a voice teacher has been focused on working with actors, professional, and pre-professional singers. He is passionate about giving people the technical tools needed to express themselves with ease and consistency.

Bianca Ogris, Lehrerin für Acro, Jazz, Urban

Bianca Ogris

Bianca Ogris, Lehrerin für Acro, Jazz, Urban

Bianca Ogris, Teacher for Acro, Jazz, Urban

Bianca Ogris is a dancer and dance teacher as well as a former artistic gymnast living in Vienna. Since she was three years old, the Carinthian native has been training in a wide variety of dance styles, devoting herself primarily to contemporary, acro dance, jazz, ballet, lyrical and commercial styles.

The highlights of her dance career to date include TV appearances (ORF, Die Große Chance 2024, solo act), video projects (INSPIRO 8 by Dane Bates in Liverpool), theater and musical productions (Klagenfurt City Theater, ensemble member) and participation in competitions at home and abroad with high placings (including Dance World Cup, Austrian Ballet Competition, ASDU, ESDU).

For around two years now, Bianca has also been passing on her knowledge and expertise to her students. In addition to the further training she has already completed, she will be trained as a dance instructor at the University of Vienna in the future. Her lessons are characterised by educational, varied and creative content that is taught with passion and joy. For the trained elementary teacher, learning through play is the main focus, especially when dancing with young children.

“It is important to me to create a comfortable and pleasant space for my students. A space in which everyone can try things out, develop further and the joy of dancing plays a central role.”

Bianca Ogris, Lehrerin für Acro, Jazz, Urban

 

Yvonne Kellinger, Teacher for Jazz, Ballet & Tap

Yvonne Kellinger

Yvonne Kellinger, Teacher for Jazz, Ballet & Tap

Yvonne Kellinger, Teacher for Jazz, Ballet & Tap

Yvonne grew up in Vienna and started dancing at the age of 3. The fascination for movement and rhythm first led her to Latin American children’s dance, before she discovered the world of jazz dance at the Performing Center Austria at the age of 6. There she expanded her dancing horizons with ballet lessons and deepened her passion.

At the age of 11, Yvonne attended tap dance and hip-hop classes. At the age of 9 she started to take part in the Austrian and European Open. In 2014/2015, Yvonne joined the contest group of Kristina’s Broadway Connection. Until 2018 she lived out her passion for dance in this group, refined her individual style and took part in new artistic challenges.

Since 2018/2019, Yvonne has been sharing her enthusiasm as a dance teacher with children from the age of 3 and adults. Her classes span jazz, ballet and hip-hop and are held at prestigious venues such as Danek Dance School, Kiddy Dance Club, KREADANCE, ferien4kids, United Ballet Schools and Das Prema.

Yvonne’s dance style reflects her diverse education and experience. She combines different styles and thus creates her unique dance language. For her, the stage is a place of expression where she shares her love of movement.

In addition to being on stage and teaching, Yvonne loves developing new choreographies and being creative. She strives to continually improve and pass on the art of dance.

 

Lilia Batyrev

Lilia Batyrev

Lilia Batyrev

Lilia Batyrev, Teacher for Acrobatics & Contemporary

Lilia was born in Germany and at the age of four started with rhythtmic gymnastics. As competative athlete she won multiple times the state competitions of Baden-Württemberg, the regionals for South Germany and in 2015 she became German Champion in rhythmic gymnastics.

Lilia always enjoyed the dancing aspect of gymnastics and so she decided to get an education in gymnastics and dance and she started working at a dance studio. She specialised on Acrobatic Dance and Contemporary. Lilia created choreographies for her students and brought them to the world championships 2018 in Portugal.

In 2019 she moved to Vienna to study Transcultural Communication with focus on Russian, her mother tongue.

Starting 2020, Lilia will be part of the team of Kristina’s Broadway Connection and teaching Acrobatics and Contemporary.